Assignment C - Part 2.i
Authentic Text
✓ Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
✓ Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
✓ If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
✓ Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
✓ If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days' time will be the "turning point for
humanity", PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.
He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to
commit to major changes to curb further warming.
Four areas needed tackling - "coal, cars, cash and trees", he said.
Countries must take responsibility for "the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but
ourselves".
"It's time for humanity to grow up," he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in
Glasgow.
The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. "Look at Covid if
you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right."
Setting the tone for November's meeting, he said countries must make "substantial changes" by the
end of the decade if the world is to stave off further temperature rises.
"I passionately believe that we can do it by making commitments in four areas - coal, cars, cash and
trees," he said.
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Authentic Text
✓ Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
✓ Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
✓ If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
✓ Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
✓ If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days' time will be the "turning point for
humanity", PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.
He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to
commit to major changes to curb further warming.
Four areas needed tackling - "coal, cars, cash and trees", he said.
Countries must take responsibility for "the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but
ourselves".
"It's time for humanity to grow up," he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in
Glasgow.
The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. "Look at Covid if
you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right."
Setting the tone for November's meeting, he said countries must make "substantial changes" by the
end of the decade if the world is to stave off further temperature rises.
"I passionately believe that we can do it by making commitments in four areas - coal, cars, cash and
trees," he said.
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