Answer the questions about the key words in the text.
1.
Pollution is the chemicals or substances that have a negative effect on the environment.
What is a
pollutant?
2.
If you warn someone, you tell them there is danger near.
What is a
warning?
3.
To expose something is to put it in danger.
What is
exposure?
4.
I’m afraid of spiders, so I avoid them.
Does
avoid mean to go close to something or stay away from it?
5.
On a chart, a spike shows the high point of something.
What is a
pollution spike?
6.
If you exhale something, you breathe it out.
What does
inhale mean?
7.
If you park your car next to the pavement, the wheels will be close to the kerb.
What part of the pavement is the
kerb?
8.
Ventilation is the movement of fresh air around a room.
What does
to ventilate mean?
Breathing lessons
Level 1
Elementary
Key words
1
What do you know?
2
You are going to read an article called Breathing lessons, about tips on how to avoid breathing in pollution
in big cities. Which of the following things do you think will be mentioned?
1. Where to walk.
2. How to cross the road.
3. Which are the most polluted cities in the world.
4. Wearing a mask.
5. Taking children out into the city.
6. Doing exercise in the city.
7. Where to sit on a bus.
8. What to eat and drink.
9. Going to a swimming pool.
10. Driving a car.
Read the article and check your answers.
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Breathing lessons
Leo Hickman
April 4, 2007
Take a deep breath.
If you live in an urban
environment - which four out of five of us now do
- then you are exposing yourself to pollutants that
could be seriously damaging your health.
The idea that city air is bad for you is not new,
but it is an area scientists
are only just beginning
to really understand. Last month the Royal
Commission on Environmental Pollution, an
independent body set up in 1970 to advise the
government, confirmed what many of us knew:
that urban living
should carry a large health
warning. In a major report entitled
The Urban
Environment, it explained what impact urban air
pollution is having on our health. The headline
conclusion was
that air pollution reduces
“life expectancy in the UK by an average of
eight months”.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation
reports that transport-related air pollution - which
now causes the majority
of urban air pollution
- causes many health problems. But other than
moving to the countryside, what practical steps
can people take
to reduce their exposure to
urban air pollution? Quite a lot, it turns out.
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