Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

Факультет Международных отношений

Пособие по английскому языку

для студентов 2 курса

( 4 семестр)

(Уровень: Advanced, Upper-Intermediate, Intermediate)

Environment

Санкт – Петербург

2009

Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет 1

Пособие по английскому языку 1

для студентов 2 курса 1

( 4 семестр) 1

(Уровень: Advanced, Upper-Intermediate, Intermediate) 1

Санкт – Петербург 1

2009 1

UNIT 4. ENVIRONMENT 3

VOCABULARY LIST 4. ENVIRONMENT (на двух страницах) 3

4.1. CLIMATE CHANGE 6

Listening 4.1. Arctic Ocean ice could melt by 2013 7

4.1.2. The Planet in Peril 8

Text Translation 4.1. 13

4.2. POLLUTION 15

Listening 4.2. African walkout at Copenhagen talks. 17

4.2.2. When does your waste become litter? 19

Text Translation 4.2. 22

4.3. SPECIES EXTINCTION 23

Listening 4.3. Africa in bid to save species. 24

4.3.2.The Planet in Peril ( part2 ) 25

Text Translation 4.3. 30

4.4. ALTERNATIVE ENERGY 31

Listening 4.4. Biofuel no answer to greening cars: report. 33

4.4.2.Blair pledges green industrial revolution 34

Text Translation 4.4. 40

DEBATES 4 . 41

Unit 4. Environment

Vocabulary list 4. Environment (на двух страницах)

(Climate Change,Pollution, Species Extinction, Alternative Sources of Energy)

Climate change

1. accumulation

2. to affect

3. agricultural zones

4. carbon dioxide

5. chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

6. climate change

7. climatic zone

8. concentration

9. crop (yields)

10. to cut down trees

11. deforestation

12. desertification

13. to degrade

14. to deplete

15. drought

16. ecosystem

17. environment

18. flood

19. fresh water supplies

20. glacier

21. global warming

22. greenhouse effect

23. greenhouse gases

24. lower atmosphere

25. mean surface temperature

26. to melt, melting

27. to perturb

28. polar ice caps

29. pole

30. potable water

31. precipitation

32. rainfall

33. raw water supplies

34. sanitation

35. sea level (rise)

36. shift

37. storms

38. vulnerability

Pollution

1. aerosol sprays

2. agricultural wastes

3. anthropogenic

4. buildup

5. to burn waste

6. to bury, burial

7. byproducts

8. chemical fertilizer

9. chemical reaction

10. chemicals

11. to classify

12. to compost

13. concern

14. container

15. contamination

16. DDT

17. to deposit

18. dump

19. to emit, emission

20. environmental movement

21. flammable

22. fumes

23. garbage

24. groundwater

25. harmful substances

26. hazardous

27. to incinerate, incinerator

28. industrial wastes

29. internal combustion engine

30. land pollution

31. landfill

32. to leak, leakage

33. motor vehicle

34. nuclear wastes

35. pests

36. pollutant

37. pollution control technologies

38. radioactive

39. to recycle wastes

40. refuse

41. to release

42. repository

43. respiratory disease

44. rubbish

45. sewage

46. sewage-treatment solids

47. sewer (systems)

48. solid wastes

49. to store waste

50. sulfur

51. toxic wastes

Species Extinction

1. to accelerate

2. ancestral

3. to become extinct, extinction

4. breeding programs

5. descendant

6. to die out

7. endangered species

8. evolution

9. game (species)

10. habitat

11. in the wild

12. line

13. living organism

14. national park

15. natural selection

16. overexploitation of biological resources

17. overhunting

18. poaching

19. preserve

20. Red Data Book

21. reintroduction

22. to reproduce

23. reserve

24. species

25. species loss

26. specimen

27. to be suited

28. to survive

29. viable population

30. wildlife

Alternative Sources of Energy

1. active volcanism

2. carbon dioxide

3. coal

4. coastal regions

5. coastal waters

6. combustion

7. electric power

8. exploit sources

9. fossil fuels

10. gasoline

11. generate electricity

12. generator

13. geothermal energy

14. geyser

15. hot springs

16. hydrocarbons

17. hydroelectric power

18. inexhaustible

19. land drainage

20. natural gas

21. nonpolluting

22. nuclear energy

23. oil

24. petroleum

25. pollution-free sources

26. power plant

27. power sources

28. to produce electric power

29. to radiate, radiation

30. to refine oil

31. renewable energy

32. solar batteries

33. solar energy

34. solar heating systems

35. steam

36. tidal power

37. uranium

38. utilization

39. water turbines

40. wave power

41. wind power

42. wind turbines

43. windmill