Thursday, May 3, 2007

Domestic News Headlines-Text Based Skill 2- Summary(3th May, week 8)

I have chosen “Climate Changes” from the New Zealand Herald as my BLOG assignment. Regarding how to stop global warming, the climate change experts and the enviromentalists have different ideas about the usage of more nuclear power and using the modified biofuel products. Nuclear reactors are dangerous, and land clearance and chemical pesticides and fertilisers used to grow plants could possibly cause huge environmental damage. Hence, simply replacing the old technologies with new technologies will not work. In addition, the mixes of existing policies related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, etc., are also needed to be taken into consideration. Australia has started to use nuclear power and reduced export of mineral products. However, some countries, such as India and China need to do more for our planet. Overall, to completely prevent our planet from heating up so rapidly, it is strongly suggested that our fundamental lifestyles need to be changed.

28 verb forms are in active voice, 6 are in passive voice. Details as follows:-
1. Active voice
1).to fight 2).using 3).boost 4).outline
5).to save 6).come 7).commits 8).to remove
9).insists 10).to stabilize 11).to pay 12)transforming
13).estimates 14).stabilizing 15).avoiding 16).sets
17).mixes 18).can control 19).to pay 20).said
21).had considered 22).replacing 23).wont work 24).to grow 25).could cause 26).criticized 27).said 28).should provide

2. Passive voice
5 Present simple passive as follows:-

1).Modified 2).needed 3).considered 4).envisaged
5).are prepared

1 simple past passive
Were needed











1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well said.