Complete the sentence with the appropriate word
1. The energy-efficient company is installing a highly advanced radio ______________________ system.
2. Internet shopping have a serious ____________________on traditional bookshops.
3. You ______________________ your time trying to have it done!
4. Get some advice on how to ______________________ your physical strength.
5. You can cook the meat either in a microwave or in a _________________ oven.
6. The equipment has the additional ________________ of being easy to operate.
7. Advanced machines and equipment are developed to use ____________ widely.
8. Is your computer ______________________?
9. Constant black-outs ______________________ failures in power supply.
10. They ______________________ workforce by around 0.5 per cent annually.
11. We are trying to eliminate the reasons for fire.
12. In this project water is then ______________________ through a concrete canal into a large tank.
13. Population growth ____________________ a serious problem in Bangladesh.
14. We need to _________________ energy from alternative energy sources.
15. The Antarctic ice cap is ______________________ to contain 90% of the world's fresh water.
16. Strong stream can be used to ______________________ electricity.
17 Mary ______________________ two PhD students.
18. Efforts to ______ a consensus among the member states ended in failure.
OVER TO YOU
E. Present your point of view on the problems and solutions discussed in the unit as if you were:
1) a Mbuiru fisherman;
2) a person from the business center at Mbuiru;
3) a Kenya's state official;
4) a technician talking about details of the project;
5) a Person from the Kenya Power company;
6) an ordinary Kenyan enjoying the benefits of electricity;
7) other.
D. Act out conversations between:
1) technicians trying to find the best way to construct a micro-hydropower system;
2) people working in Kenya's business center;
3) environmentalists discussing advantages and disadvantages of a micro-hydropower system;
4) a happy government member and NGO representative;
5) other.
UNIT 3
Energy of wind
LISTENING
Keywords
| 1) application form; 2) to lease land; 3) commissioner of lands; 4) to give value to the land; 5) state official; 6) desert; 7) to stare at somebody; 8) acre; 9) to indicate; 10) the perceived worthlessness of something; 11) arid north; 12) harsh wasteland; 13) nomadic groups; 14) cattle and camels; 15) to gauge the potential for something; 16) renewable energy expert; 17) to constantly blow; 18) wildlife; 19) chairman; 20) consortium; 21) natural phenomenon; 22) mountain valley; 23) wind site; 24) sudden gushes of wind; 25) predictable; 26) exceptional; | 27) at an unprecedented rate; 28) installation; 29) double; 30) to drop considerably; 31) competitive source of power; 32) subsidies; 33) geothermal; 34) by a very small margin; 35) earn about one million “carbon credits”; 36) annually; 37) to devote ... percent of income to the development of the community; 38) along the transmission line route; 39) to swell around something; 40) corrupt; 41) to insist; 42) to be approached to pay a bribe; 43) to win government support for something; 44) to fail; 45) a bunch of lunatics; 46) to go on to an adventure; 47) to be backed by powerful international institutions; 48) to take a leap towards the future dominated by renewable energy |
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Names: Nairobi, lake Turkana, Carlo van Wageningen, Turkana Corridor Jet Stream, the Indian Ocean, Loyangalani district, the United Nations (the UN), the Moon, the World Bank, Johannesburg
Phonetic exercises
Taps
what are you, not only, anybody, it is, that is
Glottalization
replied, but because, perfect site, at various, about double, in Europe, that means, that power, but by, generate clean, of that income, but van Wageningen, that we
Omissions
didn't know, and I remember, when he told, and when he looked, a hundred and fifty thousand acres, winds, don't even
Circle the correct answer
1. A Dutch man carried an application form to Kenya.
a) lease a building in; b) buy land in; c) lease land in; d) become a citizen of
2. Lake Turkana is located in Kenya.
a) south-eastern; b) north-eastern; c) north-western; d) south-western
3. The commissioner asked the Dutchman to bring pictures of .
a) his colleagues; b) future wind-power plant; c) of his relatives; d) the land
4. The Dutchman brought pictures to the land commissioner.
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a) 20; b) 12; c) 30; d) 120
5. Van Wageningen wanted acres of land.
a) 50; b) 150; c) 250; d) 300
6. A wind-energy expert visited Kenya in .
a) 2005; b) 2001; c) 1995; d) 2010
7. Within the project they can produce more energy than in Europe.
a) thrice; d) twice; c) four times; d) no
8. They will be the cheapest source of energy after one.
a) solar; b) water; c) conventional; d) geothermal
9. The project will earn about one million carbon credits from the UN every .
a) half a year; b) month; c) year; d) two years
10. of dollars are swelling around the massive project.
a) hundreds of millions; b) hundreds of billions; c) hundreds of thousands;
d) hundreds
11. Many people thought at the beginning that van Wageningen and his team are a bunch of .
a) luminaries; b) lunatics; c) fanatics; d) gangsters
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