TOPIC 3 – CURRENT ISSUES, BASIC VOCABULARY ENDANGERED SPECIES, GENOCIDE, GREENHOUSE EFFECT, EARTHQUAKE, FAMINE, FLOOD, IMMIGRATION, LANDFILL, POLLUTION, RACISM, REFUGEE, RENEWABLE ENERGY, RUBBISH, SLAVERY, TRAUMA 1 ________________ = a large hole in the ground where waste from people’s homes or from industry is buried 2 ________________ = a way of behaving or thinking that shows that you do not like or respect people who belong to races that are different from your own and that you believe your race is better than others 3 ________________ = a type of animal or plant that may soon become extinct (=disappear from the world) 4 ________________ = the process in which heat is unable to escape from the atmosphere and causes the temperature of the Earth to rise. The rise intemperature is called global warming. 5 ________________ = things that you throw away because they are no longer useful, such as old food, paper or plastic used for wrapping things, and empty containers 6 ________________ = the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently 7 ________________ = the murder of large numbers of people belonging to a particular race 8 ________________ = the process of damaging the air, water, or land with chemicals or other substances 9 ________________ = someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event 10 ________________ = the condition of being owned by another person and forced to work for them 11 ________________ = a bad experience that makes you feel very upset, afraid, or shocked 12 ________________ = a type of energy which is able to replace itself by natural processes, so that it is never completely used up 13 ________________ = a serious lack of food that continues for a long time and causes many people in a country to become ill or die 14________________ [ = ]a large amount of water that covers an areathat was dry before[] 15 ________________ = a sudden shaking movement of the ground