Vocabulary
- causation
- compelling
- dire
- droughts
- impending
- massive
- pertinent
- poll
- presupposes
- skeptics
- semantics
- suppress
- unjustly
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercises 1 and 2.
Pre-Listening
Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question. Type in your group's main ideas to use afterwards for class discussion.
- How do you think scientists measure world climate? How do they find out about climate in the past?
- Even if humans are responsible for adding to climate change, do you believe that we can do something to help prevent it? What strategies would be most realistic? Consider the world economy and what some poorer nations are unable to do.
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 3.
Listening
Exercise
Listen to the first paragraph of a larger Listening, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, discuss how this relates to this unit's Reading and predict what you believe the rest of the Listening will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed. Try to find the General Statement and Thesis Statement in the Introduction and write your summary of them in Exercise 4. Try to rephrase vocabulary as much as possible.
Note: The phrase Global Warming is used interchangeably with the more accurate phrase Climate Change.
Now listen to the complete Listening passage and take notes on it. When it is finished, talk to your group about the main ideas that are discussed in the Listening. In Exercise 5 re-write the Thesis Statement you made above by adding some more information from the Listening.
Note: The phrase Global Warming is used interchangeably with the more accurate phrase Climate Change.
Listening
Exercise
Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 6.
