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Watch the video and do the following exercises.

Look at the title of this report and answer the following questions.

Study the meaning of the following words and word combinations.

Before you watch the video do the following tasks.

Speech activities

1. Consider different kinds of pollution in each of the contexts listed in the columns.

	Pollution sources	Effects on the environment	Effects on people
Air pollution
Water pollution
Soil pollution
Solid wastes
Noise pollution
Radiation

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What kind of pollution is the most widely spread?

2. What kind of pollution is the most dangerous for people?

3. What kind of pollution harms the environment most of all?

4. What pollutant is the most troublesome one in urban areas?

5. What kind of pollution is the most visible?

1. Express your attitude to the following statements.

1. Different pollutants harm the environment insolently.

2. Cigarette smoke isn't an air pollutant.

3. Weather can reduce the level of air pollution.

4. The natural cycle that keeps water clean can be upset by pollution.

5. Small amounts of radiation do not affect people's health.

1. Analyse the level of different types of pollution in your native place. Share your findings with the class.

1. Organise a class debate on the topics.

· Environmental protection is everyone’s concern.

· Each of us harms the environment but we all can reduce pollution.

Work with the video programme "Canaries of the Sea"

be riddled with diseases	быть пораженным болезнями
be underway	идти, происходить, осуществляться
bear witness	свидетельствовать
clean-up schemes	программы очистки; очистительные сооружения
dwindle v	уменьшаться, сокращаться, истощаться
exceed safety limit	превышать уровень безопасности
gastric ulcer	язва желудка
harpoon gun	гарпунная пушка
insidious adj	скрытый
leakage n	утечка, течь, просачивание
lesion n	повреждение, поражение (органа, ткани)
persistent chemicals	стойкие химические вещества
rotting carcasses	гниющие туши

1. What do you know about canaries?

2. Do you know how they can be useful to man?

3. What sea creature might be like a canary in some way?

1. What lives in the waters of St. Lawrence Seaway?

2. What lines the banks of the St. Lawrence River? Why?

3. What flows downstream from hundreds of miles away?

4. What is killing the "canaries of the sea"?

1. These Beluga whales are unique.

2. Dead whales are found to have unusual cancers, ulcers and lesions.

3. The toxic compounds in water exceed international safety limits.

4. Toxic substances have been released into the water by Canadian firms.

5. Toxic waste is being dumped at river sites in America despite a ban.

6. The whales were called canaries because they warn man about the presence of toxic substances in the area.

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