مجموعه Study English سری اول – قسمت 6

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Hello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study
English, IELTS preparation.

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Today we’re going to look at a topic you’ve
probably heard a lot about – global warming

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and the environment.

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First we’re going to look at ways of brainstorming,
taking notes and developing ideas.

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Watch while we play some vision that contains
ideas about the causes and effects of global

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warming.

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While you watch, try to note down some of
your ideas about what global warming is.

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OK so you saw some ideas, and perhaps took
some notes, during that clip. What were some

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of the ideas you saw?

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What has caused global warming?

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We saw gases in the air, cars, factory waste,
and people cutting trees down.

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So if you made those notes, you’d get an idea
that these were the things causing global

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warming.

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Now let’s listen to someone talk about the
causes.

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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the
atmosphere.

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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the
atmosphere. What else?

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So what is global warming? It’s the result
of billions of decisions. It’s caused by decisions

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made by individuals – like driving big cars
rather than small cars. And it’s caused by

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decisions made by corporations and nations,
like dumping waste into the atmosphere.

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Global warming is caused by about people using
big cars, and people dumping waste into the

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atmosphere.

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OK, so you’ve looked at the vision, and listened
to the speaker, and you’ve made notes about

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some of the causes of global warming.

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Now let’s look for some of the effects.

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So after watching that, you might be thinking
that global warming is having an effect on

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weather patterns, and on nature.

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Listen to the speaker.

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Nature is already responding to global warming.
There have been changes in global weather

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patterns.

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Trees are flowering earlier. Birds are laying
eggs earlier. Butterflies are moving up hills.

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So there’s been weather changes, and changes
to the ways trees, birds and butterflies behave.

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So we have a list of causes, and list of effects.
You might have identified those things from

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a text you’ve read, or from listening to someone
speak. This is how you can take notes.

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Once you’ve got your notes, you need to be
able to link those causes and effects in sentences.

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Let’s look at a couple of different ways.

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The first and most basic way is just making
a sequence of statements. This can sometimes

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be a powerful way of making a connection between
things. Listen.

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Heat-trapping gases are building up in the
atmosphere. Trees are flowering earlier. Birds

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are laying eggs earlier, and butterflies are
moving up hills.

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From the sequence of information, we realise
that birds are laying their eggs earlier because

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gases are making the earth warmer.
So a simple list of statements can show a

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cause and effect relationship.

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But there are other ways too.

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You can use the language of cause and effect.
We can say:

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X causes Y.

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Driving cars causes air pollution.

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There are many other word choices as well.

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Driving cars leads to air pollution.

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Driving cars results in air pollution.

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Notice you can also turn the sentence around.

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Air pollution is caused by driving cars.

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Air pollution is the result of driving cars.

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Air pollution is due to driving cars.

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Listen to an example here.

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There have been changes in global weather
patterns.

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Trees are flowering earlier. Birds are laying
eggs earlier. Butterflies are moving up hills.

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So what is global warming? It is the result
of billions of individual decisions.

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He’s talking about global warming.

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Global warming is the result of billions of
decisions.

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Global warming is due to billions of decisions.

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And remember we can turn the sentence around,
and change the phrase:

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Billions of decisions cause global warming.

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Billions of decisions result in global warming.

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Billions of decisions lead to global warming.

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When you’re writing about causes and effects,
make sure you use a variety of these kinds

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of phrases. There are many to choose from.
You should make lists of cause and effect

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language, and the kinds of vocabulary you
can use to describe cause and effect relationships.

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Now listen to another clip.

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Trees are flowering earlier. Birds are laying
eggs earlier. Butterflies are moving up hills.

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So what is global warming? It is the result
of billions of individual decisions.

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When you’re writing up your notes using cause
and effect language, you’ll need to be able

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to follow or track the subject of the text.

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Let’s look at that now.

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What is global warming? It is the result of
billions of individual decisions.

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The word ‘it’ here is called a referent. We
use referents to identify and track subjects

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through a conversation or a piece of writing.

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If you repeat the subject too many times,
your work will sound boring.

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Listen to this:

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The woman came into the room. The woman sat
down. The woman drank her tea.

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Look at how we use referents:

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The woman came into the room. She sat down.
She drank her tea.

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When you are reading, you’ll need to be able
to understand referents, and follow the subject

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through the text.

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Other referents are: this, that, these, those.

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Here’s the clip again. Listen to the way the
referents are used.

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What is global warming? It is the result of
billions of individual decisions.

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The word it here refers to global warming.

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What is global warming? Global warming is
the result of billions of decisions.

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And here’s another referent:

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What is global warming? It is the result of
billions of individual decisions.

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You can’t manage that at the scale of the
individual.

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He says:
You can’t manage that at the scale of the

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individual.

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He means:
You can’t manage global warming at the scale

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of the individual.

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But notice how the subject changes here.

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What is global warming? It’s the result of
billions of individual decisions.

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You can’t manage that at the scale of the
individual.

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Managing the atmosphere has to take place
at a global level. That’s why it needs international

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agreements.

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Managing the atmosphere has to take place
at a global level.

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The subject of this sentence is ‘managing
the atmosphere’.

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That’s why it needs international agreement.

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So the ‘it’ here no longer refers to global
warming. Now ‘it’ is referring to ‘managing

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the atmosphere’.

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That’s why managing the atmosphere needs international
agreement.

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When reading and writing, you must be very
careful to notice when subjects change, and

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to be clear about which subject is being referred
to. This can be quite tricky sometime.

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Next time you see a paragraph, try to highlight
all the referents like:

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it
this

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that
these

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those
he

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she
they

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Then try to work out what subject they are
all referring back to.

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It’s a great exercise, and it will help your
reading, writing and speaking skills.

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And that’s all for today. Hope you keep enjoying
your English studies and Study English! I’ll

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see you next time.