Vocabulary
Academic Word List
- extracts (v)
- revenue
Other Vocabulary
- adhere
- harvested
- mainstay
- pulp
- pumps
- stakeholders
- subsectors
- timber
- vital
- wildlife
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do exercises 1 and 2.
Pre-Listening
Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question.
- Do you see Canada as being an environmentally responsible nation? Does it look after its own forests well? Why do you have that perception?
- Forestry is one of Canada's largest industries. Does your country have a forestry industry? Where does your country get its wood products from?
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue in Exercise 3.
Listening
Exercise
Listen to first paragraph of a larger Listening, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, discuss how this relates to the Reading you've just done and predict what you believe the rest of the Listening will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed. Try to find the General Statement and Thesis Statement in the Introduction and write your summary of them in Exercise 4. Try to rephrase vocabulary as much as possible.
Now listen to the complete Listening passage and take notes on it. When it is finished, talk to your group about the main ideas that are discussed in the Listening. Re-write the Thesis Statement you made above by adding some more information from the Listening in Exercise 5.
Listening
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue in Exercise 6.
