Solutions to Global Warming

True or False?

1. Climate change has an immediate effect on us
2. A small fee on CO2 content would be paid for by consumers
3. Every citizen would get the same share of money from the fees
4. This money must be spent on improving home energy efficiency
5. Other countries will have to adopt the same policy
6. Clean technologies will increase unemployment in jobs related to fossil fuels

Answers: 1F, 2F, 3T, 4F, 5T, 6F

Let's pollute

Watch the following video (Best Short Film, Oscars Animated Nominee) and complete the blanks:

1. Pollution is our heritage
2. Nowadays polluting is better and more convenient than ever
3. Even before the Industrial Revolution we were polluters at heart
4. After hundreds of years man needed an allay
5. Machines were a wonder of waste
6. Some of our past habits were counterproductive
7. Our ancestors would envy our toxines and contaminants
8. Remember to always buy the latest trendy gadgets
9. Corporations produce tons of cheap crap for you to buy
10. Ask your congressman to eliminate all environmental restrictions
11. Prepackaged and processed food has minimal nutritional value
12. The best food for you is the one that has been sprayed with herbicides

Select the sentences to see the answers.
Leave a comment: Are we really like this?

Environmental issues

Watch and match




1. Raw material hunger
2. Atmospheric pollution
3. Waste formation
4. Forest destruction
5. Desertification
6. Water pollution


A. Effects of intensive farming
B. Greenhouse effect and forest destruction
C. Limiting the use to compensate for shortages
D. Space at the cost of nature
E. Technologies that reduce energy waste
F. The end of landfills
G. The price of progress
H. Sorting to counter overconsumption of raw materials

Answers: 1G 2E 3H 4D 5A 6C - Extra: B, F

Paris climate summit

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Green homes

Sustainable squatting

Watch the video and answer the questions below:
1.What was the place like when she first arrived there?
2.Why did she settle for it?
3.Where did they find the building materials?
4.How did she transport them?
5.Where did they get food? And clothes?
6.Why did she decide to live this way?
7.How does she say she pays for her rent?
8.Why did she leave the kitchen wall open?
9.What’s her favourite piece of recycling?
10.How did she avoid confrontation in the house?
11.What are the gardens used for?
12.Where did the plants come from? And the marble for the paths?

Answers written in white. Select below to see them:
1.The place had no doors, windows the cables ripped out 2.She saw potential in it. She chose the house because of the light from the east and west 3.The building material was found in the neighbourhood 4.She used a trolley to bring things 5.She got her food from the Covent Garden market. The clothes came from jumble sales or charity shops 6.She could make a home for herself 7.She paid the rent with her work 8.She left the wall open in the kitchen because she likes the light and she wanted to see the lath, the muscles of the house 9.Her favourite piece of recycling is an 1937 oven 10.To avoid confrontation in the house she built kitchens 11.The gardens were an outlet for their creativity 12.They bring the plants from other peoples gardens. They brought marble from a factory nearby

Causes and effects of Climate Change

Adapt to climate change?

What is art?

Is this art? Watch and find out the definition of art according to the presenters



What is art for?



Have a look at different definitions of art

The Tate Modern is 10!

Watch the first part of a BBC documentary about the Tate Modern and choose the correct answer:

1.The Tate Modern… the connection between size and art
a.exploits
b.invented
c.downplays

2.In the gallery there is a metal container where you can experience
a.light from the sun
b.fear
c.mind expansion

3.The higher floors in the Tate Modern Gallery contain
a.installations
b.a permanent exhibition
c.a theme park

4.You might find Henri Matisse
a.less avant-garde than Gerhard Richter
b.less comprehensible than No-Ghost-Just-a-Shell artists
c.less accessible than contemporary artists

5.Nowadays the Tate Modern is considered… ordinary people
a.a baffling experience for
b.an integral part of the life of
c.an overrated activity for

6.Years ago modern art was
a.praised in the media
b.accessible for non-intellectuals
c.a high-class experience

7.…was/were the first to popularize modern art
a.The Tate Modern
b.Saatchi Gallery
c.Independent artists

8.Tate Modern is a symbol of
a.elitism
b.a new society
c.mainstream art

Answers written in white. Select this line to see them: 1a, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5b, 6c, 7b, 8b