Practice using good verbs by Emma Ford https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english Year 11 English en-us 2019-03-13 03:53:41 UTC 2019-03-13 11:33:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708616 Professor Lee paints a picture in the audiences' mind by implementing a variety of imagery phases such as "brown sun bakes earth" and "mud turns to hard, cracked ground" to allow them to visualise the current environment and surroundings around them.]]> 2019-03-13 04:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708616 Through the utilisation of imagery in his description of "a lush jungle" turned "to scorched earth," Lee invokes a sense of fear and shock in the audience, engendering them to act on their fear of the described, lifeless world. https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708800 2019-03-13 04:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708800 missindigoyt https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708839 Lee targets the audience's empathy through using language such as 'it is too late for them!', engendering listeners to feel guilt and responsibility over their lack of previous action and how our world has suffered. ]]> 2019-03-13 04:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708839 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708879  
Utilising dramatic imagery of a ‘lush jungle’ in comparison to a ‘scorched Earth’ the speaker instils a daunting apprehension in the audience through the projection of undesirable yet inevitable consequences of current climate change attitudes. 

]]> 2019-03-13 04:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708879 professor Lee insists on the urgency for society to begin taking action through the utilization of facts and statistics, stating that humanity has lost 35% of mangroves, 40% of forests and 50% wetlands, simultaneously, species are being lost at a rate of 100 times the natural rate extinction, suggesting that if no immediate action is taken, it would become too late to resolve any problems regarding to biodiversity. https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708890 2019-03-13 04:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340708890 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709028  Lee suggests that if we do not do something to resolve problems involving biodiversity our earth is going to drastically change. He depicts a “lush jungle” and conversely a “scorched earth”.  This highlights the importance of people helping to solve the issue of biodiversity. ]]> 2019-03-13 04:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709028 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709071  
The author averred that the need for action was important through his emphasis on… 
]]> 2019-03-13 04:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709071 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709669 Utilising statistics on the Earth's dramatic reduction in biodiversity, Lee intends to add credibility to his arguments and motivate other delegates towards protecting the '50% of wetlands' and '60% of forests' that remain.]]> 2019-03-13 04:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340709669 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710065 Chris Lee states that over the last one hundred years, we have lost 35% of mangroves, 40% of forests and 50% of wetlands, and how 38% of species are threatened and 804 already extinct. By incorporating these statistics he is bolstering his argument. 

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The incorporation of repetitive rhetorical questions shifts the onus of responsibility on to the audience and stimulates them to consider their own role in the issue at hand and reflect on their own behaviours, thus generating guilt amongst the delegates by urging them to believe that they themselves are part of the pressing nature of the global warming issue. 

]]> 2019-03-13 04:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710071 Through the use of statistics, stating that “we have lost 35% of mangroves, 40% of forest and 50% of wetlands,” professor Lee provokes fear upon the audience by accentuating the urgency of the issue. https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710107 2019-03-13 04:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710107 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710312  
Through the utilisation of alarming, factual figures expressing "species are being lost... up to 100 times the natural rate of extinction", Professor Chris Lee deeply perturbs the audience of the current and potential increasingly-worse future of our planet, thereby instilling an impassioned desire to take action immediately. 

]]> 2019-03-13 04:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710312 https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710320 Lee propagated the necessity to take action through the triplet repetition of 'gone' to reiterate the dire consequences of continued lack of progress. ]]> 2019-03-13 04:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710320 missindigoyt https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710417 In an attempt to mollify any negative reaction the audience may have had to being blamed for the issue, Lee reassures listeners that they 'are the leaders … and [they] need to be part of the solution' and ensures that action can still be taken.  ]]> 2019-03-13 04:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emmajford/year11english/wish/340710417