RECUPERACIÓN OCTAVO SEP 28 2019

Good morning, afternoon or evening everyone, the following are the exercises you should do to recover the last term.
First of all, you should do WORKBOOK EXERCISES PAGES NUMBER: 20,21,22,23,31,38,39

Additionally you have to complete this task:

Name: __________________ Date: _____/ _____ / ______

Mark: Teacher:

1-Use the words in the box to complete this newspaper article about an environmental problem:

blood           chemicals               spray           mixture                   holidays               agricultural                   pesticides

CHEMICALS MAKE BLOOD-RED SEA The valley of the river Po in Northern Italy is an important ………………………..area. The farmers in this region produce a lot of very good food but they use a lot of …………………….. to help them. They …………………….the fields with ………………………. and chemicals to feed and protect the crops. Unfortunately , when it rains, a lot of these chemicals are washed away from the earth into streams and eventually into the River Po. This river carries the chemicals into the Adriatic Sea. In 1989, parts of the Adriatic sea became as red as ………………..: an alga, a type of seaweed, was growing in the rich ……………………….. of chemicals in the water. Tourists didn’t want to swim in the red water and cancelled their ……………………….. .

2-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:

Pesticides            Rush hour        Wind                   Food chain                 Exhaust fumes            Polluting          Power stations             Chemicals                   Dangerous                          Traffic jams

Every day during the ______________________you can see cars stuck in ________________sending their ______________________ up into the atmosphere, _____________________our environment. It is not only in town that the quality of life is being threatened. Although farmers say they have to spray _____________

on their crops, some experts believe  that these ___________________could get into the _______________,

which will result in a dramatic increase in the number of people  affected  by cancer and various allergies.

Potentially the most _________________ threat to the environment is nuclear  waste from _____________.

By developing alternative sources of energy, such as _________________and wave power , we can make our world much safer to live in.

3-Complete the text below by inserting the words in the box:

Recycling               Toxic                    Dirty         Dumping              Poisons             Smoke           Waste            Chimney

The main reason for pollution is ________________-- something which is no longer needed. Waste can be many things: it can be yesterday’s newspaper, an old car, your _____________bath water, or _____________ from a factory ________________. Some  waste is dangerous, because it contains ____________________.This kind of waste is called __________________ waste and it is worrying many governments today.

If you want to do something better than _________________, you can change waste  into something different. You can sort your waste so that paper, metal and clothes, for example, can be sold to dealers for _____________________ .

 

4-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:

Cut down            Droughts            Rubbish            Soil  (2x)  Rainforests               Plastic                Species              Land

Tropical _________________ in South America and in Africa are being cleared away for _________________ and to use the ________________ for farming. In the last 30 years , more than 80% of Africa’s Ivory Coast rainforest has been ____________________. But the loss of trees is leading to ____________erosion, mud slides  and _________________. Many plants and animals no longer have a home and 48 ____________of plants and animals are wiped out every day.

Another great threat to animals is __________________as many animals are strangled or choke on ____________________ bags, since plastic is not biodegradable.

5-Complete the text below by inserting the words   in the box:

pollution         problem              food              feed          agricultural               forests distribution                   degradation

Less food, more people A world Bank report  warns that ………………………………….practices  are destroying our ability to produce ………………… in the future. The ………………………………… of soil, the …………………… of water resulting from farming and the destruction of …………………………. are endangering future food supplies.  ( … ) Solutions  to the ………………………….  include  better ……………………………… of the food we produce, integrated farming –that is  sustainable and environmentally-friendly – and bio-engineering. By 2020 there will be  another one-and-a-half million people to ………………in the world( … )

6-Complete the text below by inserting the words   in the box:

produce        save          buy       recycle       waste              throw away                too        afterwards      rubbish                 products       factories        plates            handkerchiefs          tins          people             aluminium

In the wealthy …………………..of the world people……………………….a lot. They ……………a lot of unnecessary things and often ………………………good food. In order to make everyday life simpler, we ……………………….millions of things like paper…………………….. and throw away cups and ………………………….. In the USA you can buy special TV dinners, which the ………………….have packed in …………………………containers. No washing-up: you simply throw the container away ………………………….  .  Think how many materials we could …………………..if we didn’t manufacture these ………………………  .We might save a lot in other ways, ……………..  .If people sorted their ………………………, for example, and kept separate dustbins for paper, glass, ……………..and left-over food. Then we would be able to use a lot of things again – or …………………………them.