Writing

1. Write a report about 180-250 words on the theme “ The human factor in environmental pollution”

Introduction and tips (Writing reports)

• ANSWER THE QUESTION

• PLAN your report.

• Make sure you have at least 4 paragraphs.

• Every paragraph should have a heading which explains what the paragraph is about.

• You first paragraph heading will be INTRODUCTION and your last, CONCLUSION

• Always start with To: E.g.

• To: Ms Jones

• Put From: on the line below and then add your name.

• Put Subject: on the next line. Choose a heading that describes clearly what the report is

• about.

• You do not need to put the date but you can if you want to.

• Use formal language.

• Do not use contractions.

• Try to make recommendations in the final paragraph.

• REVISE your report to correct mistakes

(Writing reports)

Introductory Information:

• To:

• From:

• Subject:

• Date:

Headings to include:

• Introduction:

• Subject of each paragraph:

• Conclusion or recommendation(s):

Introductory Paragraph

• As requested I have .....

• This involved visiting .......

• This involved looking at .......

• This involved investigating .....

• My findings are outlined below.

• My findings are presented below.

Recommending:

• I would like to suggest ......

• I would like to recommend ......

• I therefore suggest ......

• I therefore recommend ......

• I therefore suggest that we do not ......

• I therefore recommend that we do not ......

• I therefore do not suggest ......

• I therefore do not recommend ......

• I therefore recommend ......

• I believe we should recommend ......

• I believe we should not recommend ......

• You may wish to consider ......

Environmental protection

1. Read the following quotes and rephrase the main idea of each quotation.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”  ― Mahatma Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

– Aldo Leopold

Grammar

Narrative tenses are the tenses that we use to talk about past events and to tell stories.  The most common of these is the past simple. Three other tenses, past continuous, the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous can help us to say what we want more efficiently. However, it should be remembered that almost any story can be told using the past simple.

It is often useful to look at these tenses together within the context of the function narrating, i.e. relating past events.

Written example of narrative tenses in use

Bond opened the door very slowly, looked carefully around the room and walked in. The window was open and the curtains were blowing in the wind.

Clearly someone had left in a hurry.

Past simple opened, looked, walked, was

Past continuous was

Past Perfect

had left

Spoken example of narrative tenses in use

A: I saw a UFO once. Well, I think it was one. B: Oh yeah? A: Yeah, really. I was in the country - in Yorkshire - on the moors... B: What were you doing up there? A: Oh, I was visiting some friends. They'd rented a cottage and we'd gone up to stay with them. Past simple saw, was Past continuous (What) were (you) doing? was visiting Past perfect they'd rented, we'd gone

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