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.

Problem selected: Deforestation

1. What do you think about the problem?

I think this is a problem that affects us all around the world, If there are not enough
trees there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere and If there is too much CO2 in the
atmosphere, people will get diseases, especially respiratory diseases.
2. What would be a possible solution for it?

If the wood is replaced by another product that is friendly, it will do good to the
environment.
If less newspapers and papers are used, there will be more trees.

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

I do

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

There will be more trees if I buy organic products.

The environment is happy if I avoid consuming products that cause the
indiscriminate felling of trees, such as palm oil.
If I reuse the sheets of paper and use recycled paper there will be fewer trees
cut down.

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, teniendo 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.