Environment Protection. Машутина Е.А. - 14 стр.

     5.4 Fill in the blanks and translate the sentences
     1 When man first appeared, the earth ________ many of the ________ of plants
and animals which exist today.
     2 The range of ecological situations has not changed to a _____ degree.
     3 He made no changes to the _______ as a whole.
     4 The first signs of a new problem in ecological _____ became evident when
man _______ into villages.
     5 His mechanical activity - in constructing cities, _______ - is the most striking
and obvious.
     6 Man the _______ has attempted to ignore the capacities and characteristics of
his ecosystems.
____________________________________________________________
pronounced, management, technologist, biosphere, contain, dam, species, congregate

     5.5 Answer the questions
     1 What did the earth contain when man first appeared? •
     2Has the range of ecological situations available for life changed to a
pronounced degree?
     3 What types of man were distinguished by nature?
     4 Man the hunter-gatherer made some changes to the biosphere, didn't he?
     5 How did man the technologist affect the environment?
     6 What was introduced to man's vocabulary when he congregated into villages
and towns?

      5.6 Check if you remember the following English verbs. Match the verbs
correctly, find equivalents from the right column
1 to appear                              наслаждаться
2 to be able                             менять
3 to introduce                           избегать
4 to exist                               пытаться
5 to develop                             собирать
6 to enjoy                               появляться
7 to change                              быть в состоянии
8 to avoid                               вводить
9 to attempt                             существовать
10 to gather                             развивать

     5.7 Read the dialogue, reproduce it
     - Do you know when man first appeared, I wonder?
     - Not exactly. But, probably, it happened a million or so years ago.
     - And what did our earth contain at that time?
     - It contained many of the species of plants and animals which exist today, most
of the climates which exist today and many of today's topographic features.
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