Learner discusses environmental topics using the plain vocabulary in its correct forms.
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Tick the sentences you could write right now, without stopping to check anything.
Eight words, every form of each — and the ones you can never put an S on.
Take pollution. To use it properly you need three forms, and each fits a different slot:
Air pollution is a serious problem. — the thing (noun)
Factories pollute the river. — the action (verb)
The water is polluted. — the description (adjective)
Same idea, three shapes. This is Chapter 1 again, applied to the words these questions are actually about.
That is why this sprint teaches only eight. Eight words with every form is worth far more than twenty words with one form each.
A single landscape with eight things happening in it, one per word.
Eight ordinary scenes. Each one is a thing you could describe in a sentence.
Eight sentences with a gap. Which form does each one need?
Terms
Definitions
Three decisions that turn on whether the noun can be counted.
Chain 1
The sentence: Cities produce an enormous amount of ___ every year.
Candidates: waste / wastes
Can it be counted?
So the answer is:
Chain 2
The sentence: The factory caused serious ___ to the river.
Candidates: damage / damages
Can it be counted?
So the answer is:
Chain 3
The sentence: Southern Europe and Scandinavia have very different ___.
Candidates: climate / climates
Can it be counted?
So the answer is:
A Task 2 paragraph with eight forms removed.
Air is now the most visible environmental problem in large cities. Traffic and heating the air throughout the winter, and in some places the air is so heavily that schools close for days at a time.
Household is a second problem, and one that individuals can do more about. In my city only about a third of what we throw away is , largely because the collection happens once a month and people give up.
Plastic in particular is extremely to sea life, and once it enters the water it is almost impossible to remove.
Governments can coastal areas by limiting what is dumped at sea, but that kind of is expensive and slow, and it works only if several countries agree at once.