Environment

Unit 4: Your Environment

How do people and environments affect each other?

Pre-Vocabulary

• protect

• conserve

• reduce

• recycle

• turn off

turn off

to stop somethings

protect

to make sure that somebody/something is not harmed, injured, damaged, etc.

conserve

- to protect something and prevent it from being changed or destroyed

- to use as little of something as possible so that it lasts a long time

reduce

- to make something less or smaller in size, quantity

- to use less

recycle

reuse things with different purposes

Vocabulary

• conserve energy

• reduce pollution

• protect wildlife

• protect insect

conserve energy

some kinds of energy (water,...) need being conserved or they will be used up

=> take shorter showers

reduce pollution

some kinds of pollutions (fume, sound, ...) need to be reduced or they will do harm to us.

=> take the train or bus

protect wildlife

• wildlife: animals, birds, insects, etc.

• they need being protected or they will become extinct (we will never meet them against)

• => protect the forests

protect insects

some insects are helpful ( bees, ...)

they help us so that we protect them

=> use fewer insecticides (a liquid that kills insects)

Words in context

adapt, label, migrate

Polar bears adapt to very cold weather.

My mother will usually label all the food she puts into the fridge.

In spring, some animals migrate north to find food.

MAKE SENTENCES

Biomes

a biome

community, plants, animals,...

community (groups that live together in the same place)

temperate forest

seasons

temperate (never too hot or too cold)

the canopy of leaves

canopy (cover)

exotic

birds, reptiles,...

exotic (unusual and exciting)

Arctic tundra

coldest biome

climate

climate (typical weather in an area)

warmer climate for the winter

continent

Mountains are on every continent on Earth.

crop

(plants grown by a farmer and used for food)

graze on the grass

farm animals...