5- People Went to the hillsides to look for firewood.
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1- Before the arrivaI of the project, Esther was a destroyer or the environment. 2- The Green belt Movement motivated Esther to be a tree Ki lIer.
3- Esther was the founder ofthe Green Belt Movement.
4- The damage done by the destruction of the forests didn't -make Wangari Maathai think the foundation of the Green Belt Movernent...' .,
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recherchant.dans le texte les synonymes de certaine mots ou expressions manipulant des mots du texte.
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Pushing back the desertEsther Wairimu's conversion from tree killer to tree planter is one of the many successes of .the Green a;~~:~/Ioveinent. This was founded in 1977 and has been responsible for the planting of
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of wood landThe Green Belt Movement was founded by Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan biologist, who saw the damage done by the destruction of forests. 'When 1 visited the village where 1 was barn, 1 saw that whole forests had been cleared in arder ta remove the timber and grow crops,' she says. 'People were moving on to hillsides, riverbeds and poor quality land which was not cùltivated when 1 was a child. Springs were drying up. 1 was shocked to find children-suffering from kwashiorkor, because my community was .supposed to be in a rich, coffee-growing area. I was amazed ta leam that malnutrition was linked with lack of fuel. People were eating less of the nutritious, traditional foods, like beans and maize, and were choosing refined foods like rice because they require less cooking'. So Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement to plant trees, ta enable the rural population to grow enough firewood for themselves and to push baSk the desert.
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Nowadays, the rain becomes rare because of the frequent destruction of the trees. One of your friends regularly cuts down trees without replanting sorne new.
As a protector of the natural resources, write a letter to l'our friend about the dangers ofhis (r~ practices for people and animais and the importance of the trees.
(Not more than 20 Enes)
NB: Mind the presentation ofyour letter
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• respectant l'orthographe et la ponctuation • rédigeant un paragraphe cohérant
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(15 pts)3- Is Wangari Maathaï a man or a
wornan?
Justify4- What is the first of the many successes of the Green Belt Movement mentioned in the text? 5- What do people eut down trees in Wangari's village for?
6- How did Wangari feel when children are suffering from Kwashiorkor? 7- What food did people choose in place oftheir traditional food?
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3: Complete this sentence (Spts)"The objectives of the Green belt movement were essentially to ... "
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4: Find in the text, the equivalents ofthese words or expressions (16 pts) 1- AlI the people living together in a house (paragraph 1)2- Arca covered with trees and grasses (paragraph 1) 3- Harm (paragraph 2)
4- To take away (paragraph 2)
5- Wood to be used for building (paragraph 2)
6- Place where water comes up naturally from the g~'ound (paragraph 2) 7- Absence of (paragraph 2)
8- Wood used for cooking (paragraph 2)
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What do these pronouns refer to? (3pts)1- This (in this was founded in 1977)
2- Who (in Who san the damage done by the destruction of forests) 3- Themselves (in to grow enough firewood for themselves)
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6- Three diseases are mentioned in the text. i,7- Children in Wangari' svillage were suffering from kwashiorkor because they ate healthy food. !.km_2: Answer these questions (14 pts)
1- When was the green belt movement founded? 2- Who is the founder of the movement?
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