home. The incredible natural resources and the ingenuity of the
people that live on Earth combine to make an impressive output of goods and services that are traded to sustain, inform and entertain.The scale of the world economy is great. Earth facts teach us that each year humankind produces $72 trillion worth of goods and services. The natural resources of the Earth are used to produce them. It means that after all everyone uses the Earth’s resources!
When we examine historical Earth facts, we see that the production of goods and services across the world really took off about 200 years ago with the dawn of the Industrial Age. Humankind has gotten really good at exploiting the many materials the Earth has to offer, including forging metals mined from the surface at extreme temperatures that are as hot as lava from a volcano.
Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.