LISTENING: 6 MINUTE ENGLISH CLIMATE CHANGE

Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) for each of these questions. There may be more than one
correct answer.
1. What is causing present global warming?
a) an increase of greenhouse gasses
b) terrible things our ancestors did in the remote past
c) wobbles in the Earth orbit
2. Speaking about global warming, what can we do about it?
a) we can reverse its effects.
b) we can mitigate greenhouse emissions or at least make them less harmful.
c) we can adapt to melting polar ice caps, rising of sea levels and extreme weather conditions.
3. How much has the average temperature of the Earth surface increased in the last 100 years?
a) 0.8 ºC
b) 1.8ºC
c) 8.5ºC
4. How much money have the rich countries promised to deliver to deliver to help poor countries
adapt to climate change?
a) 100 million dollars.
b) 100 billion dollars a year.
c) ten billion dollars.
5. The logistics of building a large floating city probably...
a) would be cost-efficient.
b) wouldn’t be good value for the money you paid.
c) would work.
6. How many people are estimated to be living in the Earth by 2050?
a) 9.5 billion people
b) 10 billion people
c) 60% of 9.5 billion people.

As you listen to the conversation between Alice and Neili, presenters of the BBC Six Minute English,
provide examples of:
1. A way to get usable energy from waste.
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2. Infrastructure to protect cities and people from devastating extreme weather effects.
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3. Expensive but necessary infrastructure to solve water scarcity problems.

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4. Cost-efficient strategies to adapt to climate change.

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Finally, define or provide synonyms for these words:
1. unseasonably: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. mitigate: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
3. pledge: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. logistic: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. cost-efficient: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
6. desalination: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. homegrown: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..