Presentation Earth AlertModule 4 Secondry School No 17

Presentation Earth Alert!Module 4 Secondry School No № 17 The 10 th form Podolsk, 2010

Content of Module • Listening Speaking Skills • Grammar in Use • Writing Skills • Culture Corner • Going Green • Spotlight on Exams

Earth Alert! Fact File Listening Speaking Skills • • Polar bears may be extinct in 100 years. Sea levels could rise by 50 cm in the next 100 years. UK winters could become 30% wetter by 2100. The top ten warmest years since 1860 have all occurred since 1980. • More than 150 acres of rainforest are lost every minute.

Grammar in Use

Should cars be banned from city Writing Skills 1. Most people would agree that cars have made our lives mush easier. They have, however, brought many problems as well. 2. There are many positive aspects to banning cars from city centres. To begin with , it would help to drastically reduce air. 3. On the other hand, banning cars totally from city centres would have its disadvantages. Firstly, it would inconvenience millions of people. 4. All things considered, although there are many advantages to using cars in city centres, there is no excuse for people not to use public transport more often than at present.

Pollution of the oceans Culture Corner • A terrible threat to all living things not only in the ocean, but on land are the atomic tests at sea and dumping at sea depths of radioactive waste. • The construction of ports, industries and even recreational facilities and hotels on the sea takes away from the ocean the most biologically productive zone - the littoral zone. In conjunction with immoderate crafts this also leads to the impoverishment of life.

Photosynthesis • Energy moves along the food chain from one life form to another. • Photosynthesis uses energy from the sun change carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates. • There are two stages to the photosynthesis process. • The equation shows how important photosynthesis is for life. • Without photosynthesis, our planet could not support life as we know it.

Tropical rainforests Going Green • Tropical rainforests grow • • in the hot, wet, humid places near the Equator. The plants and trees in the rainforest grow to different heights. The forest can be divided into four layers: the forest floor.

Pandas Spotlight on Exams • Giant Panda is an endangered species, characterized by the constantly diminishing size of the population and low birthrate, both in the wild, and when the content in captivity. Scientists think that in the wild left about 1600 individuals. • At length a large panda reaches 1, 2 -1, 5 m and has a mass of 30 to 160 kg. Unlike other bears, has a rather long tail (12 cm). The body is massive, covered with thick white fur with black patches around the eyes (goggles), and black paws

Siberian Tiger • The most numerous subspecies of the cat family. About 10% of the population of the Siberian tiger lives in Kitae. Sibirsky, or Amur tiger lives primarily in the temperate forests of the Far East of Russia. The population of Amur tiger in Russia varied greatly: from a relatively large number of the beginning of the century to a critically small in the early 1940's, when it was only about 20 -30 tigers. The primary reason for the almost complete destruction of the tigers had been hunting for them. After hunting the tiger in 1947 banned, its population increased to about 300 -400 species, but the future of this species causes serious concern. The main threat - the loss of habitat and deterioration of food. In most of the territories inhabited by the Amur tiger, is lumbering, and the Tigers are actively hunt. An additional threat to this species is that in China organs tigers are in demand as a raw material for traditional medicine.

Air pollution and its consequences. • Atmospheric air we breathe, always carries some of its molecular electric charges. The process of charge on the molecule is called ionization, and charged molecules - a light ion or NAI. If the ionized molecules were deposited on the liquid particles or dust, then the ion is heavy.

Output: • We ourselves are doing the environment, we take from it everything that can, and back to nothing pay. We must also do something to our planet, ultimately, there was lifeless. . .

Literature • http: //animal. geoman. ru/ • Spotlight Student’s Book

Thank you for your attention Group: 1. Shevthenko Alina 50% 2. Petrov Vyachaslav 25% 3. Matyukhin Ilya 25%