Új Szó, 2008. november (61. évfolyam, 254-276. szám)
2008-11-08 / 259. szám, szombat
www.ujszo.com ÚJ SZÓ 2008. NOVEMBER 8. Angol nyelvlecke 17 i Kedves Olvasó! Az Új Szó és a British Council együttműködésével a következő 12 hétben 24 leckével folytatjuk az áprilisban indított angol nyelvtanfolyamot. Ezúttal hetente hétszer - csütörtökön és szombaton - ezen az oldalon érdekes témákat talál, melyek segítségével nemcsak szókincsét bővítheti, hanem az angol nyelvtant is tökéletesítheti. Minden leckében egy kvízkérdést is talál. A helyes választ 2008. december 23-ig küldje az angol.kviz@ujszo.com e-mail címre. A játékot 2009. januárjában értékeljük ki. A helyes megfejtők közül ketten angol nyelvtanfolyamra szóló utalványt, öten könyvutalványt nyernek. A főnyeremény egy Londonban töltött hosszú hétvége. lish 16 BRITISH COUNCIL Learn En Reading Article The Eden Project by Mike Rayner We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden Joni Mitchell (Woodstock) According to' the Bible, the Garden of Eden was the home of the first two humans, Adam and Eve. In the story, the Garden provided everything the couple needed, and they lived there in peace and happiness until they were banished for breaking the rules. In 1999, Tim Smit, an ex-rock musician and record producer, borrowed the name of the biblical garden for a collection of space-age domes in a comer of southwest England - the Eden Project. Rock and activism It is not unusual for people involved in the music business to alert us to environmental and political issues. Bob Geldof (the singer from British punk band The Boomtown Rats) raised a huge amount of money to help feed millions of starving people in Africa in 1985, Bono from U2 has been successful in campaigning for the reduction of debts which developing countries owe to rich nations, and the music festival at Woodstock in 1969 is seen by many as the culmination of the civil rights marches and anti-war protests of the 1960’s. Tim Smit’s Eden Project was created to highlight the relationship between humans and the environment, and through information, research and education lead the way to a brighter future. The problem The modern world is a far cry from the balance and harmony of the Garden of Eden. By-products of a typical modem lifestyle such as overfishing, deforestation and intensive farming are destroying natural habitats, and creating a world with less biodiversity. These activities are not sustainable, that is the planet is unable to survive if we continue to take more from the Earth than it can replace. Recent research by the World Wildlife Fund suggests that we will have to colonise two planets the same size as the Earth by 2050 unless people in rich countries change the way they live. The solution The Eden Project is in on the site of an abandoned clay pit in Cornwall, and consists of two enormous domes, or biomes, and an outdoor area. The first biome houses a humid tropical zone representing Malaysia, West Africa and South America, and is the biggest greenhouse in the world. The second biome is a warm temperate zone which contains the type of environment found in Mediterranean countries, California and South West Australia. The outdoor area displays a collection of plants and landscapes typical of temperate climates like those in Britain, parts of North America, Russia and India. As visitors to the domes walk past lakes and waterfalls, through rainforests and over deserts, they discover how the ecosystems in each zone operates, leam how people have damaged each environment, and find out how people native to the different areas can leam to live in harmony with their environment, and have a positive and beneficial effect on it. Science, Horticulture, Creative, Marketing, Media and Human Resources researchers at the site are constantly investigating ways of combining science, art, technology and communication in new ways to find solutions to the problem of living a modem lifestyle in harmony with the natural world. The researchers form part of a new green movement, which is discovering new uses for plants including plant plastics, medicines and oils. Success The Eden Project has been enormously successful in the years it has been open. Millions of people have flocked to the site, and the biomes also attracted the attention of the director of the James Bond film ‘Die Another Day’, in which the domes featured as the lair of the villain, Gustav Graves. In 2002 the biomes were also the venue for a music festival featuring Pulp, Spiritualized, Doves and other major acts who performed amongst the foliage. Works of art from around the world are also on display, and the following summer the events included a play based on a story by Monty Python’s Terry Jones. The future But the Eden Project is no Disneyland, “If this place becomes no more than an upmarket theme park, it will all have been a gigantic waste of money" Tim Smit writes in the visitor’s guide (the domes cost 86 million pounds.) After a day spent walking around the biomes in Cornwall, he hopes that visitors will be inspired find out more about ecology, look at ways of changing their lifestyles, and participate in trying to get the human race back into the Garden of Eden. Vocabula 5 words/phrases from the text 1. sustainable: able to maintain itself without harming the environment 2. dome: a roof shaped like half a ball 3. greenhouse: a glass building for growing plants 4. displays: shows to the public 5. researchers: people who study something to find new information or understanding Vocabulary Vocabulary gap fill. Now use the 5 words/phrases to fill the gaps in the sentences below: 1. ......................from several universities think there will soon be a cure for cancer. 2. The way the atmosphere traps heat and makes temperatures on earth hotter is known as the ...................effect. 3. Lifestyles in modern industrial nations may not be ............................if the earth’s resources run out. 4. My local museum ................... its collection very differently- from the way it did twentyyears ago. 5. The...........of the cathedral had to be repaired recently. Reading Comprehension Answer the 5 questions using information from the article. 1. Which two things does Tim Smit have in common with Bob Geldof and Bono? 2. How was the original Garden of Eden different from the modern world? 3. What is the purpose of the three different areas of the Eden Project? 4. What are three things that show that the Eden Project has been a success? 5. Why isn’t Tim Smit happy to use the Eden Project just to entertain people? Quiz Question 16 Home of Liverpool FC. Multi-word verbs There are very many multi-word verbs (sometimes called phrasal verbs) in English and it’s very difficult to learn them all. It can sometimes be quite easy to guess the meaning (He picked up the pencil) but other multi-word verbs are less easy to guess (7 picked up Italian quite easily when I lived there) and you should look them up in a good dictionary. When you record new multiword verbs in your notebook it can be helpful to record what type they are. Multi-word verbs are made up of a verb and a particle or, sometimes, two particles. The Separable He cut the tree down. He cut down the tree. With separable verbs the verb and particle can be apart or together - the meaning doesn’t change. Look at another example: Can you turn the radio down please? Can you turn down the radio please? However, when we use a pronoun - usually ‘it’ in place of the subject - it must come between the verb and the particle in separable multi-word verbs. Can you turn it down please? Can you turn down it please? is NOT possible. Non-separable Who looks after the baby when you're at work? 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