Devoir D'Anglais Seconde: étude d'un document

I- General comprehension

1) The document is a news report.

2) The subject of the document is water on the poor countries.

3) The text is about water for drinking.

4) The text deals with water from the rain.

5) The text is about collecting water.

6) The tank is a construction to store water.

II- Detailed comprehension:

1) Four advantages of using water:

- It’s a safe and dependable source of drinking.

- It’s free.

- It contains no minerals or salt.

- It’s free of chemical treatments

2) Four disadvantages of using water:

- It’s naturally polluted.

- Finding safe drinking water can be a problem

- Make the populations thirsty especially the poors ones.

- Empty the water tanks.

3) Fill in the blanks:

The water falls on buildings. Then thanks to a system of harvesting it is collected and finally ends up in tanks.

4) Right or Wrong:

 In the types of countries mentioned in the text it is preferable to drink ground water. (Wrong)

--- Each year millions of people in Bangladesh drink ground water that has been polluted by naturally high levels of arsenic poison. Finding safe drinking water in that country can be a problem.

 The system is cheap. (Right)

--- Total cost to built rainwater harvesting system is for about forty dollars.

 The tanks are very small. (Wrong)

--- The pipes stretch from building rainwater harvesting system is about forty dollars.

 The tanks need to be protected ( Right)

--- At the top of the tank is also called “first flush” device made of wire screen the barriers prevents dirt and leaves in the water from falling inside the tank.

 The first flush device work as a filter. (Right)

--- A fitted cover sits over the first flush device. It protects the water inside the tank from evaporating the cover also prevents mosquito insects from laying eggs in water.

 The system may provide a quite lot of water

--- The group says that one tank can provide a family of five with enough rainwater to survive a five month dry season.

11) The different elements of the system:

- Pipes.

- Tank.

- The first flush device.

- Low cost plastic bags.

12)

- Water is

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