Hello love, I'm Mariam.
I'm not going to lie.
And I'm Rory.
Really?
Oh, wow.
And I'm roaring.
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That's all.
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It's a podcast aimed to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way.
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And grammar.
And grammar.
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I forget.
Yeah, it should be one word.
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Vocab, grammar.
How about that?
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Oh, Rory, don't throw away that can.
Why not?
It's not environmentally friendly.
Oh my God, should we talk about protecting the environment?
Yes, let's talk about protecting the environment.
Pick it up.
Pick up the can and throw it in the bin.
Okay.
Do it now.
Now do it.
Doing it.
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Rory, let's talk about environmental protection.
What can people do to protect our environment?
They could just be sensible in terms of waste disposal.
Not littering is a good start.
Buying biodegradable and sustainable products, recycling, small changes like that.
I think that would go a long way to fixing a lot of problems.
Do you think we've done enough to protect the environment?
I don't even know how to begin to measure that.
I'm pretty frugal and I don't travel much.
And when I do, it's by mass transit or public transport.
So I think my impact on the environment is pretty minimal in comparison to some people.
I could probably do more in terms of saving paper and recycling if I really wanted to.
What can people do together to protect the local environment?
I don't think there's a limit in this sense.
Sharing resources might be a good place to start and helping remind each other of different agreed ways to reduce our impacts.
Although not being complete, Karens about it at the same time, and picking up the slack wherever they see it.
What should be done to protect our environment, more of everything really, and by making it more accessible and routine for people to do so.
I'm not sure radical solutions like banning cars or plastics are practical, and relaxing restrictions isn't going to cut it, so we just have to keep going further with what we have, which is sort of environmentalism in a nutshell really, isn't it?
What's the importance of environmental education?
Well, we could frame it in terms of financial importance.
People save more by being less wasteful.
Or you could think about it in relation to general education, which is like learning new ways of doing things, hopefully more effectively and efficiently.
There's a lot to be said for it from these perspectives already, actually.
Is there enough education about environmental protection at school?
In the main yes, though I imagine there are ways of integrating more of it in a sort of more holistic way, rather than treating it as a separate subject.
Is it important to teach students how to protect the environment?
Well, insofar as it can give them a practical way to apply what they learn, I would say so, yes.
I mean, for example, we could talk about ways to save money using environmentally friendly energy saving methods in the maths class.
That's useful and helpful in equal measure.
Would you like to work in a company related to environmental protection?
Well, not me specifically, since my expertise lies elsewhere.
However, we could have more environmental themes or elements in teaching.
That might be a good compromise.
Rory, what do you personally do to protect the environment?
I do what you tell me to and I put my cans in the bin.
Well done, my boy.
So let's go over super grammar and vocab.
First of all, the topic is environmental protection.
Right, we have the word the environment, it's always the environment, or we can say environments.
If we say environments, there's no article, right?
Because it's multiple.
But usually like our environment, we should protect the environment or environmental protection.
So we can use education on environmental protection related to environmental protection, something like that.
So we protect, we preserve our environment.
Preserve?
The same as protect?
Save?
No.
Protect implies that you're saving it against a threat, whereas preserve is just like you're keeping it from getting older or from falling apart.
Here you should use precise vocabulary, topical vocabulary about environmental issues.
For example, Rory has used waste disposal.
Yes.
Which is just how you get rid of things once you've used them.
Yeah, so you should dispose of your waste, right?
Exactly, and properly by putting it in the bin.
If you don't put your waste in the bin, then you are littering.
Yeah, to litter, to throw your rubbish in the street.
No, no, no, no, no, we don't do that.
Nope.
Then you said something like biodegradable, sustainable products.
Wow.
Biodegradable.
It sounds really complicated, but it's not.
Biodegradable just means something degrades into the earth when you've finished with it rather than staying there.
So most plastic doesn't stay like, it doesn't biodegrade, it just exists and it blows around and causes all kinds of damage, whereas paper is biodegradable because if you put it on soil then it becomes part of the soil and the problem goes away.
Yeah food, all this veg.
So all the food that you don't eat is biodegradable.
Yeah.
And then you should buy biodegradable products or you should buy sustainable products.
Mm-hmm.
The sustainable products are ones that well they are created, but the process of creating them doesn't harm the environment.
It doesn't use resources unnecessarily, for example.
It's not wasteful.
So what else can people do?
People can do recycling.
Yeah.
And we have an episode on recycling.
People can do the recycling or people can recycle.
Yeah.
And we have an episode on recycling.
Yeah, you can listen to our episode about recycling.
We go over what kind of products you should recycle and there are some really nice words there.
Okay, you told us that I'm pretty frugal.
Frugal?
Yeah, frugal just means that you don't spend lots and lots of money on things.
So I'm pretty frugal.
I don't travel much.
So I don't think my impact on the environment is big.
So your impact, your influence on the environment, exactly.
They also use another one like carbon footprint right yeah, and we talked about our carbon footprint, i think, also in the episode on recycling, actually.
So yeah, so like your footprint.
Whatever you do to our environment is your footprint on the environment.
Yep, Pick up the slack.
Yeah.
So the slack is just a general term for... No, no.
To pick up the slack is like if everyone makes an effort, some people will make less of an effort than others.
And that means there's more to be done.
So this extra stuff is called the slack.
And if you pick up the slack, it means that you do the work that other people did not do.
Yeah, so you should reduce our impact on the environment and pick up the slack.
Rory, then you've used this word environmentalism.
Environmentalism.
Yes, but environmentalism is just the movement to take care of the environment, basically, isn't it?
Yeah, so you can use it as a noun, like environment, but also this movement, environmentalism.
Wow, which is nice.
A long word.
On the subject of long words, there are environmentally friendly energy saving methods.
Yep, yep.
Which is just a really nice way of talking about solar panels, tidal power, all of these other things.
When you can't think of it, you just say environmentally friendly saving energy methods.
I don't know what they are right now, but that's how I describe them.
Yeah, it's all important.
You can say...
I'm trying to be more environmentally friendly.
I buy sustainable products.
I buy, what do you call them, natural products or organic.
Yeah, so you do like environmentally friendly energy saving methods, environmentally friendly food products, environmentally friendly stationery.
Stationery.
I recycle everything I can.
I recycle cans.
I carry my own bottle when I drink water.
I don't use single cups, right?
You call them?
Single-use plastics, is that what they're called?
Single-use plastic cups.
So I carry my water bottle everywhere I go.
For example.
So when the examiner asks you would you like to work in a company related to environmental protection?
Rory went like, not really, since my expertise lies elsewhere.
Beautiful.
So not really, since, since means because, my expertise, my experience, right?
Well, it's like experience and knowledge of a subject you were trained in.
So I have expertise in teaching English.
Vanya has expertise in producing a podcast.
Yeah, yeah.
A cool word.
You have expertise in having great hair.
Then she was...
And the shoes.
Shoes, more shoes.
You can have expertise in multiple areas.
Yeah.
So not really, since my expertise lies elsewhere.
Elsewhere, somewhere else.
Beautiful.
So, Rory, what do you really do to protect the environment?
Now, like we finished this, examine questions.
You can just tell the world like do you really do anything?
Really, do you even recycle anything?
I recycle paper, actually.
Really?
Where do you take paper?
Because in Russia, we have some issues with recycling.
Because paper is double-sided.
If I have extra paper left over from one class, I can just turn it over and use it.
That's nice.
I also do it.
Scrap paper, we call it.
Yeah, I'm using scrap paper.
That's all you do, right?
Yes.
Sorry.
Do you switch off the lights?
Oh, yeah, I'm pretty good at switching off the lights.
Or do you just let the water, you know, on?
I'm pretty good at switching off the lights and turning the taps off and things like that.
It doesn't help that we had a leaking tap right now, which was pretty wasteful of a lot of water.
But that's not my fault.
That's just the maintenance.
You should throw money at them.
I did.
To solve the problem.
To solve the problem.
So how do you fix it?
Just throw money at them.
Like all the problems will be fixed.
Yes.
So now, dear listener, you can think of the things that you are doing, or you would like to do, to protect the environment and what other people can do.
All right.
Like such people as Rory.
But that's all from us for now.
Thank you very much for listening.
Bye.
Bye.
They could just be sensible in terms of waste disposal, not littering, is a good start buying biodegradable and sustainable products, recycling small changes like that.
I think that would go a long way to fixing a lot of problems.
Do you think we've done enough to protect the environment?
I don't even know how to begin to measure that.
I'm pretty frugal and I don't travel much.
And when I do, it's by mass transit or public transport.
So I think my impact on the environment is pretty minimal in comparison to some people.
I could probably do more in terms of saving paper and recycling if I really wanted to.
What can people do together to protect the local environment?
I don't think there's a limit in this sense.
Sharing resources might be a good place to start and helping remind each other of different agreed ways to reduce our impact.
Although not being complete, Karens about it at the same time, and picking up the slack wherever they see it.
What should be done to protect our environment, more of everything really, and by making it more accessible and routine for people to do so.
I'm not sure radical solutions like banning cars or plastics are practical, and relaxing restrictions isn't going to cut it, so we just have to keep going further with what we have, which is sort of environmentalism in a nutshell really, isn't it?
What's the importance of environmental education?
Well, we could frame it in terms of financial importance.
People save more by being less wasteful.
Or you could think about it in relation to general education, which is like learning new ways of doing things, hopefully more effectively and efficiently.
There's a lot to be said for it from these perspectives already, actually.
Is there enough education about environmental protection at school?
In the main yes, though I imagine there are ways of integrating more of it in a sort of more holistic way, rather than treating it as a separate subject.
Is it important to teach students how to protect the environment?
Well, insofar as it can give them a practical way to apply what they learn, I would say so, yes.
I mean, for example, we could talk about ways to save money using environmentally friendly energy saving methods in the maths class.
That's useful and helpful in equal measure.
Would you like to work in a company related to environmental protection?
Well, not me specifically, since my expertise lies elsewhere.
However, we could have more environmental themes or elements in teaching.
That might be a good compromise.
Rory, what do you personally do to protect the environment?
I do what you tell me to and I put my cans in the bin.
Well done, my boy.
