Overfishing

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Tomás's new menuListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Few, a few, little, a little, hardly anyGrammar rule
11. 11Choose the quantifierGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13A plan for a fishing townSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: quantifiersGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a resource in dangerDiscussion

Words

• overfishing/ˌoʊvərˈfɪʃɪŋ/

  catching so many fish that not enough are left to keep the population going

• stock/stɑːk/

  a group of fish or animals of one kind in one area, or how many of them there are (a fish stock)

• reproduce/ˌriːprəˈduːs/

  to produce babies or young animals

• collapse/kəˈlæps/

  a sudden failure or fall, after which something stops working (also a verb)

• fishery/ˈfɪʃəri/

  an area of the sea where fish are caught as a business, or the business itself

• bycatch/ˈbaɪkætʃ/

  animals that are caught by accident when people are fishing for something else

• aquaculture/ˈækwəkʌltʃər/

  the farming of fish, shellfish or plants in water

• quota/ˈkwoʊtə/

  a fixed amount of something that is allowed, such as how many fish a boat may catch

• depleted/dɪˈpliːtɪd/

  reduced so much that there is not enough left (deplete: the verb)

• marine/məˈriːn/

  connected with the sea and the animals and plants that live in it

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about the ocean.

1. What fish or seafood dishes are popular in your country?
2. Have you ever been fishing? What was it like?
3. Is fishing important in your country? Where?

Grammar rule

Few, a few, little, a little, hardly any

	with plural nouns (fish, people, ideas)	with uncountable nouns (time, money, water)
a positive idea: some	a few friends	a little time
a negative idea: not many / not much	few friends	little time
almost none	hardly any friends	hardly any time

Compare: I have a few ideas (good, we can start). I have few ideas (a problem).

Few and little without a sound negative and a little formal; in conversation, people often say not many and not much: Not many people came. Each and every go with a singular noun: each boat, every country. The unit's grammar lesson practices these and other quantifiers fully.