Environment
Matching Exercise
Match each utterance with its conversational function.
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. What do you think individuals can do to protect the environment?
2. That's quite a big question. There are several possible answers.
3. People can reduce energy consumption, use public transport, recycle, eat less meat and avoid unnecessary consumption.
4. I think governments and large companies have a greater responsibility than individuals.
5. I agree that individual behaviour can make a difference.
6. I don't agree that individuals are mainly responsible for environmental problems.
7. But if millions of individuals change their behaviour, wouldn't that put pressure on companies to change as well?
8. If pollution causes measurable damage, then reducing the source of the pollution should logically reduce the damage.
9. When you say "protect the environment", are you mainly referring to climate change?
10. We could encourage renewable energy, improve public transport and make products easier to repair and reuse.
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