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Your favorite part, right?
My favorite part. The environment.
Rory's favorite part.
Rory has a degree in the environment, he knows everything about the environment, right.
I studied a couple of modules on it at university but that's more education than most people have. So you're gonna listen to band 9 answers.
Education, science, off we go.
Is it important to teach students environmental protection at school?
Well, they should probably have their awareness raised about it.
After all, we live on one ostensibly irreplaceable planet.
So it makes sense that people understand how to best take care of it.
Do you think technology can improve environmental -related problems?
Um, well it might not be the ultimate solution, but it could contribute to it.
Technology needs resources to function and all of them have to come from the Earth in some way, shape or form so their extraction could still damage it further or at least more than it is already.
That being said we might use it to develop ways that manage the extraction better and that's definitely worthwhile.
So for example we could create more efficient extraction machines to mine materials that just dig up materials which are there and do not damage the surrounding trees or wildlife.
That would be quite useful to have. What have people done to damage the environment?
It would be easier to talk about what they haven't done frankly.
There's a continent that has been untouched by pollution of some description at this point.
Um, and let's not have some animal species hunted to extinction either.
Do you think people are damaging the environment now more than in the past?
Well, it's difficult to say for certain, but the logical answer seems to be yes, because if there are more people, then it would seem like there are more agents to do the damage with if you see what I mean.
So it makes sense from this perspective.
However, our technology is also more developed and refined compared to in the past. So because it it operates with greater accuracy and efficiency, it's possible that the damage we are doing could be less so now than it was in the past. So it all comes down to how we're measuring it really and I don't know enough about topic to say for sure one way or the other.
Why is recycling important?
Lots of reasons, one of the main ones is that it reduces the consumption of limited resources like when we reuse the components from old phones to make new ones, that reduces the demand for precious metals and preserves them for future use.
It also preserves the environment that those minerals are located in, so they don't have to be extracted.
How can recycling help the environment?
Well, if we stick with our example of the demand for precious metals and minerals, that stuff has to come from somewhere.
And the mining of things like gold and other materials can devastate places like jungles and rainforests that have formed over the sites where they are located, as the miners have to clear them to start the excavation process.
So, there doesn't seem a way around this, to be honest, even if you move the trees you could still damage them, and that area that the trees have been removed from no longer has the benefit of the trees being there.
How have people's attitudes towards recycling changed over the years?
Ah, well, I'm not sure how you'd measure it, but it seems like people are more willing to do so and for a greater variety of things than in the past. It used to be just about recycling paper but now we do the same for plastic, metals and other materials.
Even the paper itself, it used to be only certain kinds of paper but now you see things like cardboard being freely recycled and it's not such a big deal anymore.
So it looks like people are more willing to do it Because, again, the number of options has increased, there are more bins for recycling of different kinds, but that's just looking at the surface details.
You'd need to look at statistical evidence of attitudes to see how people are managing the feelings in their heads.
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Oh we do wish we need an IELTS hero Rory IELTS, what will be your super name?
IELTS man. Ben 9 Rory IELTS man.
Like superman's got a big S, I can have a big 9 on my chest. So environmental protection.
So it's the environment, environmental protection.
like environmental activists, and we raise awareness about the environment as school.
We may not teach it but we raise awareness.
Teachers tell students about environments, students listen to lectures so the awareness is raised.
Not rise, raise the awareness.
So people are aware of certain problems they know of certain problems and then ideally they start dealing with the problems. Our planet is irreplaceable.
You cannot replace it.
You cannot change it into something else.
replaceable. Like our Rory is irreplaceable.
irreplaceable Rory.
irreplaceable. It's ostensibly irreplaceable.
What? Ostensibly. That means that it appears to be the case, but it might not be.
No, we don't understand this word. Ostensibly.
Ostensibly. Our planet is Ostensibly irreplaceable.
Ostensibly! How do you even spell it?
O -S -T -E -N -S -I -B -L -Y.
Ostensibly. Ostensibly.
Wow, that's band 9!
Maria has just decided.
It's band 9. I don't know is it Van By?
No, actually Cambridge Online Edition doesn't say.
It's just formal. That's a shame, let's just say it is.
So yes, it definitely appears like our planet is irreplaceable but of course we have the technology.
Possibly! We could replace it.
We should teach children how to best take care of our planet.
We have environment -related problems. so you can call them environmental problems or environment related problems. The ultimate solution so the most effective solution the final no no the the solution that solves everything the last solution technology needs resources to function so pretty much technology needs the environment to function so So that's why it cannot be the ultimate solution, because we will need to build and maintain the technology somehow and these resources must come from the environment.
So if we use technology to help manage these problems, it could actually increase or maintain the problems, when other solutions would be more suitable.
And we extract the resources from our planet.
Extraction, dear listener, is the noun.
Well, presently we do.
Yeah, we get something from somewhere, usually from the soil, extract oil, gas.
Probably not for oil and gas though, we could explore alternative sources of materials.
Oil and gas are the byproducts...
I mean we use the word extract with oil and gas because what we do we extract, we take them from...
Oh we do yeah, no I'm just thinking about alternative sources of materials.
So, oil and gas, there are no alternatives, unfortunately, because they're byproducts of not the deterioration, not the degradation either.
What's the word I'm looking for?
The d - what's it called when something breaks down?
Damage. No, no. When material breaks down, like something dies, decay, that's what it is.
Oh, decay, yeah. Yeah, caused by the decay of living organisms and so far we only find living organisms on this planet and they died millions of years ago in order for us to have oil and gas now.
So it's not possible for them to be supplied from any source other than our planet.
However, precious metals like gold could be extracted from asteroids, which would mean that we don't have to extract them from the soil here.
However, does that not mean that we would be damaging other environments that are not necessarily earth -based.
So that's a philosophical question for you.
So, we can get gold from meteors?
Oh yeah. It's found in large quantities elsewhere in the universe.
Water is another big one.
There's a large nebula filled with water.
And of course there are entire comets made of water, so if it becomes possible to capture them, then we could get our water from there.
But, like I say, we talk about environmental damage, so if we are still extracting the resources from an environment that is not our own, does that mean we are not damaging the environment?
Because for some people, it just sounds like we are outsourcing our environmental damage to space.
Which is potentially unethical as well, or immoral.
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Please, use the present perfect We should use the present perfect so people have done a lot to damage the environment or most people have started protecting the environment, for example.
I hope so it would be nice to have a planet to live on at the end of all of this.
And we can say that pretty much all the places on our planet have been touched by pollution.
So pretty much everything is polluted, the listener.
But the microplastics, they're everywhere!
Oh yeah, microplastics.
So rare animal species have been killed, soil has been damaged, water has been polluted.
People have polluted water, water has been polluted.
right and you can see you can name different problems like deforestation, soil erosion that we gave you in speaking part two and if you want to name three actions like what have people done to damage the environment like three things like major things people have multiplied well that in itself doesn't damage the environment um they need to be using resources in order to do Yeah, but more people, more pollution.
More people, more pollution.
Maybe. But also, like I said before, our technology has become more efficient.
So it's possible we are doing less damage to the environment now than in the past because we have things like carbon scrubbers, which we didn't have in Victorian times.
So, it is possible.
Yeah, but let's think how have people damaged the environment, three actions.
What have people done to damage?
So it would be easier to talk about things like the waste products or the waste by -products which are produced by our consumption of resources.
So when we manufacture clothes for example, the dye from that is dumped into the water, turns the water blue, and pollutes the water to make it undrinkable.
So that's one aspect, and it's not just human beings that drink that water.
What else? Our consumption of various animal products has led to the extinction of species that are displaced by our agriculture.
So for example, whenever rainforest is destroyed in the Amazon to make way for cattle ranches that depletes the natural habitat of other animals which are living there.
No, people have created technology so it could also...
But how? What's the mechanism?
Is it the use of rare earth minerals to create this technology which requires extraction?
And so what happens is we demolish entire Ecosystems in order to extract these materials.
And not to mention the human cost of all of this!
As you listen to our podcast on your iPhone made of materials which are extracted and destroy the planet.
And then we can move to recycling.
And surely recycling is important.
Recycling is when you recycle rubbish, right?
And recycling reduces the consumption of resources.
So we don't use new resources, so we reduce our consumption.
We reuse the components, okay?
So instead of buying a new phone, people can reuse the components from their old phones.
Ideally, now that should be a lot more possible than it was in the past, for example.
You can replace the batteries on phones without voiding the warranty, so that's good to have. Here you can say that mining gold, so extracting gold and other materials, can devastate areas.
devastate, like destroy.
For example, like rainforests have been devastated.
Ooh, we talked about the mining of things like gold, and that is nominalisation, which is definitely a C2 level grammar form.
Sweet. And when people need gold, they clear forests, they clear jungles and rain forests and they start excavation, which leads to the devastation of rainforests, jungles, forests.
People's attitudes towards recycling have changed.
Again, present perfect, do you listen up?
Well, they seem to.
Yeah. And if the examiner asks you a question using the present perfect, answer the question using the same tense form.
Okay? So how have people's attitudes changed?
They've changed Just because people have started, and then you can use the past. It used to be about recycling or people didn't used to recycle so much, but now everybody has started recycling, for example.
Maybe. I don't know.
I don't know any statistics about people's attitudes towards recycling.
In some places, this is mandatory, so everyone's doing it.
But in this case everyone's doing it because it's required by law not because they want to do it.
So that's not a question of attitude about recycling, that's a question of attitude towards following the law.
You can also say that people are more willing to recycle so they want to recycle more.
Or they seem to because you're not a statistician, you can only talk about what you've observed.
Unless you are a statistician, in which case knock yourself out.
Yeah, like people seem to be more willing to do recycling now than in the past. Right, dear listener, read our script and choose 4 -5 phrases and words about the environment.
You don't need 25 or 24, just 4 or 5, well maximum 7 phrases that you can remember.
So the key phrases which would be good for essays and speaking.
Or focus on some grammar structures.
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Is it important to teach students environmental protection at school?
Well, they should probably have their awareness raised about it, yes.
After all, we live on one ostensibly irreplaceable planet.
So it makes sense that people understand how to best take care of it.
Do you think technology can improve environmental -related problems?
Well, it might not be the ultimate solution, but it could contribute to it.
Technology needs resources to function and all of them have to come from the earth in some way, shape or form.
so their extraction could still damage it further, or at least more than it is already.
That being said, we might use it to develop ways that manage the extraction better, and that's definitely worthwhile, so, for example, we could create more efficient extraction machines to mine materials that just dig up materials which are there and do not damage the surrounding trees or wildlife.
That would be quite useful to have. What have people done to damage the environment?
It would be easier to talk about what they haven't done, frankly.
There isn't a continent that has been untouched by pollution of some description at this point, and it's not had some animal species hunted to extinction either.
And do you think people are damaging the environment now more than in the past?
Well, it's difficult to say for certain, but the logical answer seems to be yes, because if there are more people, then it would seem like there are more agents to do the damage with, if you see what I mean.
So it makes sense from this perspective.
However, our technology is also more developed and refined compared to in the past. So because it operates with greater accuracy and efficiency, it's possible that the damage are doing could be less so now than it was in the past. So it all comes down to how we're measuring it really and I don't know enough about the topic to say for sure one way or the other.
Why is recycling important?
Lots of reasons though, one of the main ones is that it reduces the consumption of limited resources like when we reuse the components from old phones to make new ones.
That reduces the demand for precious metals and preserves them for future use.
It also preserves the environment that those minerals are located in so they don't have to be extracted.
How can recycling help the environment?
Well, if we stick with our example of the demand for precious metals and minerals, that stuff has to come from somewhere.
And the mining of things like gold and other materials can devastate places like jungles and rainforests that have formed over the sites where they located, as the miners have to clear them to start the excavation process.
So there doesn't seem a way around this, to be honest. Even if you move the trees, you could still damage them and that area that the trees have been removed from no longer has the benefit of the trees being there.
How have people's attitudes towards recycling changed over the years?
Well, I'm not sure how you'd measure it, but it seems like people are more willing to do so and for a greater variety of things than in the past. It used to be just about recycling paper, but now we do the same for plastic, metals and other materials, even the paper itself.
It used to be only certain kinds of paper, but now you see things like cardboard being freely recycled.
and it's not such a big deal anymore.
So it looks like people are more willing to do it because, again, the number of options has increased.
There are more bins for recycling of different kinds, but that's just looking at the surface details.
You'd need to look at statistical evidence of attitudes to see how people are managing the feelings in their heads.
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