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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES . Read the following text carefully:      The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers, an area as big as the whole Europe excluding Russia. It contains one third of the world’s trees. However, the trees are disappearing. By 1974, a quarter of the forest had already been cut down. In the following   year, 1975, four per cent of the remaining trees went. If the destruction of the forest continues at the same rate, there will be nothing left in a few years.       Scientists say that the disappearance of trees is already causing changes in the climate. In Peru, there is less snow than before on the high peaks of the Andes mountains. In Bolivia there is very little rain.       What will happen if more of the Amazon forest is cut down? According to climatologists if the Amazon forest disappears, there will be less oxygen and it will be difficult for us to breathe, the temperature will rise, the ice-caps at the North and the South poles will melt. E

     Khalid ’s      Journey   1.     How do you say these words in Spanish? Village : ___________ Egypt:  ___________ Dream: ___________ Wife: ____________ Yard:  ____________ Dark:  ____________ Ground:  __________ Money: ___________ Week:  ___________ Fig tree: __________ Hole:  ____________ Gold:  ____________ Trees:  ___________ Dig:  _____________ Corner: ___________ lived – was – had – were – went to – became – woke up – said – listen – didn’t – left – started – arrived – laid down – walked – have – went back – slept  - came up – told – laughed – there was – there were – found – listened to – thought about – dug Once upon a time, a long time ago ________ ______ a man who __________ in a small village in Egypt. His name ______ Khalid and he ______ very poor, his house ______ very small but he ______ a yard, in h

READ Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who studied gorillas in Africa. Her research and life in the mountain forests of Rwanda made her famous. She wrote a book about her work, ‘Gorillas in the Mist’. A major Hollywood studio paid her a million dollars for the movie rights. Her brutal murder in 1985 had to be added to the film. Fossey was born in 1932. She became interested in animals from a very early age and enrolled on a veterinary course. At university, she studied occupational therapy, which would help her later research. She became interested in Africa in her late twenties. She took out a loan and went to Tanzania, where she met the man who would change her life, anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Fossey was encouraged by Dr. Leakey to carry out long-term research on mountain gorillas. In 1967, she set up the Karisoke Research Centre in the remote Rwanda rainforest. She became an international celebrity in 1970 after appearing on the cover of ‘National Geographic’ mag