Escuela de ciencias del lenguaje

Departamento de inglés
Inglés general y con fines académicos III
Melisa Rojas

Climate change workshop

1. Watch the video and fill in the gaps of the text below

Leonardo DiCaprio's Moving Speech on Climate Change

a. As a UN Messenger of Peace, I have traveled all over the world for the last
two years documenting how this crisis is changing the natural balance of our
planet
b. I have seen cities like Beijing choked by industrial pollution.
c. Ancient Boreal forests in Canada that have been clear cut and rainforests in
Indonesia that have been incinerated.
d. In India, I met farmers whose crops have literally been washed away by
historic flooding.
e. In America, I have witnessed unprecedented droughts in California and sea
level rise flooding the streets of Miami.
f. All that I have seen and learned on my journey has absolutely terrified me.
g. It has seen a runaway freight train bringing with it an impending disaster for all
living things.

2. As an Univalle student, what are the actions students haven’t done to take
care of the campus as a green place of the city?

Example: Univalle students haven’t taken care of the lake this semester.

a. Univalle students haven’t put the garbage in the basket this semester.
b. Univalle students haven’t recycled their waste this semester
c. Univalle students haven’t taken care of the campus plants in the past
semesters
d. Univalle students and officials haven’t brought their own dishes this semester.
e. Univalle students haven’t used the trails to avoid stepping on the plants in the
past semester .
f. Univalle visitors haven’t been careful when feeding the animals in the lake this
semester.
g. Univalle students and officials haven’t separated their waste as they should in
the past semesters.
h. Univalle students and officials haven’t reused the plastic pellets this semester
i. Univalle architecture students haven’t left their work spaces clean this
semester
j. Univalle students and visitors have consumed excessively disposable
products during the holidays in the past semesters