Active watching

Before Watching

“Earth 2100” is a television program that was presented by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network on June 2, 2009. It shows how "a worst-case" future might look like if humans do not take action on current or impending problems that could threaten civilization. The problems addressed in the program include current climate change, overpopulation, and misuse of energy resources.

Active Vocabulary

1. Read and translate an active vocabulary before watching the movie.

1. To imagine 2. To evacuate 3. Devastating 4. A point of no return 5. Adaptability, adaptable, to adapt, 6. To threat, a threat 7. An existence, to exist 8. A dragonfly 9. An icecap 10. A famine 11. A civilization 12. Crossroads 13. A challenge 14. An economic growth 15. A suicidal path 16. To run out of something 17. Alternative type of energy 18. A windmill 19. A tundra 20. To melt, a meltdown 21. To Reduce 22. To Reuse 23. To Recycle 24. A shortage 25. To be/become extinct, an extinction 26. A virus

27. A disease 28. To contaminate 29. To spread 30. An infection 31. High fever 32. A cough 33. Blisters 34. A skyscraper 35. A migration 36. A barrier 37. A tornado 38. A flood 39. An earthquake 40. To evacuate 41. To die, a death 42. To shut down 43. A panic 44. To abandon 45. To fight for sources of energy 46. Precious 47. A worst case scenario 48. To avoid 49. To make a difference – to improve some situation, to make a change for better 50. Immediately 51. To solve, a solution

52. While watching the movie, take notes of the usage of the active vocabulary.

Active watching

1. The movie shows the worst case scenario of the Earth’s development up to the year 2100. This scenario is described with the help of an imagined person, Lucy. While watching draw a chronologic time line showing on one side events in Lucy’s life and on the other events on the Earth.

Lucy was born Earth started to get warmer.

2. The movie deals with the environmental problems and their consequences. Write them down

Environmental Problem	Consequences

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