Coldplay hit the news with their statement regarding environmentally beneficial concerts.
Assignment 1
For this assignment you may use a dictionary or English-language Internet sources to help you.
a List activities that could harm the environment.
b List activities that could be good for the environment.
| Coldplay to pause touring until concerts are ‘environmentally beneficial’
The reading text for this assignment can be found here. |
Assignment 2
For each definition, find the word or expression it describes in the text and write it down.
- relating to the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live…
- the lead singer or leader of a musical group…………………………………………………………
- involving methods that do not completely use up or destroy natural resources……….
- helpful, useful and good…………………………………………………………………………………….
- live concerts……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
- to send out a programme on television or radio……………………………………………………
- one of the seven large masses of land on the surface of the earth……………………………
- a plan or program that is intended to solve a problem…………………………………………..
- actors, musicians, dancers, etc……………………………………………………………………………
- to take action when it is needed………………………………………………………………………….
- a building with glass walls and a glass roof with a warm atmosphere……………………..
- amounts of gas, heat, light, etc. that is send out……………………………………………………
- the place where an event happens……………………………………………………………………….
- to give something and be given something else instead………………………………………….
- a structure that holds the lights for a stage……………………………………………………………
Assignment 3
a What are ‘environmentally beneficial’ concerts?
1 Concerts by artists who all their money to environmental charities.
2 Concerts for people who travel without flying.
3 Concerts organised in a way that they help the environment.
4 Concerts producing no greenhouse emissions at all.
b Which aspect of international music tours is most damaging for the environment?
1 Throwing All the plastic cups and bags that visitors throw away.
2 Cleaning up and restoring the concert area afterwards.
3 The electricity used for lighting and sound.
4 The travelling of all the fans that visit the shows.
c Select all the things people in the music industry are doing to become more sustainable.
1 Donating to an environmental charity.
2 Donating to plant trees instead of selling merchandise.
3 Joining climate marches.
4 Recycling guitar strings.
5 Travelling around the world.
6 Using LEDs instead of spotlights.
7 Using solar power only.
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