2.

1 ENVIRONMENT

‘I thought I couldn’t
make a difference because
I was small.’ Greta
Thunberg

Teaching Assistant
MA. Arzije Ameti
ameti.arzije@ibu.edu.mk
 WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

Urban area Rural area

 W H AT D O Y O U L I K E O R D I S L I K E A B O U T W H E R E Y O U L I V E ?

Discuss the following list of problems that people experience:

• noise from traffic
• graffiti
• people drinking in the street
• abandoned vehicles
• young people / children misbehaving
• dog mess
• rubbish
• vandalism
• noise from neighbours
• Complete the following word combinations:
• Discuss these questions about local environmental issues:

1. What are the issues in your local area?

2. What questions would you like to ask in an opinion poll about the environment?
3. What should the government priorities for the environment be?
 2.2 CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

• Why do you think polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct?

• What other animals are in danger of dying out?
Match six of the words from the box with the definitions below:
1. Climate change
2. False impression
3. Scientific journal
4. Global warming
5. Satellite images
6. Significant effect
 PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
VS
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Present perfect simple

Have/has + past participle

The focus is on the result, not the activity.
ex. You've cleaned the room! It looks lovely!

We use present perfect simple to describe repeated actions, it says ‘how many’
ex. I have watched that film ten times.

Describes a completed action

ex. I have written you an email.
Present perfect continuous
Have/has + been + verb + -ing

The focus is on the activity

ex. She has been working on her diploma project.

- to talk about a situation or action that started in the past and is still continuing.
ex. They have been working since last night.

- Says ‘how long’

ex. She's been reading that book all day.

COMPARE:
We have been painting the house.
We have painted the house.
2.3 EXTREME ENVIRONMENT
VOLCANOES
 YELLOWSTONE-DANGEROUS BEAUTY

• What does the title “dangerous beauty” mean?

• What are the dimensions of Yellowstone park?
• What would happen if it blew?
• Does Doss know how many warnings would be given if it was going to go?
• Why does Doss say that it would not be easy to predict its eruption?
• Why would it not be easy to evacuate it?
 V O C A B U L A RY: A D V E R B S

• Look at the highlighted adverbs in the text and match them with the adverbs in
the box.

deliberately relatively normally perhaps

mainly slowly and pensively