Number 19, exercise 33A.0:06
Why don't we stop him and say why the young member of the women's club wanted to stop the car producer.0:13
Why don't we stop him?0:24
The Women's club had a meeting every Friday.0:27
And every Friday they invited someone to come and talk to them about important things.0:30
After that they had tea and asked questions.0:36
One Friday a gentleman came and talked to the club about different problems of ecology.0:41
He spoke about air and water pollution, acid rains and the greenhouse effect.0:47
And then he mentioned the growth of population and shortage of food.0:54
There is not enough food in the world for everybody, he said.0:59
More than half the people in the world are hungry.1:04
After that he spoke about cars and buses, their positive and negative effects.1:08
He said that cars bring help quickly.1:15
And this is very important for the police and fire brigades and ambulances.1:18
Cars and buses do important work.1:25
They transport goods, take people to and from work.1:28
But they are dangerous, noisy, expensive and unhealthy.1:32
And there are often traffic jams.1:38
They do a lot of harm to the city atmosphere and ruin the beauty of the countryside, because many new roads are built everywhere.1:42
Though the cars are very convenient and comfortable and they are much faster than trains and boats, people suffer a lot from them because nowadays people don't have much exercise.1:51
Everybody knows that it is much healthier to walk or to ride a bicycle.2:05
But fewer people every year do that.2:11
Most of us prefer to go by car.2:15
And there are more and more cars produced each year.2:19
The gentleman said, just imagine, a car producer is making a car every minute, day and night, somewhere in the world.2:23
How can we solve the problem?2:34
He waited for a few seconds before he continued.2:37
But before he began to speak again, one of the club members, a young woman, had a ready answer.2:41
Well, why don't we find that man and stop him?2:50
B. Listen to the text again and do the tasks from the section.2:58
Let us listen and discuss in your student's book.3:04
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