ENGLISH II FOR FORESTRY –WORKSHOP

READING PLAN

Las principales preposiciones en inglés son:

about alrededor de, sobre above por encima de

after detrás de, después de among entre (tres o más)
at en, junto a before antes de, delante de
behind detrás de below debajo de
beneath debajo de beside junto a
between entre (dos o más) but excepto, pero
by por, junto a down hacia abajo
para, por, durante, desde
except excepto for
hace
from de, desde in en, dentro de
into en, adentro like como, igual a
near cerca de of de
off de (alejándose), fuera de on en, sobre
over por encima de, al otro lado since desde
through a través de throughout por todo
till = until hasta to a, hasta, hacia
under por debajo de up hacia arriba
upon (poniendo) sobre, encima with con
without sin    

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RESOLVER ESTE CRUCIGRAMA CON LOS VERBOS MÁS USADOS DEL

INGLÉS

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soluciones/
 DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/deforestation/

PROTOCOLO DE LECTURA

1o. Identificación de cognates

2o. Lectura global del texto
3o. Elaboración glosario
4º. Identificación ideas principales
5. Elaboración ficha de lectura:
Título del artículo . tomado de – síntesis -comentario

Forests store large amounts of carbon. Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere as they grow. This is converted into carbon and stored in the plant’s
branches, leaves, trunks, roots and in the soil.

When forests are cleared or burnt, stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, mainly as
carbon dioxide. Averaged over 2015 – 2017, global loss of tropical forests contributed
about 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (or about 8-10% of annual human
emissions of carbon dioxide) (WRI 2018).
Whilst forests are important carbon sinks, meaning they draw down carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere, the carbon stored in these sinks is part of an active, relatively quick carbon
cycle. As living things (including trees) die and decay, the carbon that they once stored is
released back into the atmosphere.

By contrast, carbon stored underground in the form of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas,
is much more stable, and is part of a much slower carbon cycle. Without the influence of
humans burning these fossil fuels for energy, this carbon would be unlikely to reach the
atmosphere. When fossil fuels are burned, carbon from dead and decayed plants, animals
and phytoplankton that lived hundreds of millions of years ago (before dinosaurs existed),
is released into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.

Burning fossil fuels, in combination with destruction of carbon sinks due to deforestation
and other activities, has contributed to more and more carbon dioxide building up in the
atmosphere – more than can be absorbed from existing carbon sinks such as forests. The
build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is driving global warming, as it traps heat in
the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are now at their highest levels in human
history.

It is not effective to “offset” greenhouse gas pollution from burning fossil fuels by storing
carbon in forests. This is because fossil fuels are pumping much more carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere than existing forests can absorb. At the same time, carbon stores in forests
and other natural carbon sinks will become increasingly unstable as climate change
progresses. Droughts, tropical storms, heatwaves and fire weather are increasing in severity
and frequency because of climate change. This will continue to result in increases in forest
losses, contributing to more and more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
Risks are significantly reduced but not avoided by keeping the rise in global temperature
well below 2°C.

Protecting natural ecosystems and sustainably managing and re-establishing forests are
important ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow down temperature rise in the
short term by drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At the same time, we
must deeply and rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions levels from fossil fuels –
coal, oil and gas. If we do only the former and not the latter, we risk transforming more and
more of our carbon sinks into carbon sources as climate change progresses.