UNIT 6 – Our green planet

UNIT 6

OUR GREEN PLANET

LEAD-IN

Save tropical rain forests, save lives Feed the hungry world! Oil spill in the North Sea Stop industrial waste flow into water! A Our world in danger B The Amish do not pollute the Earth C Global warming – global warning

In this unit, you will

a. read, listen and talk about • pollution • the Amish and their way of life • global warming

b. practise • the passive voice • the gerund • numbers • formation of verbs • phrasal verbs with hand • expressing likes, dislikes

Which of the problems in the pictures can you match with the newspaper headlines? In what different ways do we pollute the environment?

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and preferences

Another nuclear power Smoking affects nonstation? smokers

Save the whale! What do we breathe?