Pre-reading questions:
- Do you think climate change is getting worse?
- Do you follow the “stay at home” rule in your place?
Vocabulary:
- amount /uh-MOUNT/
- equal /EE-kwuhl/
- satisfied /SAT-is-fahyd/
- reduce /ri-DOOS/
- worse /wurs/
[noun] a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot be counted
The bank contains a large amount of money.
[adjective] the same in amount, number, or size
All of us are equal under the law.
[adjective] pleased because you have got what you wanted, or because something has happened in the way that you wanted
Be satisfied with it or get nothing.
[verb] to become or to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.
We’ll need to reduce the weight of this luggage by half.
[adjective] more unpleasant, difficult, or severe than before or than something else that is also bad
The weather is getting worse.
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that the humans make during the COVID-19 pandemic has been decreasing by 17 percent since April, equal to the daily average for 2019. Most of the reduction of CO2 came from manufacturing, power generation, transportation, and shipping. Aviation is the most affected industry with the cut of its carbon footprint by 60 percent. But scientists and environmentalists are not satisfied with it. Closing many businesses to ease the effects of coronavirus is not enough to end climate change. Emissions for 2020 are going to drop regularly, causing to reduce pollution by four percent. But the carbon monoxide produced can stay in the atmosphere even for a hundred years. If governments do not take action on climate change, this event could bring to a climate crisis that is worse than what was imagined before COVID-19
True or False:
- The amount of carbon dioxide that humans make during the COVID-19 pandemic has been decreasing by 17 percent since January.
- Shutting down of businesses to ease the area of coronavirus is enough to end climate change.
- Most of the reduction of CO2 came from manufacturing, power generation, transportation, and shipping.
- Emissions for 2020 are going to drop regularly, causing to reduce pollution by 44 percent.
- There will be a climate crisis if governments do not take action on climate change.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| amount | equal | satisfied | reduce | worse |
- My headache is getting _______.
- The teacher is ________ with the students’ performance.
- The total _______ of this book is 50 dollars.
- Can you please _______ the volume of the music?
- A dollar is _______ to a hundred cents.