WRITING I An environmental problem I can write about an environmental problem.
1 Read the model text and choose the correct
answers.
1 Why did the author write this email?
a To ask for an explanation. b To complain.
c To offer help.
2 Who did he write the email to?
a a friend b a local newspaper ca tourist
3 Which words in the text express certainty?
a perhaps b definitely c possibly
4 Which paragraph gives causes and solutions?
a 1 b 2 C 3
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2 Study the key phrases. Which phrases
introduce new paragraphs? Complete the
phrases with your own ideas.
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c I haven't
d we neede
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KEY PHRASES O Writing an email

Winter Olympic sport that combines ski race with shooting a rifle. Biathlon is most popular in Germany, Russia, Austria, Norway, France and Sweden. C 1993 to the present, the official international biathlon competitions, including the World Cup and World Championships, held under the auspices of the International Biathlon Union (English International Biathlon Union, IBU - SME).Considered the ancestor of the biathlon competitions military patrols - a sport, the rules of which resemble the modern biathlon team race. Today, there are many varieties of biathlon, a combination of: cross country skiing and shooting sports bow (Acher biathlon), race on snowshoes and rifle shooting (biathlon snowshoe) race on skis hunting and shooting with a hunting rifle (hunting biathlon). Among non winter biathlon release Summer Biathlon - it combines running and shooting (cross biathlon), race on roller skis and shooting (roller ski biathlon), and the race on mountain-bikes and shooting (biathlon on mountain-bikes). Of all the varieties of biathlon only "classic" winter and summer biathlon biathlon (all three varieties) are supervised SMEs.

А ведь всего 120 лет назад учёные даже не подозревали о том, что среди первобытных людей существовали талантливые художники и мастера. Этим художникам удалось передать облик и характер зверей, изобразить их в “оригинале”. Оленей рисовали чуткими и настороженными, мамонтов – мощными и сильными, с высоким затылком, коней - быстрыми и стремительными. Много было картин, изображающих зверей, поражённых копьями и истекающих кровью. Первобытные люди боялись природных явлений. Естественных причин таких сил природы, как гроза, наводнение люди не знали. Они верили в то, что между животными и теми изображениями, которые сами создавали, существует необъяснимая сверхъестественная связь. Люди думали, что если на стенах пещеры изобразить оленей, бизонов или горных баранов, то живые звери под воздействием сверхъестественных сил станут заколдованными и не уйдут из окружающей местности. Нарисовав поражённое копьём животное, можно добиться успеха на охоте.

But just 120 years ago, scientists did not even know that existed among primitive people talented artists and craftsmen. These artists managed to convey the shape and character of animals, draw them into the "original." Deer painted sensitive and watchful, mammoths - powerful and strong, with a high neck, horses - fast and swift. There were many paintings depicting animals infected with spears and bleeding. Primitive man feared natural phenomena. Natural causes such a force of nature, like a storm, flood, people did not know. They believed that between animals and those images that are themselves created, there is an inexplicable supernatural connection. People thought that if on the walls depict deer, bison and mountain sheep, the animals living under the influence of supernatural forces will be charmed and will not go out of the surrounding countryside. After drawing the spear struck the animal, you can achieve success in the hunt.