WATER FOR LIFE: PROBLEMS WITH WATER - PART 2(PAGES 3 TO 5)

VOCABULARY: Try to use these words in your re-telling

to have enough of something mountains
too much / not enough snow/ ice
dangerous to melt into rivers
droughts warmer than/ higher than/ slower than
black with smoke under water
to GET higher/warmer/smaller to need something/someone
5 metres thick farmers
to melt/to be melting ground water
to lose/to be losing a well
to die/to be dying

COMPREHENSION
1. Each one of you is going to talk about one of the problems in this section. You
should use information from the book and bring some other examples where this
happens in your country, or not far from it.

Amanda: “Not enough rain” (page 3)

Marta: “Problems of ice and snow” (page3 + 4)
Annie: “Higher seas” (page 4)
Laura: “Weather and food” (page 4)

2. How do countries where droughts and floods happen survive?

3. Why do some people have to move away from their land?
4. What will countries fight about in the future?
5. How do some people get their water? Is it always clean? How do people suffer
from it?

GRAMMAR - COMPARATIVES: “The fire quickly gets bigger and more dangerous”

Watch the video in the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=2fQb7_KUs3A

THINK: Why do we sometimes use “more” and other times we don’t?