B1 – Intermediate
Asthma is a serious lifelong, incurable condition. When a person has it, they suffer from difficulties in breathing. According to some studies, traffic pollution causes this medical condition and it has affected millions of people.
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Discussion Questions:
- What is your reaction to this fact “pollution from traffic connects to 4 million new asthma sufferers”?
- Do you know anyone who has asthma or other pulmonary conditions that were caused by pollution? How did it begin and how are they doing now?
- How can air pollution problems be solved?
- Is air pollution a problem in your city? What are its bad effects on people and the environment?
- What do you do to keep your lungs healthy?
4 replies on “Asthma from Traffic Pollution”
What is your reaction to this fact “pollution from traffic connects to 4 million new asthma sufferers”?
My reaction is: this is not possible. ¿what happen with the health? ¿is not important for the society? I think that is a verybig problem and the govermment have to define policies about a healthy enviroment.
Do you know anyone who has asthma or other pulmonary conditions that were caused by pollution? How did it begin and how are they doing now?
I don’t know anything.
How can air pollution problems be solved?
I think the problems can be solved with with government policies worldwide.
Is air pollution a problem in your city? What are its bad effects on people and the environment?
Yes, in my city has a lot of the pollution. This is a problem because a lot of people have bad effects as alergies, itchy eyes, etc.
What do you do to keep your lungs healthy?
I like walking. I tried to walk twices times per week and I don’t smoke anymore since 25 years ago.
You wrote your responses well but you can still improve this one:
I think the problems can be solved with
withgovernment policies worldwide.> I think these problems can be solved by implementing the same environmental policies worldwide.
Keep up the great work!
Pollution in cities is a very grave problem to be solved around the world. Not only is the traffic a cause of pollution but there are also other elements such as the heatings, factories or chemical components to be taken into account.
The most affected are the children since their lungs are not developed enough to bear polluted air. They also breath through their mouth instead of their nose which it prevents them to filter the polluted particles.
I realize that this problem is getting worse day by day. When I was young I knew just a couple of people suffering from this disease but nowadays, the number of them have dramatically increased.
The companies are looking for more clean energy to substitute the current one. However they need to invest huge amount of money in I&D and the results are not satisfactory. In addition, the governments do not give them any support, so the companies do not find any encourage to go on with the research of alternatives energy.
It is definitely a serious problem. Thank you for your responses. Check out some of these sentences and see how you can phrase them better:
Not only is the traffic a cause of pollution but
there arealso other elements such astheheatings, factories or chemical components to be taken into account.> Traffic is not the only cause of pollution to be taken into account but also other elements such as heatings, factories, and chemical substances.
In addition,
thegovernments do not give them any support,so the companies do not find any encourage to go on with the research of alternatives energy.> In addition, governments do not give them any support so they are not encouraged to go on with further researches on alternative energy.
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