Lesson 6

Reading

2. Read the report and check your answers to Exercise1.

It has become desert because climate change is creating more droughts and because people do not always farm the land well.

3. Read the report again. Complete the sentences with one, two or three words.

1. The Great Green Wall initiative is going to solve the problem of desertification.
2. Climate change is creating more droughts in the Sahel region every year.
3. People are losing their farms and homes.
4. The Great Green Wall will plant millions of trees, seedlings and plants.
5. The initiative will create 10 million jobs.
6. The initiative will improve the lives of everyone in the Sahal region.