No contexto do Módulo 6 da
disciplina de Inglês, subordinado ao tema “O Mundo à nossa Volta”, foi visto em
aula o documentário “An Inconvenient Truth”, que se foca sobre as alterações
climatéricas, suas causas e consequências e ainda o que nós, enquanto sociedade,
podemos fazer para o evitar. O documentário visa alertar consciências e
sensibilizar para a necessidade de adotar estilos de vida mais amigos do
ambiente. No final do documentário, foi pedido aos formandos que fizessem uma
composição, na qual, com base no filme, respondessem às seguintes perguntas:
What is Global Warming?
What causes it?
What are its consequences?
What can we do to prevent it?
A composição que podem ler de
seguida, escrita pela formanda Cláudia Vale, da turma TSEC1316, responde de
maneira sucinta e acertada a estas perguntas e é um exemplo a seguir.
Global Warming – What can we do?
Global warming is the increase of
Earth’s surface temperature. The biggest cause of global warming is the overage
of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide. Another cause is burning fossil
fuels, like oil, coal or gas. The causes of greenhouse gases can be the fact
that people use fossil fuels; deforestation is another cause because fewer
trees means less carbon dioxide transformation into oxygen. So, all of this can
cause the increase of greenhouse gases and that obviously leads to global
warming.
Global warming can affect the
lives of everyone on this planet. Some of the consequences are: droughts;
floods; lack of clean water; melting of Polar Regions; rising of sea levels;
stronger storms; etc. To prevent global warming we can help to reduce the
demand of fossil fuels; we can reduce waste by choosing reusable products; we
can drive less because less driving means fewer emissions, apart from saving gasoline,
walking or biking are great forms of exercise; we can save electricity and
reduce global warming by turning off the lights when we leave a room and using
only as much light as we need, and we can also turn off our television or our
computer when we’re not using them.
So, these are some of the things
that we can do to try to save our planet, and don’t forget that only one action
can change everything!
Cláudia Vale
TSEC1316
