Goal: argue for environmental change using second conditionals, write a TV interview script & public announcement, capitalise correctly, write a 200-word "Protect Our Environment" essay. Heavy in Test 11 (vocab), Test 14 (interview / chart), Test 16 (essay).
📐 Second conditional
- Recipe: If + past simple, would + verb.
- Used for imagined / hoped-for future.
- Use "were" for all persons in formal English.
If we recycled half our waste,
the dumps would shrink in a year.
If I were a minister, I would ban single-use plastic.
📐 Capitalisation
- Start of sentence · the pronoun "I"
- Proper nouns: Udaya, Mr Perera, Sri Lanka, Mars
- Days, months, festivals: Saturday, July, Vesak
- Nationalities, languages: Chinese, Sinhalese, Tamil
- Main words in titles: Let's Protect Our Environment
- Rivers, seas, mountains: the Nile, the Mediterranean Sea
♻ The 3 Rs
- Reduce — buy only what you need · buy in bulk · cloth bag · refuse straws.
- Reuse — glass jars · cloth bags · reed baskets · steel lunch boxes.
- Recycle — cans, glass, plastic, electronics, paper.
- Compost food waste at home.
🌍 Environment vocabulary
- polythene · single-use plastic · biodegradable · compost
- deforestation · poaching · soil erosion · air pollution
- greenhouse effect · global warming · climate change · carbon footprint
- conservation · reforestation · awareness campaign · environmentalist
✍️ Writing — interview, announcement & essay
- TV interview (Test 14 alt): welcome → 1st Q → invite to expand → 2nd Q → advice → close.
- Public announcement (Test 6 alt): heading · who · date · time · affected zones · reason · apology · sign-off.
- Environment essay (Test 16): ~200 words. Striking statistic → 3 action steps → memorable close.
- Word counts: notice 40–50 · paragraph 50–60 · description / letter ~100 · essay ~200.