12 Let’s return in time and imagine that this or another panel on climate change has recently completed the research and produced their report. The scientific findings are presented in a very technical way and now a reporter has arranged an appointment with the project manager to ask some straightforward questions and receive comprehensible answers for their TV programme.
Return to the text “Global Warming: from Fantasy to Future”, look at the key points of the report, make use of the text “Global Warming: Try It, You Might Like It”, take a few minutes to prepare some clever questions and, eventually, act out the conversation in the form of a successful TV panel.
13 Fill in the gaps in the text below with the provided expressions. Then imagine that it is the year 2020 or thereabouts, and you feel like having a small break somewhere nice. There are a number of holiday destinations, but many have irrevocably changed. Now you are at a travel agency, looking for a suitable place to go to for a few days. There is a long list of attractive centres, but you know there’s something wrong with each of them. The agent, on the other hand, seems to be “unaware” of the recently cropped up problems.
Act out the conversation at the agency. Choose something for yourself, but don’t get sold on the agent’s glowing colours of descriptions and promises. (In heart, hoping for better scenarios and developments in the not-so-far distant future.)
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| 7. no-go areas
| 13. be particularly hard hit
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| 2. flash floods
| 8. compiled the report
| 14. submerged by rising sea levels
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| 3. suitable habitat
| 9. upgrading facilities
| 15. huge costs
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| 4. World Wild Fund for Nature
| 10. decline in cloud cover
| 16. distribution of wildlife
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| 5. contracting malaria
| 11. foreign revenue
| 17. skiing destinations
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| 6. ridden with malaria
| 12. exposure to the sun's harmful rays
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