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6A

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Word Games

Unit 1

Unit 5

Reading Challenge

Vocabulary Challenge

Word Games

Contents

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climate earth environment harmful

melt ocean pollution protect

reduce save sea temperature

Exercise 1 Complete the crossword with the correct words.

ACROSS DOWN

1. To stop someone from being killed. 2. Everything that is around us.

4. Causing damage to people or things. 3. The weather conditions in an area.

6. Things that make the air, land and water dirty. 5. To look after and take care of something.

7. To make the amount of something smaller. 8. To change from a solid into a liquid.

10. The measurement of how hot something is. 9. The land surface of the world.

VocabularyVocabulary In this unit, we will learn the following vocabulary:

✶ ‘Ocean’ and ‘sea’ have the similar meaning but ‘ocean’ is larger in size and deeper.

✶ ‘Earth’ is capitalised when it refers to the name of the planet.

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1. Animals in Danger

Reading Intervention (with 4000 essential words)4

Sample

Date:

Exercise 2 Fill in the blanks with the correct words.

1. Rain and snow falls onto the

mountain. During the cold

winter, the water is frozen as

.

3. The streams run down the mountain.

As they flow down, they form larger

rivers. These rivers flow into the

.

2. In warmer months, the

rises and the ice begins to .

The water runs down the mountain in

small streams.

4. Finally these form the enormous

that cover most of

the surface of the .

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Sample

Reading Intervention (with 4000 essential words)8

Passage 2Passage 2 Tracy is reading a magazine article.

Why Overfishing Will Hurt Us All

The next time you are sitting down to enjoy your favourite dish of tuna sushi, consider this: the Bluefin Tuna is now endangered in the oceans and seas because of overfishing.

People around the world eat more fish today than ever before, so fishermen have invented new ways of catching more fish. The fishing nets that they use are enormous, and they catch many things they are not supposed to. Every year about 300,000 whales, dolphins and tortoises are killed in fishing nets. Many other sea animals and even seabirds also die after

being mistakenly caught. These dead animals are then simply thrown back into the water.

One type of fishing which is particularly controversial is whaling. Although commercial whaling was banned all around the world in 1982, the Japanese resumed their whaling program five years later – even though whale meat is no longer popular in Japan.

Humans’ fishing practices have severely reduced the number of Bluefin Tuna, sharks, whales and turtles. These species are now in danger of extinction. Unless we do something to protect the marine life and save the endangered sea animals, human beings will have to suffer in the end. Think about reducing your appetite for fish. Passing up the tuna sushi might help.

The golden threadfin bream or Hung Sam is the most commonly eaten fish by Hong Kong people. It is endangered because of overfishing.

Skim this paragraph. Analyse the issues surrounding whaling. Think about how people comment on it.

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Answer the following questions.

1. Why are Bluefin Tuna endangered?

A. Humans are catching too many of them.

B. Sharks are eating too many of them.

C. The tuna are catching deadly diseases.

D. The tuna fish are not mating enough.

2. In paragraph 2, who are ‘they’?

A. People around the world

B. The fishing nets

C. The fish

D. The fishermen

3. Which is TRUE according to paragraph 3?

A. Whaling was banned in 1928.

B. Whaling is a kind of fishing.

C. Whale meat is popular in Japan.

D. Japanese people no longer eat whale meat.

4. Tracy’s friend, Lisa, sent her a message. Tracy is replying to Lisa. Read the article on P.8

and fill in only ONE word for each blank. Make sure your answers are grammatically

correct.

Tracy, let’s go to the Japanese

restaurant tomorrow. I’m missing the

tuna (i) there.

Lisa, we shouldn’t eat tuna any more.

Tuna is (ii) now.

We can order other food there.

5. What does ‘passing up the tuna sushi’ mean?

6. What happens to the sea animals that are caught by the fishermen?

Sample

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Challenge 1 Write the antonyms of the following words.

Challenge 2 Write the synonyms of the following words.

Challenge 3 Put the following words in the correct columns.

Adjective Noun

1. seek 2. well-liked

3. jumper 4. yearly

5. glasses 6. funny

1. enlarge 2. useless

3. meaningless 4. give

5. freeze 6. boring

Vocabulary Challenge

Verb

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protect save harmfulsteakannoying

fireworks

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