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  • Earth Day? more like birthday!

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  • Sorry, that was weird, I was going to try and go somewhere and then I didn't.

  • Hi, everybody!

  • Welcome back to Top Words.

  • My name is Alisha, and today we're going to be talking about 10 ways to save planet Earth

  • in English.

  • Let's go!

  • To recycle The first word is recycle, to recycle.

  • Recycling something means re... oh no, not reusing, but now it means to break something

  • down and then make a new thing from the broken down materials.

  • So in a sentence, “recycling takes more time but it's worth it.”

  • That is not necessarily true.

  • To volunteer The next word is volunteer, to volunteer as

  • a verb.

  • Volunteers also used as a noun to talk about a person, but we can use volunteer as a verb

  • to mean to give your time for free.

  • “I volunteer at the elementary school in my town.”

  • To protect The next word is to protect.

  • So to protect means to keep something safe or to like to guard against something bad

  • happening.

  • To protect something.

  • So we want to protect Earth, we want to protect endangered species, we want to protect ourselves,

  • we want to protect the environment.; we can use protect in many different ways to talk

  • about the Earth.

  • In another sentence, “the law which protects endangered animals is currently under threat.”

  • To reuse So the next word is reuse.

  • Reuse like recycle, starts with the prefix re-.

  • Re- means to do again, so re- plus the verb that comes after it, means to do again this

  • verb.

  • In this case, we have re + use, meaning use again.

  • So you can reuse a water bottle, you can reuse a plastic bag, reuse...

  • I don't even know, whatever it is you want to use again, you can say reuse to describe

  • that.

  • In a sentence, “I reuse plastic bags until they start to tear.”

  • To reduce trash The next word is reduce trash, to reduce trash.

  • So to reduce something means to make less of something or to cut something, in this

  • case, trash.

  • You could say to reduce garbage also, if you want to.

  • But in a sentence, let's see

  • “I will reduce my trash by composting.”

  • Composting is like mixing dirt with organic materials, organic trash, to make something

  • you can grow plants in.

  • To care for the environment The next expression is to care for the environment.

  • To care for the environment means to take care of the environment, to be nice to the

  • environment.

  • So that means for example, not pouring chemicals into water or trying to make sure trees are

  • not cut down, there are many different ways to care for the environment.

  • In a sentence, “it's important that we all care for the environment.”

  • To use eco-friendly products The next expression is to use eco-friendly

  • products.

  • So eco-friendly, eco- is short for ecology, be careful, in your country eco- might be

  • pronounced differently; like in Japanese some people will say e-co, but in English we say

  • eco-friendly, so be careful of your pronunciation with this one.

  • So eco-friendly products means products which are friendly or products which are good for

  • the environment, or products which are ecologically friendly or ecologically good.

  • So this phrase is sometimes shortened to justgreen products,” that's what they call

  • this.

  • In a sentence “I buy and use eco-friendly products.”

  • To save water The next expression is to save water.

  • To save water means just not to use a lot of water, so for example, you take a shower

  • instead of taking a bath, or you turn off the water when you're brushing your teeth,

  • or some people, I think, put like water conserving equipment in their toilets to like so that

  • there's less water flowing through every time you flush.

  • So there are many different ways to save water.

  • In a sentence, “I take short showers to save water.”

  • To ride a bike The next expression is to ride a bike, or

  • to ride a bicycle is fine, too.

  • So it's a different way to get to work or to get to school, it doesn't use gasoline,

  • you don't have to take the train, good for your health as well.

  • So to ride a bike, or to ride a bicycle.

  • Bike and bicycle, in American English, mean the same thing.

  • Motorcycle is the word we use for the... this one.

  • If you ride your bike to work you can get health benefits, probably.

  • Okay or this sentence says, “I ride a bike to work and I've saved energy and money.”

  • To carpool Ah! okay, I haven't seen this word in a while.

  • The next word is to carpool.

  • Carpool.

  • I wonder why we say carpool?

  • So car and pool together means to ride in the same car, like presumably to work or to

  • school, with the same people.

  • So instead of four cars for people going to the same place and four cars, all four people

  • get together in one car and go to that place together.

  • So the idea is that you're reducing the amount of pollution, reducing the amount of resources

  • it takes to commute, to go somewhere.

  • So in a sentence “I carpooled with my friends every day in high school.”

  • That's not true.

  • My office organized a carpool to help the environment.”

  • Alright!

  • So that's the end!

  • Those are ten phrases that you can use to talk about how to save the planet Earth in

  • English.

  • If you have any other ideas or if there's anything that you do to try to help the earth,

  • let us know in the comments.

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