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D GOAL Solve a Problem
Reading 🎧45 (Optional)
A Look at the photo. What do you think this person does?
B Read the article and answer the questions.
1. What problem do some people in Myanmar have?
2. What is the solution?
C MY WORLD What is a problem in your town or city? What is the solution?
D Read the article again. Circle T for true or F for false.
1. The writer thinks that most people use electricity. T F
2. Candles are not cheap and not safe in Myanmar. T F
3. The energy for the solar panels comes from the sun. T F
4. Rubén Salgado Escudero is from Myanmar. T F
5. Some villages will have larger solar panels in the future. T F
E Find these sentences in the third paragraph. Write the phrases for giving reasons.
1. Fishermen went fishing before sunrise ____________ the solar panels.
2. Children could do their homework ____________ electricity.
G Use the phrases in E to write sentences about two of the following environmental problems.
1. ______________________________ air pollution, ______________________________
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2. ______________________________ global warming, ___________________________
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3. ______________________________ deforestation, _____________________________
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4. ______________________________ the increasing use of energy, _____________
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✔️GOAL CHECK
1. In groups, imagine you have these problems in your town or city. Make a list of solutions for each.
• A lot of people don't recycle plastic bottles. Everyone drives to work, so the traffic is bad.
• Lots of young people don't have jobs.
• There's nowhere for people to relax downtown.
2. Present your solutions to the class. Tell them what you are going to do about each problem and why.
We are going to build a new park.
Because of the new park, people will have a place to relax.
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In this photo by Rubén Salgado Escudero, a fisherman in Myanmar holds a solar panel and light.
Electricity from the Sun
When you go home this evening after school or after work, you're probably going to switch a light on, turn the heat or air conditioning on, cook dinner, or watch TV. Whatever you plan to do, you're probably going to use electricity.
Most of us use electricity without thinking about it, but outside of the cities, people get light from the sun during the day and from candles at night. Candles are expensive and dangerous, but now there is a safer and cheaper solution to this problem: small solar panels are easy to use and can give electricity immediately.
When Spanish photographer Rubén Salgado Escudero first visited Myanmar, he said: "I worked in villages and the people had no light at night. Then, one day, I visited a village with solar lights and people's everyday life was much easier. For example, fishermen went fishing before sunrise because of the solar panels. Children could do their homework as a result of electricity."
After his first visit, Rubén showed his photographs of people with their solar lights and he raised money to pay for more solar lights. Now, more people in Myanmar have solar panels; these panels take energy from the sun and then provide 12 hours of light during the night. In the future, Myanmar is going to build larger solar panels for some of these villages.
raise money (verb phrase) to ask for and receive money for a special purpose
