Environmental Challenges and Grammar Exercises

Posted on Feb 6, 2025 in English

Grammar (Page 2)

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1. will decrease
2. wouldn’t have quit
3. Would … use
4. will continue
5. will plant
6. had known
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1. If you become an architect one day, will you design environmentally friendly buildings?
2. What a pity this lake is so polluted. If only we could swim in it!
3. I wouldn’t have got a free concert ticket if I hadn’t volunteered for yesterday’s Earth Day event.
4. Our heating bills would be lower if we replaced our old heater. But we can’t.
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1. If I were you, I’d buy a small car.
2. We would have planted crops on that land if it hadn’t been polluted.
3. If I don’t recharge my phone battery soon, it will die.
4. I wish we had included more green features in our new home.

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1. global warming
2. environmentally friendly
3. green features
4. wind turbines
5. renewable energy
6. decreases
7. increases
8. damage
9. soil
2 Possible answers
1. Too many trees are cut down in a specific area.
2. Dump rubbish.
3. There’s none left for others.
4. The amount of energy you use at home.
3 Possible answers
1. is illegal
2. unnecessary trips
3. is underpaid
4. would be impractical

4 Possible answers
1. If you had told me, I would have helped.
2. You won’t need it if you move.
3. If I were rich, I would buy it.
4. When the flowers bloom, we will plant them.
5. If he had signed up, he would have done it.
5 Possible answers
1. If I hadn’t bought this car, I wouldn’t spend so much money on petrol.
2. I wish people wouldn’t litter on the beaches here.
3. If I had an electric bicycle, it wouldn’t be difficult for me to ride uphill.
4. If you use reusable shopping bags, you help the environment.
5. I would get rid of my old phone if I found a place to recycle it.
6. Unless governments do more to stop it, deforestation will continue.
6 Possible answers
1. She wishes I wouldn’t eat meat.
2. If I had known, I would have come.
3. If they knew, they would warn people!

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1. F – … poachers – illegal traders – use sophisticated technological methods to catch these animals.
2. T – Moreover, about 110 million mobile phone users in Vietnam were sent text messages by local authorities to inform them of the danger caused to rhinos whose horns were being poached.
3. T – … and jobs, especially in tourism, are being threatened.
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1. Why some animals are endangered.
2. To report illegal animal trading.
3. Was awarded $5 million by Google to develop anti-poaching technology.

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4 As in a war, people are affected, ecosystems may be disturbed – causing damage to food, water sources and jobs in tourism and the profits from the illegal animal trade may finance other activities such as drug or arms trafficking.
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1. profitable
2. surveillance
3. hazards

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