Progress Test - Part 2

PROGRESS TEST (PART 2)

 

 

 

1.       Listen to this audio.

Video: Securing a green legacy for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A lot of people have been working with partners to make significant environmental improvements in and around the Olympic Park in East London. Watch the video to find out more about the benefits of their work and the Games’ green legacy.

Listening Audio

 

 

 

Now, listen again and fill in the gaps. To help you, you have the missing words underneath the text.

"There has been a host of ways in which the _______ has been really centre stage in the putting together of the ________ here. The River Lee of course, flows right through the middle of the park. Twenty years ago it was one of the most ______ rivers in the country. It's now much _______and a lot of that clean up is a result of the work that's been happening here. We've also been able, by doing that work, to reduce _________ for something like 4,000 properties down in Canning and West Ham and that has been one of the major benefits of work done on the Olympic Park.

It's the Olympics, it is iconic, it is going to be something that people around the world are going to be looking at and thinking about. And the fact that the environment and _________ have been part of the creation of the Olympics from the outset I think is rather important. We can, and should, be doing this on other major projects for the future. One of the really good things about this whole project is that the __________ worked with the Olympic Delivery Authority from the word go and we worked out how it could be best be done so that their needs could be met and our duties to _______ the environment could be satisfied as well. And actually, I think it's worked brilliantly. "

 

PROTECT – OLYMPIC PARK – POLLUTED – CLEANER – ENVIRONMENT

SUSTAINABILITY – FLOOD RISK – ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

 

 

2. Write a 100 words composition comparing the two pictures below.  Isn't it sad?

 



 

 

And that's it! We hope this unit was helpful for you!

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