Showing posts with label Globalisation and Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Globalisation and Environment. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
B2.1 VIDEO: CLIMATE CHANGE EXPLAINED
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR. HOW MANY PLANETS DO WE NEED IF EVERYBODY LIVES LIKE YOU? WANNA KNOW? CLICK HERE TO CALCULATE YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT?
LISTENING-CLIMATE CHANGE
KEY VOCABULARY
to warm up, an increase in + noun, greenhouse gases, to be released, to absorb, to shrink, reef, to confront climate change, to create new sustainable growth, to cause, to retain, to be released, absorved, to increase ( verb).
LISTENING-CLIMATE CHANGE
KEY VOCABULARY
to warm up, an increase in + noun, greenhouse gases, to be released, to absorb, to shrink, reef, to confront climate change, to create new sustainable growth, to cause, to retain, to be released, absorved, to increase ( verb).
Monday, November 30, 2015
News: World Climate Summit in Paris 2015
On November 27th 1995 the King of Pop Michael Jackson released the single and video " EARTH SONG". "Earth Song" music video featuring Michael Jackson walking through a burnt down forest singing. Includes footage depicting pollution and suffering of people around the world.
20 years later the situation is still an urgent global challenge.This issue is getting worse and worse.
30 November 2015: UN climate summit opened in Paris this morning.
I think it's about time to do something for Planet Earth.
Please watch this video and read the articles below on climate change today.
What is climate change?
Why do two degrees matter?
NASA: Climate Change evidence
NASA: Climate Change: How do we know?
Michael Jackson's poem : Planet Earth "Earth Song"
READ PLANET EARTH POEM HERE
20 years later the situation is still an urgent global challenge.This issue is getting worse and worse.
30 November 2015: UN climate summit opened in Paris this morning.
I think it's about time to do something for Planet Earth.
Please watch this video and read the articles below on climate change today.
What is climate change?
Why do two degrees matter?
NASA: Climate Change evidence
NASA: Climate Change: How do we know?
Michael Jackson's poem : Planet Earth "Earth Song"
READ PLANET EARTH POEM HERE
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
B2 Reading practice- BBC article: The Chinese are obsessed with building giant dams
Read the article and focus on vocabulary. Below there's a list of some of the key words you may find in the article. Can you find more? Use a monolingual dictionary to look up the new words. Feel free to post your words and definition in the comments section.
ARTICLE: China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken. BBC Future investigates the troubled history of China and its mighty rivers.
Topics: Engineering, Globalisation, Ecology.
KEY WORDS: dam, gorge, gritty river, electric buggy, vantage points, chunk, displayed, spillway,shiplock, concrete, silt,bellwether, intertwined ,high-handed dismissiveness, bulldozed, etc.
ARTICLE: China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken. BBC Future investigates the troubled history of China and its mighty rivers.
Topics: Engineering, Globalisation, Ecology.
KEY WORDS: dam, gorge, gritty river, electric buggy, vantage points, chunk, displayed, spillway,shiplock, concrete, silt,bellwether, intertwined ,high-handed dismissiveness, bulldozed, etc.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
B2 ( Keys): the global economy
Exercise 2
1, 3, and 6 are facts. The rest are opinions
3. Topics 1, 4,7, and 8 are mentioned
4. 1. True
2. False: the majority of us are deeply worried
3. False: More spending doesn't mean that like is getting better. We all know it often means the opposite
4. True
5. False: We don't need the things that the economy produces as much as the economy needs our sense of need for these things
6. False: We buy clothes that are manufactured in sweat shops by virtual slaves in por parts of the world
7. True
8. True
5.
1. men in suits: businessmen and anyone working in the world of high finance.
2. drained and stressed: exhausted and under a lot of pressure.
3. ironic...devices in our lives: it's a joke that we have no free time when there are so many machines in the house, such as dishwashers, which are supposed to save us time
4. hassling for...gadgets: the children are always demanding the most modern electronic products, which they have perhaps seen advertised
5. goes into stalemate: the system stops workiing
6. Need is the miracle...: need is the 'magic solution' to the problema of keeping the economy in a state of constant growth
7. hunger that cannot be satiated:metaphorically, this feeling of needing to buy godos is a feeling that cannot be satisfied. We go on buying even though we don't need to buy anything
8. this ecstasy of consumption: this wonderful feeling of spending and spending. The writer is being ironic.
9. break the cycle: put an end to this self-perpetuating system, which keeps the rich countries rich and the poor countries poor
10. oblivious to the impact...: unaware of the influence our behaviour has on the world.
What do you think?
Sample answers
1. Jonathan Rowe mentions: an American company manufactures both high fat food and diet products. You can buy luxury foods from poor countries that can't feed their own people
Other examples: luxury products such as computers are often exported to be assembled in poorer countries, then reimported back to rich countries.
Call centres are often located in poor countries, where salaries are low, so when someone rings their 'local' electricity company, they are actually ringing someone on the other side of the world.
Developing countries are often prevented from manufacturing their own raw materials by strict import tariffs in developed countries.
1, 3, and 6 are facts. The rest are opinions
3. Topics 1, 4,7, and 8 are mentioned
4. 1. True
2. False: the majority of us are deeply worried
3. False: More spending doesn't mean that like is getting better. We all know it often means the opposite
4. True
5. False: We don't need the things that the economy produces as much as the economy needs our sense of need for these things
6. False: We buy clothes that are manufactured in sweat shops by virtual slaves in por parts of the world
7. True
8. True
5.
1. men in suits: businessmen and anyone working in the world of high finance.
2. drained and stressed: exhausted and under a lot of pressure.
3. ironic...devices in our lives: it's a joke that we have no free time when there are so many machines in the house, such as dishwashers, which are supposed to save us time
4. hassling for...gadgets: the children are always demanding the most modern electronic products, which they have perhaps seen advertised
5. goes into stalemate: the system stops workiing
6. Need is the miracle...: need is the 'magic solution' to the problema of keeping the economy in a state of constant growth
7. hunger that cannot be satiated:metaphorically, this feeling of needing to buy godos is a feeling that cannot be satisfied. We go on buying even though we don't need to buy anything
8. this ecstasy of consumption: this wonderful feeling of spending and spending. The writer is being ironic.
9. break the cycle: put an end to this self-perpetuating system, which keeps the rich countries rich and the poor countries poor
10. oblivious to the impact...: unaware of the influence our behaviour has on the world.
What do you think?
Sample answers
1. Jonathan Rowe mentions: an American company manufactures both high fat food and diet products. You can buy luxury foods from poor countries that can't feed their own people
Other examples: luxury products such as computers are often exported to be assembled in poorer countries, then reimported back to rich countries.
Call centres are often located in poor countries, where salaries are low, so when someone rings their 'local' electricity company, they are actually ringing someone on the other side of the world.
Developing countries are often prevented from manufacturing their own raw materials by strict import tariffs in developed countries.
B2 ( Globalisation and Environment): FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR
PART 2. GLOBALISATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
CARBON FOOTPRINTS
Source: from Face2Face upper-intermediate.
Instructions: Answer the following questions (submitting them in the comments section of this post below) and do the questionnaire at the bottom to work out your carbon footprint.
QUESTIONNAIRE: HOW BIG IS YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT? ( it only takes about 5 minutes)
CARBON FOOTPRINTS
Source: from Face2Face upper-intermediate.
Instructions: Answer the following questions (submitting them in the comments section of this post below) and do the questionnaire at the bottom to work out your carbon footprint.
- Does globalisation have an impact on the environment?
- What do you understand by the term ' carbon footprint'?
- Write down a list with the things that increase 'our carbon footprint'.
- Make a list of different ways people could reduce their carbon footprints.
QUESTIONNAIRE: HOW BIG IS YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT? ( it only takes about 5 minutes)
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
B2 ( Practice ): Globalisation and environment
PART 1- GLOBALISATION
1. What can you see in the pictures? All of them relate to the idea of globalisation.
Useful language to compare, contrast and speculate about the pictures. 2. What does the term 'globalisation' mean to you?
Don't forget to submit your answers in the comments section of this post below.
N.B.: WTO (WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION)
Here are some phrases associated to globalisation( from Cutting Edge Advanced)
international investors, locally-produced godos, multi-ethnic societies, a traditional way of life, worldwide communication networks, small local businesses, cultural diversity, a high standard of living, a clash of cultures, Americanisation, mass tourism.
3. Using the phrases above, make a list of 5 advantages of globalisation, and five disadvantages.
Don't forget to submit your answers in the comments section of this post below.
A post worth visiting on Syrian children refugees. (Visit this post and do the exercises that follow).
Watch this video : GLOBALISATION PROS AND CONS
PART2- LISTENING PRACTICE:
EXERCISE 1. BBC LEARNING ENGLISH Inside plus
This activity is divided into different parts, all of them related to globalisation: brands, human rights, etc. Visit the page and click on the different podcasts.
EXERCISE 2- Listening activity: Globalisation
Listen to the podcast and answer the questions: T/F
- audio podcast
- activity + tapescript+ keys
Reading: Now do this Reading exercise and the comprehension questions.
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