Vocabulary and grammar: Eyes in the sky

Vinsight Adjective suffixes: -ful and -less

1Complete the text with the adjective form of one of the nouns in brackets. Use the suffixes -ful and -less. 

The mountain gorilla is a ¹ (power / harm) animal with strong arms and a large, muscular body. However, it's ² (hope / power) to stop people from destroying its habitat. That's where you can help. By clicking on the link on our website and signing our online petition, you can do something really ³ (end / use) – you can help to protect the habitat of this fabulous animal.

There are only about 700 mountain gorillas in the world, and 200 of them live in the Virunga National Park in Congo. People in the area cut down trees for firewood every day, and this ⁴ (end / success) deforestation will eventually destroy the natural habitat. We want to stop it now, so we're raising money to provide Congolese families with small cookers that use very little fuel, which means they won't need to cut down trees.

Our campaign has already been very ⁵ (thought / success) in reducing pollution in the rainforest, which is ⁶ (power / harm) to the health of gorillas, and we're very ⁷ (hope / use) that we can reduce the deforestation. So remember, the situation isn't ⁸ (hope / thought). We can save the mountain gorilla. And you can help us by going to our website now.

VProtest: verb phrases

2Choose the correct verbs. 

• 1JoinDonatePostShout our campaign to save the mountain gorillas!

• 2Help us to makeprotestsignpost against the destruction of their forests.

• 3You can makedogojoin on demonstrations against illegal logging.

• 4You can also carrypostshoutsign our online petition to support the gorillas.

• 5Please postdonatego onprotest a comment on our website to show your concern.

• 6JoinProtestCarryShout a banner on a demonstration …

• 7… or shoutpostgo onjoin slogans to show how you feel!

• 8Please carrydonatesignmake some money to our campaign.

The passive: future

3Rewrite the sentences using the future passive to make predictions. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1In the future, we will use more applications like Google Goggles to take photos of things and find out

  information about them.

  In the future, more applications like Google Goggles .

• 2We'll make calls on our mobile phones without touching the keypad.

  Calls on mobile phones .

• 3We won't need keyboards on computers because of touchscreen technology.

  Keyboards .

• 4We'll print documents on 3D printers.

  Documents .

• 5Scientists will reduce the size of computers so that they're the same size as a credit card.

  The size of computers .

• 6New search engines won't change the world – but there'll be lots of them!

  The world !

 The passive: future

4Choose the correct words. 

Using satellites to follow the whales

In our view, the hunting of whales is ¹thoughtlesshelpless and cruel, and may one day result in their extinction. Whales are in danger because, even today, they ²huntare hunted for their meat, bones and teeth. Whales are also victims of 

³harmfulharmless

 

pollution in the oceans. That’s why STOP, the Satellite Tagging Observation Programme, ⁴is startedwas started a few years ago to follow their travels across the world’s oceans. Next year, twelve more whales ⁵will tagwill be tagged as part of our programme. We ⁶will followwill be followed their migrations north to Arctic waters during the coming year. If you want to help, please ⁷signmake our online petition or ⁸takepost a comment on our message board.

5 CHALLENGE! Imagine that you are part of a campaign to protect gorillas or stop whale hunting. What will you do to persuade people to join your campaign. Speak for no longer than one minute.  Select Record Audio to record yourself.  If you want to add a note to your teacher, write it in the Comments box.  Select Submit to dropbox to send the recording to your teacher.