The Green Generation

Who pays/ is going to pay the price if the current generation continues/ will continue to pollute the environment? Today’s children will foot the bill. California teenagers who figured this out have started an organization called YES (Youth for Environmental Sanity). Yes members believe that if/unless kids depend/will depend on themselves, nothing is going on to happen. The group is realistic but hopeful. The YES philosophy can be stated in a few words: ”Who says we can’t save the earth? If we don’t/won’t save it for us.” A lot of this hope is based on teenagers’ growing economic power. According to one nationwide poll, US teenagers spend about $80 billion a year. Using that power, kids’ ecology groups have told some manufacturers, “We won’t buy your products if/ unless you change/ will change the way you do business.”

Youngsters have forced giant food corporations such as Burger King to change. Now, if/unless kids object/will object to a product for environmental reasons, manufacturers listen.

Partly because companies want kids to buy their products, “green” advertising – advertising that mentions the company’s concern about the environment – is booming. But environmental groups tell companies that they’d better actually solve problems and not just spend money on advertising. “Kids are sharp”, warns one spokesperson. They’ll/won’t figure it out fast if manufacturers will practice/practice false advertising”.

Task 3. Read part of a book report and find and correct six mistakes in the use of the present unreal conditional. The first mistake is already corrected. After doing the exercise express your opinion about the problem raised in the article.

The Disappearance

What would happen to the women, if all the man in the world would disappear? What would happen to the men when there were no women? Philip Wiley’s 1951science - fiction novel, The Disappearance, addresses these intriguing questions.

According to Wiley, if men and women live in different worlds, the results would be catastrophic. Wiley thinks that men are too aggressive to survive on their own.

If women didn’t control them, men will start more wars. He also believes that women wouldn’t have the technological skills to survive in their own world. If men aren’t there to pump gas and run the businesses, women wouldn’t be able to manage.