Cover of the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8 - Culture and Competences for the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1 with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella e Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

Listen to a journalist talking about the Amazon Rainforest and say if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.

Answer

  1. T
  2. F (The text mentions that the clearing of the Amazon forest started in the 1960s.)
  3. F (The text states that in the 1990s, people cleared an area as big as Spain for both cattle and soybean production.)
  4. T
  5. F (The correct acronym for WWF is World Wide Fund for Nature, not "World Fun for Nature.")
  6. F (The text does not explicitly state that WWF uses its presence to protect the wildlife in the Amazon.)
  7. T