Learning activity 3

Evidence: Environmental issues

In this activity you are going to propose possible solutions for environmental
problems. Read about the following environmental issues from the introductory
material, select one of the problems and make a presentation in Microsoft
PowerPoint or another tool of your preference with your opinion about them.

Answer these questions when writing your opinion. Use zero and first
conditional:

1. What do you think about the problem?

2. What would be a possible solution for it?
3. Do you see this problem in your community? What do people do about
it?
4. What will you do in the future to help solve this problem?

Every year tons of garbage are thrown into the ocean.

This contaminates the water and affects ocean animals
and their habitat.

Fuente: SENA

Every day thousands of newspapers are

read and then disposed of in regular
garbage.

This increases the number of trees being

cut to produce paper. If we recycled this

Fuente: SENA paper, thousands of trees could be saved.

About 5 million tons of oil produced in the world go to the
ocean at the end, contaminating the water and
killing many species.

Fuente: SENA

The human population is alarmingly

growing, 100 years ago there were 2 billion
people in the world. Now there are about
7.5 billion inhabitants!

Fuente: SENA

97% of the world’s water is salty and therefore cannot be

drunk. Just 1% of the world’s water can be properly used.
The remaining 2% is frozen.

Fuente: SENA
 Every hour, thousands of plastic bottles
are used and disposed of as regular
garbage. Sadly, only a small portion of
plastic bottles is recycled around the globe.

Fuente: SENA

About 1 million sea animals die every year due to plastic

garbage thrown in to the ocean.

Fuente: SENA

100 acres of rainforest is cut every

minute. If the trend continues, soon we will
not have any rainforest left.

Fuente: SENA

Fuente: Wayland Baptist University (s.f.)

Write your answers to these questions in your presentation. Remember to

support your ideas and add some pictures to illustrate your opinion.

Example:

Problem selected: Overpopulation.

1. What do you think about the problem?

I think this is a really serious problem. If population continues to grow that

fast, there will not be enough resources for everyone. We need to stop this
 problem now.

2. What would be a possible solution for it?

The only solution is to make people aware of the situation. Governments

need to invest money in educational campaigns to prevent and support this
problem. Especially in poor communities where this problem is more
evident.

3. Do you see this problem in your community? What do people do about

it?

This problem is quite common in my country. Every day you see thousands
of young women having more and more kids. In some cases, the real
problem is that they do not have the economic means to have a stable
family. In the end, these kids end up following their parents’ example, and it
turns into a vicious circle.

4. What will you do in the future to help solve this problem?

I will participate in educational campaigns to prevent this problem and make

people aware of the situation. I will only have a child.

When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform
as follows:

1. Click the title of this evidence.

2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make sure
the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación
· Utiliza will para hablar de futuro teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y
el contexto requerido.

· Utiliza las cláusulas if y when teniendo en cuenta la estructura

gramatical, vocabulario y contexto requerido.
· Intercambia información relacionada con hechos de la naturaleza,
teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical, el vocabulario y el contexto
requerido.

· Usa vocabulario relacionado con hechos de la naturaleza, te niendo

en
 cuenta el contexto requerido.

· Expresa el resultado de acciones en presente, utilizando

oraciones condicionales.

References

Wayland Baptist University. (s.f.). Recycle facts. Texas, Estados Unidos de

América: Wayland Baptist University.
 Garbage.
1. What do you think about the problem?

In the entire world we do one of two things with our garbage: burn it or bury it. Neither one is
good for us or for the environment. Burning garbage releases dangerous gases and dust.
Burying garbage also causes both air and water pollution.

2. What would be a possible solution

for it?

This problem arises when we pass on its solution to

the government.

This change will have to come into the overall

society’s thinking.

With this, we will be able to take serious and proactive steps towards the disposal of
garbage. We need to remember that the garbage lying in the wrong place poses a grave
problem but the treated garbage in proper form is also a useful resource.

· To teach the people to recycling

· Surely there must be a way to disintegrate organic garbage
into a pile of ash which can then be used as fertilizer. Anything left
behind that is not able to be reduced to ash should compressed to it’s
smallest possible dimensions and either recycled or buried.
· Sanction companies and people who pollute
· Sanctioning companies for making disposable products
· Divulge on TV the problem of contamination by garbage

3. Do you see this problem in your community? What do people do

about it?

In all parts of my country I can see this problem by the mental poverty of
the people that think this is not a problem still; they don't make nothing.

4. What will you do in the future to help solve this problem?

I will teach to the other people about the problem; including today I say it
every time.