Real Easy English: Talking about the environment

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• 00:00

  Hi, I'm Beth.

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  And I'm Neil and this is real easy English from BBC learning English.

• 00:08

  In this podcast we talk about big topics in easy English to help you learn.

• 00:14

  You can find all the vocabulary from this episode and read along on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

• 00:28

  Hello Neil, how are you today?

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  Hi Beth.

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  I'm fine, thank you.

• 00:33

  How are you?

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  I'm good, thank you.

• 00:36

  I have just got back from holiday and it was very hot and today we're talking about the environment.

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  We'll talk about climate change and what we are trying to do to help.

• 00:48

  Ok, Beth, can you explain the phrase climate change, please?

• 00:55

  Yes.

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  So climate change is what we call changes to the world's weather patterns.

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  So for example, the general temperature, rainfall, that kind of thing.

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  And in particular with climate change, we mean changes to the weather that are caused by human activity.

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  So Beth, are you worried about climate change?

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  Yes, definitely.

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  I do think that it's a big problem.

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  The world is getting hotter or the weather is changing quite a lot.

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