Assignment 1
Read the assignment and write down the answers in English. You may use English-language Internet sources to help you.
a Geology is the study of natural materials on earth and processes within the earth. List 5 or more words connected to geology.
b Write down the names of all continents of the world.
| Sinking
Happy New Year, the ground is sinking under you… Say what? Well yes, the gound under our feet is actually sinking. Read about it here. |
Assignment 2
Read the text. For each definition, find the word or expression it describes in the text and write it down.
- becoming lower, moving downwards
- a hole so deep that it cannot be measured
- careful studies of something to learn more about it
- to make worse
- a small part of something
- easily becoming covered with water because of heavy rain or high water
- making people worried or upset
- toward the inside of something
- causing a lot of damage or destruction
- at the present time
- a very large or important city
- a general direction of change
- to flow or spread slowly through small openings
- large holes that suddenly appear in the ground
- the act or process of getting something out of something
- water that collects below the surface of the earth
Assignment 3
a Choose the best summary.
1 For some people, the new year is so terrifying that it feels like the ground is sinking.
2 Millions of people are put at risk because the earth’s land surface is slowly sinking.
3 Research shows that the earth’s ground is sinking, but for most people it is not a big deal.
4 The earth’s ground surface is actually sinking, but that is just a natural process.
b What does subsidence mean?
1 All the research that is done to understand the sinking of the earth’s ground surface.
2 The financing of projects to do something against the sinking of the ground.
3 The phenomenon that the earth’s ground surface is sinking slowly.
4 The sinking of the ground in North America and Europe over the next 20 years.
c Why have the US started to move some cities away from the coast?
1 Last year’s presidential election shows that people have to be spread more democratically.
2 The Indonesian succes of relocating Jakarta shows that this is a good idea.
3 These cities could become flooded because of the sinking of the ground plus climate change.
4 To make room for the millions of people that will lose their homes because of the sinking ground.
Extra
This reading assignment is about subsidence and Jakarta.
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