EXPANSION Units 1–3

B. Write questions for the following answers. Use the underlined words in each question.

1. I don’t know what I’m doing next Thursday. What are you going to do next Thursday?
2. No, I’m going to do my homework tonight. Are you going to play video game tonight?
3. He’ll probably go to college after high school. What is his plane after high school?
4. Their friends are arriving from Syria tomorrow. When are their friends arriving?
5. She’s going to meet her sister at the mall. What is she going to do at the mall?

C. Complete the sentences with the correct verb or verb form.

Siberian Tigers

• What (1) will probably become of the Siberian tiger, an endangered species, in the future? There (2) are now only about 400 to 500 Siberian tigers in the wild.
• (3) will authorities be able to protect them? Siberian tigers (4) survive in the forests of eastern Asia, northern China, and Manchuria, but the majority survive in the Ussuiland region of Russia.
• Some tigers (5) were born and raised in zoos.
• An adult male normally (6) weights 440 to 660 pounds (200 to 300 kilograms) and measures about 13 feet (4 meters) from head to tail.
• They (7) are very large animals and consume a lot of food every day because of the cold climate.
• At one meal, a Siberian tiger can (8) eat up to 95 pounds (45 kilograms) of meat.
• Like all big cats, they hunt for their food.
• They sometimes (9) leave some of their catch in trees, so other predators can’t see it or find it. If they can’t eat it all in one meal, they take a nap and finish it off later.

D. Read the text. Then use the prompts to ask questions about pandas. Then answer the questions.

Pandas

1. Where / live?

Q: Where do panda live?
A: They live only in dense bamboo areas of the misty.

2. How many?

Q: How many pandas remain in the wild?
A: about 1900 pandas.

3. How / work to protect pandas?

Q: How do they work to protect pandas?
A: Panda's diet Through bamboo corridor.

4. How much / eat?

Q: How much does an adult panda eat?
A: A panda eats up to 45 kilograms of bamboo per day.

5. How long / eat / a day?

Q: How long does panda spend eating per day?
A: A panda spends about 16 hours.

3. Reading

After Reading

A. Choose the correct answer.

1. Why do many people take water for granted?

a. It’s cheap.

b. It cools you down.

c. It’s easily available.

2. How much of the water on our planet is freshwater?

a. a great part

b. a small amount

c. a lot

3. How long can human beings live without water?

a. less than one week

b. two weeks

c. one month

4. What is one of the world’s greatest challenges in the 21st century?

a. to recycle seawater

b. to find water

c. to provide freshwater

5. What do people use to clean up wastewater in Peru?

a. algae

b. fish

c. sun

B. Answer true or false.

1. false There is more freshwater today on Earth than at the time of the dinosaurs.
2. false By 2025, we’ll use up 1 percent of all existing freshwater.
3. true At least one-fifth of the world’s population does not have easy access to safe drinking water.
4. false The main goal of “Water for Life” is to recycle wastewater.
5. true At Stensund Folk College, Sweden, fish live in recycled water.

Discussion

1. Water is essential for life. Discuss the different ways that humans depend on water every day.

• In general human survival is dependent on water. The average adult is 55 to 75 percent water.
• Water plays a vital role in biology it helps keep your miscles and skin toned, assists in weight loss and transports oxygen and nutrients to cells.
• Some people use water in many chemical reaction to build and break down important components of the cell. Some other people use water for the purpose of agriculture and industry as well.

2. What will happen to a community if its water becomes contaminated?

Diseases will increase and people would die.

3. What do you know about the different ways of conserving and providing freshwater?

There are many technical equipments that support the provision of fresh water.

Vocabulary

Find words in the song that mean:

1. a kind of farm ranch.
2. move, like water in a river flow.
3. a kind of flower lilies (lily).
4. a kind of insect bees (bee).

Comprehension

A. Answer the questions about the song.

1. What happened to the parrot?

They put the parrot in a cage and made it talk and cut its wings.

2. Is the water in the river clean?

No, it isn't longer clean.

3. Do fish live in the water now?

No, they don't.

4. Why did they cut the trees down?

they cut the trees to have land for ranches.

5. Who are “they” in the song?

They are people who don't care about or harm the environments.

B. What do you understand by the following? Write your answers.

1. “It’s a problem that we all must face” means

We all have to try to help solve the problem.

2. “If we all just do our share” means

We will have success.