The Reading / Listening - Ice Age - Level 1

The next ice age will be late. An ice age is a long time of freezing weather. There is a huge increase in the amount of ice in the world. Mountain glaciers become bigger. The researchers are from the UK. They think the next ice age will arrive in 10,000 years. However, that could be delayed because of human activity and climate change. Global warming could make it "very unlikely" that the next ice age will arrive on time.

Melting ice in the North and South Poles will push back the ice age. A researcher studied how past ice ages happened. He looked at one million years of climate data. He found relationships between the Earth's axis, global temperatures, and the amount of ice at the North and South Poles. When the amount of ice is stable, ice ages happen at regular intervals. The researcher said less ice means a longer gap between ice ages.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Ice Age - Level 0 Ice Age - Level 2   or  Ice Age - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.newser.com/story/365087/researchers-predict-next-ice-age-with-a-catch.html
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-earths-orbit-triggers-ice-ages-and-theres-one-in-the-next-11000-years
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/next-ice-age-would-hit-earth-in-11-000-years-if-it-weren-t-for-climate-change-scientists-say/ar-AA1zW7QG
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age


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Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

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Discussion — Write your own questions

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