F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [R]

Summarize the article below. What do you think about pollution? What can you do to reduce your pollution?

Vocabulary

sth is the same as sth vs. sth is similar to sth 
The learning plan is same with MIT. – The curriculum is the same as MIT.

suspend / postpone 

get off your high horse!  = stop judging others!

 intertwined (inter – twine d ) adj. – to be joined together, to be combined together, linked together

premature (pre mature ) adj. – happening or doing sth too soon

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1710/171023-pollution.html

Pollution is the world’s biggest killer

A new study has found that pollution is now the world’s biggest killer. One in six deaths worldwide is because of pollution. This is 16 per cent of all global deaths. Most of these deaths were from non-infectious diseases caused by pollution. These include heart disease, lung cancer and stroke. The study was published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’. Researchers said most pollution-related deaths occurred in poorer countries. About 92 per cent of these deaths were in low-income nations, especially countries where there is a lot of economic development, such as India and China. Bangladesh and Somalia were the worst affected countries. Brunei and Sweden had the lowest numbers of pollution-related deaths.

Study co-author Karti Sandilya said: “Pollution, poverty, poor health, and social injustice are deeply intertwined.” He added: “Pollution threatens fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, health, wellbeing, and safe work.” He said air pollution was the biggest killer. Air pollution led to 6.5 million premature deaths. The second biggest killer was water pollution, which caused 1.8 million deaths. The next largest killer was pollution in the workplace, which was linked to 800,000 worldwide deaths. Scientist Dr Penny Woods said: “Air pollution is reaching crisis point.” She said the people who pollution hit the hardest are those with breathing and lung problems, children and the elderly.

Pronunciation

curriculum ( kerr – ric  U lum )