Workbook bls. 56 1 Listen and answer Hlustaðu og merktu við rétt svar. Hlustunartextar Section 1 Read the question for section one. Now listen and choose the right answer. • The bushfires in Australia call for firefighters working night and day. Their faces are black with ash and their eyes reddened by the heat. People call the firefighters heroes. They are protecting towns from the bushfires. In parts of Western Australia over the past few weeks, there have been thousands of firefighters on the ground every day and night. And their work is far from over, with conditions expected to worsen over the weekend. Section 2 Read the question for section two. Now listen and choose the right answer. • Earthquakes are the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of the earth’s surface. More than a million earthquakes shake the world each year. Earthquakes can be felt over large areas. They usually last less than one minute. Earthquakes cannot be predicted - but scientists are working on it. Before and after a large earthquake, there will be smaller earthquakes. The ones that happen before are called foreshocks. The ones that happen after are called aftershocks. Section 3 Read the question for section three. Now listen and choose the right answer. • If you look around, you’ll probably see a lot of things made of plastic. Plastic is very useful and it is everywhere … But plastic waste is a serious problem. Not all the plastic we throw away is recycled, and unfortunately, a lot of plastic ends up in the ocean. What can we do with plastic waste? Section 4 Read the question for section four. Now listen and choose the right answer. • Merit Leighton and Marlowe Peyton founded a club called The Plastic Patrol when they were just 6 and 4 years old. The two young girls were shocked about the amount of plastic rubbish in the ocean. An island of rubbish twice the size of Texas is floating around in the Pacific Ocean. They set up a website and made webisodes showing do-it-yourself tips on how to reuse your plastic bags. What about learning how to make a dress out of a plastic bag, or a bracelet out of plastic water bottles? 4 Our Planet 47
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