Read the text and study the vocabulary.

2. Complete the sentences and translate them:

a) It is termed acid precipitation or …

b) The acid-forming compounds come from natural as well as …

c) The effects of acid rain are difficult …

d) Small amounts of acid can also effect the ability of fish …

e) Acid rain is also believed to reduce …

f) There are also indications that acid precipitation also may be causing a reduction in …

g) Since air moves without restriction from region to region, any solution to the problem will require …

3. Find in the text the sentences describing the following problems, translate them and retell the text in English:

a) the major sources of acid rains

b) the effects of industrial activity on nature

c) some ways to solve the problem of acid rains.

4. Do you know anything about acid rains? Study the scheme:

 

 

 

 

Read the text below and look carefully at each line. In most of the lines there is one word too many, a word that does not fit grammatically. Write this unwanted word on the right. If the line is correct put “ - “. The first two are given as examples.

 

 

0. This week in Kyoto in Japan the latest conference … – ………

00. on the environment is being taking place. The whole … being …...

1. world is today watching to see what happens ……………

2. as delegates from more than 165 countries discuss ……………

3. what measures need not to be taken to reduce the ……………

4. fumes that do create the Greenhouse effect. They ……………

5. are hope to agree on ways of reducing the amount ……………

6. of carbon dioxide and other gases that we ……………

7. send into the atmosphere. These gases to act the way a ……………

8. greenhouse does and, as a result, the Earth is ……………

9. be getting hotter and hotter all the time. The ……………

10. temperature it is rising gradually and ……………

11. in 100 years’ time the Earth will be hotter by about 4C. ……………

12. The problem is be getting worse as more cars ……………

13. are make an appearance on our already crowded roads. ……………

14. The solution in Kyoto is depends on what the United ……………

15. States, the most powerful nation, feels in its interest. ……………