Intermediate level - The lifegiving glacier- Student's book

The word "glacier" means "a river of ice". A glacier is a slowly moving large mass of ice. When the weight from new snow becomes sufficiently heavy on the inland ice, the lowest section of ice is pressed out towards the coast. This ice river is called a glacier. The Sermeq Kujalleq glacier produces the world´s fastest stream of ice and moves at a speed of between 19 – 40 metres a day.

Here you see a so called food web, with the different kinds of fish and animals that live in the Icefjord. How many of these animals do you know?

You can write the names of the animals in the picture or you can record the names of the animals as sound files, where you tell about the animals you see in the picture.

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Now you are going to listen to a podcast called The life-giving glacier. You will hear about the world´s most productive and also fastest glacier, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. It produces about 46 km3 of ice a year and moves between 19 to 40 metres a day. You will also listen to Malik. He is a helicopter pilot and he flies tourists out over the Icefjord and the glacier.

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Welcome to the Icefjord Centre. The Icefjord Centre is a house holding many stories of ice and life with the ice. The Centre is located at Ilulissat in Greenland.

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This is what it looks like at the Icefjord Centre in wintertime. On the next page you will see where Ilulissat is located.

When the glacier is on its way out to the ocean, it is pushed over irregular underground. In this process cracks and crevasses develop on the upper section of the glacier. Then, when the glacier reaches the sea, the ice breaks off at the cracks.&nbsp;

If the glacier or the ice river still is intact when it reaches the sea, the ice does not break off at once. The waves erode it from the bottom. Eventually the higher sections of ice are no longer supported and they fall into the sea. This is the way icebergs are formed.

Large Iceberg Breaking near Ilulissat

Welcome to the Icefjord Centre Map Ilulissat I live here The Icefjord Listen and talk What is a glacier? Calving The rich wildlife My reference book On the track of Malik´s flying route

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Dear students, The Icefjord Centre has been asked to promote Visit Greenland´s helicopter trips to the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier.&nbsp; For this we need your help. We wish to make a flyer or a pamphlet that: describes the trip with the helicopter out to the glacier in words and pictures. Informs about the price. makes it possible to book a trip. We look forward to receiving a presentation from you. Best regards, The Icefjord Centre

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