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Academic English: Water Conservation

This document contains a worksheet with exercises on water conservation. In exercise 1, students listen to a talk on ways to conserve water and answer 6 multiple choice and short answer questions about the talk. Exercise 2 instructs students to construct 6 additional questions about water conservation with a partner, record their question-and-answer session as a video, and upload it to YouTube. The document provides a sample set of 6 questions that could be asked.

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Academic English: Water Conservation

This document contains a worksheet with exercises on water conservation. In exercise 1, students listen to a talk on ways to conserve water and answer 6 multiple choice and short answer questions about the talk. Exercise 2 instructs students to construct 6 additional questions about water conservation with a partner, record their question-and-answer session as a video, and upload it to YouTube. The document provides a sample set of 6 questions that could be asked.

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UPM-CALC/BBI2002 INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC ENGLISH/SEM 2

ASPER/2019_20/SCL/WORKSHEET 3

SCL WORKSHEET 3 (WEEK 5 - 6)


Name :
Matric No. :
Group :

EXERCISE 1
Listen to the talk on ways to conserve water and answer the following
questions

1. What can a person do with 100 litres of water a day?


a. Take a 5 minutes shower
b. Wash face twice
c. Flush the toilet about 5 times

2. What’s the first lesson that the speaker mentioned as a way to


conserve water?
The first lesson that the speaker mentioned as a way to conserve water
is tell people how much water they really have.

3. How did the installation of electronic billboards to indicate how much


water is left help with water conservation?
How did the installation of electronic billboards to indicate how much
water is left help with conservation is by flash available levels of water
to all citizens across the city.
4. When people complained about the appearance of the free water-
efficient showerheads, what did they do?
When people complained about the appearance of the free water-
efficient showerheads, “The Showerhead Team” develop a small
water-flow regulator.
UPM-CALC/BBI2002 INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC ENGLISH/SEM 2
ASPER/2019_20/SCL/WORKSHEET 3

5. What is the ‘Corporate Heroes Network’?


‘Corporate Heroes Network’ is where companies can voluntarily take
on a challenge to reduce their water consumption levels to preset
targets within a period of one year.

6. What are the three benefits of the Marina Barrage as mentioned by the
speaker?
The three benefits of the Marina Barrage as mentioned by the speaker
are it has boosted Singapore’s water supply by 10 percent, it protects
low areas around it from floods and it acts as a beautiful lifestyle
attraction.

EXERCISE 2
With a partner, find another talk on water conservation and construct 6
questions to ask each other. Record your question-and-answer session and
upload the video on YouTube.

Questions:

1. What is water conservation?

2. Why is water important for living being?

3. What is the effect of growing population on water scarcity?

4. Why do we need to conserve water?

5. State the name of sources of fresh water?

6. What are the three factors responsible for water scarcity?

Video URL: [Link]

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