Nature and the Environment
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Transcript of Nature and the Environment
Dr. Janet Sio 邵婉瑜IELTS Preparatory Course:
Listening and Spoken EnglishFujian Normal University
Nature and the Environment
Tongue Twister Review
Betty Botter bought a bit of bitter butter
Which made her batter bitter
But a bit of better butter
Makes better batter
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Making her bitter batter better.
FNU Language Enhancement 2012-2013
RL pronunciation and practice
• gill girl• will whirl• hill hurl
• twill twirl• wool world• cull curl
1. Those are some funny girls.2. We sure live in an interesting world.3. That company finds some of the biggest pearls.4. The wind was so loud it sounded like a whirlwind.
RL reviewPart 1: Which do you hear?a. twirl b. twilla. wool b. worlda.girl b. gilla. hurl b. hill
Part 2: Do you hear L or RL?
Types of Pollution• air pollution
• water pollution
• litter/solid waste pollution
• noise pollution
Types of Pollution• air pollution (car exhaust, coal dust, sand, smoking, carbon
emissions)
• water pollution (industrial waste, sewage, acid rain)• litter/solid waste pollution (plastic bags, styrofoam boxes,
disposable chopsticks, landfill)
• noise pollution (traffic, construction)
• greenhouse effect/global warming (温室效应 , 全球变暖 )
Video: R-E-C-Y-C-L-E
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Compost
What is sustainability? (可持续 )
“the capacity and ability to support, maintain or endure”
What is a sustainable society?
A sustainable society is one which:• can provide for and manage its
population and economy now, while maintaining an environment that will be healthy for future generations.
A sustainable society must…
• provide all of its people with enough good food and shelter, clean water and air.
Shanghai skyline
A sustainable society must…• meet the needs of its people without
destroying the earth’s Natural Capital.
Wu Yi Mountains
Capital?
Natural? Natural
Capital?
Autumn Maple Trees,Toronto
Summer Banyan Trees,Fuzhou
Natural Capital Resources
• Resources are anything obtained from the environment to meet plant, animal and human needs.
• Primary resources are: air, water, soil, energy and minerals.
Resources: Perpetual and Renewable
• Perpetual: renewed continuously on a human scale
Changjiang Ao Windfarm,Pingtan
Resources: Perpetual and Renewable
• Renewable: can be replenished fairly quickly on a human scale
Christmas tree farm
Resources: Non-renewable
• Non-renewable: exist in essentially fixed quantities on the earth;
Open pit mine, Australia
Natural Capital Resources• Perpetual• Renewable• Non-Renewable
Using the following photographs, state which kind of resource each of these are:
Solar Power: perpetual Coal: non renewable
Natural Capital Resources• Perpetual• Renewable• Non-Renewable
Wind Power: perpetual
Forests: renewable
Oil: non-renewable
Natural Capital Resources• Perpetual• Renewable• Non-Renewable
Hydro power: renewable
Geothermal: perpetual
Natural gas: non-renewable
Sustainable living
• Humans are the only species on earth to deplete and waste natural capital (no such thing as “waste” in nature!)
• Sustainable living does not use non-renewable resources.
• Sustainable living uses renewable resources only at the rate at which they can be replaced.
Use “sustainable” or “sustainability” in a sentence
FNU Language Enhancement 2012-2013
“Too many/much and not enough”Pollution type
Cause Solutions
Air Too much/many ____ and not enough ____
should verb more/less
Water
Solid Waste
Noise
Acid rain
Greenhouse effect
Tiger Leaping Gorge: “Waking the Green Tiger”
Chinese Environmental Organizations
Global Village Beijing: http://www.gvbchina.org.cn/
• Green Earth Volunteers: http://eng.greensos.cn
Green Watershed: http://www.greenwatershed.org/
China Environmental Protection Foundation http://www.cepf.org.cn
曲 格平 (Qu GePing, Former Environment Protection Minister of China)
THE DIRECTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS & ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN CHINA
http://earthdirectory.net/china
Project #2 Score sheet
Trip Description (12) Hometowns(6) Directions (7)
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