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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Remember: no school on Monday, February 15.
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- Homework: read p. 63 and do p. 62 parts 3, 4, 5, 6
- part 3 - c
- part 4
- 1 cruise
- 2 wildlife
- 3 trash
- 4 construction
- 5 low-cost air travel
- 6 climate change
- part 5
- 1 They dump a lot of waste into the ocean.
- 2 Expeditions to pick up the waste
- 3 Low-cost flights allow them to take several short vacations a year.
- 4 Travel by train or do ecotourism.
- part 6
- 1 impact (similar to “effect”)
- 2 trash/waste (waste includes sewage and other things we wouldn’t throw in a trash can)
- 3 population
- 4 habitats
- 5 greener (= better for the environment)
- 6 pollute
- litter (noun) = garbage that you put somewhere it shouldn’t be (especially outdoors)
- litter (verb) = putting garbage somewhere it shouldn’t be
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- p. 62 part 7 - Are these statements true (T), false (F), or is there not enough information (N)?
- 1 N
- 2 T
- 3 N
- 4 F
- 5 T
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- part 9 - decide how “green” each of these activities are (put them in order, for example)
- add to the list: eating beef
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- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars
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- Greenest
- recycling household waste
- saving water (depends on your location)
- traveling by bike
- using eco-friendly cleaning products
- turning off lights and appliances (depends on how the electricity is made)
- traveling by public transportation
- buying food from distant locations
- traveling by car (if more than one person is in the car)
- flying to vacation destinations
- traveling by car (if only one person is in the car)
- upgrading electronics frequently
- eating beef (produces more pollution than traveling by car)
- Least Green
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- http://www.freighterexpeditions.com.au/ - cheaper and greener than a typical cruise, greener than a flight
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- BREAK
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- p. 64 part 1 - Have you ever had a problem with any of these things while traveling? Who can help you with them?
- baggage allowance = how many bags (and how much weight) you are allowed to take with you
- food poisoning = getting sick from food you ate
- infectious disease = disease you can get from other people (includes colds and ebola and everything between)
- motion sickness = feeling nauseous because of the movement of your transportation (includes feeling seasick, airsick, or carsick)
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_turkeys#From_geographic_names
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- part 2 - listen and select the problem in each conversation
- She’s had a temperature all night. = She’s had a fever.
- part 3 - listen again, and decide who says each thing (the tourist(s) or the guide)
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- p. 66-67 - “A disappearing world” - What type of area is shown in the picture?
- - tropical rainforest (or jungle)
- What is happening to tropical rainforests?
- p. 67 part 2 - What are some animals you expect to see in this video?
- part 3 - watch the video and check your guesses from part 2
- elephant, gorilla, lizard, owl, humans, fly
- part 5 - watch again, and write what each word or number refers to
- 1 They start the expedition in September.
- 2 They’ll cover 1200 miles.
- 3 The forest is 5800 square miles.
- 4 A quarter of the world’s rainforests are in the Congo Basin.
- 5 The Basin contains half of Africa’s plant and animal species.
- 6 They have been traveling for 8 months.
- 7 They can see 70 or 80 km from the top of the hills.
- 8 They can see 360 degrees around them.
- 9 The river is 600 feet wide.
- 10 They took 15 months for the whole trip.
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- Homework: p. 163 practice 2, and write some more unusual or creative problems that a person could have while traveling
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