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‘We need to become the solution’: older New Zealanders join climate change fight
Comprehension check
a. Are these statements true or false according to the information in the article? Rewrite any that
are false to make them correct.
1. On average, winters in New Zealand are now colder than they were when David Yockney
was a boy.
2. A 10-year NZ study aimed to find out whether people of all age groups believe that climate change
is a direct result of human actions.
3. Young people are still generally more aware of climate changes than older people.
4. David Yockney works as a teacher and video producer.
5. He first learnt about climate change from his grandson.
6. While
on a round-the-world trip, he realized that he should make changes to his way of living.
7. One of these changes was to give up meat and become a vegetarian.
8. David Yockney decided to start a climate change action group for the over 60s in his area.
Key language
a. Read the definitions, then combine words on the left in the box with those on the right to make
multi-word verbal phrases that match the definitions and write them onto the lines. Find them
in the article to check your answers
1. used for contrasting two things
2. state your opinion firmly and publicly about something,
especially to protest
3. take part in something because you are interested in it
4. expect something to always happen in the same way, without thinking about difficulties
5. surprisingly almost none or nothing
6. make sure that something is there for other
people after you have gone
take something for
with
hardly
behind
compared
involved
leave
granted
get
out
speak
even
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