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Making Water: 1. Read The Article Quickly. Match The Headings (1-5) To The Paragraphs (A-E)

1. The article discusses the unusual job of wildlife film-maker Mark through an interview format where he answers questions about his work and interests. 2. Mark lives in Wensleydale, England but travels all over the world for his job, with his favorite mode of transportation being an old boat up the Amazon River. 3. He enjoys orchids as his favorite plant due to their beauty and strange behaviors, and cites Sir David Attenborough as his favorite wildlife filmmaker.

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Making Water: 1. Read The Article Quickly. Match The Headings (1-5) To The Paragraphs (A-E)

1. The article discusses the unusual job of wildlife film-maker Mark through an interview format where he answers questions about his work and interests. 2. Mark lives in Wensleydale, England but travels all over the world for his job, with his favorite mode of transportation being an old boat up the Amazon River. 3. He enjoys orchids as his favorite plant due to their beauty and strange behaviors, and cites Sir David Attenborough as his favorite wildlife filmmaker.

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Making water

A. What can we do about the problem of water? Clean drinking water is a basic need for all people, but not
everyone can get it easily. In some dry places, like deserts, it is expensive to transport water, difficult to store
it, and if a water system stops working, an engineer is needed to repair it but sometimes the nearest engineer
is miles away.

B. Recently, engineers have found new and easier ways to get water in dry places. It is simple - they have
made machines that take water from the air. There were already a few machines like this, but they didn't
make enough water for a whole village. The new designs are better because they can make many more litres
of water every day, they are cheap, and they use much less energy.

C. One design, the Warka Water Tower, uses the difference between day and night-time temperatures to take
water from the cooling air. It doesn’t need special parts to build, it doesn’t use expensive technology, and it
doesn’t need complicated repairs. The Warka is made from pieces of wood, usually bamboo. Inside, there is
some cloth. Water in the air collects on the cloth and runs down slowly into a bowl at the bottom. The bamboo
is very light, so it is easy to build and easy for a person to carry. It's the perfect way to get water in the
mountains of Ethiopia.

D. Another design, the Water-Gen, was first made in Israel to provide water for people in the desert. It is easy
to carry by car (but too heavy to carry on foot) and it is cheap – it can make a litre of water for just a few cents.
It uses very little energy and the water it makes tastes very good. Bigger models could also make enough water
for people's homes, and India is interested in using the Water-Gen for people living in the countryside.

E. Clean water is becoming harder to find in many countries, from Jamaica to Australia, but with these new
machines, maybe in the future we will all make water from the air in our own homes.

1. Read the article quickly. Match the headings (1–5) to the paragraphs (A–E).

1. The Warka Water Tower (3)

2. New ways to get water (2)

3. The answer to future problems (5)

4. The problems of getting water (1)

5. The Water-Gen (4)


2. Read the article again. Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

1. If a water system stops working in the desert

A. it is expensive to repair.

B. it needs an engineer to repair it.

2. The new water machines

A. make air from water.

B. make water from air.

3. The new water machines are better than the old machines because

A. they make more water and don’t use as much energy.

B. they make more water and they are easier to carry.

3. Complete the sentences with words from the article. The first letters of the words are given

1. Clean drinking water is a basic need for everyone.

2. Engineers have made new ways to get water in dry places, like deserts.

3. The Warka Water Tower uses the difference between day and night-time temperature to take
water from the air.

4. India might use the Water-Gen for people living in the countryside.
My unusual job: wildlife film-maker
A. You travel all over the world, Mark. What's well, it's funny, but it’s where I grew up and where I
still live - Wensleydale in the north of England. It's very wild like the mountains of Spain, but it also
has beautiful farms and gardens. That makes it very interesting for me.

B. What's your that’s definitely the orchid, because they're the most beautiful, clever and
sometimes funny flowers!

C. Orchids are funny? Because orchids often do funny things! Some orchids copy other flowers,
some orchids smell terrible, like old meat. And some copy insects so other insects will visit them-
that's really strange!

D. Where did I often travel far too dangerous or difficult places when I'm filming, but not on my
holidays. Last week I had a holiday with friends in the north of England and it was fantastic! We
walked along rivers and in forests with wild birds and animals that you don't usually see. The best
thing was that the animals aren't scared of people, so we could get very close to them while they
played.

E. What was your Going up the Amazon River in an old boat? That’s my favorite way to travel. It
was really amazing to go very slowly up one of the world's greatest rivers. We sat and watched the
world go by like a dream.

F. Who is The BBC film-maker Sir David Attenborough, because he's so clever, funny, adventurous
and he's a perfect Englishman.

G. What do you think we should be really careful about eating things from the sea? We shouldn't
eat so much meat. And most of all, we should think about where we shop and what we buy. As
shoppers we can do a lot to look after our world.

1 Read the article quickly. Complete the interview questions (A–G) with the phrases (1–7).

1. Your favorite wildlife film-maker?

2. The most interesting place you've been to?

3. You go for your last holiday?

4. Favorite journey?

5. Favorite plant or animal?

B
6. We should do to look after our world?

7. Why?

2 Read the article again. Are the sentences true or false?

1 Mark lives in Spain. FALSE

2 Mark's favorite plant is a tree. FALSE

3 Mark goes to dangerous parts of the world with his job. TRUE

4 Mark's favorite method of transport is by boat. TRUE

5 Mark's favorite film-maker is an English person. TRUE

6 Mark says we should eat more meat and fish. FALSE

3 Complete the sentences with words from the article. The first letters of the words are given.

1 Wensleydale has beautiful farms and gardens.

2 On holiday, Mark walked in forests with wild birds and animals.

3 Mark’s boat trip on the Amazon River was like a dream.

4 Mark says we should be careful about eating things from the sea.

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