B1 – Intermediate
Nature includes the terrestrial and marine environments. It is so interesting that we enjoy life mainly because of the deep-sea elements of our planet Earth. How much do you know about the aquatic environment?
Enjoy reading the article here to appreciate the life beneath the water surfaces.
http://www.english-online.at/biology/marine-biology/life-forms-and-habitats-in-the-worlds-oceans.htm
Discussion Questions:
1. When was the last time you visited a coastal area?
2. How can we keep or preserve our marine areas and marine life-forms?
3. Why is it important to take care of marine life?
4. Have you gone scuba diving or snorkeling? What water sports have you tried in the past?
10 replies on “Life Forms and Habitats in the World’s Oceans”
I’m actulay living in costal area.
We have to reduce de extreme fishing, because it reduce the biodiversity of the sea. I think the fishermen have to not to fish by plundering the sea.
If we don’t take care about the sea, we are lost. We can’t live without the biodiversity of the sea
I never went to snorkeling, but I wish I’ll take some clases in the future. Here we have a caouple of snorkeling scools
Well done writing your answers. Keep in mind that consistency could help you achieve your goals of being able to write better and better.
Be mindful about spelling of some words: actually, coastal, classes, couple, schools.
Keep practicing your writing to continue improving.
1.When was the last time you visited a coastal area? I visited a coastal area last summer. I went with my dauther fifteen days in an aparment.
2. How can we keep or preserve our marine areas and marine life-forms? We preserve our marine areas if we reduce residual wastes, Creates environmental laws and caring for marine life-forms.
3. Why is it important to take care of marine life? Because it is a big part of earth and it influences in our lives.
4. Have you gone scuba diving or snorkeling? What water sports have you tried in the past?
I haven’t gone scube diving or snorkeling. I swimming
Nice to have you on the Phoneenglish blog! Hope you can keep going with this exercise to enhance your writing skills further.
Remember this word order for this sentence: subject + verb + adverb of place + adverb of time.
So instead of, “I went with my dauther fifteen days in an aparment.”, you can say:
Also be a bit mindful of spelling the words “daughter”and “apartment”.
Cheers to more entries from you!
1. Last time I visited a coastal area was a week ago, we had a family reunion near the sea.
2. We need to control the quantity of boats, residual waste and create protected parts to preserve the seabed.
3. It’s important not only for the mamals and fishes, but for the algae that are responsibles of the maintenance and the cleaning of the seas.
4. I’ve never practic a water sport before, but I would love to try it in the future.
You are doing a good job staying consistent with your writing practice.
Take note on how this sentence can be improved with better word choices.
Keep at it!
1. When was the last time you visited a coastal area?
I live right now in Barcelona, Spain so I have near some coastal area near.
2. How can we keep or preserve our marine areas and marine life-forms?
Making people more aware I think its the first step, you may think aware of what ? but is as simple as being aware of the need for the preservation of the nature ecosystem and the damage we could make with tiny actions like throwing the bag of some snack in the sand or worst; in the water.
3. Why is it important to take care of marine life?
The major part of the oxygen we breath comes from seaweed, also it plays a huge involvement in the nature cycles, and at last but not least marine life is another source of food.
4. Have you gone scuba diving or snorkeling? What water sports have you tried in the past?
Not in a profesional way but I do had a scuba diving experience when i was younger in Venezuela.
Swimming, Waterpolo and sort of races with friends jajaj
Good work writing your answers to your lesson’s discussion questions.
Take a look at how this sentence can be written another way:
* Use a comma ( , ) after the first independent clause that is before a coordinating conjunction ( and, but, for, or, nor, yet, so ).
* Always capitalize the pronoun “I”.
* Follow this sentence pattern if you have more than 1 adverb:
Subject + Verb + Object + Adverb Of Place + Adverb Of Time
Place usually comes before Time.
Keep writing to continue achieving progress in improving your skills.
1. When was the last time you visited a coastal area?
I was visiting a coastal area last summer. my last summer holidays I spent in Cadiz, in a small town in the south of Spain, where there is an especial people.The people, the food, the pescaito, the tabancos, (small bars with live flamenco music) where the you can order wine with tapas. the waiters advise you what kind of wine to drink according to the tapa you choose.
2. How can we keep or preserve our marine areas and marine life-forms?
Do not build next to the beach reserving the natural environment.
educate people to keep beaches clean
put more control in the transport of oil with the ships, because then they have accidents, and it is a disaster.
3. Why is it important to take care of marine life?
Marine life is like a lung for life.
Nature recycles everything through the sea.
If we do not take care of the sea, we lose a source of life and food.
4. Have you gone scuba diving or snorkeling? What water sports have you tried in the past?
If I try to snorkel whenever I can, it’s the only sport I do in the water. diving only take a course to get the license, but I do not practice it, at the moment. I prefer practice other sports.
1. When was the last time you visited a coastal area?
Last summer, I visited the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain.
2. How can we keep or preserve our marine areas and marine life-forms?
I think that we can help to preserve the ocean by recycle and reuse in our daily chores, and less plastic in our lives! Donating money to ocean’s cleaning foundation might help as well.
3. Why is it important to take care of marine life?
Self preservation might be one point, but to me is important not to loose our humanity! If we, as human beings, do not take care of marine life, how can we expect that we will be taking care of other human lives?
4. Have you gone scuba diving or snorkeling? What water sports have you tried in the past?
No, I haven’t gone scuba diving or snorkeling. To tell the truth, I’m not a water sports person, sorry.