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

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Trip Description (12) Hometowns(6) Directions (7)

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