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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 06
Section 5 - Your turn
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Section 5 is based on 'Your Turn'. It helps you to listen and understand people giving their opinions.
Suggestion: Look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In Your Turn you heard 5 people answer this question: ‘How green are you?’
What about you? What do you do to help the environment? Do you do a lot? Or do you think that you should do more? Or maybe you think that being green is a waste of time.
Here are some things that people talked about:
• public transport
• plastic bags
• recycling
• flying
• pollution
• factories
• growing vegetables
• buying local food
… and there are lots of other things that you can do too!
Write a list of all the things that you do (or don’t do) to help the environment - and why. Then make your list into a paragraph. Go to the bottom of the page to write your text.
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Transcript
Tess: Now it’s time for Your Turn. Your Turn is when we go out in the street to find out what people think. This time the question was ….. "How green are you?"
Ravi: Nice one. “How green are you?” – what do you do to help save the planet? Like use public transport.
Tess: OK. Let’s hear what people said.
Voice 1: What do I do to help save the planet? Not enough. I hate to say it, but it’s true, I mean, I always try to remember not to use plastic bags or recycle or whatever but I always forget. I really have to try to do more.
Voice 2: Well, we recycle pretty much everything we can, you know, bottles, cans, newspapers and all that but to be honest we don’t do much else.
Voice 3: I do as much as I can. You have to, you know? We all have to. I don’t take short-haul flights anymore – I used to fly down to London quite a lot – and of course I recycle and everything else I can.
Voice 4: I know I’m not going to make myself popular saying this but I don’t really do very much. Look – there are factories all over the world putting out loads and loads of pollution every single day and I don’t see how saving your old newspapers is going to help apart from making people feel good about themselves.
Voice 5: I’ll tell you the greenest thing I do – I grow almost all my own vegetables. I’ve really started thinking about where my food comes from and the food miles and that – you know, like I won’t buy food that’s been flown here from Australia or something.
Tess: They make me feel a bit guilty. Some people do so much. I feel like the first woman who said she didn’t do enough. I don’t think I do enough. I do recycle things though.
Ravi: Me too. It’s difficult though, isn’t it?
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