Методические указания по теме "Город". Богомолова А.Ю - 19 стр.

       9.2 Now you are going to further reduce “The Future” to five lines, but this
time in a different group again, you should all agree on the final choice that best rep-
resent your own views.

      9.3 Extension. Say what the world will be like

              10 Text IX. New life, new earth, new town
     10.1What do you think? Try and answer the questions

      Where do we get all the food we eat from?
      What sort of farms do we have?
      What sort of town do we have?
      Do we use the land sensibly?
      Do we need to find out more about how plants and animals live together?
      How could we find out more?
      Look up the word “ecosystem” in your dictionaries.
      Imagine you went to colonize another planet.
      What would you live in?
      What would you eat?
      What houses would you build?
      What native or known cities and town would you like to have?

      10.2 Read the following text. Put the paragraphs in the correct order

     a) Not only this, but also there was a problem of plant fertilization, and how to
        distribute the oxygen evenly. Normally bees pollinate plants, but because
        glass cuts out ultra violet rays, which bees use to navigate, another solution
        had to be found. Hummingbirds were used. Generating waves mechanically
        in the ‘ocean’ was one of the ways to overcome the oxygen distribution prob-
        lem.
     b) Eight scientists got the go ahead to incarcerate themselves for two years in a
        giant greenhouse. The project aims to provide a working model of Earth, and
        is intended to function just like the real thing.
     c) The project was set up jointly. The ideals came from a London – based ecol-
        ogy think tank, and the finance from a Texan billionaire. The huge steel and
        glass structure was built in the Arizona desert, and was not without its teeth-
        ing problems.
     d) This project is expensive, though the organizers hope to make some of the
        money back by providing a series of viewing galleries, from which tourists
        could see a world at work.
     e) Although their living in terms of food will be far from luxurious the scientists
        will be housed in a luxury block attached to the biosphere. You could easily
        imagine similar conditions for a colony living in space.
                                                                                      19