Ecosystems and humans

(Hệ sinh thái và con người)

1. Listen and read. 

(Nghe và đọc.)

Ms Hoa: Nam, you went to Cuc Phuong National Park last weekend, didn‘t you?

Nam:  Yes, that’s right. It was an amazing trip. This old forest is home to thousands of different kind of plants, insects, and animals. I really liked the colourful butterflies and the thousand-year-old tree.

Ms Hoa: Yes, Cuc Phuong National Park has a very rich ecosystem.

Mai: What's an ecosystem, Ms Hoa?

Ms Hoa: It's a community that has living things, like flora and fauna. Flora refers to plants and fauna refers to animals, including tiny organisms, like bacteria. Ecosystems also include non-living things, like sunlight, air, soil, and water.

Nam:  How important are ecosystems to life on our planet, Ms Hoa?

Ms Hoa: Healthy ecosystems are essential for human health and survival because they provide us with goods such as food, energy, raw materials, clean water, and air.

Mai: So we should protect our ecosystems, shouldn't we?

Ms Hoa: That's right. Unfortunately, many ecosystems around the world are being lost, damaged, or destroyed because of climate change, pollution, and overuse of natural resources. It’s very important to protect and restore them for future generations. We don't want our planet to lose even more biodiversity, do we?

2. Read the conversation again and decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F).

(Đọc đoạn hội thoại một lần nữa và quyết định xem những câu này là đúng (T) hay sai (F).)

3. Complete the diagram with words in 1.

(Hoàn thành sơ đồ với các từ trong 1.) 

4. Use the words in the box to form compound nouns mentioned in 1. Match them with the meanings below.

(Sử dụng các từ trong hộp để tạo thành các danh từ ghép được đề cập trong phần 1. Nối chúng với các nghĩa bên dưới.)