Listening
1. Describe what you see in the pictures and talk about the relationship between them.
Listen and check your answers.
2. Listen to part of a conversation on TV between a reporter and an environmentalist about thermal pollution. Complete the diagram. Use no more than three words for each blank.
Thermal pollution:
Definition: Water getting (1) __________ or (2) __________.
EFFECTS
- Power plants using water to (3) __________ equipment.
-Discharge of cold water into (4) __________.
CAUSES
- (5) __________ decreasing oxygen.
- Less oxygen harming (6) __________.
(7) __________ algal blooms being another effect.
- Can change (8) __________ of the water and (9) __________ fish.
SOLUTIONS
Building cooling towers to (10) __________ the water.
Writing
3. Work in pairs. Discuss the causes and effects of one type of pollution in your area. Make notes in the diagram.
| __________ pollution Definition: __________ | |
| EFFECTS ____________________ | CAUSES ____________________ |
4. Imagine that you two are writing an article for the local newspaper about a type of pollution in your area. One of you writes about the causes and the other writes about the effects of the pollution type you have just discussed in 3.
