Listen to the person speaking about ways to stop climate change and find out if the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false statements

	It is very necessary for over 100 world leaders to participate in Copenhagen meeting.
	They will be speaking about saving planet oceans.
	They might reach an agreement to cut emissions and avoid temperature rise.
	Until the climate change figures are exact, it is difficult to convince them to spend money.
	The predictions of temperature rise vary little.
	If well organized, 1% of world turnover is enough to avert this catastrophe.

What are the speaker’s predictions of the following Copenhagen meeting?

Is there a simple way to fight global warming?

Your partner and you are invited to participate in a student conference on global warming. Discuss which reasons for global warming you are going to cover and rank them.

1) _____________________________________; 2) _____________________________________;

3) _____________________________________; 4) _____________________________________;

5) _____________________________________; 4) _____________________________________.

Compare your list with your groupmates’. Are you going to mention the same problems?

5. READING &SPEAKING ______________________________________________

5.1. Check your understanding of the words and phrases in the vocabulary bank, then fill in the gaps in the sentences that follow. Alternative Energy Climatologist Radiation Greenhouse Effect Heat Stress Ice sheet Recycling Solar activity Weatherize 1. We are going to double ______________ production. 2. He's a ______________ who studies the history of the weather and the climate. 3. He estimates that _________________ and drought would cost U.S. farmers $16 billion in 2025.

4. The prediction is based on Gulf Stream temperatures, ______________ and the cooling of oceans through the La Nina concept. 5. In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius theorized that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning coal would create a "______________ " and raise the planet's average temperature. Most scientists scoffed 6. Many Arctic glaciers and the Greenland ______________ are melting at unprecedented rates and permafrost is thawing in some places. 7. The safety threshold for their ______________ exposure was raised 2 1/2 times so they could keep working. 8. We're going to ______________ 2 million homes. 9. Reusing is even better than ______________.

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