Exercise 2. Read the text again and choose the correct option.
| Environment deals with… | The environment includes interactions among … | Environmentalists –people who… |
| 1. Living things. 2. Natural forces. 3. Both of these. | 1. Non–living things. 2. Living things. 3. Both of these. | 1. Live a healthy life. 2. Take care of the environment. 3. Believe that nothing can damage our planet. |
Exercise 3. Discuss these questions with your groupmates.
1. Do you think the environment has been getting better or worse in recent years? Why/ Why not?
2. Do you think that you live in healthy environment? For example, are the water and air clean?
3. What other problems, in your opinion, is the environment facing today?
Exercise 4. Work in pairs. Based on the information above, try to think of what environmental design is. Discuss it with your partner and present your ideas to the rest of the group.
Exercise 5. Read the paragraph and complete it with a word or phrase from the box. Compare your answers from exercise 4 with the definition given in this text.
| Resources Resilience Evaluation Flexibility Inspired Infrastructure |
Environmental design is a framework that includes the planning, production, and (1) … of objects of every scale, including products, buildings, parks, human settlements, and (2) …, in a mutual relationship with the functioning and (3) …of natural systems. Environmental design has significantly changed certain design practices. It has (4) … environmentally reflexive landscape architects, urban designers, architects, interior designers, and engineers to consider the environmental cost of their work. As a result those practices are introducing the conservation of energy, natural (5) …, and materials into the design process and producing objects, spaces, and landscapes of increasing durability and long–term social (6)…
Exercise 6. Match the words with their synonyms.
| 1. Evaluation. 2. Flexibility. 3. Conservation. 4. Resilience. 5. Mutual. 6. Environmental. | A. Ecological. B. Assessment. C. Joint. D. Saving. E. Strength F. Adaptability. |
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Exercise 7. Here are some words from the text below. Read the sentences. Then write each bold word next to the correct definition. Verbs should be written in the infinitive form.
1. Environmentalism usually refers to the ideology of any environmental movement.
2. There are some issuesconcerning sustainability that construction engineers deal with.
3. Many buildings have been greatly improved by the change in construction materials.
4. Insulationshould be incorporated in walls to resist passage of heat.
5. The biggest concern nowadays is to keep the environment safe.
6. The greatest threats to the sustainable development on earth are: population growth and urbanization, energy use and global warming, excessive waste generation and the subsequent pollution of soil, air, and water, transportation in cities, and limited supply of resources.
7. Air and water support human life.
8. The quality of food is deterioratingat a rapid pace.
9. Construction engineers are responsible for planning and designing buildings.
10. Significant changes in the environment of South Asia have affected cultural development in that region.
| A.___________ B.___________ C.___________ D.___________ E.___________ F.___________ G.___________ H.___________ I.___________ J.___________ | (v.) to get better or to make something better (n.) an important subject or problem that people are discussing (v.)to include something as part of another thing (v.) to give strength to, maintain (n.) someone or something that is likely to cause harm or damage (v.) if information refers to someone or something, it relates to that person or thing. (n.) a feeling of worry about something, or the thing that is worrying you (adj.) to be the person whose duty is to deal with someone or something (v.) to become worse (adj.) important or noticeable |
Exercise 8. Read the title of the text. What do you think is the answer to the question in the title? Why do you think this?