miércoles, 27 de julio de 2016

Unit 9 Around us

Extreme weather

1.
Extreme weather conditions can create difficulties precisely because they are extreme and so the human body has to find ways to adapt in order to surive. For example, extreme heat can create an increased risk of skin problems and some infectious diseases.
Extreme cold can cause hypothermia so people have to wear many layers of warm clothes- travelling can be hazardous. - involving risk or danger, especially to somebody’s health or safety
Some machines cannot work at low temperatures.

2.
a.
Flooding would probably affect more people because more people have their homes near rivers than in or near forests. -flooding destroys lives and property. Many people drown or are injured in floods. Sewage can come to the surface and so on and this can cause illnesses Mosquitoes and other such disease-carrying creatures thrive -  become, and continue to be, successful, strong, healthy, in still, wet conditions. Homes and vehicles are damaged or destroyed. Electrical plants and other facilities may be disrupted.- to make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way-
Fires destroy animals and plants. Many trees, which are so neccesary for our environment.



lunes, 25 de julio de 2016

Unit 8 Vocabulary Page 98

Compound nouns

Breakdown: [countable] an occasion when a vehicle or machine stops working
a breakdown on the motorway   -  a breakdown recovery service

Breakwater noun
a wall built out into the sea to protect the shore or harbour from the force of the waves
Downfall noun
the loss of a person’s money, power, social position, etc.; the thing that causes this
The sex scandal finally led to his downfall.

Hard drive: hard disk

Input:[countable, uncountable] time, knowledge, ideas, etc. that you put into work, a project, etc. in order to make it succeed; the act of putting something in
I'd appreciate your input on this.

search engine: noun
a computer program that searches the Internet for information, especially by looking for documents containing a particular word or group of words

clean-up noun
the process of removing dirt, pollution, or things that are considered bad or immoral from a place

the clean-up of the river  -  a clean-up campaign

Unit 8 Media Speaking Part 2