Environment and society

Environment and society: Applied practice

Discuss sustainability, public behavior, and tradeoffs in everyday policy topics.

B214 min

Handle common B2 public themes with clearer tradeoff language and consequences. Use this lesson to move B2 work into controlled practice.

Warm-up

Key words

waste

residuo

recycling

reciclaje

policy

politica

long-term

a largo plazo

Input

Trabajo hibrido avanzado

Guia de escucha (no transcripcion literal): el debate examina gestion de equipos distribuidos internacionales. Se contrapone la asincronia mejora foco pero complica cohesion con limites practicos y se plantea definir protocolos de coordinacion multizona; el cierre insiste en interoperabilidad.

  • What is the main idea of Trabajo hibrido avanzado?
  • Which expression from the audio can you reuse in conversation?
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Focus

Society and sustainability

Handle common B2 public themes with clearer tradeoff language and consequences.

  • Explain a social or environmental issue.
  • Compare short-term and long-term effects.
  • Support your view with practical reasoning.
El problema no se resuelve a corto plazo.Hace falta una politica mas coherente.El cambio de habitos seria positivo a largo plazo.

Practice

Micro-exercises

Exercise 1

Choose the sentence that best fits this B2 topic.

Exercise 2

Choose the best answer for this environment and society: applied practice situation.

Exercise 3

Complete with the target expression: El problema no se resuelve a corto ___ Choose the best option.

Exercise 4

Choose the Spanish for "waste".

Exercise 5

Choose the Spanish for "recycling".

Exercise 6

Complete with the target expression: El problema no se resuelve a corto ___

Exercise 7

Translate to Spanish: waste.

Exercise 8

Translate to Spanish: recycling.

Exercise 9

Translate to Spanish: policy.

Exercise 10

Translate to Spanish: long-term.

Exercise 11

Put the sentence in the correct order.

problemanoseresuelveacortoplazoEl

Exercise 12

Put the sentence in the correct order.

unapoliticamascoherenteHacefalta

Exercise 13

Put the sentence in the correct order.

habitosseriapositivoalargoplazoElcambiode

Exercise 14

Put the sentence in the correct order.

largoplazoa

Exercise 15

Put the sentence in the correct order.

Environmentandsociety:Appliedpractice

Exercise 16

Choose the most natural reply for this environment and society: applied practice exchange.

Exercise 17

Choose the most natural reply for this environment and society: applied practice exchange.

Exercise 18

Choose the most natural reply for this environment and society: applied practice exchange.

Exercise 19

Choose the most natural reply for this environment and society: applied practice exchange.

Exercise 20

Choose the most natural reply for this environment and society: applied practice exchange.

Use it

Tutor handoff

Copy and paste this prompt into Virtual Tutor to continue the lesson in guided conversation form.

Act as a patient B2 Spanish tutor. Continue this lesson theme: Environment and society. Push me slightly above simple recognition and make me answer with clean, level-appropriate Spanish. Correct grammar, vocabulary choice, and natural phrasing.

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