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1 Work in groups of 4/5. Think and write some inventions or discoveries of humanity in history which
brought unintended consequences.
A popular invention, discovery or an event
Unintended consequences
1.
an atom
2.
1. a terrifying weapon/atom bomb
2.
3.
3.
4.
4.
2 Match the words 1-13 with the appropriate definitions a-m.
1. to harm
a. to begin something such as a plan or introduce something new such as a product;
2. to alter
b. the time o f year when crops are cut and collected from the fields;
3.
to exploit
c. to eat or drink especially a lot of something;
4. harvest
d. the state of having no food for a long period often causing death;
5. a sparrow
e. no longer existing;
6.
to launch
f. to hurt someone or damage something;
7. exhaustion
g. to control or limit something that is not wanted;
8. extinct
h. an amount of something positive such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied;
9. starvation
i. when insects come together in a large group;
10. to swarm
j. to change something, usually slightly, or to cause characteristics of something to change;
11. a yield
k. a small grey-brown bird which is especially common in towns;
12. to consume
1. a condition of extremely being tired;
13. to curb
m. to use something for advantage;
3 (T2) Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks with appropriate words and phrases.
Chinese farmers were not (a)
___________________
with the little harvest they gathered in 1958. Calculation
showed that (b )
______
kg o f grain was eaten by each sparrow. Under the influence of sparrow grain seed
eating habit a Chinese leader Mao Zedong ordered the (c )
_______________
of sparrows. The whole (d)
________________________killed hundreds of millions of sparrows. Ways of (e)
__________________
included
breaking eggs, killing chicks as well as shooting sparrows down from the sky. On December 13, sparrows were
terrorized by
children, workers, farmers holding their pots and pans ( f )
________________ birds’ landing.
Result of these efforts was a nearly (g )
_______________
of sparrows in China. Sparrows were replaced with
another type of crop eater, a large type of grasshopper population (h)
_
_____________
. In 1960, it became
known that sparrows ate also ( i)_______
________ which made Mao Zedong order to stop Great Sparrow War.
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