· Name:
1 Shortly explain what the issues are about:
poverty
Homelessness
pollution
Unemployment
full landfills
endangered species
2 Fill in with the missing words:
1 Using low-energy ……………………. can save you a lot of money on your electricity bill.
2 During the power ……………………., we lit candles and sat around the kitchen table.
3 Light ……………………. can seriously affect the local wildlife.
4 The security ……………………. turns on whenever it senses someone passing the house.
5 Brian’s sleep ……………………. are being disrupted by the new streetlight outside his window.
6 The light from seafront ……………………. can prevent baby turtles from reaching the sea.
3 Match the words to form collocations, then provide their Polish equivalents:
1 household a spill
2 ozone b warming
3 global c waste
4 fossil d gases
5 oil e layer
6 greenhouse f resources
7 natural g fuels
4 Choose the correct item.
1 We should …….. paper to same trees.
A reuse B reduce C recycle D renew
2 The charity works to …….. the environment.
A protect C guard
B support D maintain
3 Pollution has a serious …….. on people’s health.
A effect C result
B affect D cause
4 There are some bugs …….. around the table.
A swarming C creeping
B wandering D crawling
5 Don’t …….. the tap while brushing your teeth.
A drip B run C drop D open
5 Fill in: wildlife, reserves, ecosystem, organisations, population, habitat, governments.
The snow leopard is a large cat whose natural 1) ……….. is the high forested regions of
Central and South Asia. Many of these regions have been developed, which has greatly affected
the local 2) ……….. . Because the snow leopard’s 3) ………………….. has been destroyed, its 4)
…………….. is now only around 7,000. Conservation 5) ………………….. aim to save the snow
leopard and, with the help of 6) ………………….. around Asia, nature 7) ………………….. have
been created so that it can live in peace.
6 Underline the correct item, then write the speaker’s exact words.
1 A: Did Linda go to the town council meeting yesterday?
B: No, she said she has to/had to write a report for work.
Linda: “I ...................................................... .”
2 A: Have you seen Peter today?
B: Yes, he said he went/was going to the recycling centre.
Peter: “I ...................................................... .”
3 A: Will Anna complete her project on air pollution tonight?
B: No, she told me she will finish/would finish it tomorrow instead.
Anna: “I ...................................................... .”
4 A: Has Ken donated any money to the homeless shelter?
B: No, he said that he hadn’t donated/wasn’t donating any money yet.
Ken: “I ........................................................ .”
5 A: What was Jack doing all yesterday evening?
B: He said that he had been watching/had watched nature documentaries on TV.
Jack “I ........................................................ .”
7 Yesterday, Rachael went to a recycling centre for the first time. Keith works
there and answered some of Rachael’s questions. Turn their questions and
commands into reported speech.
1 Rachael: “Does it cost anything to recycle here?”
Rachael asked him ....................................... .
Keith: “Yes, please pay £1 to the man at the gate”.
Keith told her ............................................... .
2 Rachael: “Where is the bin for glass bottles?”
Rachael asked him ....................................... .
Keith: “Walk up the path for twenty metres.”
Keith told her ............................................... .
3 Rachael: “Can I put an old toaster into the plastics bin?”
Rachael asked him ....................................... .
Keith: “Don’t put any household appliances into the plastics bin.”
Keith told her ............................................... .
8 Fill in the gaps with say or tell in the correct tense.
1 Terry, I want to …………. you something about our project.
2 “I’ll donate to the charity,” she …………. him.
3 Alan ………. us that he had become a volunteer.
4 Lisa …………. that she would come to the clean-up day.
5 “You shouldn’t drop litter,” Mum …………. to us.
9 Turn the sentences into reported speech using the verbs in brackets.
1 “I’m sorry I didn’t come to the meeting,” said George. (apologise)
2 “Don’t forget to turn off the TV,” Jim told Ann. (remind)
3 “Let’s create a poster to raise awareness,” said Tim. (suggest)
4 “Light pollution causes serious harm to wildlife,” said Alice. (explain)
5 “You should turn off all the lights at night,” Anna told Philip. (advise)
10 Use the word in bold to complete the second sentence so that it means the
same as the first. Use two to five words.
1 “Yes, it was me who left the light on last night,” he said. ADMITTED
He .................................................................
the light on the previous night.
2 “Don’t go near the lake,” they said to us. WARNED
They ........................................ near the lake.
3 “Yes, you can borrow my car this weekend,” Adam told Greg. ALLOWED
Adam ............................................................
his car that weekend.
4 “Come to our party later today,” Jim said to him. INVITED
Jim .......................................... later that day.
5 “OK, I will donate some money to the charity,” Peter said. AGREED
Peter ....................................... to the charity.
11 Complete the dialogue with the phrases in the list:
· agree to a certain extent
· this way
· one solution could be to
· think it would be a good idea
· suppose you’re right
· think you’re totally wrong
A: Hi, Brian. Did you read the article about water pollution in the paper? It says our local river is full
of toxic chemicals.
B: Yes, I did. But what can we do about this problem?
A: Well, 1) …………………………….. encourage farmers not to spray chemicals on plants.
B: I 2) …………………………….., but not all farmers want to grow organic produce. I 3)
…………………………….. to fine factories who do not deal with their waste water safely. 4)
…………………………….., they wouldn’t dump chemicals in the river.
A: I 5) …………………………….., but, the way I see it, most water pollution comes from people
using toxic cleaning products in their homes.
B: I 6) …………………………….. there, Alan. That sort of waste water doesn’t have a big effect.
12 Fill in: off, on, out, up, into, over, down (x2).
1 Please, turn …………… the music. It’s giving me a terrible headache!
2 Let’s turn …………… the TV and go outside to enjoy the nice weather.
3 Ned turned …………… an invitation he received for a charity dinner.
4 Could you turn …………… the volume? I can’t hear what the news presenter is saying.
5 Jim’s day turned …………… a nightmare when he lost his job.
6 Rita turned it …………… in her mind before making a decision.
7 Tim’s visit to the homeless shelter turned …………… to be an important moment in his life.
8 Turn …………… the radio; the six-o’clock news is about to start.
13 Choose the correct preposition.
1 Terry doesn’t buy products from companies which experiment on/with animals.
2 Living in highly polluted areas can lead from/to health problems.
3 They marvelled at/with the beauty of the sculpture made entirely from recycled materials.
4 It might rain; I can see some clouds through/on the horizon.
5 All the crew were at/in a panic when the tanker started capsizing.
6 The Siberian tiger is at/in risk of becoming extinct.
7 Animals should live on/in the wild rather than being locked up in zoos.
8 Tina got confused by/from the instructions the man at the recycling centre gave her.
14 Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap.
1 The President wants to introduce ....................
healthcare
for all citizens. (AFFORD)
2 Pollution is a(n) ..............................................
issue which needs to be controlled urgently. (GLOBE)
3 Pam enjoyed looking up at the ........................
skies when she
went camping. (STAR)
4 For ................................................................
reasons, Keith couldn’t manage to find a job. (VARY)
5 It’s up to each ................................................
to sort out their recyclable waste. (RESIDE)
6 The whole town was left in complete ...............
because of
the power cut. (DARK)
15 Read the text and match the headings (A-F) to the paragraphs (1-5). There is
one extra heading.
A A Tragic Impact
B Making it Possible
C A Shocking Discovery
D A Major Setback
E Where it All Ends Up
F Finding a Solution
In the summer of 2011, a Dutch teenager named Boyan Slat went diving off the coast of Greece.
Boyan was eager to experience the underwater wildlife of the area, but instead, he got a terrible
surprise. “I saw more plastic bags than fish,” Boyan says. From that day on, this amazing teenager
has dedicated his life to cleaning up the world’s oceans of floating plastic.
However, Boyan has a massive task in front of him. Every year, around 28 million tons of plastic enter
the world’s oceans. In some cases, people dump rubbish into oceans directly, but most plastic flows
into oceans from rivers and drainage systems. Once there, it gets carried away by currents, and most
of it gathers in five huge areas of water called gyres. The most famous gyre, nicknamed the Pacific
Garbage Patch, is situated between Hawaii and California.
The environmental consequences of this plastic are huge. Many marine animals accidentally eat
pieces of plastic, which then get stuck in their stomachs, causing them to starve. For example, turtles
often confuse plastic bags for jellyfish, and albatrosses eat small pieces of plastic thinking that they
are the eggs of flying fish.
But how can this problem be solved? First, Boyan thought about collecting the plastic using ships and
fishing nets, but he soon realised that this method was too expensive and slow. Instead, he came up
with an idea to install floating barriers in the ocean. In the plans he designed barriers lie on the
surface of the water only, allowing fish to swim unharmed underneath. The oceans’ currents then
carry floating rubbish towards the barriers, where it is collected and recycled on the mainland.
The next step was for Boyan to raise money for the project. At first, this proved very difficult; not a lot
of companies wanted to give money to a 19-year-old student! But after a video of him talking about his
project went viral on the Internet, he soon raised over $2 million! Nowadays, Boyan’s foundation, The
Ocean Cleanup, is doing research to see if his dream can become a reality. Many experts say his
plan won’t work, but Boyan recently claimed that the first platform will be built before 2020. As he says
“When people say something is impossible, I like to prove them wrong.”
