Part VIII. Project

Exercise 23: Can you find evidence of climate change?

You will ask your older relatives what the weather was like when they were young. The further back you can go, the more chance of seeing climate change in action is.

• Think of some questions you could ask to find out what the weather was like in the past.

• Interview 2 or 3 of your relatives to see what the weather was like when they were young.

• Answer the questions yourself to see what the weather is like now.

• Put the answers to your questions into order according to how old the person was. The oldest relative's answers first and your answers last.

Questions to ask:

1. What were the winters like when you were young?

2. Were they hot or cold?

3. Did it snow a lot?

4. Were they wet or dry?

5. What were the summers like when you were young?

6. Were they hot or cold?

7. Was there lots of sun?

8. Did it rain much?

Make a short report based on the answers, you can provide it with video and illustrations.

Part X. Follow-up

Exercise 24: Combine each group of sentences below into a compound sentence, separating the independent clauses from one another with a semicolon.

Example: A presidential candidate should be intelligent.

A presidential candidate should be honest.

Voters should scrutinize candidates carefully.

Compound sentence answer: A presidential candidate should be intelligent and honest; voters should scrutinize candidates carefully.

1. The President’s recommendation called for a tax increase.

Very few senators will vote for it.

2. The handwriting was almost illegible.

The spelling was very poor throughout the paper.

3. Most house plants prefer lots of sun.

They prefer plenty of water.

Other house plants like shade.

4. Pollution is ruining our water.

Soon we may have to ration the supply.

Soon we may have to invent new filtering methods.

5. September has its own unique character.

It is both a beginning and an end.

Exercise 25: Find the compound sentences:

1. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

2. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold.

3. Your goodness must have some edge to it-else it is none.

4. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.

5. A man cannot speak but he judges himself.

6. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life.

7. I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May; that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning.

8. We denote the primary wisdom as intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

9. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.

10. In this manner, from a happy yet often pensive child, he grew up to be a mild, quiet, unobtrusive boy, and sun-browned with labor in the fields, but with more intelligence than is seen in many lads from the schools.

Exercise 26: Can you talk about Environmental issues in English?