Что мы знаем о ледниках?

Reported speech, questions and statements.

1. Imagine you have been asked the following questions in open class but the person sitting next to you has not been attentive. Report the questions for them.

Useful structures:

1. I was asked if…

2. We were asked what/where/how/where who/why…

3. The teacher wanted to know/wondered…

1. What are glaciers?

2. Where are glaciers most common?

3. Where aren’t there any glaciers?

4. What are the placer where glaciers can be formed?

5. How much time can it take a glacier to be formed?

6. What makes a glacier move downhill?

7. How fast are they?

8. How fast are the fastest ones?

9. Why are they called “nature’s bulldozers”?

10. How do they shape the land?

11.What are erosion and abrasion?

12. Why do glaciers have a dirty appearance?

13. How are icebergs formed?

14. What is the largest source of fresh water on Earth?

Use the information from the video to answer the above questions, use the indirect speech to refer to the audiotext.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbYXiJsF5mw

Useful structures:

1. The speaker said (that)…

1.We were informed/said that...

Useful words and expressions:

Arctic, Antarctic, polar regions, to accumulate, decades, centuries, pressure of the snow, compress, layer, gravity, to carve huge chunks out of mountains, to soak the cracks, to freeze and to melt,

freeze-thaw weathering, the most dynamic natural feature.

Адрес публикации: https://www.prodlenka.org/metodicheskie-razrabotki/257759-chto-my-znaem-o-lednikah