NeuroEnglish for You! · Environmental claims and conditional choices
Green Choices Lab
B2 English for Decisions That Need Evidence · 30–45 minutes
Compare proposals instead of collecting slogans. Follow a fictional school team as it asks what is measured, what is missing and which trade-offs matter.
Read, listen and notice
Pasa el ratón, toca una frase o usa Tab y Enter para ver la traducción. El audio utiliza las voces de tu dispositivo y se activa solo al pulsar Escuchar.
English · Voz del dispositivo
A school team wants to reduce the waste from its events.Un equipo del centro quiere reducir los residuos de sus eventos.
One proposal replaces disposable cups with reusable ones.Una propuesta sustituye los vasos de un solo uso por reutilizables.
Another proposal repairs the cups and containers the school already owns.Otra propuesta repara los vasos y recipientes que el centro ya tiene.
If the team counts only the purchase price, it will miss part of the life cycle.Si el equipo cuenta solo el precio de compra, pasará por alto parte del ciclo de vida.
They ask how often items are used, washed, transported and replaced.Preguntan con qué frecuencia se usan, lavan, transportan y sustituyen los artículos.
A green label is a claim to examine, not evidence of every possible benefit.Una etiqueta ecológica es una afirmación que examinar, no una prueba de todos los beneficios posibles.
Reading detective · Find the evidence
Answer in your own words. Identify the sentence that supports your answer before checking the model.
1. Which two proposals are compared?
Model answer
Replacing disposable cups with reusable ones, and repairing existing items.
2. Why is purchase price insufficient?
Model answer
Use, washing, transport and replacement also matter to the comparison.
Grammar workshop · Retrieve the pattern
1. If they count only price, they ___ miss other factors.
Model and reason
will — Primer condicional.
2. The containers can be ___ (repair).
Model and reason
repaired — Can be + participio.
3. They are interested ___ reducing waste.
Model and reason
in — Interested in + -ing.
Speak, write and transfer
Compara dos propuestas ambientales ficticias: beneficios, límites y datos que faltan. Usa condicionales y distingue una etiqueta de una prueba.
Usa al menos cinco palabras del banco del juego. Planifica sin escribir frases completas, habla durante un minuto y luego redacta tu versión. Comprueba si otra persona entiende la idea, los tiempos y los conectores.
Readings & resources
Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.
Comenzamos una serie de ejercicios dedicados a revisar los puntos principales del programa del curso.
Hoy toca: Natural world, going green.
Nota: Los textos están seleccionados tanto del programa CREA como de otras fuentes, a quienes doy las gracias y cito, pero todos tienen el nivel del curso.
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| https://pxhere.com/es/photo/982282 |
CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:
AZUL: Traducciones.
ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.
VERDE: Aspectos culturales.
NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas
MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.
Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.
Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.
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| https://parquesalegres.org/biblioteca/blog/reciclar/ |
Texto nº 1:
Barry's house
Barry está preocupado con el medioambiente y abajo puedes conocer sus planes para el futuro cercano y sus razones para ser ecologista. Fíjate en las frases subrayadas.
I'm going green from now on....
When it comes to the environment, being a good global citizen starts at your doorstep. From recycling to using alternative cleaning materials, minor changes at home can add up to real benefits for the planet, not to mention your own health and happiness.
It may be a cliché, but the best way to be Earth-friendly is to cut down on what you consume and recycle whenever you can. Comparisons need a defined place, date and method. Here are five language topics about reducing waste. Here are 5 easy ways I've planned to green my home in the next few weeks:
1. Greening up my appliances. I am getting rid of that old refrigerator in the garage. The actual saving would depend on the appliance and how it is used. Appliance use comprises about 18% of a typical home’s total energy bill, with the fridge being one of the biggest energy hogs. If any of our appliances is more than 10 years old, the EPA suggests replacing them with energy-efficient models that bear their "Energy Star" logo.
2. Saving water. I'm putting an aerator on all household faucets, to explore ways of reducing water use. Behavioral changes also add up quickly: using a broom instead of the garden hose to clean your driveway can save 80 gallons of water and turning the water off when you brush your teeth can avoid unnecessary water use.
3. Cleaning green: I am reading product instructions and comparing environmental claims.
4. Reducing plastics, reducing global warming: I'm reducing, re-using and recycling my plastics for one of the best ways to combat global warming. Each year, Americans throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, the processing and burning of which is considered one of the main contributors to global warming.
5. Saving a tree, using less paper. I'm buying "tree-free" 100% post-consumer recycled paper for everything from greeting cards to toilet paper. Paper with a high post-consumer waste content uses less virgin pulp and keeps more waste paper out of landfills.
It's held annually in Paris since 2001, but later also has been emulated in other cities in the world. It brings together vegetarians and vegans who want to show their pride to refuse to eat animals, and denounce the discrimination which they suffer, both personally and in terms of expressing their ideas.The Veggie Pride aims to encourage vegetarians to affirm their convictions and to bring the society to accept the debate on the legitimacy of the consumption of animals.
The first Italian Veggie Pride was held in Rome on 17 May 2008 and was attended by about 700 people. In 2009, the Veggie Pride was held on May 16 simultaneously in Birmingham, Lyon, Milan and Prague.
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| https://www.sancristobalsl.com/blog/reciclando-en-familia/ |
Tips: Top Ten Ways to Recycle
Office Depot has compiled a list of the top 10 ways to recycle at home and in the office.
- Buy recycled paper and print on both sides. When using paper in the office, print on both sides of the sheet and recycle the paper when you are finished. By recycling one ton of paper, you can save 17 trees, almost 7,000 gallons of water and more than three cubic yards of landfill space.
- Recycle your outdated technology. According to EPA, Americans throw out two million tons of e-waste each year. Avoid adding to that waste by recycling your old technology. For more information on electronic recycling, visit http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm.
- Make recycling bins readily available. Make sure your home and office are outfitted with recycling bins for paper, plastic and metal. Keep them out in the open and label them appropriately. Sometimes the convenience factor is all that is needed.
- Recycle your empty ink and toner cartridges. Almost eight cartridges are thrown out in the United States every second of every day. That's almost 700,000 cartridges per day.
- Buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. Each remanufactured cartridge keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills and saves about a half gallon of oil.
- Recycle old newspapers laying around the office. When finished reading the newspaper, either leave it for someone else to read or recycle it.
- Look for the recycled option in all the products you buy. It's not just paper that is recycled.
- Buy rechargeable batteries. It takes 1,000 regular batteries to equal the lifespan of one rechargeable battery. When you are discarding your batteries, recycle them.
- Purchase rewritable CDs and DVDs so that you can reuse them from project to project.
- Reuse your morning coffee cup. Or better yet, buy a mug to avoid the waste caused by throwing away the paper or Styrofoam.
Sources & further reading
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Green Choices Lab
Estudia las palabras en contexto y revisa el banco. Después ciérralo e intenta recuperarlas. El orden cambia en cada partida. Puedes usar pistas y volver a practicar las palabras señaladas.
Banco de estudio · 25 parejas
- habitat
- hábitat
- biodiversity
- biodiversidad
- ecosystem
- ecosistema
- landfill
- vertedero
- emissions
- emisiones
- footprint
- huella ambiental
- renewable
- renovable
- resource
- recurso
- conservation
- conservación
- restoration
- restauración
- reusable
- reutilizable
- disposable
- de un solo uso
- durable
- duradero
- repair
- reparar
- reuse
- reutilizar
- recycle
- reciclar
- reduce
- reducir
- consume
- consumir
- preserve
- preservar
- trade-off
- compensación entre ventajas e inconvenientes
- life cycle
- ciclo de vida
- raw material
- materia prima
- energy demand
- demanda de energía
- evidence
- pruebas o evidencia
- greenwashing
- apariencia ambiental engañosa
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