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Antarctica: Climate Change Effects

The document is about climate change in Antarctica and contains the following information: 1. Antarctica will experience significant changes over the next 100 years due to climate change, including melting ice, retreating glaciers, and southward movement of penguin populations. Green plants are already more common on the continent. 2. As the climate warms, seals and whales will change their feeding locations. Penguins are already moving south to breed due to warmer temperatures bringing more snow. 3. Many Antarctic organisms are sensitive to small temperature changes, so some species extinctions are likely if extreme temperature changes occur in the southern ocean.

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Antarctica: Climate Change Effects

The document is about climate change in Antarctica and contains the following information: 1. Antarctica will experience significant changes over the next 100 years due to climate change, including melting ice, retreating glaciers, and southward movement of penguin populations. Green plants are already more common on the continent. 2. As the climate warms, seals and whales will change their feeding locations. Penguins are already moving south to breed due to warmer temperatures bringing more snow. 3. Many Antarctic organisms are sensitive to small temperature changes, so some species extinctions are likely if extreme temperature changes occur in the southern ocean.

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A.

READING
Task A1
Read the text and match the headings (A-F) to the paragraphs (1-5). There is one extra heading
which you do not need to use.
Прочитайте уривки тексту (1-5) та підберіть до них заголовки (A-F). Використовуйте букву
лише один раз. У завданні є один зайвий заголовок.

A Effects of Climate Change on Animals in Antarctica


B Description of Antarctica
C Exploration of Antarctica
D People in Antarctica
E Changes in the Climate
F Animals Could Die out
WARMING WARNING FOR ANTARCTICA
The face of Antarctica will change in the next 100 years as ice melts, glaciers retreat, penguins move
south and green plants begin to colonise bare rocks of the Antarctic, researchers warned yesterday.

1. Climate has always changed. But the change now is really fast and could lead to unexpected
consequences, warns Andrew Clarke of the British Antarctic Survey. In 100 years' time the
Southern ocean atmosphere will be warmer, with much less ice and snow on the peninsula. Green
plants are already five or even ten times more common now than when explorers built the first
bases.

2. Seals and whales will change the places where they feed. The penguins are already moving south
to breed (have their young), perhaps because, paradoxically, warmer air means more snow. "The
penguin doesn't want to sit on a nest and have a meter of snow above it."

3. "Many Antarctic organisms are sensitive to very small changes in temperature", Professor Clarke
said. "So if some of the more extreme changes of temperature in the sea occur, it is likely that we
will have some extinction."

4. Antarctica is the world's last remaining wilderness region. It is larger than the US and drier than
the Sahara. Parts of it are covered by up to 3,000 meters of ice and snow, and the continent
stores nine tenths of the world's fresh water.

5. The mainland is still unspoiled, but the Southern ocean has been exploited for 200 years by
whalers, sealers, commercial fishermen, and most recently, tourists. Last year 13,500 tourists
visited the region in cruise ships. This season the number could reach 27,000.

10 points

Task A2
Read the text again and decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
Прочитайте текст ще раз та визначте правильність (T) чи неправильність (F) твердження.

1. Antarctica will change in the next 1000 years.


2. The change in Antarctica is really slow now.
3. Animals in Antarctica will change the places where they feed.
4. Antarctic organisms are sensitive to temperature changes.
5. Antarctica is larger than America.
10 points
B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

Task B 1
Choose the correct answer.
Виберіть правильну відповідь.

1. Where _____ you from?


a) are b) is c) am d) isn't
2. How old _____ your brother?
a) are b) is c) am d) have
3. What _____ your name?
a) are b) is c) am d) do
4. Peter ______ a lot of friends.
a) has b) have c) is d) do
5. My mother often _____ in the garden.
a) work b) works c) to work d) working
6. Tom's parents are _____ doctors.
a) best b) the best c) goodest d) the goodest
7. ______ father is a teacher.
a) he b) his c) him d) its
8. No, John _____ a student, he is a pupil.
a) aren’t b) is c) am d) isn't
9. Don’t take that book! That book _____ interesting.
a) aren’t b) is c) am d) isn't
10. I like this computer. I am going to buy ______ .
a) he b) it c) its d) him
20 points
Task B 2
Find synonyms (A-E) to the following words (1-5).
До слів ( I - 5 ) niдбepimь слова (A-E), що є близькими за значенням.

1 occupation 2 attractive 3 class 4 begin 5 knowledgeable


A pretty В profession С start D lesson E wise
10 points

Task B 3
Find antonyms (A-E) to the following words (1-5).
Підберіть слова (A-E) протилежні за значенням до слів ( 1 - 5).
1 interesting 2 leave 3 short 4 up 5 body
A long В arrive C boring D down E spirit

10 points

C. WRITING

Task C

Write a letter to your friend in an appropriate style (100 words). Don’t write any address.
Напишіть листа своему другу в обсязі 100 слів. Адресу на листі вказувати не потрібно.
40points

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