Worksheet 6 Goals 6 and 7
Clean water and sanitation / Affordable and clean energy What do you use tap water for throughout the day? • To drink • To take a shower • To water the plants • To wash salad • To cook pasta and rice • To brush your teeth • To flush the toilet You probably do lots of these things every day and for each one of them you need tap water: clean, drinkable and safe water. Does that seem normal to you? Unfortunately, it isn’t a normal occurrence for everyone. Many people in the world don’t have access to drinking or safe water where they live (cities, towns, isolated houses…). By using contaminated water people easily get sick!
1 Read and complete the text with the missing words. handwashing • sustainable • conditions • organisation • reduce • vulnerable
Saving lives through safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) The well-being of children and families is impossible without (1) _______________, equitable access to clean water, dignified sanitation and appropriate hygiene behaviours. World Vision is a nonprofit (2) _______________ that works in impoverished areas. Its WASH projects aim to (3) _______________ the spread of illness and disease by combining sustainable safe water, sanitation and hygiene practices. It provides hygiene education and sanitation facilities such as toilets and latrines and hand-washing stations that help to improve living (4) _______________. Safe water is especially important for children who are the most (5) _______________ to water-related diseases. In fact, the school WASH clubs play an important role and (6) _______________ alone has been shown to result in children growing taller, stronger, and smarter. www.worldvision.org/about-us/media-center/water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash-press-kit www.worldvision.org/clean-water-news-stories/global-water-crisis-facts
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Clean water and sanitation / Clean and affordable energy
Worksheet 6
Affordable and clean energy During the day, we do lots of activities that require energy which doesn’t come from our body, a non-biological energy.
2 Which of the following activities require non-biological energy?
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Ride a bike
5
Send a text
7
Do yoga
9
Travel by plane
10
Watch the TV
Swim
8
Talk on the phone
Did you know that 13% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to electricity? This means that they use wood, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating. Moreover, energy consumption is one of the main causes of global warming and climate change: it represents 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions. © ELI Publishing - Photocopiable
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Travel in an electric car
Bake a cake
Write a letter
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Worksheet 6
Clean water and sanitation / Clean and affordable energy
3 Choose the correct answer. 1 To reduce greenhouse gas emissions we need to: a consume energy b use renewable energy 2 Which one of these options is a renewable energy? a solar energy b nuclear energy 3 Tidal power is a renewable energy which uses a tide movements b hand movements 4 What is the name of the renewable energy produced from organic material through a natural process? a biomass energy b compost energy 5 Fossil fuel is a non-renewable energy source. Which of these options are fossil fuels? a coal, oil and natural gas b organic waste and wood 6 Which one of these energy sources uses the force of water to produce energy? a wind energy b hydropower 7 What is the name of the renewable energy that uses the Earth’s internal heat? a thermal energy b geothermal energy 8 Nuclear energy comes from… a nuclear power plants b the energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom
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