Listening practice

These are the two listening activities on your photocopy:
Global Warming
Hurricane season

Click on "comments" to check your answers.

Environmental problems

Listen to six short news reports about environmental problems.

Click here to listen to a discussion about environmental issues.

Climate change/ The environment

Click here to see some vocabulary.

Natural disasters

Hurricane Season

Click here to listen to the listening activity in the photocopy I gave you in class.
Click here to see the key and the script.

Global Warming Report

Watch a video with a listening activity.

Aeroplanes and global warming

Click here to listen to an article about global warming. 

Global Warming- National Geographic

Watch a video about Global Warming and answer some questions.

Taking Action on Global Warming

Click here to look at a lesson about Global Warming. You'll learn some vocabulary and watch a video explaining it.

The Environment

This is the recording for the multiple choice listening. The key is in 'comments'.

Visiting endangered places around the world

Listen to this radio programme about a book called 'Disappearing Destinations' and learn about some several endangered natural and cultural treasures.

Articles

1. First do the vocabulary activity. Listen to the article  about Environmental Protest Groups and take notes. Then do the comprehension activity and finally listen and read the script. 

2. Do the same with this article about Ecotourism.

Deforestation in Kenya

Listen to David talking about deforestation and the problem it causes.

Eco Tips

Steven, a student from Costa Rica, talks with Rachel about how he tries to help the environment.

Save the Earth

Listen to this interview with a girl who gives us tips to help to save the Earth.

Saving energy

Watch the video and answer the questions (check them reading the script).

1. What’s the aim of the video?

2. Get ______________  ______________  ______________.

3. Give an example of green accessories available for your gadgets:

4. Which computers use less energy?

5. What are energy drains for gadgets?

6. What happens if you use the viewfinder instead of the electronic display?

7. You can save energy by:

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8. What are described as ‘energy vampires’?

9. Why is convenient to use a power strip?

10. How can you get your computer running with maximum efficiency?

A lecture

Listen to this lecture about Sustainable Economic Development and the Protection of Biodiversity. Listen without reading the text and take notes. Then you can check with the script and try to complete the gaps.

Climate Summit in Copenhagen

"The People's Orb", a 20cm (7.9 inches) silver sphere containing 350 gigabyte multimedia collected around the world to inspire action on climate change in Copenhagen.

Apart from suggestions from individuals, The People’s Orb also contains key climate change reports from the world’s most eminent scientists; representation from the world’s great thinkers on the need for action on climate change and representation from the leaders of the world’s cities calling for action on climate change.

Listen to this short news report about the summit.

A Canadian girl, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for five minutes. Her speech was given at a U.N. assembly at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in 1992, when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation, five thousand miles from her home, herself.
How much is still relevant today? All of it. And the more important question is: How much has been changed, accomplished, since Severn spoke that day?
Years later, Severn wrote a piece for Time magazine in which she said: “I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the delegates even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur action. Now, a decade from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken…In the 10 years since Rio, I have learned that addressing our leaders is not enough. As Gandhi said many years ago, ‘We must become the change we want to see.’ I know change is possible.”

Watch the video and answer the questions or finish the sentences. (Answers in "comments")

1. Why has she gone there?
2. What is she fighting for?
3. She is speaking on behalf of ___________________________ and animals that don’t have where to go.
4. She’s afraid to go out in the sun because of the ___________________________ and she ‘s afraid to ___________________________ because she doesn’t know what chemicals are in it.
5. She used to go fishing in Vancouver until they found __________________________________________.
6. Now we hear of ___________________________ going extinct, vanishing forever.
7. What does she ask them?
8. If you don’t know how to fix things…
9. She says we are all in this together and that we only buy and throw away and we are afraid ___________________________.
10. She says that she lives a privileged life in Canada and that a child living in the streets in Brazil told her: I wish I was rich. And if I were, I would give all the street children______________, ______________, ______________, shelter, ______________and affection.’ She doesn’t understand why we are so greedy.
11. What makes a tremendous difference?
12. Although she’s just a child, she knows that if all the money spent ___________________________ was spent on finding environmental answers, ___________________________, and finding treaties – what a ___________________________ this earth would be.”
13. At school you teach us ____________________________________________, so why …?
14. She challenges them: