Understanding the Text: Context Building

Look at the words below. You will probably be familiar with some of the words. Try to guess the meaning of the words you don’t know and then match the words to the pictures on the left.

• Fertilizer

• Pollution

• Agricultural Land

• Run-Off

• Lake

• Chemicals

1. What do you think is the connection between the pictures?

2. In this unit we are going to look at two texts which deal with a problem called eutrophication.

From the pictures can you predict what kind of problem this is?