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   TASK Complete the text with the most suitable words, the first letters of the words are given.

   All businesses depend directly on the energy sector, which is the largest single market in the
   world. Some energy companies trade in 1. f__________  f ___________ (coal, gas and petroleum)
   while others supply electricity or fuel to end users. Many of the products derived from
   petroleum, like 2. p_______, chemicals and 3. f_____________, are essential components or
   ingredients for industry. As petroleum 4. r___________ become scarcer, this drives up oil
   prices and encourages companies and governments to develop alternative or 5. r____________
   energies. Increasing energy consumption is creating pollution and causing 6. g________ 
   w___________, a problem some countries are addressing through the 7. K__________ Agreeement.

   

   COURSEBOOK,  p. 87; READING

   

   1. The fact that gasoline prices have reached their highest mark ever in the US is directly
   related to which fact?

   2. What worries the public more: the high prices and long queues at the pump, or the fact the
   number of available global oirl reserves is shrinking?

   3. Why would be oil companies interested in boosting  reserve estimates?

   4. Who else is interested in having inflated reserve estimates?

   5. Name another mentioned reason for which it is very convenient for a specific country to
   have/claim to have very rich oil reserves?

   6. The exact quantity of oil owned by a particular company is determined by both the
   respective country and an international panel of specialists. T/F

   7. What do the geologists say about the quantities the countries claim to have?

   8. How would the situation change if the number of oil reserves really started to decrease?

   9. Name petroleum-dependent products.

   10. In a situation with very few global oil reserves available why would it become uneconomic
   to drill the remaining oil?

   11. How do governments and private business define an oil shortage? Do geologists and common
   sense people share their view?

   12. What do the optimistic oil-reserve estimates also fail to take into account?

   13. What would be the best-case scenario for the world if there really was an oil shortage?

   14. Why can´t we take the official estimates of oil reserves for granted?

   

   

   COURSEBOOK,  p. 89; READING

   

  TASK Which words mentioned in the text are defined by the following?

   1. ___________ = imagined sequence of future events

   2. __________ = said of sth which can continue or last for a long time

   3. _____________ = supplies of sth such as money, labour, etc. that an organization or a
   person has and can use

   4. _____________ = A). a situation that exists now because of events, actions, etc. that took
   place in the past, B). money or property that is given to you by sb when they die

   5. ______________ = unwilling and therefore slow to cooperate, agree, etc.

   6. _____________ = to make an arrangement with a company in which you pay them regular amounts
   of money or make a single payment and they agree to pay you money, for example if you die or
   are ill/sick, or if you lose or damage sth

   7. ___________ = to become less or smaller; to make sth less or smaller