prepping for oral spanish exam need ideas
The assignment is as follows.
Discuss important environmental issues in general. Then comment on how those issues are handled on campus.
Discuss several things that have changed compared to the way they used to be when you were a child, and give reasons for the changes. Talk about some issues that are just as bad as they used to be and exchange your opinions about why.
Share what you both do on an individual basis for the conservation of the planet and talk about what more could be done.
I can understand my professor most of the time and can read ok but have a terrible time coming up with ideas on my own.
2 Answers
Knowing nothing about your campus (such as what climate they have) it's hard to suggest possible "green" movements. You might wish to talk to the cafeteria or maintenance departments at your school to see what (if any) steps that have been made lately to be more green. For instance- does the cafeteria now recycle, or have they quit using trays (not washing them seems to save all kinds of water). Have they switched between paper/plastic and metal/ glass utensils? Have they switched to computer controlled environmental controls (heat /air conditioning/insulation/ solar panels/ energy efficient windows). Do the lights shut off when rooms are empty? Do they use water saving toilets? Does the secretarial staff recycle computers, peripherals, toners, ink, etc. Have the changed parking facilities to lesson noise, air pollution, etc. Has the landscaping department changed when they cut the grass, what type of plants they decorate with, how often or when they water the grass?
Nowadays there is hardly any facet of life where environmental impacts haven't been assessed and modified (mainly to cut cost, not to be greener).
As for your own personal habits... do you recycle all of your beer cans/whiskey bottles? Do you still have that 5000 watt noise polluting stereo speaker system in the trunk of your car? Do you dispose of all of your drug paraphernalia in a responsible manner? Are you driving a smog producing, gas guzzling clunker back and forth to school, do you reload your own bullets, do you save expired credit cards for making lines of coke, do you and your girlfriend...let's not go there.
My point is that you should be able to come up with an endless supply of ideas. When I was a child we used to refund empty pop bottles for money for candy. Do you know how hard it is to find an empty glass pop bottle on the side of the road nowadays? Now you have to pick up pop can tabs to make roach clips. Wait for your neighbor to go on vacation so that you can strip all of the aluminum siding, copper plumbing, etc. from his house. I miss the simpler times, but the world keeps evolving. We have to deal with such items as global warming. (My state [Ohio] had it's 2nd coldest July on record, last month so let's not hurry that solution).
Best of luck doing it all in Spanish..
Here are some of the things I have come up with so far. I am trying to use words that are in the vocab for our book and the grammar we have been practicing.
Importantes problemas ambientales son la contaminación del medio ambiente y la destrucción de los bosques y el agua maneras. Basura y los residuos industriales son también grandes problemas ambientales.
La Universidad debe reciclar más de la basura en el campus y participar en programas de investigación para descubrir nuevos métodos para proteger el medio ambiente. La Universidad también la investigación de energías alternativas.
No solamente debe reciclar, sin también los estudiantes deben utilizar una bicicleta para viajar en el campus.
Cuando era joven, los jóvenes utilizan bicicletas más de lo que hacer ahora.
Sin embargo, no reciclar nada cuando yo era joven. el reciclaje es fácil ahora, hay muchos lugares para reciclar. Todas personas debe tener la obligación de reciclar.
Ahora los estudiantes utilizan los coches de más de bicicletas.
No sólo puedo montar mi bicicleta al trabajo y la escuela pero también reciclar papel, vidrio, metal y plástico.
Yo también voto para los políticos que ayudan a proteger el medio ambiente.
