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Environmentalism and Global Issues

Environmentalism and Global Issues. Spoken English II, Class 1 & 3 Dr. Janet Sio Fujian Normal University. Movie Trailer By: Ed Burtynsky, Industrial photographer. Video: Interpretation Exercise. In an interview, the photographer says,

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Environmentalism and Global Issues

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  1. Environmentalism and Global Issues Spoken English II, Class 1 & 3 Dr. Janet Sio Fujian Normal University

  2. Movie TrailerBy: Ed Burtynsky, Industrial photographer

  3. Video: Interpretation Exercise In an interview, the photographer says, “There is no simple right or wrong. It needs a whole new way of thinking.” “ An environmentalist will look at it one way, an industrialist will look at it another way….There’s these readings that people can enter into it (the photo) and that there are multiple readings. It’s not necessarily just to be read one way.” What are your opinions, ideas or thoughts about these photos?

  4. Where did you first learn about environmentalism? Woody, the owl. “Give a hoot, don’t pollute” FNU Language Enhancement 2012-2013

  5. Brainstorm: Types of Pollution • air pollution • water pollution • litter/solid waste pollution • noise pollution

  6. 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)

  7. Complaining Constructively Complaints can be helpful if you can provide reasons why something doesn’t work or is unliked problem  root cause  solution “Too much/many” “Not enough” Much (non count words) Many (count words) Eg. I don’t like this classroom. There’s too much organized activity and not enough time to practice

  8. “Too many/much and not enough”

  9. “Too many/much and not enough”

  10. What is sustainability? (可持续) “the capacity and ability to support, maintain or endure”

  11. Natural? Natural Capital? Capital?

  12. Autumn Maple Trees, Toronto Summer Banyan Trees, Fuzhou

  13. 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.

  14. Resources: Perpetual and Renewable Changjiang Ao Windfarm, Pingtan Perpetual: renewed continuously on a human scale

  15. Resources: Perpetual and Renewable Christmas tree farm Renewable: can be replenished fairly quickly on a human scale

  16. Resources: Non-renewable Open pit mine, Australia Non-renewable: exist in essentially fixed quantities on the earth;

  17. Natural Capital Resources Solar Power: perpetual Coal: non renewable Perpetual Renewable Non-Renewable Using the following photographs, state which kind of resource each of these are:

  18. Natural Capital Resources Oil: non-renewable Wind Power: perpetual Forests: renewable Perpetual Renewable Non-Renewable

  19. Natural Capital Resources Natural gas: non-renewable Geothermal: perpetual Hydro power: renewable Perpetual Renewable Non-Renewable

  20. Sustainable living Sustainable living does not use non-renewable resources. Sustainable living uses renewable resources only atthe rate at which they can be replaced.

  21. Tiger Leaping Gorge: “Waking the Green Tiger”

  22. China Environmental Protection Foundation http://www.cepf.org.cn 曲 格平 (Qu GePing, Former Environment Protection Minister of China)

  23. Green Earth Volunteers: http://eng.greensos.cn

  24. Green Watershed: http://www.greenwatershed.org/

  25. THE DIRECTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS & ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN CHINA http://earthdirectory.net/china

  26. What’s that Nationality?

  27. Gapminder.orgStockholm Sweden a modern “museum” on the internetpromoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

  28. Homework: Lab • Look up www.gapminder.org • See “Gapminder World” and answer the following questions: • What colour are the Asian countries? • What countries have the longest life expectancy? • What countries are the richest? • What continent is the poorest? • What does the size of each circle represent? 3. Press “Play” 4. Review the names of countries and nationalities

  29. Homework: The Language of Peace • What does it mean? • Where is it found? • How do we learn it? • What is the opposite of peace?

  30. Final Exam Date: Monday June 10, 2013 (the 2nd last class of the semester, depending on 端午节) Format: Four people enter each time in 15 minute slots Part 1: Pronunciation: Green Eggs and Ham Part 2: Sentence Pattern Question and Answer (3) Past/Present/Future tense conditionals, adverbs of probability asking and expressing opinion complaining constructively Part 3: Creative Visualization, 1 slide. Use language of comparisons

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