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Unit 7 The Sea Lesson 2 Protecting the Sea Exercise 3 Listen to the conversation.What is Zhi Hong's project about? Fang Zhou is asking Zhi Hong about her science project. Hey, Zhi Hong, what did you do for your science project? I did something about protecting the sea. Protecting the sea from what? Well, first there's pollution, that's a big problem, and second, there's some over-fishing. What's over-fishing. That's when people fish too much and the number of fish falls too low. Some fish may disappear altogether. Really? Yes, now there are too many fishermen fishing in the same place. Do you mean that there are more fishermen now than there were before? Yes, there are many more. And fishermen today have better technology so they can catch more fish than before. So there are more fishermen catching more fish? Well, they hope to catch more fish, but there are less fish to catch, so they simply can't. That's bad. Yes, and pollution is very bad, too. What causes the pollution? All sorts, chemicals, plastic, rubbish,oil. Most of them comes from industrial and agricultural waste. It sounds like a big problem. Yes, it is a big problem. How these two problems been handle? Well, some government departments are trying to deal with the situation. Are they? Yes, some look for ways to reduce pollution, some keep a record of levels of pollution, other departments are responsible for finding, you know, where it comes from and punishing people who have broken the law by causing pollution. Of course, often it's quite difficult to find who's responsible for pollution. Yes, I suppose it must be. What about over-fishing? What can be done about that? Well, the government tries to control the number of fish that people can catch. In the worst areas they ban fishing completely for a few months at a time so that the fish numbers can grow again. They also try to help people to get other kinds of jobs so there are less people trying to make a living from fishing. That's good idea. Let's hope it works! Exercise 4 Listen to the interview again and complete the table. Exercise 5 Listen to the interview a third time. Complete the sentences in the Function File with words and expressions that we use to show interest and keep a conversation going. |
