General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 02 Topic 03.doc  READING 02 From tree to timber – task 1. Read the questions below. 2. Read the brochure. 3. Choose the correct answer. 1. The tree’s fall is carefully planned.  TRUE  FALSE 2 Only the smallest trees are cut down.  TRUE  FALSE 3. The first two cuts in the tree make a V- shaped notch.  TRUE  FALSE 4. Loggers don’t need to watch the tree falling.  TRUE  FALSE 5. Loggers wear special clothing for safety.  TRUE  FALSE 6. When Eco Logging returns to the forest after 2-3 years they remove as much timber as they want to.  TRUE  FALSE 7. At the mill, timber is sawn into thin planks.  TRUE  FALSE 8. Eco Logging believes it is looking after the forest.  TRUE  FALSE  LANGUAGE FOCUS 03 The passive – present simple The passive Eco Logging's brochure says: The logs are taken to the road and loaded onto timber trucks. After this, the timber is transported to timber yards. Finally, the timber is made into tables, floorboards and other products we use in our everyday lives. These sentences describe a process: the process of taking logs from the forest and making them into timber products. They use the passive in the simple present tense. 62 QUESTLANGUAGE