The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
Understanding the text
1. Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’.
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2. What does the notice ‘The world’s most dangerous animal’ at a
cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?
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3. How are the earth’s principal biological systems being depleted?
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4. Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is
one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?
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Talking about the text
Discuss in groups of four.
1. Laws are never respected nor enforced in India.
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2. “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing
deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”
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3. “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have
borrowed it from our children”.
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4. The problems of overpopulation that directly affect our
everyday life.
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Thinking about language
The phrase ‘inter alia’ meaning ‘among other things’ is one of the
many Latin expressions commonly used in English.
Find out what these Latin phrases mean.
1. prima facie
2. ad hoc
3. in camera
4. ad infinitum
5. mutatis mutandis
6. caveat
7. tabula rasa
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Working with words
I. Locate the following phrases in the text and study their
connotation.
1. gripped the imagination of
2. dawned upon
3. ushered in
4. passed into current coin
5. passport of the future
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II. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’, ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ have a literal
as well as a figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using
each word in the literal as well as the figurative sense.
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Things to do
1. Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.
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2. Maintain a record of the trees cut down and the parks
demolished in your area, or any other act that violates the
environment. Write to newspapers reporting on any such acts
that disturb you.
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