Forest

Common expressions

• clear a forest

• forests cover (the mountain)

• the destruction of the forests

• destroy a forest

• forests shrink

• a path through the forest

Exercises

Common expressions

1. In 1997 huge fires destroyed a large area of tropical rainforest in Borneo.

2. Much of Sweden is covered in dense pine forest.

3. Every year millions of acres of forest are cleared to make the paper for newspaper.

4. There’s a path through the middle of the forest, which is quite easy to follow.

5. The world’s tropical rainforests have shrunk to almost half the size they were 10 years ago.

6. The Green Party argues that we are all responsible for the destruction of our forests, and says that we must all play a part in protecting them for future generations.