8th B Unit 6

Unit 6: Mother Earth

What's in this unit?

4 Crops will fail.

 

5 Animals and people will starve.




6 Arctic animals will lose
their homes.

1 Temperatures are rising.

 

2 Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

 

3 Droughts will be common.

 

 

 

Check these words

Look atthe pictures and give your predictions

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Reading: Thin Ice

​The reading can be about...

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture A. What is it about?

• Arctic animals will lose their homes.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Temperatures are rising.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture B. What is it about?

• Arctic animals will lose their homes.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Temperatures are rising.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture C. What is it about?

• Crops will fail.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Temperatures are rising.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture D. What is it about?

• Crops will fail.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Temperatures are rising.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture E. What is it about?

• Crops will fail.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Temperatures are rising.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture F. What is it about?

• Crops will fail.

• Animals and people will starve.

• Droughts will be common.

• Arctic animals will lose their homes.

• Polar ice caps are melting so low-lying lands will flood.

Reading On Thin Ice About audio.mp3

Multiple Choice

Read the text and match the headings below to the paragraphs (1-3). One heading is extra.

• Animals in danger

• The cause of problem

• What to do?

• A difficult future

Multiple Choice

Read the text and match the headings below to the paragraphs (1-3). One heading is extra.

• Animals in danger

• The cause of problem

• What to do?

• A difficult future

Multiple Choice

Read the text and match the headings below to the paragraphs (1-3). One heading is extra.

• Animals in danger

• The cause of problem

• What to do?

• A difficult future

Watch the video hand answer the questions:
About video.mp4

Multiple Choice

Some days, polar bears walk for hours looking for food.

About video.mp4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

NPP is a satellite that checks the number of polar bears from space.

About video.mp4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Polar bears can feel the climate change because their ice is melting away.

About video.mp4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The satellite changes Earth’s ocean temperatures, humidity and clouds.

About video.mp4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

NPP will help predict the way the climate changes in the future.

About video.mp4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

HUGE

• gone up

• 
  look for

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  switch off

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

RISEN

• gone up

• 
  look for

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  switch off

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

SEARCH

• gone up

• 
  look for

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  switch off

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

DROWN

• gone up

• 
  look for

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  switch off

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

TURN OFF

• gone up

• 
  look for

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  switch off

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

REDUCE

• gone up

• 
  keep safe

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  make less

Multiple Choice

S.B. Activity 5. Match the words/phrases 1-7, which are bold in the text, to their synonyms below.

SAVE

• gone up

• 
  keep safe

• sink and die

• very big

• 
  make less