Unit 5 Vocabulary practice

The environment

1 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in the list.

depend die pollute recycle starve
throw waste

Although the future of the planet depends on us, it seems
as if we don’t care. In 2008, the UN estimated that 963million people on the planet are (1)______, but we (2)______a large amount of the world’s food production before it arrives at the shops. In the UK, each citizen (3)______away 445 kilos of rubbish a year. Today, we (4)______and use some of that rubbish again, but in the UK 60% of it still goes to rubbish dumps. The rubbish dumps (5)______the countryside and rivers, and species of animals, fish and birds (6)______out and disappear.

2 Complete the compound nouns.

air pollution

1 c______change

2 endangered s______

3 g______engineering

4 health r______

5 r______energy

6 rubbish d______

7 t______fumes

Making a difference

3 Correct the underlined mistakes in the texts.

1 Lloyd Scott is famous for making a solution to the lives of thousands of people. He signs money from the people who protest him to run in the London Marathon. He has also made to take part in other charity activities and, over the years, he has collected £5 million for organizations that look difference cancer patients.

2 Thousands of people protected against the government’s plan to make Heathrow airport bigger. They raised petitions that said the government should sponsor the local environment and find a difference to the air pollution that planes produce. In 2010, the government announced the notice that they had abandoned their plans.

Noun suffixes

4 Complete the nouns with the suffixes in the list.

-ance -ations -ing -ity -ment -ness -ation

The reality of the situation is that the climate is getting warmer.

1 The govern______will promote renewable energy.

2 He felt a sensation of peaceful______as he floated on the water.

3 We shouldn’t give his opinions so much import______.

4 Congratul______s on raising so much money for the hospital.

5 There are a lot of cycl______lanes in Oxford.

6 I’d like some inform______on your plans for the airport.

5 Correct the underlined mistakes in the sentences.

Sam is very unhappiness about his exam results.unhappy

1 The government doesn’t give any import to looking after the environment.______

2 Cycle is the cheapest way to travel and it makes you fit too!______

3 We want to congratulations you on your new website.______

4 They’ll send us the inform as soon as they have written it.______

5 The real is that a lot of people don’t seem to care about the environment.______

6 Travel around Europe by train is fun.______

7 I love the peaceness of the city park.______

8 Using public transport is sometimes inconvenience .______