Grammar in Focus
Complete the gaps with the correct word. Then
put the words in brackets into the correct form.
........
• Four million plastic bottles are used 1).
hour in the US and only about 25% of them
2) ........
(recycle). When plastic is
dumped in a landfill site, it 3)
(take)
almost five hundred years 4)....... it to decay
• An area of rainforest the size of a football pitch
5)
(destroy) every minute.
That's more 6)
2,000 trees per minute.
If we continue like this, there 7) .........
(be) no rainforests left in fifty years.
• Oxfam 8)
(set) up in 1942 to send
food to Greece in World War II. Now, Oxfam raises
awareness of poverty worldwide and 9) ..............
(work) in 94 countries. We can play an important
role 10) .............. fighting poverty and help Oxfam
by volunteering or giving money.
Endangered species are not just animals
11) .......... ........ tigers and gorillas. Many species
that 12)
.....(be) under threat live a lot
13)...
(close) to home. In the UK, even
the common hedgehog is now 14)..............
risk.​