Environmental problems
занимательные факты по английскому языку (9, 10, 11 класс) на тему

Environmental problems.

Use the words in the box to complete these two newspapers articles about environmental problems. Write the number of the space beside each word.

Tall chimneys cause acid rain.

In December 1952, nearly four thousand people died in London. They died because they breathed a terrible ____1 of smoke and fog which the Londoners called ____2. Scientists discovered that most of the smoke came from factories and ____3 stations. The government told them to build tall___4 so the smoke would blow away. This solved the problem in London but it caused more problems elsewhere. The smoke went high up into the ____5 where the chemicals in the smoke mixed with water to make acid ____6. These blew across the English Channel and caused acid rain to fall in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. This acid rain destroyed buildings, ____7 and lakes in those countries.

Chemicals make blood-red sea.

The valley of the River Po in Northern Italy is an important agricultural area. The farmers in this region produce a lot of very good food but they use a lot of chemicals to help them. They ____8 the fields with fertilisers  and ____9 to feed and protect the crops. Unfortunately, when it rains, a lot of these____10 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 ____11. An algae, a type of sea weed, was growing in the rich mixture of chemicals in the water. Tourists didn’t want to swim in red sea water and they cancelled their holidays.