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Answer key: Unit 12
Students are planning to pro'test about the increase
in their university fees. CD 2 Track 19
They’re having a meeting to plan their 'protest Examiner: Now I’d like you to talk about something
tomorrow evening. together for about two minutes. Here are some
environmental threats that can affect people’s lives.
The chief of police expects people to re'bel against
the recent rise in taxes. Talk to each other about how these threats can affect
He’s always been a bit of a 'rebel, even when he was people’s lives.
a small child. Anna: Well, this one’s really relevant at the moment
They made me an offer I couldn’t re'fuse. because it’s in the news now – literally as we speak.
Our 'refuse is collected every Friday. There are lots of forest fires all over Australia and
they’re having a terrible effect on people’s lives. The
You shouldn’t re'ject ideas out of hand. experts seem to think it’s one of the results of climate
The things in that shop are very cheap because change and global warming.
they’re factory 'rejects.
Lukas: Yes, but forest fires only affect certain parts
of the world, don’t they? I mean, I’d say flooding is
probably more widespread, it affects more different
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places – Asia, America and Europe. They say that’s also
1 1 your partner 2 written prompts 3 three 4 more connected with global warming, don’t they?
5 need not Anna: Yes, and that’s only going to get worse if the ice
caps continue melting at the current rate. And flooding
2 1 photo 1: forest fires can cause terrible damage – at least as bad as fires.
photo 2: drought conditions Lukas: And the opposite, drought, of course. In some
photo 3: rainforest clearance ways that’s worse than floods because more people are
2 air pollution, flood damage, fossil fuel affected. Droughts often lead to poor harvests, which
consumption means people have no food and have to travel for days,
3 Suggested answers often on foot, to refugee camps where they’re given
forest fires: arson, carelessness, discarded food. But their lives can be ruined.
cigarettes Anna: That used to just be in Africa, didn’t it? I think it’s
drought conditions: global warming, burning of now beginning to happen in parts of southern Europe.
fossil fuels I remember a few years ago when all those people died
rainforest clearance: wood used for timber, land in a heat wave in France.
used for grazing animals
air pollution: vehicle exhaust fumes, heavy Lukas: I’m not sure that was quite like the situation
industry, factory emissions in Africa, but drought and flooding are definitely
flood damage: climate change, global warming more common than they used to be, and that’s really
fossil fuel consumption: population growth, worrying. And what about pollution as well, especially
increase in number of vehicles air pollution, which seems to be on the minds of many
people at the moment? I’m sure that’s going to affect
4 Suggested answers us – perhaps more in the long term than now.
1 They cover all the threats in their discussion, but Anna: Do you think so? It already does affect us, doesn’t
on forest fires and flooding they don’t talk directly it? I mean, think about how many more people there
enough about how people’s lives are affected – too are now with allergies and breathing problems than
much time is spent talking about causes rather there used to be.
than effects. They are better when detailing Lukas: Very true. And finally, there’s fossil fuel
the effects of droughts, pollution and fossil fuel consumption. Do you think that’s really a threat?
consumption. Anna: Yes, I do – in two different ways. When we burn
2 They could focus more directly on the question fossil fuels like coal and oil to make energy, that causes
asked by the examiner in the first part of their air pollution, doesn’t it? And secondly if the price of oil
discussion.
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