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1 O Chect these words/phrases in the Word List. How can your own words.
I they be related to the text? Listen and read to find out.
What probtems do peopte in
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limited resou
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poor countries face?
countries FCsil fuetil Fifrh ratesl f ercrjj needt Why shoutdn't we be using coat?
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Read the text and mark the sentences as f (true)
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L or F (false). Correct the fatse statements. Explain the
words in bold. Make sentences using them.

1 There are very few peopte in poor countries.

2 Forests are threatened bv fertitisers.
3 E-waste is poisonous.
4 We have run out of eas.

The Earth's population is increasing but its resources are limited. Can we provide food,
water, energy for everyone, and leave future generations more than a planet-sized rubbish tip?

Population
At present there are six billion For some reason, when we
people on Earth. Over the think of rubbish, we usually I

next forty years the population think of ordinary household ':ia

is going to grow to almost waste. However, with

nine billion. Also, birth rates advancing technology, our
are increasing at a faster bins are also filling up with
pace in poor countries than in developed old appliances, PC monitors,
countries. However, these countries do not have enough and Ws. E-waste is the latest in toxic rubbish and it is
resources to feed their people, keep them healthy and increasing. What will we do
shelter them properly as it is. Will wealthier countries be able about it?
to support poorer countries in
Energy
the future?
These days, we are using more
Food energy than ever before, and the
It is worrying to think that situation is only going to get
there are going to be so worse. At the moment, fossil
many more people to fuels provide 80% of our energy
feed when there arc needs, but oil is running out
already so many starving fast and soon gas will start to run out, too. Coal will last
millions. Unfoftunately, a the longest, but it isn't eco-friendly. In fact, burning coal is the
lot of the Earth's soil is already contaminated as we have leading cause of smog, acid rain and global warming. What
used so many pesticides and fertilisers to grow crops. Also, alternative energy will we use?
there are very few fish left in our seas and oceans, and due to
deforestation, our forests will be bare. What will this leave us
with?

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Vocabulary Natural disasters

1 2.1 Match sentences (1–9) to photos (a–i).
Then listen, check and repeat.
1 When volcanoes erupt, they are dangerous. i c d
2 Earthquakes can destroy buildings.
3 People sometimes drown in floods.
4 A disease can spread very quickly.
5 In a famine, people sometimes starve.
6 An avalanche can bury you under snow.
7 Most plants can’t survive in a drought.
8 A cyclone is a type of storm with very strong winds.
9 A tsunami is a huge, dangerous wave. e f
Word list page 77 Workbook page 107

2 2.2 Complete the sentences with the

correct form of the words in bold in Exercise 1.
Then listen and check.
1 In the story of Noah's Ark, there was a great flood.
2 Mount Vesuvius is a which in 79 AD and g
the Roman city of Pompeii under five metres of ash.
3 Lots of people on the Titanic in 1912. The
richer passengers were more likely to .
4 60,000 men died in an in the Alps in World War I.
5 6,000,000 people in a in Ukraine in the 1930s.
6 The world’s longest was in the Atacama
Desert in Chile. It didn’t rain there for 400 years.
7 An near the coast of Japan in 2011 caused a
terrible . The disaster killed more than 15,000 h i
people and more than 300,000 buildings.
8 In North America, a is called a hurricane.
9 Malaria is a which mosquitoes .

3 In pairs, ask and answer.

1 Have there been any natural disasters in your
country? What happened?
2 What natural disasters have happened in other
countries? What can you remember about them?

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1 Look at the photos. Answer the questions. 4 2.5 Read the article again. Are the
1 What part of the world do you think this is? sentences true (T) or false (F)?
2 What bad news does the article give? 1 Because of global warming, there are more natural
3 What good news does it give? disasters now than there were in the past. T
2 The cyclone in 1991 was stronger than the
2 Read the article quickly and check your answers. cyclone in 1970.
3 Match sentences (1–4) to gaps (A–D) in the article. 3 The cyclone in 1991 killed more people than
the cyclone in 1970.
1 It came in 2007.
4 In 1991, there was nowhere safe for women
2 Not everyone in Bangladesh was so lucky.
and children to go.
3 It was one of the worst natural disasters of the
5 These days, emergency volunteers go to
twentieth century.
schools to warn the children about cyclones.
4 ‘You must come to the school now,’ they shouted.
6 A scientist in the USA helped to save lives in
Cyclone Sidr.
7 The buildings in Rupa’s village survived
because of the cyclone warning.
8 Many more people survived Cyclone Sidr than
the cyclones of 1970 and 1991.

5 What about you? In pairs, ask and answer.

1 Are there ever floods in your country? What
problems do they cause?
2 What do people do to prepare for natural disasters
in your country? Do you think they do enough?
3 Many charities say ‘There are more floods and
droughts now because of global warming. Rich
countries should pay the poor countries which
are affected by these problems.’ Why do they
say this? Do you agree? Why?/Why not?

Fighting After this, villages set up groups of

emergency volunteers and teachers had
number than in the big cyclones of
the twentieth century. With modern

the cyclones
to talk to children every week about the technology, planning and education, we
things which they should do if there was a don’t have to lose huge numbers of lives in
cyclone warning. natural disasters.
They didn’t have to wait many years
Every year, natural disasters affect about
for the next big cyclone. B 1 Twelve
250 million people and global warming is
hours before Cyclone Sidr reached land, a
making droughts, floods and avalanches
Bangladeshi scientist in the USA calculated
more common. Sadly, we can’t stop the
the exact areas of danger on a computer.
disasters, but we can reduce the number of
The emergency volunteers in the villages
people who die in them.
spread the warning fast.
In Bangladesh, a lot of people have to
live on flat land near the sea, but the Ten-year-old Rupa Begum and her friends
cyclones there bring terrible floods. In ran to all their neighbours’ homes. C
1970, Cyclone Bhola killed about 500,000 ‘You won’t be safe if you stay here.’ All the
people. A In 1991, the even stronger buildings in the village were destroyed in
Cyclone Gorky hit the country. This time, the cyclone except for the school shelter.
people could use special school buildings as But because of the children’s warnings,
emergency shelters. Unfortunately, many everyone in the village survived.
women and children didn’t go to them D Four thousand people died in
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1 Look at the photos and the title. Answer the 4 What about you? In pairs, ask and answer.
questions. 1 Does your school throw a party for its leavers?
1 What are proms? What sort of party?
2 Who goes to them? 2 Would you like to go to a prom? Why?/Why not?
3 Which country or countries have them? 3 How much money should people spend on a
4 Is it expensive to go to them? party like a prom? How much is too much?

2 Read the article and check your answers to

Exercise 1.
3 3.29 Read the article again and answer the
questions.
1 What transport do people use to get to the
prom? They go by limo.
2 Is there a long tradition of proms in the UK?
3 What, according to Michael Turner, is wrong
with students’ ideas for proms?
4 What do people have to pay for if they want to
go to a prom?
5 What type of teenagers liked the proms at
New View School?
6 Why did some students get weekend jobs?
7 Why were these jobs a problem?
8 What differences are there between the
leavers’ party and a prom?

A prom is a special party for school leavers and it’s an important tradition in the USA.
Prom night

The girls wear a beautiful dress; the boys wear a jacket and tie. They travel by limo
to the party, which for many is the highlight of their school career.
Proms have now spread across the Atlantic, too. British teenagers have
seen this American tradition on TV and want to share in the fun.
However, some UK schools are unhappy about this. ‘The students
always want something better than the year before. It becomes a
sort of competition,’ says Michael Turner, the head teacher of
New View School in Bristol.
The average 16-year-old now spends £244 on his or her
prom night, up from £218 last year and £196 the year
before. There are the costs of prom tickets, clothes and
a limo and the girls often ask professionals to do their
hair, nails and make-up.
‘Our school used to have proms in a hotel,’ continues
Mr Turner. ‘The richer kids loved them. But others told
me that they couldn’t afford to go. Teachers said that
some kids had found weekend jobs to pay for the
prom and, as a result, weren’t doing enough school
work. Finally, we told the students that there wouldn’t
be any more proms.’
Were they disappointed? ‘Some were, of course. But
this year we threw a leavers’ party in the school hall.
We told the kids to put up cheap decorations and bring
their own music. They wore casual clothes. Everyone felt
very relaxed and they had the time of their lives.’

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