The Reading / Listening - Air Quality - Level 0

The WHO reported that almost everyone on Earth breathes unhealthy air. Researchers checked 6,000 cities in 117 countries. People in poorer countries breathe the unhealthiest air. Millions of people in these countries die because of air pollution. The WHO said 7 million people would not die if we had cleaner air.

High gas prices and climate change mean we must use fossil fuels less. We must cut air pollution and use cleaner energy. The WHO made some suggestions. It said we should use clean energy for cooking, heating and lighting. We should also make public transport greener, and have roads that cyclists can use safely.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Air Quality - Level 1,  Air Quality - Level 2   or  Air Quality - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2022-billions-of-people-still-breathe-unhealthy-air-new-who-data
  • https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/99-worlds-population-breathes-poor-quality-air-83860782
  • https://www.ft.com/content/eb93b458-0bb2-4e93-ae5a-4da42e7bfe8d


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. The WHO reported
  2. almost everyone on Earth breathes
  3. 6,000 cities
  4. People in poorer
  5. Millions of people in
  6. because of air
  7. 7 million people would
  8. if we had cleaner
  1. countries
  2. air
  3. pollution
  4. in 117 countries
  5. that
  6. not die
  7. unhealthy air
  8. these countries die

Paragraph 2

  1. High gas
  2. we must use fossil
  3. We must cut air
  4. The WHO made some
  5. use clean energy for
  6. heating
  7. make public transport
  8. roads that cyclists can
  1. cooking
  2. greener
  3. fuels less
  4. use safely
  5. suggestions
  6. prices
  7. and lighting
  8. pollution

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

The WHO (1) ___________________ everyone on Earth (2) ___________________. Researchers checked 6,000 cities in 117 countries. People (3) ___________________ breathe the unhealthiest air. Millions (4) ___________________ these countries die (5) ___________________ pollution. The WHO said 7 million people would not die if we (6) ___________________.

High gas (7) ___________________ change mean we must use (8) ___________________. We must cut air pollution and use cleaner energy. The WHO (9) ___________________. It said we should use (10) ___________________ cooking, heating and lighting. We (11) ___________________ public transport greener, and have roads that cyclists (12) ___________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

TheWHOreportedthatalmosteveryoneonEarthbreathesunhealthyair
.Researcherschecked6,000citiesin117countries.Peopleinpoorercou
ntriesbreathetheunhealthiestair.Millionsofpeopleinthesecountriesdi
ebecauseofairpollution.TheWHOsaid7millionpeoplewouldnotdieifwe
hadcleanerair.Highgaspricesandclimatechangemeanwemustusefos
silfuelsless.Wemustcutairpollutionandusecleanerenergy.TheWHOm
adesomesuggestions.Itsaidweshouldusecleanenergyforcooking,he
atingandlighting.Weshouldalsomakepublictransportgreener,andha
veroadsthatcyclistscanusesafely.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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