环境问题/保护,无论是雅思作文,还是module essay,各种变体出现。学生们的难点在于:框架结构和学术语言。本期Australiaway就以学生的作业为例,环境问题除了文本essay写作形式,还可以通过视频essay的形式来表达。一起来看看吧!
视频essay怎么完成
Task Description
You must communicate the importance of your chosen environmental issue to students at you college and encourage them to take action.Using your knowledge of research and persuasion,you are to develop a creative and engaging video to promote your chosen environmental issue.
Australiaway说:作业的难点在于不再是传统的论文,而是制作短视频。论文也好,视频也罢,重要的都是建立框架,再填充内容。
Video Structure
-why your chosen issue is a significant problem in the world today?
-why people may not care about the issue or refuse to acknowledge it?
-why college students need to care about this issue?
-what will happen in the future if this issue is not addressed?
-what viewers can do to address this issue(simple and realistic actions)?
Australiaway说:既然是以interview的形式,那么视频的结构就可以以问题组成。
Lead-in video(油管上关于碳足迹危害的视频,时间:30-40s),相当于一个background信息,作为视频的一个引入。
屏幕上出现第一个问题:What do you think is the biggest environmental issue we face today,播放采访视频,并出现关于碳足迹与全球变暖的联系以及相关危害的资料,出现关键字:Global Warming:the biggest environmental issue(Nova,2014).
(旁白:humanity’s carbon footprint has contributed to global warming,which is one of the biggest environment issues.)
紧接着,出现第二个问题:Do you know what carbon footprint it?,在所有被访者的给出答案之后,屏幕上出现它的官方定义。
屏幕上的关键字:
carbon footprint:shorthand for the amount of carbon(usually in tonnes)being emitted by an activity or organization(EPA).
(旁白:Today,the term“carbon footprint”is often used as shorthand for the amount of carbon(usually in tonnes)being emitted by an activity or organization(EPA).and There is a constantly low level’s of knowledge about carbon footprint.)
屏幕上出现第三四个问题,顺接着采访之后,由此引出以下Nova在2014的研究
屏幕上的关键词:
270 visitor,San Diego park
Question:How global warming works?
Result:Zero could give the right answer.
(旁白:When Michael Ranney,a professor of Education at University of California,surveyed 270 visitors to a San Diego park on how global warming works,he found that exactly zero could provide the proper mechanism.)
屏幕上出现:Why should college students care?出现采访者的答案,仍然是上面那个实验:
屏幕上的关键词:
79 psychology undergraduates at UC Berkeley
Question:How global warming works?
Result:an average of 3.8 out of 9 possible points