Assignment 1
a Name the four seasons.
b How much is 80 °F (Fahrenheit degrees) in Celsius (°C)? Use a conversion calculator on the Internet to find the correct answer.
| Summer in the City
How hot you are depends on the street where you live. But why? Read this text to find out more. |
Assignment 2
Read the text. Connect the words and expressions in the two columns that have the same meaning.
| 1. family income | a. all the money the members of your family living at your house earn |
| 2. quality of life issues | b. the amount of water in the air |
| 3. sensors | c. areas of a town where people live who do not have a lot of money |
| 4. to measure | d. the facts you find out after studying or researching something |
| 5. humidity | e. to find out the amount or size of something |
| 6. the findings | f. groups of people of the same race, culture or religion who live in a place where most of the people around them are different from them |
| 7. hot | g. instruments which “feel” changes in things such as movement, heat or light |
| 8. minorities | h. problems that can be the reason that you are not so healthy and happy |
| 9. lower-income neighborhoods | i. rich |
| 10. lack of trees | j. the situation where something is not there |
| 11. degrees | k. the situation where there are not enough trees |
| 12. absence | l. the situation where you are not protected from very warm weather |
| 13. heat exposure | m.the state of being poor |
| 14. well-off | n. used to name the temperature, often written as °, for example 21 °C |
| 15. poverty | o. very warm |
Assignment 3
a What is the most important reason for the heat in the poor neighbourhoods of New York?
1 There are fewer trees and parks.
2 There are more sick people.
3 There are too many cars driving around at the same time.
4 There is more air pollution.
b What are “urban heat islands”?
1 City parks where people can go to relax and enjoy the sun.
2 Holiday islands especially for people who love to lie in the sun.
3 Neighbourhoods where people are poorer and where there are minorities.
4 Parts of the city where it is hotter than in other parts of the city.
c How do trees make a neighborhood cooler?
1 People are happier and cooler when they see trees.
2 Temperatures on surfaces are many times hotter.
3 They take time to grow and cover large parts of a neighborhood.
4 Water from tree leaves evaporates and then cools the air.
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