UNIT 5

## NATURE

### Lesson 1. Water Cycle

Getting ready for the task:
• Where can water be?
• How does water cycle?
• Where does water come from?
Key words:
to shake - to make sb/smth move with short quick movements
a crystals - a small piece of a substance
to fall down - to lose concentration and fall, to descend
to go up - to rise, to approach
a drop - a very small amount of liquid that forms a round shape
a cycle - a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same oder
1

CW. Look, think and answer the questions:

• What do these arrows tell you?
• Where does water go?
• How does water go into the sky?
• How does water fall from the clouds?
2

GW. Read the passage using the appropriate verbs and choose the best title for it.

a) to give
f) to change
k) to move(2)
b) to go
g) to fall
l) to have
c) to become(2)
h) to do
m) to show
d) to water
i) to shake
n) to make
e) to be
j) to come
o) to blow

The water cycle (1)... how water moves and changes on the Earth.

It is a cycle, because it doesn’t (2)... a beginning or an end. It is important, because it (3)... us water to drink. It also (4)... plants for our food.

The warm air (5)... up and becomes cold. When it comes down, it rains. Then little wet drops (6)... into millions of drops of water and (7)... clouds. When the clouds (8)... in the sky, it may rain.When the air (9)... colder, more drops of water are formed. When there are very many drops of water, they (10)... so heavy that the clouds cannot hold them, so they (11)... down on the ground. This is rain. When it is very cold, these drops (12)... little crystals of ice and fall down on the ground. This is snow. When and why (13)... the wind (14) ... ? When the air becomes warm, it goes up into the air and the cold air (15) ... down. So the air (16)... and the wind blows and all the trees (17)...

a) The Sun and the Sea
b) Water Cycle
c) The Air and the Water