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4.3 READING poj kal FULL LOADS DONT US s ONLY pu 1 What do you remember about the reading text in the Student's Book? Choose the correct alternative. The article is about the people who live inthe 'mountains / islands in India and Morocco. They live in different countries, but they have the same ?*language / problem - there isvery little sun / rain. There isn t enough *land to grow food / water to drink, so the people have invented creative ways of susing / collecting water. In the Ladakh, they have a system of roads / pipes called stupas to collect water from 'fog / streams in the mountains. In the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco, they have 140 days a year of *fog / sun a year and they use special *nets / pipes to catch the water. 2 Look atthe photos at the top of the page. They are all from the same country. Which country do you think it is? What problem do you think it had? STRATEGY Previewing: focusing on title, photos and general knowledge Guessing what a text is about preparesyou for reading. Before you read, look at the title and photos. what do you already know about the topic? What will the important words be? 3 Read the strategy above. Look again at the photos and read the titles in the article. Do not read the article yet. Try to guess answers to the questions. 1 Why do some cities not have enough water? 2 Whatsolutions to the problem do you think people can try? 4 Read the article and check your answers to Ex 3. Check which of your answers in Ex 3 are correct. Which were different? 5 Read the text again and answer the questions. 1 Why doesn't the UK usually have water problems? 2 Why did 'day zero” never arrive? 3 Explain the importance ofthe following numbers: |50 300 2018 4 How did people reuse water at home? 5 What did people not do? 6 Why did some people go to the mountains? 7. How did Cape Town's water problems end? 6 Answer the questions. 1 How easy do you think it would be for people to save water locally and nationally in your country? 2 what things do people do now to use less water? What other things could we do? 4 Doyou think daily limits are a good thing? Why? / Why not? w A 46 Unit 4 a Prepare for reading an article about water shortages using photos and general knowledge. [WĘ REDUCE COLLEGT YOUR USE RAIN WATER| HOME ARTICLES SUBSCRIBE _ SIGNIN o c WESEEE =" =4 How safe is our water supply? Water is necessary for life, but some places in the world h | don't have enough of it. Normally, the UK doesn't have water problems. It often has rain showers and big winter storms, so y there is plenty of water. But there are major cities in hotter countries where people don't have enough water. In 2017, j | Cape Town in South Africa was using too much water and 'day zero' was coming ... the day there would be no more water. - TP" Z Zzapzrww UW Cape Town's day zero Cape Town went on a 'water diet' because people were using too much water. The city council didn't want to tum off all the water, but they wanted people to use less than before. lt was important that the reservoirs had more than 13% water in them. So the council asked people to use much less water. Cape Town went on a 'water diet”. -UEZNNSR =" R JL UN <=zz=zz R Where did all the water go? m Cape Town doesn't have a very wet climate. In fact, the city is | often hot and sunny. Between 2015 and 2017 there was a bad drought in Cape Town. This is why there wasn't enough water. At the same time the citys population was growing very fast. Life with less water When the reservoirs were nearly empty, the city tried to find a solution to help its population. A new rule said that people must use less than 50 litres of water each day — the daily average in California is about 300 litres. People saved water from baths and showers. Then they reused it for tne toilet. Also, car washes stopped and people didn't water their gardens. People had to pay a fine if they used too much water. In some areas of the city, people started getting water from mountain streams. Fortunately, in 2018 there was heavy rain and the situation improved, but we mustn't forget the water problem in Cape Town. We need to be ready for climate change everywhere. council (noun) [C] a group of people who help to run a townorcity reservoir (noun) [C] an artificial lake used to provide water drought (noun) [C/U] a long period without rain that causes people to have too little water fine (noun) [C] an amount of money people have to pay for not following rules | "u" 
