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QUIZLET

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Myles Kennedy - "Get Along" (Official Music Video)

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EARTH HOUR 2015

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in tune with

You are pretty in tune with the environment.

When you are 'in tune with' something, it means that you understand it, keep updated with it or have a connection with it.

Notice the following:

1. I feel that I am tune with my dog, because I always seems to know what he wants.

2. She wanted to be more in tune with her body, so she has started to practice yoga.

environmentally conscious

Oregon is pretty environmentally conscious, so I recycle.

When you are 'environmentally conscious,' it means that you care about nature and the environment and want to protect it.

Notice the following:

1. I think people are a lot more environmentally conscious than they used to be.

2. How environmentally conscious is the company that you work for?

hybrid car

A hybrid car is a car that gets better gas mileage.

A 'hybrid car' is a car that runs on both electricity and fuel.

Notice the following:

1. I think hybrid cars are still quite expensive for what they are.

2. He has just bought a hybrid car, and he uses it all the time.

plug in the battery and charge up

They have to plug in the battery and it will charge up.

When you 'plug in the battery and charge it up' it means that you connect the battery to a power source in order to give it energy.

Notice the following:

1. My phone is not working, as I forgot to plug in the battery and charge it up.

2. Don't forget to the plug in the car battery and charge up the car.

solar powered

This watch is solar powered and gets energy from the sun.

When something is 'solar powered,' it means that it gets the energy that it uses to work from the sun's rays.

Notice the following:

1. All the lights in my garden are solar powered.

2. A lot of the houses in my area are solar powered, as we have so many hours of daylight each year.

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in tune with You are pretty in tune with the environment. When you are 'in tune with' something, it means that you understand it, keep updated with it or have a connection with it. Notice the following: I feel that I am tune with my dog, because I always seems to know what he wants.

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DO-IT-MONDAY Turning a vandal into a hero* by turning trash into art. A thin boundary between what is called graffiti and what is labelled as street art, what is legal and what is produced illegal, between the significance of an artist and a die-hard activist.

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EARTH SONG

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Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Official Video)

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Daytime Florida Aquarium Washed Ashore Art Project

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30 Shocking Animal Ad Campaigns That Will Make You Rethink Your Lifestyle

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These ads speak about global issues that aren’t easy to solve and suggest that we change our old negative habits for good. They are powerful and intimidating, and will hopefully inspire people to make Earth a better place for all of its inhabitants.

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As the interconnected threats of plastic pollution and climate change continue to grow, those who rely on the health of the ocean for their livelihoods are finding it increasingly difficult to earn a living.

Our entire business model is designed to fund the growth and expansion of our global cleanup operation and provide steady, living-wage employment to people whose lives and livelihoods are disproportionately impacted by plastic pollution.

The jobs we create help counteract the economic impacts of plastic pollution, incentivize environmental stewardship at the local level, and bring new opportunities for growth, equality, education, and prosperity to our crew members, their families, and their communities.

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As the interconnected threats of plastic pollution and climate change continue to grow, those who rely on the health of the ocean for their livelihoods are finding it increasingly difficult to earn a living.

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The Children Will Rise Up! - Nandi & Roman with Tom Morello, Jack Black and Greta Thunberg

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Try the online quiz, reading, listening, and activities on grammar, spelling and vocabulary for this lesson on Global Warming. Click on the links above or see the activities below this article:

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Global warming is the biggest problem in the world today. Everyone know about it but not everyone is trying to stop it. Many world leaders are more interested in blaming other countries for the crisis. Countries like China, India and Russia say they will not act unless America takes more action. America says it will not act until other countries take more action. It seems a little childish that leaders are acting in this way. The future of our world is at risk and governments can only argue with each other. Many presidents and prime ministers tell us that technology is the answer. They say future scientists will find solutions to save the planet. This is a big gamble. I hope they are right. I don't believe them, so I'll continue switching off lights and recycling.

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Try the online quiz, reading, listening, and activities on grammar, spelling and vocabulary for this lesson on Global Warming. Click on the links above or see the activities below this article: Your browser does not support this audio player. Global warming is the biggest problem in the world today.

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Can art inspire action to stop plastic pollution? Explore these twelve works that put the spotlight on single-use plastic.
12. "Bristol Whales" by Sue Lipscombe

Created by Cod Steaks helmer Sue Lipscombe in Bristol, England, the larger-than-life whales are depicted as emerging and diving into a sea of plastic waste and were sculpted using locally grown willow. In contrast, over 100,000 single-use plastic bottles were collected from the Bristol 10k and Bath Half Marathon to create the Sea of Bottles around the Whales.
11. "Natural Plasticity" by Jana Cruder and Matthew LaPenta

Jana Cruder and Matthew LaPenta created "Natural Plasticity" as a large-scale commentary on the impact of disposable plastics in the natural environment. The public art installation replicates single-use plastic cups and bottles on a massive scale, and places them in in urban and park settings to stimulate conversation and thought around our interaction with these everyday things.

10. "Blox and Bax" by Kenny Scharf

In "Kenny Scharf: BLOX and BAX "Scharf uses plastic and electrical appliances from the garbage along with plastic beads and decorations, layering colors and objects to create fantastical, intimate dioramas that reference Scharf's lifelong concern about the detrimental environmental effects of discarded plastic.

"While I intend my work to raise awareness of the over abundance of garbage and the indestructible non-degradable material that is plastic-petroleum, I also include messages of hope and optimism and joy; so essential with the mounting pressure of global destruction due to our dependence upon petroleum products," he explains.
9. "Bridge" and "Ocean of Plastic" by Dianna Cohen

Dianna Cohen, a visual artist and co-founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, uses plastic bags to create vivid collages. "Cut like paper, sewn like fabric, these constructions have been presented as flat art (framed or mounted) with crumpled and shiny surfaces that are dulled by dirt and time: un-useful pieces of their former selves," explains Cohen.

As part of the U.S. Art in Embassies Program, she recently traveled to Warsaw, Poland, where an art school organized a Trash Orchestra musical performance timed with projections of Cohen's work. "The performance started with sounds of the sea and drops of water. Then images of plastic bags and bottles were projected on the walls and windows. The performance evolved through the life cycle of single-use plastic and even included the sounds of a garbage truck." Watch a video of the performance here.
8. "One Beach Plastic" by Richard and Judith Lang
Since 1999, Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have visited 1,000 yards of Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore, California, to gather plastic pollution washing out of the Pacific Ocean.

"By carefully collecting and 'curating' the bits of plastic, we fashion it into works of art," they explain. "The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. As we have deepened our practice we've found, like archeologists, that each bit of what we find opens into a pinpoint look at the whole of human culture. Each bit has a story to tell."

7. New Roots Mural by Lila Roo Duncombe and communities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

New Roots is a project-based arts program working with the children of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to create art from recycled materials. "It's hard to explain what paintings mean to this community and especially to the kids," says New Roots founder and artist Lila Roo Duncombe. "There are so few books, photographs, paintings, screens, or images of any kind compared, and it's a very BIG experience for the village when a new intricate and beautiful image in the likeness of their life is created. It is not seen as 'art' or something even to just be looked at. It is touched and kissed and danced around, it is named and renamed, and guarded from harm."

Check out Lila Roo Duncombe's art here.

6. "Sea Globes" by Dr. Max Liboiron
Max Liboiron is a scholar, activist, artist, and an assistant professor in geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. "These sea globes are a representation of the waterfront environment in New York City today," explains Liboiron. "The plastics came from the Hudson River in south Brooklyn, and the rocks are made of bituminous coal from in a landfill that closed in the 1930s at Deadhorse Bay, which now resides underwater at high tide, also in south Brooklyn."

5. "Plastic Pollution Coalition" print by Raymond Pettibon

Los Angeles artist Raymond Pettibon's eclectic inspiration ranges from surfing to 19th century literature. His early work in the punk rock scene secured him a cult following, and he has since developed an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American artists working with drawing, text, and artist's books. Pettibon's "Plastic Pollution Coalition" is a print from original painting. To purchase a print please contact us.
4. "Bounty, Pilfered" by Pam Longobardi

Pam Longobardi is an artist, activist, and Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University as well as Oceanic Society's Artist-In-Nature. She founded Drifters Project in 2006 after encountering piles of plastic the ocean was regurgitating on remote Hawaiian beaches. With the Drifters Project, she collects, documents, and transforms oceanic plastic into installations and photography. The work provides a visual statement about the engine of global consumption and the vast amounts of plastic objects and their impact on the world's most remote places and its creatures. Watch the National Geographic's video of Longobardi creating art from plastic pollution found on the Alaskan coast.
3. "Washed Ashore" by various artists

The Washed Ashore project collected trash that has been removed from beaches through volunteer community cleanups. This trash is then washed, sorted, and prepared for the creation process. Each sculpture is designed and directed by a professional artist and then formed through a collaboration of Washed Ashore team members, volunteers, and students.
2. "Plastic Planet" by Calder Kamin

Calder Kamin, a visual artist from Austin, Texas, creates intricate animal sculptures from plastic bags that are stripped and twisted by hand. "Humans transformed nature to make our lives more convenient, only to leave a massive mess for the next generation," says Kamin of the plastic pollution problem. "What are the steps to solve this crisis?"
1. "Vida Toxica" by Alvaro Soler Arpa

"Vida Tóxica" (Toxic Life) is fourteen sculptures created by Catalan artist Alvaro Soler Arpa with animal bones and plastic waste. The sculptures emphasize the human impact of runaway plastic pollution on ecosystems and individual animals.
Take the pledge to refuse single-use plastic. Join our global Coalition.

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12 Inspiring Works of Art on Plastic Pollution

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Can art inspire action to stop plastic pollution? Explore these twelve works of art on plastic pollution that put the spotlight on single-use plastic.

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AUDIO MATCHING

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Listen and find the corresponding picture.

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RAIN FOREST ALLIANCE

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When you see our little frog seal on a product, you're probably aware that it signifies something positive. But have you ever wanted to know more about what's behind the seal-and exactly how choosing a product bearing the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal helps people and nature thrive in harmony?

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Adopt a Koala - Australian Koala Foundation

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Koalas are disappearing. Loss of koala habitat and koala food trees (eucalyptus leaves) is the leading koala threat. Our cuddly koalas are loved around the world. Often called a koala bear, they are actually marsupials not koala bears. Please help koalas by supporting the Australian Koala Foundation.

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TREE HUGGERS

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We believe that it is up to each and every one of us to make a difference. We believe that by working together we can reforest our globe, clean our air, better our earth, account for our nature.

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WORLD OCEANS DAY

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Polar Bears International is the only organization dedicated solely to wild polar bears. They know all about polar bears--their habits, their ecology, their threats - and they have a lot of helpful information on climate change. Their definition runs as follows:
A warming world acts like a performance-enhancing drug on the global climate system, making extreme events more likely and more damaging.

Find out about Climate Change from Polar Bears International
©Dan Bolton

Wildfires are getting angrier and more ferocious - you just have to look at Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Greece, Siberia - the list goes on and on. High winds and flooding are extreme, destroying the lives and livelihoods of all living beings.

Wildfires aren't new, nor is flooding. If you look at the Amazon, there always are wildfires. But last year, there 85% more wildfires than usual. Those fighting the fires in Australia (who have been doing it for a very long time) say they have never known fires like it - they are on another scale altogether.

Our climate has always changed, of course it has - and it's changing faster now than ever before. And human activities are disturbing and destroying nature. The creation of the HS2 railway in the UK will destroy ancient woodland. It cannot be replaced - it has take centuries to grow. This is all devastating our natural world. So what can each of us do to help

Climate Change - what can I do?

There are plenty of possible actions we can all take.

The problem is that they aren't always practical or possible for each of us to carry out. Some people can easily reduce the car journeys they do and walk or take public transport or cycle instead. But for others, it's impossible, perhaps because of where they live and where they need to get to or because of their own personal situation.

And the choice of things you can do can be utterly overwhelming - you ask yourself, where do I start?

So here's a quick plan to help you decide

what you could do and what action you will take,

something that will work for you and your life,

and not because it's "on a list".

1. What impact do you have on the planet at the moment?

Work out what you are doing that takes impacts on the planet and you'll be better placed to work out how you can lessen that impact.

So start investigating your own lifestyle and your own daily habits. What are you doing NOW that impacts on the planet? Look at a footprint calculator and find out what your footprint is. Calculators may cover things such as your lifestyle, your home and garden, your travel around every year etc.

2. What actions COULD you take to reduce that impact?
Many carbon calculators will give you suggestions of how you can lessen your impact. At this point you could:

Pick things from their list and identify what you're going to do from it

Think about other ways you can change the situation which will work for you

Research other ways to reduce your impact and then come up with your own list of possibilities e.g. walk, take the bus or offer a car share service with other people from my village to the station.

Ideas such as car sharing may not work every day - but if it works once or twice a week, that's got to be better than nothing.

Live Green
52 Steps for a more Sustainable Life
from the National Trust for Scotland

3. What actions WILL you take?

Identify which actions are you going to commit to. What are you most likely to stick to? What other benefits could there be to you personally to committing to a change? Who else will benefit?

Get started and take action straight away

And if you fall of doing it (i.e. forget to do it), don't berate yourself. It takes 21 days to change a habit, and there are bound to be lapses. Forgive yourself and just try again.

Last year, I gave up chocolate. It wasn't difficult - I actually started becuase I HAD to get into this dress for a special occasion and giving up chocolate made all the difference. But one of the things which really drove me on was the impact our demand for chocolate has on the planet - our demand for palm oil which is found in most chocolate. I got into the dress I needed to - but most importantly the change of habit gave me a new mindset. Now when I see a bar, I see orangutans up a tree which is about to be cut down. All for a bar of chocolate. And I don't eat much meat anymore - I can see rainforest being bulldozed to make way for the cattle ranching industry which leaves animals in rainforests without a home.

Getting others on board...
You don't have to bang the climate change drum and annoy people who don't believe in it and/or don't care. Be the change you want to see in the world, as Gandhi said.

Do something for a cause you believe in, and it can give you a purpose in life that gives you an extra spring in your step during the day, or when you get up in the morning. And that will produce a change in you and your self-belief that you are empowering yourself to take action. It's that change in you may well inspire others to take action.

Give yourself the power of action. Drive change.

Give your garden wildlife attracting flowers and plants
You don't need a big garden to make a difference.

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Get Along. Myles Kennedy - English ESL video lesson

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ESL video lesson with an interactive quiz: Asking about the visuals
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Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society

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Here are our top tips for describing a photo or a picture in an exam.

Do:

Look at your picture carefully and take a few moments to think before you start talking.

Talk for all the time you are given. If you have one minute to do the task, use every second.

Practise the useful language below so you can explain which part of the picture you are talking about.

Don't:

Panic if you don't know the words for all the things in the picture. You don't need to know all the words for everything in the picture if you know what to say when you don't know an exact word.

Get distracted and start talking about something else. Focus on the photo or picture.

Panic if your mind goes blank. Take a deep breath, look at the picture and start again.

If you are asked to describe a photo or a picture in the exam, here is some language you can use:

What is in the picture?
In the picture I can see ...
There'The man is ...ing
The people are ...ing
It's raining. s / There are ...
There isn't a ... / There aren't any ... At the top/bottom of the picture ...
In the middle of the picture ...
On the left/right of the picture ...
next to
in front of
behind
near
on top of
under
Say what is happening with the present continuous
It looks like a ...
It might be a ...
He could be ...ing
Maybe it's a ...
Where in the picture?

If something isn't clear

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Global warming and document analysis . Learners observe and practice specific words .

the video denounces human activity and its consequences on the planet and on animals.

Video length: 6 minutes 45 seconds

Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License

First published: 2021-11-07, 20:05:27 (GMT+1)

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) Where does the scene take place ?

2) What can you see in the foreground ?

Answer the question using your own words

3) The video represents :

4) Reorder

Put the words in order: to ! done world we have done ? the Look what we've What

5) What does this part refer to ?

6) What can you see in the background ?

Answer the question using your own words

7) How do people look ?

8) Where is the lightning ?

9)

Match the items:

hurricanes

in danger

strong winds

holding to trees

people are

are blowing

the earth is

are striking

10) The woman is :

on the middle

in the middle

in the foreground

on the foreground

11) Which is correct ?

12) What is happening ?

Answer the question using your own words

13) What is Jackson's goal ?

Answer the question using your own words

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
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Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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gaellemanzo November 17, 2021

Task description & scene summary

I use this video in a lesson about climate change, human activity, and raising awareness.

the video is about human activity and its consequences on the Earth and wildlife.

Video length: 3 minutes 54 seconds

Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License

First published: 2021-11-17, 09:28:58 (GMT+1)

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) What does the video represent ?

Factories

pollution

deforestation

2) Reorder

Put the words in order: The grave So ! grave leak are of so oil consequences !

3) complete the sentence

Fill the gap: Have you ________________________ the news today ?

4) Matching

Match the items:

ELEPHANTS ARE

ANIMALS WILL DIE

THERE ARE

ENDANGERED SPECIES

IF WE DON'T TAKE ACTION

NO FISH LEFT IN THE SEA

HUMAN ACTIVITY

IS THREATENING WILDLIFE

5) What is his strategy ?

he uses shocking images

he plays a scary music

he is making a spoof

6) What can you see in the background?

Answer the question using your own words

7) What is the message ?

Answer the question using your own words

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Greta Thunberg isn't alone. Meet some other young activists who are leading the environmentalist fight

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Greta Thunberg has rapidly become a household name since she began her climate strikes in 2018. And she's not alone.

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Introduction to this wonderful natural feature