The living world

1 2 3

3 Read these Part 3 written prompts and spend a few

moments thinking about possible answers.

Flooding Forest fires

How can
each of these
environmental
threats affect
people’s lives?
Fossil fuel
Pollution
consumption

Speaking | 1BSU
 Drought

1 Do the exercise in the Exam round-up box.

Exam round-up 4 19 Listen to two candidates discussing the

Circle the correct alternative in italics.
In Speaking Part 3

you speak to your partner / the examiner

you will be given a set of pictures / written prompts
to talk about

you and your partner will be expected to talk for
three / four minutes

communication skills are more / less important than
expressing correct opinions

you must / need not agree with your partner.
2 Look at the three photos showing environmental
problems. Discuss these questions.

What problems do the photos show? Make a two-word
phrase for each photo by choosing words from this list.
air clearance conditions consumption damage
drought fires flood forest fossil fuel pollution
rainforest

n
PPE
EFGFODFT

SJWFS
CBOLT

Use the remaining words in the list to make phrases for
prompts in Exercise 3.

How well do they describe how the five threats can
affect people’s lives?

How could their discussion be improved?
5 20 Now listen to the examiner’s final instruction
in Part 3 and the discussion that follows. Do the
candidates reach agreement?
6 Work in pairs. Discuss the prompts in Exercise 3.
t
Try to describe clearly how the threats can affect
people’s lives.
t
Include some of the compound nouns in the list below
in your discussions.
t

m
SF
SJTL
m
SF
EBNBHF
JOTVSBODF
DPTUT
t

EFTFSU
SFHJPO
XBUFS
TIPSUBHF
DSPQ
GBJMVSF
t

SBJOGPSFTU
GBSNMBOE
DBTI
DSPQT
t

FYIBVTU
GVNFT
WFIJDMF
FNJTTJPOT
GBDUPSZ
DIJNOFZT
breathing difficulties
t

n
PPE
XBUFS T
t

PJM
SJH

GVFM
DPOTVNQUJPO

GVFM
TIPSUBHF T

three other environmental problems.


To what extent are humans to blame for the problems? t
Finally, try to reach agreement about which
environmental problem poses the greatest threat.

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