tailieunhanh - Vocabulary for ielts part 9

Units 21 and 22 give helpful tips on learning new vocabulary and how to use a dictionary. These units provide a very useful introduction to learning vocabulary, so it may be a good idea to look at these first. | The environment Choose the words that reflect your opinion of these three statements from the first column of the table below. Write the words you chose in the My Opinion column. 1 We should educate the public about our environment by handing out leaflets. 2 Within a few years we will have solved all of our pollution problems. 3 Within the next ten years the only chemicals we use will be environmentally friendly ones. My opinion Speaker A SpeakerB Statement 1-useful useless Statement 2-possible impossible Statement 3 likely unlikely 5a Now listen to two people speakers A and B giving their opinions about the same ideas and choose the words that reflect their opinions. Write them in the appropriate columns of the table. Listen again or look at the recording script at the back of the book and write the adjectives the speakers used to express their opinions. Put the adjectives into the correct column according to their meaning. useful bene-Raal useless possible impossible likely unlikely Wh Vocabulary note The prefix re- often tells us that something is being done again reuse revegetate. The prefix de- often tells us that something is being removed decaffeinated deforestation. 1 Climate change and pollution Complete the text with words from the box. acid biodiversity contaminated deforestation ecosystems emissions environmental erosion exhaust drought fertilisers greenhouse waste The advances made by humans have made us the dominant species on our planet. However several eminent scientists are concerned that we have become too successful that our way of life is putting an unprecedented strain on the Earth s 1 .and threatening our future as a species. We are confronting 2 .problems that are more taxing than ever before some of them seemingly insoluble. Many of 78 The green revolution 15 the Earth s crises are chronic and inexorably linked. Pollution is an obvious example of this affecting our air water and soil. The air is polluted by 3 .produced by .