The pollution of air and destruction of the ozone layer are the results of man's attitude towards Nature

The protection of the environment is a universal con­ cern. We must be very active to create a serious system of ecological security.

Words

Ancient — древний source — источник

Natural riches — природные богатства to increase — увеличиваться

Harmful interference — вредное воздействие

Английский язык

Industrial enterprises — промышленные предпри ятия

To pollute — загрязнять substances — вещества suffer — мучаться

to upset — зд. нарушать rare — редкий

To dry up — высыхать

Ozone layer — озоновый слой attitude — отношение

Universal concern — всеобщая забота

Questions

What is the main reason of ecological problems?

What are the main ecological problems?

Why should the ecological problems should be universal concern?

What steps are taken to fight ecological problems

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ 2

Additional texts for reading Дополнительные тексты для чтения

SHORT STORIES

At the Shop

MOTHER: I sent my little boy for two pounds of apples and you sent only a pound and a half.

SHOPKEEPER: My scales are all right, madam. Have you weighed your little boy?

A shopkeeper — лавочник

a pound — фунт (англ. мера веса = 454 г) scales — весы

to weigh [wei] — взвешивать

Johnny's Grammar

VOICE ON PHONE: Are your father and mother at home? LITTLE JOHNNY: They was, but they isn't now.

VOICE: They was, but they isn't? — Where's your gram­ mar!

JOHNNY: She is out too.

grammar ['graemaj — грамматика grandma ['gramma:] — бабушка

First Time at School

Emily had been to school for the first time. «Well, darling, what did you learn?» asked her mother.

•Nothing*, sighed Emily hopelessly. «Pve got to go back again tomorrow*.

Приложение 2

Failure — неудача to sigh — вздыхать

Emily ['emili] — Эмилия hopelessly — безнадежно darling — дорогой, -ая I've got to... — мне нужно

An Unexpected Answer

TEACHER: What do elephants have that no other animals have?

PUPIL: Little elephants.

Unexpected — неожиданный an elephant — слон

Sleeping In Summer

The teacher told the pupils about the bear sleeping in winter. After explaining it to the children, she said:

«Сап anyone tell me of any other animal that sleeps in winter?*

A little boy's hand went up, and the teacher said: •Well, Peter, you may tell us of one*.

«Santa Clause, said Tommy, -eonly he does it in the summertime*.

He Knew It

The teacher of geography was trying to teach a small boy the points of the compass.

He explained: *On your right is the East, your left is the West, and in front of you is the North. Now what is behind you?*

The boy thought a moment, and then cried: «I knew it. I told Mother you would see the patch on my pants*.

Английский язык

Geography — география

The points of the compass — части света по компасу would see — увидите

A patch — заплата

pants [pasnts] — разг. штаны

An Unusual Answer

The grocer was busy serving customers but he noticed, a small boy standing near an open box of sweet biscuits.

•Well, my boy*, said the grocer, *What are you up to?» «Nothing*.

• Nothing? Well, it looks as if you were trying to take a biscuit*.

• You are wrong, mister. I'm trying not to*.

to notice ['noutisj—замечать biscuits — печенье

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