5-speed listening (Vanishing Beaches - Level 5)

Half of world's beaches could disappear by 2100


Slowest

Slower

Medium

Faster

Fastest


Try  Vanishing Beaches - Level 4  |  Vanishing Beaches - Level 6



MY e-BOOK
ESL resource book with copiable worksheets and handouts - 1,000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers / English teachers
See a sample

This useful resource has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for …

  • warm-ups
  • pre-reading and listening
  • while-reading and listening
  • post-reading and listening
  • using headlines
  • working with words
  • moving from text to speech
  • role plays,
  • task-based activities
  • discussions and debates
and a whole lot more.


More Listening

20 Questions  |  Spelling  |  Dictation


READING:

Rising sea levels could see the end of half the world's beaches by the end of the century. Scientists predict that half our sandy beaches could vanish over the next eight decades if climate change continues. The scientists are from the European Commission. They warned that the shorelines of highly-populated areas and tourist hot-spots are threatened by erosion from increasing sea levels. Areas at risk of disappearing forever include well-known beaches in Australia's Surfers' Paradise, the islands of Hawaii, Brazil's Copacabana Beach, and the Costa del Sol in Spain.

The scientists predicted that countries like The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau in Africa could lose 60% of their beaches. The worst affected country will be Australia, where 12,000km of coastline could end up underwater. The researchers said: "A substantial proportion of the world's sandy coastline is already eroding." They added that we could see, "the near extinction of the world's sandy beaches by the end of the century". A researcher said there were two important ways we could save the beaches. He said we had to, "reduce emissions and manage our coastline in a more sustainable way".

Other Levels

Try other levels. The listening is a little longer, with more vocabulary.

Vanishing Beaches - Level 4  |  Vanishing Beaches - Level 6

All Levels

This page has all the levels, listening and reading for this lesson.

← Back to the beaches  lesson.

Online Activities

Help Support This Web Site

  • Please consider helping Breaking News English.com

Sean Banville's Book

Thank You