tailieunhanh - Luyện thi IELTS (p42)

Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p42)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 7 ENVIRO-LOO Hello. I m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English IELTS preparation. Today we have an environmental theme on Study English but it s an environmental story with a difference. We find out about a new toilet system that has been developed to save the local environment in a Tasmanian park. We re going to be looking at how to talk about processes so listen carefully to David Holman talk about his new environmentally friendly toilet. The liquid waste comes from the toilet behind me. There s a containment vessel for the solids. From the bottom of the solids you drain off the liquid and it comes down here down this pipe. OK. The pipe tips into this tipping bucket arrangement and what this does is it fills up to a point and then it suddenly tips and that will measure each time it tips. So we can calculate the amount of liquid effluent that s gone in. As that fills up you can see the towelling material here will come in contact with the effluent the air is drawn in through these holes and will actually direct the air in onto the surface of the water through the wick and out through the top. OK so David was talking about how his toilet the Enviro-Loo works. He was describing a process . Today we re going to look at the type of language you ll need to describe processes. We ll listen to David again. This time listen out for the types of verbs he uses. The liquid waste comes from the toilet behind me. There s a containment vessel for the solids. From the bottom of the solids you drain off the liquid and it comes down here down this pipe. OK. The pipe tips into this tipping bucket arrangement and what this does is it fills up to a point and then it suddenly tips and that will measure each time it tips. So we can calculate the amount of liquid effluent that s gone in. David uses a variety of verbs and tenses. But mostly he uses the simple present tense . o insearch o TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY Page 1 of 5 The simple present is often used to describe .