Exercise 1:
Please click on the following link and answer the questions (try to write a paragraph)
Exercise 2:
Read the editorial published by 56 newspapers about the Copenhagen conference
copenhagen-climate-change-conference-editorial
and answer the following questions:
1. How many countries do they take part in the conference?
2. What would it happen if the temperature of the earth rose 3-4 degrees Celsius?
3. Who is responsible for most of the accumulated carbon in the atmosphere?
4. Which countries are the world’s biggest polluters?
5. Should we change our lifestyle? How?
6. Can you summarise briefly the aim of this editorial? (no more than 75 words)
Exercise 3:
Click on the following link:
project-2nd-year-of-batxillerat-web
1.How many countries do they take part in the conference?
45 countries
2.What would it happen if the temperature of the earth rose 3-4 degrees Celsius?
Would parch continents, turning farmland into desert. Half of all species could become extinct, untold millions of people would be displaced, whole nations drowned by the sea.
3.Who is responsible for most of the accumulated carbon in the atmosphere?
The rich world is responsible for most of the accumulated carbon in the atmosphere.
4.Which countries are the world’s biggest polluters?
The United States and China
5.Should we change our lifestyle? How?
Yes, of course, we should, because if not our world will take another ice age. Half of all species could become extinct, untold millions of people would be displaced, whole nations drowned by the sea.
6.Can you summarise briefly the aim of this editorial? (no more than 75 words)
These editorial will try to decrease the level of the polution of our world. Making the countries consiencly of the problem and closing some of the most pollutions industries of the world, for example in China and UU.EE. Wich are the two most contaminating countries.