# 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.