Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Message From Mother Nature

Ask & Answer:

  • What is the main point of this article? They talking about the change from time to time of the Earth that leads to Global Warming.

  • List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words. 
+ Torrential - heavy, relentless, violent.
+ Monsoon - wet season, rain a lot in this season.
+ Decades - a period of 10 years. 
+ Drought - long period time of dry, no precipitate.
+ Reluctant - resistant.

  • What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”? Weather is just yours observation from the sky, how you feel about it in the current time, present. Climate is the change of weathers through time, it is in the future. 

  • What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?

  • What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”? In this year, in Vietnam, in wet season, rain increase a lot and more heavily. In Pakistan, there is a big flood happening. 

  • What does the word “perception” mean? Understanding, consciousness, realization.

  • What is your “perception” of global climate change? In summer, the rain get heavier. We feel hotter every year and more pollution happen --> breath more heavily 

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