IELTS Preparation Series 1, Episode 5: Global Warming
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Hello. I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.
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Today we're going to look at a topic you've probably heard a lot about - global warming
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and the environment.
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First we're going to look at ways of brainstorming, taking notes and developing ideas.
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Watch while we play some vision that contains ideas about the causes and effects of global
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warming.
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While you watch, try to note down some of your ideas about what global warming is.
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OK so you saw some ideas, and perhaps took some notes, during that clip. What were some
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of the ideas you saw?
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What has caused global warming?
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We saw gases in the air, cars, factory waste, and people cutting trees down.
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So if you made those notes, you'd get an idea that these were the things causing global
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warming.
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Now let's listen to someone talk about the causes.
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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the atmosphere.
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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the atmosphere. What else?
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So what is global warming? It's the result of billions of decisions. It's caused by decisions
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made by individuals - like driving big cars rather than small cars. And it's caused by
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decisions made by corporations and nations, like dumping waste into the atmosphere.
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Global warming is caused by about people using big cars, and people dumping waste into the
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atmosphere.
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OK, so you've looked at the vision, and listened to the speaker, and you've made notes about
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some of the causes of global warming.
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Now let's look for some of the effects.
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So after watching that, you might be thinking that global warming is having an effect on
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weather patterns, and on nature.
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Listen to the speaker.
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Nature is already responding to global warming. There have been changes in global weather
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patterns.
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Trees are flowering earlier. Birds are laying eggs earlier. Butterflies are moving up hills.
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So there's been weather changes, and changes to the ways trees, birds and butterflies behave.
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So we have a list of causes, and list of effects. You might have identified those things from
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a text you've read, or from listening to someone speak. This is how you can take notes.
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Once you've got your notes, you need to be able to link those causes and effects in sentences.
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Let's look at a couple of different ways.
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The first and most basic way is just making a sequence of statements. This can sometimes
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be a powerful way of making a connection between things. Listen.
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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the atmosphere. Trees are flowering earlier. Birds
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are laying eggs earlier, and butterflies are moving up hills.
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From the sequence of information, we realise that birds are laying their eggs earlier because
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gases are making the earth warmer. So a simple list of statements can show a
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cause and effect relationship.
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But there are other ways too.
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You can use the language of cause and effect. We can say:
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X causes Y.
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Driving cars causes air pollution.
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There are many other word choices as well.
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Driving cars leads to air pollution.