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Sample Lesson - Countries betting tech can clean up coal
Start Date 18/07/2009
Last Activity 33 weeks ago
Questions 16
Responses 0
Principles
Test your understanding of vocabulary used in an environmental article.
Vocabulary
High-stakes, Emissions, To_spew, To_stall, Green-tech, Advocate, Drawing_board, Impact, Incentive, Silver_bullet, Greener, Adequately, Fiscal_year, Stimulus_package, Renewable_energy, Geological, Pores, Extraction, Scam, Perpetuity, To_pin_hopes_on, To_take_a_blow, To_tackle
Lesson
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Questions Summary
Q. 1) What is a “high-stakes game”?Q. 2) What does the writer mean when he says “make dirty coal cleaner”?
Q. 3) Re-write the paragraph beginning “For years if not decades, U.S. efforts to develop…”
Q. 4) What is a “green-tech expert”?
Q. 5) Some people think that carbon capture and storage technology is not worth pursuing. What words do they use to show they feel this way?
Q. 6) What is a “CCS advocate”?
Q. 7) What words does Sarah Forbes use to show that she feels CSS technology is overdue?
Q. 8) FutureGen is America’s “flagship CCS research project”. Describe the use of the word “flagship” in this sentence.
Q. 9) Re-write the sentence “And President Obama last month announced a $1 billion revamp of the country's flagship CCS research project, a near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant in Illinois called FutureGen”?
Q. 10) What is meant by “CCS is not the silver bullet for fighting climate change”? What is a silver bullet used for?
Q. 11) What is a fiscal year?
Q. 12) Re-write the sentence “Obama's stimulus package put about $14 billion, nearly twice that amount, into energy efficiency and renewable energy”.
Q. 13) In the paragraph starting “Renewable energy sources like wind and solar…” What words could we use instead of “ramp up”?
Q. 14) Why is coal not “going to go away”?
Q. 15) Why does Daniel Kessler say that CCS is a scam?
Q. 16) Why is it important that FutureGen succeeds and what will it prove (according to Sarah Forbes)?
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