Listening

Environment #40

ILR 2+ · Environment & health · TV documentary · broadcast recording

Play the recording, then answer the questions.

Question 1 of 5What is the documentary about?
Question 2 of 5Why were the marshes drained in the 1990s?
Question 3 of 5What brought the water back after 2003?
Question 4 of 5What is the main threat today?
Question 5 of 5What does Jabbar's story illustrate?
Vocabulary
الأَهْوارthe marshes
مُسَطَّحات مائِيَّةwater bodies
القَصَبreeds
الجامُوسwater buffalo
دُوَل المَنْبَعupstream states
نَفَقَto die (animal)
تَقاسُم المِياهwater sharing