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Complete the facts about the environment using the words
6i :.t: Listen to three people tatking about different
below.
globalthreats that we face. Who is least optimistic about the
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speakers.
l address a ctimate change
2 combat b vaccines
3 assess c weapons
4 stockpile d a threat
5 decommission e measures
6 bring in f a risk

whotever, whoever, wherever, etc.
We use whatever, whoever, etc. to say'it doesn't matter
what, who, etc. because the resutt witt be the same'.
Whatever we do, global warming is here to stay.
Whoever thinks we can ignore the problem is seriously
mistaken.
Whichever country you live in, you'll be affected by
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climote change.
We'll never prevent sea-levels rising, however hard we try.
ln the UK twenty million tonnes of food are imported,
ln some clauses we can omit the verb be.
and twelve million tonnes .,.--,- ! every year.
However difficult (it is), we have to oct now.
On average every person in the UKthrows away their
own body weight in =- every three months.
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On average, each UK uses 55,000 litres of water & :.t: Read the Learn this! box. Then rephrase these
every year.
ideas as they were expressed by the speal<ers, using
Across the European Union at any one time, there are
whotever,whoever,wherever, etc. Then listen and check
stretching along 64,000 kilometres of road.
.130 your answers to exercises 4 and 5.
The ten warmest years in the last have all
1 lt doesn't matter which way you [ook at it, gtobaI warming
since 1978.
is a very real threat.
7 It takes around 450 years for a plastic bottle.to -
8 Aviation generates nearly as much in one year as 2 Everybody shoutd do their bit and make an effort, even if
it's really smat[.
the total population of Africa.
9 An area of tropical rainforest -. 3 Any time the media hear about an outbreak of bird flu,
to sixteen football
pitches is destroyed every single minute. they always btow it out of proportion.
4 lt doesn't matter how much the government scientists try
10 For every tonne of waste we produce in our homes, it
to reassure us, nobody really betieves them.
is estimated that five tonnes of waste has already been
5 Reatisticalty I don't think there's any chance at at[ of that
created at the manufacturing stage, and twenty tonnes
at the point where the was extracted. happening in the foreseeabte future.
6 lt doesn't matter what we do with our own nuclear
1 1 4O%o of the have melted over the past 50 years.
weapons, we have to prevent other countries from
12 The of the average US citizen on the environment
developing their own.
is approximately three times that of the average ltalian,
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thirteen times that of the average Brazilian, 140 times ffi ffi Work in pairs or small groups. Decide what, in your
that of the average Bangladeshi, and 250 times that of opinion, is the gravest threat facing either your country, your
the average sub-Saharan African. continent or the world. Choose one of the threats below, or
come up with your own. Present your ideas to the class.
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ffi Work in pairs. Do any of these facts disturb you?
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Are many people concerned? Why?/ Why not? Agree on which glthal virilr*s gi+hnI u*rr*inp; nait-rruI rii*nst*rc
three facts alarm you most. Give reasons.
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