Exercise 1. Match the words in column A with their definitions in column B. Make up your own sentences with these words.

A	B
1) power station	a) natural gas derived from living matter of previous geologic time and used for fuel;
2) unimaginable	b) a station which generates electricity using the energy of atoms;
3) pollute	c) things produced to satisfy human wants through their direct consumption or use;
4) contaminate	d) the act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself;
5) to be poisoned	e) using up or emptying out;
6) wastes	f) to be a source of danger to smb.; to menace;
7) to be exhausted	g) reaction of the atmosphere to the air contamination;
8) disbalance	h) in a great number;
9) survival	i) the ability to remain alive; to endure;
10) to find a way out	j) a complex of structures and machinery for generating electric energy from another source of energy;
11) on a large scale	k) air pollution produced by mixing of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides; fog polluted with smoke;
12) fossil fuels	l) incapable of being fancied;
13) nuclear power plants	m) to make harmful for living things especially by the addition of waste matter;
14) threaten	n) disharmonious arrangement or disproportion of parts;
15) consumer goods	o) to make impure or unclean by contact or mixture;
16) smog	p) to be worn out completely; to be tired;
17) acid rain	q) to find alternatives;
18) depletion	r) useless byproducts;
19) suicide	s) to be harmed or killed with some toxic substance.

Exercise 2. Guess the crossword. Find the word put into it. Make up sentences of your own with these words.

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1. Ceasing of existence.

2. Consuming, using up completely.

3. Pollution with some substance that causes injury, illness, or death.

4. The act or an instance of loosing.

5. No longer existing or living.

6. Changing in nature or condition.

7. To eradiate, to liquidate, to purge.

8. A person who performs or offers a service of his or her own free will.

9. The condition that surround one, surroundings.

Exercise 3. Translate the Ukrainian parts of the sentences.

1. Technological progress improves people’s lives, але в той самий час він призводить до численних проблем, які було неможливо уявити in the past centuries.

2. Both the atmosphere of the Earth та глибини океанів отруєні токсичними відходами, created by the humans. The task of захитсу природи є найважливішим тепер.

3. Природні ресурси вичерпані, екологія нашої планети порушена; здатність до виживання of our civilization depends on здатності людства знайти вихід.

4. Атомні електростанції становлять загрозу для air, water and land. Необхідність надати роботу усім мешканцям міст leads to creation of new factories that produce не тільки споживчі товари, але відходи та смог.

5. A relatively new kind of pollution is кислотний дощ, який є реакцією атмосфери на забруднення повітря. One more danger comes from виснаження озонового шару, який поглинає ультрафіолетові випромінювання from the Sun.

6. The only thing що людство не може зрозуміти is that humanity is also a part of the biosphere and, що люди повністю залежать від навколишнього середовища.

Exercise 4. Make up 2-3 questions to each paragraph and ask your group-mates to answer them.

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