Vocabulary: Pollution
Vocabulary: Pollution
Vocabulary: Pollution
Vocabulary
1 People say that the extreme weather of recent years is due to ....................................... .
2 ....................................... is a huge social problem with whole families living on the streets.
3 ....................................... is rising with one in four people out of work in some countries.
4 We need to plant more trees around the world to combat the effects
of ....................................... .
5 ....................................... will not go away until we treat each other as equals.
6 Unfortunately, tigers, elephants and rhinos are on the list of ....................................... .
7 People are responsible for the ....................................... on the planet.
3 Fill in the gaps with the following words: real, best-selling, organise, raised, win,
thrilling, have, proof.
4 Fill in the verbs: achieve, end up, stumble, set out, record, monitor, track, patrol,
motivate, quit, cover, make up, lay, lead in the correct form.
2 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple, present perfect or the present
perfect continuous.
Reading
Read the text and complete the gaps (1-10) with the correct word, A, B, C or D.
At least 60% of people in the UK aged over 65 have 1) ……… used the Internet. Lilla Harris, 2) ……… has
had experience of working with the elderly, has been working to change all that. She had worked as a
care home nurse and manager before setting up Adopt a Care Home in 2011. Under this scheme, the
elderly in care homes 3) ……… lessons in IT. Young student volunteers spend one or two hours a week
4) ……… their computer knowledge with the old people. Since 2011, around 50 schools and colleges have
been involved in the scheme.
In one home, two16-year-olds showed an old lady how to scan her old family photographs. Together
they uploaded them to a simple and secure network and 5) ……… them off to her relatives. Lilla was very
pleased because she had seen so many of the residents’ photos becoming worn and faded over the
years. If the lady hadn’t 6) ……… how to scan and send her photos, her grandchildren would never have
had the 7) ……… to know their family history.
Care home residents under the scheme have been learning all sorts of IT skills, for example, how to
send an email or create their 8) ……… profile. One 87-year-old, who had not seen her daughter for two
years, learnt to use Skype. They now see and talk to each other on a big seen once a week.
Lilla Harris and her young volunteers have given the elderly a wonderful opportunity to
9) ……… their loved ones online. That’s why Adopt a Care Home won the Internet Service Providers
Association 10) ........ in 2011.