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Global warming is an emergency

Hey,

 

today we first talked again about global warming and we tried to give a little definition. Here is what we said:

 

Global warming is due to pollution and more precisely to greenhouse gases. The heat of sun comes into the atmosphere and cannot got back because of the ozone layer and the greenhouse gases!
Consequently, the planet's temperature goes up.

 

Then we started to describe and comment upon a picture. Here is what we said:

 

Methodology -> how to locate things in a document:

 

"to be written by Idir"

Click on the picture to enlarge

emergency.jpgDescription of the picture:


The document is a picture a photo
In the background, there is a car. It's on fire and there is a lot of smoke. It's a serious accident; the car is upside down. The driver was probably going to the house in the distance: I can see a man who is crawling out of the car. He is trying to escape.

If I see this accident, I need to call 999 (UK) or
911 (US)

 
(to) call for... :

- ... an ambulance / EMTs
- ... fire fighters
- ... the police

Hypotheses: in the foreground, on the right
- a car is stopped because the driver has seen the accident
- a cow is looking at the accident
- the cause of the accident
- a telephone booth


The ambulance:


There is in fact / actually an ambulance but the EMT are not doing their jobs.

They should help but instead of helping, they are waiting:
 

instead of urinating, the EMT should help the driver.
instead of being on the phone, ...
instead of smoking, ...
instead of eating, ...

Instead of calling, they should try to save his life. They ought to do their jobs and they had better help the person in the car.

 

Grammar: Exprimer le reproche (forme négative du conseil) 

They shouldn't be urinating.
They ought not to  be urinating.
They had better not be urinating.
They ought not to be calling
They had better not be smoking

 

 

HW: learn the comments and the new vocabulary.


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