Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст. Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted

Business Goes Green!

Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless manufacturing processes employed by some industries and lack of consumer demand for environmentally safe products have contributed to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to dispose of.

However, today, more and more consumers are choosing "green" and demanding that the products they buy are safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: "Will this hairspray damage the ozone layer?" "Is the packaging biodegradable?" "Will it break down in a trash dump?" "Can this metal container be recycled or can it only be used once?"

A recent survey showed that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are "green", that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products carry labels to show that the product is green. Some companies have made the manufacturing of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising.

The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of "Buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it." The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act.

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Задание 1. Выполните задания по тексту (1 уровень)

А) Выберите правильный вариант

1. Many people choose green products because they are....

a) cheaper

b) better made

c) environmentally safer

2. Corporations are producing more green products because....

a) they have to pay higher taxes

b) it costs less

c) consumers want to buy them

3. Nowadays... shoppers consider the environmental safety of products before they buy them.

a) all b) many c) no

B) Напишите определение к словам и выражениям

1."green" products___________________

2. Biodegradable____________________

3. Recycled________________________

4. selling point _____________________

Задание 2. Выпишите из текстов рабочей тетради слова, характеризующие химический комбинат «Маяк»

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Задание 1. Прочитайте текст

Do You Love Nature?

Ecology is a science about nature and about the relations of man with it. Practically, it is a science studying whether we, human beings keep our common house, our Planet Earth, in a good state and how we use the gifts it is giving us: water, air, land, minerals, plants, animals etc.

I am Irina Sutokskaya, an ecologist. I've been working in environmental protection for 20 years now. When I was a little girl I felt already that nature was the place where I was feeling most natural. From that time my favourite season has been autumn when I could stroll in the woods enjoying the autumn trees, gold and purple, gathering mushrooms and thanking Mother Nature for each of them. Later, when was studying biology, doing research in ecology and reading books on physics, I understood the physical basis and the energy of those feelings.

We are really one with nature, our planet and the Universe being connected with them by every cell of our being. The feeling of being one with the world is very ancient. It is expressed in many old books and myths of different countries. For instance, Chief Seattle in his famous speech at a tribal meeting in 1854 expressed the feeling of North American Indians as follows: "Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people...

We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, horse, the great eagle — these are our brothers".

The same wonderful feeling of being one with nature was always typical also for Russian people in old times. Every Russian village family had the images of nature everywhere in the house — the flowers on the cups, bed covers and clothes, the leaves on the towels as if reflecting that time when our ancestors were wiping their faces and hands after washing with green foliage of birch tree.

Unfortunately, later our technical civilization thinking only of material goods succeeded in destroying Nature and creating the ecological crisis on our planet. And it is your challenge, young people, to restore an ecological balance on our planet and to leave it clean and healthy for future generations.

Задание 2. Представьте, что вы выступаете на конференции по проблемам экологии. Составьте план своего выступления, опираясь на текст из задания 1

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