dateline: 16 November 2016
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Dead Sea Swim Raises Environmental Awareness
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- degradation: the wearing down of the land or environment
- shrink: to reduce in size
- astounding: surprising
- tough: difficult
- snorkel: a tube to breathe through underwater
- lethal: deadly
- ingest: to take into the body
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Dead Sea Swim Raises Environmental Awareness
Comprehension Questions
- Where were the swimmers from?
- What was the purpose of the swim?
- Why did the swimmers wear face masks?
Discussion Questions: What is your greatest environmental concern? Would you be willing to do something challenging to raise awareness about this issue?
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5 comments
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Amer Yaseen says:
The situation is very bad. first of all the must stop working of the two companies on the two sides of the dead sea ( Potash) and stop hotels building also.
make the huge water pipes inject water from Mediterranean and Red seas.
i think may be we will lost Dead Sea after 30 years.
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Mohamad says:
Helllooooo be friendly and keep calm I’m here
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irena says:
Hello , yes I like
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Jeong Hojin says:
I want to know the main reason why Dead Sea water level was dropped about 25 metres compare to 30 years ago.
Is it an ecvironmental degradation?
How can we protect the Ded Sea water level?
We need to correct opinions of the specialist all over the world. -
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