Three men jailed for rape in Oxford after victim sees film on mobile.

5. Police cuts will leave public less safe, federation warns.

6. Pope Benedict XVI’s whistlestop visit to Britain.

7. Fears for public health grow as Department of Health culls experts.

Task 12. Watch Video 4 (Folder Unit 3), featuring press review, and fill in the grid asin Task 7, Unit 1.

Task 13. Read the extracts from different articles on environmental issues. Work in pairs and write the newspaper headlines for them. Try to make the headlines appealing and eye-catching.

1. Before 1900, rainforests (hot, wet forests in tropical areas where rainfall is heavy and there is no dry season ) covered 14 % of the world’s surface. They have been cut down and today they cover less than 7 %. But it’s not only trees which are disappearing. Every rainforest also contains millions of animals, insects and flowers. If man continues to cut down rainforests, more than one million species of plants and animals will become extinct by the year 2030.

2. Acid rain is one of Europe’s and North America’s most serious pollution problems. In some parts of Europe and North America rainwater is sometimes more acidic than lemon juice! The most important cause of the excessive acidity of rainwater has been the burning of fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal. Burning fossil fuels produces gases which go high into the atmosphere, combine with water and form acid. These acidic water droplets can travel hundreds of miles before they return to earth as rain or snow.

3. The ozone layer stops some of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Ultraviolet radiation causes a suntan. Too much ultraviolet radiation causes sunburn and skin cancer. The satellite photographs showed the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. The hole was caused by aerosol cans, fridges and air-conditioning, manufacturing of some plastic products.

4. Sunlight gives us heat. Some of the heat warms the atmosphere, and some of the heat escapes back into space. During the last 100 years we have produced a huge amount of carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere works like the glass in a greenhouse. It allows heat to get in, but it doesn’t allow much heat to get out. So the atmosphere becomes warmer because less heat can escape. Where does the carbon dioxide come from? People and animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Trees take carbon dioxide from the air, and produce oxygen. We produce carbon dioxide when we burn coal, oil, petrol, gas or wood. In the last few years, people have burned huge areas of rain forest. This means there are fewer trees, and, of course, more carbon dioxide.

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