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#listening

Listen to four people (Aidan, Caleb, Cheng and Don) talking about climate change in Singapore.
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8×2=16
Who says what? Write the names after each sentence.
B

1. Climate change causes frequent and severe weather events.

2. Eco-residential houses, in Singapore, are constructed with centralised cooling.

3. Global warming is shaking up the world.

4. Singapore’s government is building eco-residential houses.

5. Global warming causes an increase in the temperature worldwide.

6. Climate change is a subject that the population in the world is facing.

7. Singapore has a tropical climate.

8. Governments are urging consumers to adopt green consumerism.

Listen to a text about green consumerism. Complete the sentences accordingly. 10×3=30
C

1. Green consumerism is defined .

2. It protects and preserves

.
3. Consumers demand .

4. Businesses are expected to .

5. Green consumerism results .

6. It encourages people .

7. As information .

8. Many companies in Singapore .

9. They attempt to meet

.
10.The use of plastic straws
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# reading and use of English

Read the following text.
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Environmental consumerism
Perceiving and understanding the human population in
its role as a consumer is very important because
consumers collectively spend two thirds of a country’s
Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They buy and influence
5 the purchase of an increasingly wide array of products.
Despite the fact that we are making consumer
decisions in an emerging global community, people are
still being taught how to be “good consumers”, when
actually the word “consume” means, “to destroy, use
or expend”. The
10 enormous productive capacities and market forces of
the planet have been committed to satisfying human needs and desires with little overall regard to the short-
term or long-term future of life on the planet, or life in other nations or in future generations. There are many
different types of consumers and they all need to be taken into account separately: teen, young adult, elderly,
low income, disabled, illiterate, and ethnic. Each type of consumers needs to be understood from the point of
15 view of a global perspective; a global perspective that challenges materialism and promotes ecological
responsibility, humanitarianism, well-being, consumer ethics and the Global Community concepts. These
concepts were developed to sustain Earth and they include world conditions, global problems and issues,
global citizenship, stewardship of the ecosystems of the Earth, a moral and a spiritual community, universal
values, and global interconnections.
20 Consumption in developing countries has risen much faster over decades than in the industrialised
countries due to their high rate of population growth, fast urban development, increased motorisation,
and industrialisation. In the OECD countries, a decline in world prices does not usually stimulate
consumption because taxes on oil products account for most of the price to end-users.
The Global Community is concerned with the sustainability of current levels and patterns of consumption
and
25 with the economic, political, personal, environmental, availability of resources, societal and spiritual impact of
excessive, run-away consumption. About 20% of Earth’s people account for 80% of the world’s total consumption.
www.globalcommunitywebnet.com/globalcommunity/environmentalconsumerism.htm

Say if these sentences are true (T) or false (F) and use quotes from the text to support 5×3=15
B
your answer.

1. People leave one third of a country’s GDP to spend.

2. People already know how to be good consumers.

3. The type of consumers depends on many factors.

4. In developing countries consumerism is decreasing.

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5. There is a balance between consumers worldwide and the world’s total consumption.

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Answer the following questions according to the text. 3×8=24

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1. What is the contradiction in the expression “good consume”?

2. What types of consumers are there?

3. Do you think there is a balance between consumption in the developed countries and the developing
countries? Justify your answer.

5×2=10
What do the words in bold in the text refer to?
D

1. its

2. They

3. These

4. they

5. their

4×2=8
Find synonyms of the words below in the first paragraph.
E

1. multitude

2. huge

3. global

4. kinds

Complete the following paragraph with words from the box. 8×1=8
F

fair business sweatshops consumers

goods  available  choice trade

Consumers’ rights disturb on the rights of other humans living in the

Global Community. The right to 1.  is the consumer
right that refers to the right to have a range and variety of
2.  and services at competitive, 3. 
prices and variable, satisfactory quality. In order to assure choice in
the developed country markets, governments have implemented
4.  laws to facilitate cross border transactions and
transnational corporations (TNCs) have set up 5. 
offshore so they can lessen the cost of the production process. The
goods that are 6.  in the developed countries’ markets
are provided by slave labour, child labour, 7.  or in countries that allow the TNCs to
forego adhering to pollution or ecological concerns and human rights in pursuit of profit. Labour
rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits. This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job
insecurity and low living standards (all human rights). 8.  in developed countries
have been socialised to want more and more things to consume but have not been socialised to
appreciate the impact of their consumption choices on the human rights of other people; that is,
they are not being responsible for their decisions.
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Fill in the gaps with the adequate verb tense: present simple, present continuous, 4×5=20
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present perfect simple, past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple.

1. I (see) a car crash while I (drive) to the mall.

2. Sarah usually (work) on Saturdays, but this Saturday she

(travel) abroad.

3. When I (arrive) at the supermarket, it (already

/ close).
4. James (not feel) well at the moment. He (be)
probably very anxious because he has spent a lot of money shopping.

Complete with the right linking word. There is more than one possibility. 4×2=8
H

1. I became a green consumer I was talking to Tim.

2. I bought the bargain, I went straight home.

3. I went to the shopping centre I got the job. I was so happy!

4. I was doing some shopping my mother called me.

Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs. 4×5=20
I

1. If Mary (get) the job, she will be very happy.

2. I would have phoned you if I (have) my mobile phone with me.

3. If he had known, he (become) a green consumer earlier.

4. He would have money problems if he (not / work).

# writing
Choose 1 or 2 and write about 100 words. 41
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1. Write an entry for the school blog about the environmental problems that worry you the most.
2. Prepare a podcast about the issue below and write it down as if you were going to record it.

Listening /46 Reading /57 Use of English /56 Writing /41

TOTAL /200

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