READING

1. Read the article on the page below about a proposed development project in the
Peruvian rainforest. Are the following organizations for or against the project?
What are their reasons?
ORGANIZATION
Peruvian government
Amazon Watch
Inter-American Development Bank
US Import-Export Bank

FOR/AGAINTS
REASON
FOR
Because it will give peru more beefit.
AGAINTS
not friendly for environmentally
FOR
add 0.8 percent a year to Perus GDP over its 30y.
FOR
$200m for the upstream consortium

2. Read the article again. Which of the following will happen if the Camisea project goes ahead?
1. Peru will again become an exporter of fuel.
2. The IDB Loan could release further finance for the scheme.
3. The Peruvian government will be able to give financial assistance to some of the poorer areas in the
country.
4. Peruvian companies will be able to reduce some of their costs.
5. A road will be built through the Peruvian jungle.
6. The project will stop without the loans.
3. According to its opponents, the Camisea project will have a negative impact in a number of
areas. List four things that they say will be affected.
the project threatens tribes of Amazon Indians rare species and the rain forest along the pipeline

route
the export terminals would endanger a marine reserve at Paracas.
some Indians died from disease after first coming in contact with workers in the mid-1980s.

VOCABULARY 1
1. Some words in English can be used as both nouns and verbs. Look at the examples below.
Read the definitions for the following words from the text. Which of the two definitions was
used?
1. contract (line 1)

(n) written legal agreement

(v) give work to a supplier

2. project (line 7)

(n) planned piece of work

(v) calculate the cost of something

3. fuel (line 44)

(n) substance burned for energy

(v) make a bad situation worse

4. plant (line 18)

(n) industrial complex

(v) put something into the ground

5. process (line 19)

(n) series of actions

(v) treat or modify a substance

6. loan (line 25)

(n) financial assistance

(v) give something on a temporary basis

2. Are the noun forms and verb forms pronounced in the same way? Which ones are different?
NO, Noun is usually used to describe a place, the verb is usually used to explain how to do
somethingComplete the sentences with the correct form of the following words.
Plant

concern

benefit

estimate

test

award

1. The principal award for the area will be higher employment.

2. It is impossible to estimate the real value of the rainforest.
3. The government will benefit the contract to a foreign consortium.
4. A series of test will be conducted to measure pollution level.
5. Construction of both the new Plant will be completed next year.
6. This is an issue that concern everybody.
VOCABULARY 2

Put the words and phrases in the correct groups. Use a dictionary to help you.
Access roads

jungle

drilling sites

reserves

tribes terminal

Gas field

plant

rainforest

pipeline

rare species

Construction

Environment

Access roads

jungle

Gas field

rainforest

Plant

rare species

drilling sites

tribes

pipeline

terminal