English For Today chapter 31: Too Much or Too Little Water

Lesson 31 Too Much or Too Little Water

After completing the lesson students will be able to

• read and understand texts

• write short paragraphs

A. Look at the pictures.

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Description: Three clay pots and one larger clay pot stand on a raised wooden platform in floodwater; a bamboo-walled house is behind it.

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Description: A boy sits on a wooden platform in front of a bamboo house, washing with a bowl in floodwater.

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Description: A photograph of a flooded village: houses with thatched roofs stand in deep water, a child wades in the foreground and another person is in the background.

A1. Discuss in groups what you see in the pictures.

A2. Read the following passage:

Sometimes it rains so heavily that floods occur. Because of heavy rainfall, river water overflows its banks and floods vast areas of land, towns and villages.

A3. Write down a few sentences about how people suffer if there is too much water.

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B. Read the following passage:

Sometimes we really are short of water. This can happen if there is no rainfall for a long period of time. Sometimes rivers dry up, or the water level underground may sink very low. If there is too little water, that causes a lot of suffering to the people.

B1. Look at the pictures below and discuss what you see.

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Description: A man sits on the cracked, dry ground of a field under a hot sun, with one hand on his head; a bamboo house is at the left and a leafless tree at the right.

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Description: A boy stands beside a bucket in a tiled bathroom, pointing toward a shelf with containers and a soap dish; a tap is fixed on the wall and a small bar of soap lies on the floor.

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Description: A crowd of people stands and sits around a hand pump (tube well) on dry ground, filling many pots and buckets with water.

B2. Look at the pictures above and talk about how people suffer if there is too little water.