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Welcome! This site is for students to practice their English and keep up to date with environmental issues.

TEN MINUTES OF ENGLISH A DAY!
You can find a mixture of reading, crosswords, videos and short English lessons: these will normally be vocabulary, but I may also treat you to some grammar!

There are now over 260 lessons on this blog. Look through the Blog archive, Post labels and Popular Posts to find what you want.

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''Let nature be your teacher''
William Wordsworth, poet, 1770-1850

''Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift''
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955

''... to find the word, or words, by which [an] idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed''
P.M. Roget, lexicographer, 1779-1869

Tuesday 13 August 2019

Greta Thunberg's zero carbon journey

Level: intermediate B1

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Greta Thunberg is sailing to the climate conference in New York.

Watch this video (two and a half minutes) about it and then answer the following questions:

1) What is the slogan on the ship's sail?
2) How long is the journey?
3) What is the name of the boat?
4) What is a 'bunk'?
5) What medical condition does Greta have?

And a bonus question:
When was the boat launched? (You will have to do some extra research for this one!)


Answers below!





ANSWERS!

1) Unite behind the science
2) Two weeks

3) Malizia II
4) A narrow, shelf-like bed (Oxford dictionary
5) Asperger's syndrome

And the bonus question:
2015

Thursday 8 August 2019

Krkonoše – mountains without borders

Level: intermediate B1

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Watch the video (six minutes) and then answer the following questions:

1) What three habitats ('phenomena') are mentioned in the National Park?
2) How many endemic species are there (only occurring in Krkonoše)?
3) How does the Park try to hold water in the landscape?
4) How many people visit the National Park every year?
5) Which two animal species are a 'hope for the future'?

And a bonus question:
What plant is the symbol of Krkonoše Mountains National Park? (You will have to do some extra research for this one!)


Answers below!






ANSWERS!
1) Arctic-Alpine tundra, forests, meadows
2) 30
3) With splash dams
4) 6 million
5) Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), European otter (Lutra lutra)
Bonus question: willow gentian (Gentiana asclepiadea)