Learn English About WORLD PROBLEMS l Learn World Problems English Vocabulary

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hello everyone welcome back to the  English Danny Channel I am teacher  
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Sarah today's video is part of our 30 days  to powerful vocabulary series in this series  
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we explain important vocabulary words each day  to help you understand and speak better about  
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different topics in English today's topic  is world problems now let's get started
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there are many problems in the world today and  they are often part of our conversations it can  
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be difficult to talk about world issues in English  so today let's learn some helpful vocabulary we  
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can use to talk about world problems our words  today are environment Natural Resource poverty  
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exploitation and epidemic our first word today is  environment the environment is all the land oceans  
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air plants and animals that make up our natural  world when someone mentions the environment when  
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talking about world problems they are referring to  problems in nature do you think the environment is  
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important our next term today is natural resource  a natural resource is something from nature that  
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we use for our own purpose for example trees are  a natural resource because they are something in  
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nature that we can use to make things like houses  paper and furniture some other natural resources  
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are water minerals oil soil and even the animals  we eat another word we often hear when talking  
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about Natural Resources is shortage a shortage  means that there is not enough of something for  
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example in the desert there is a shortage of water  let's talk about our next word poverty poverty is  
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a noun and is the state of having little or no  money and few or no possessions poverty means  
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extremely poor if someone does not have much money  or any money and cannot buy things like food a  
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home or medicine they live in poverty let's use it  in a sentence many people in the world today still  
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live in poverty or I think poverty is a serious  problem our fourth word today is exploitation  
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this is a high-level vocabulary word that we can  use as a noun exploitation or as a verb exploit  
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exploitation means to treat someone unfairly in  order to benefit from their work it also means  
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to use someone or something to achieve one's own  purposes here is an example of exploitation if  
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someone has a very successful business but pays  their workers so little that they live in poverty  
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that is exploitation child labor and sweatshops  are also examples of exploitation our last term  
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today is epidemic this is a noun that means  something bad usually a disease that spreads  
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very fast across a large region or across the  world right now we are living through the kovin  
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19 epidemic it is a disease that spread very fast  around the world some other famous epidemics were  
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the AIDS epidemic and SARS let's use it in  a sentence we need to prepare better for  
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the next big epidemic this word can also be used  to talk about other bad things that spread fast  
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for example we could say there is an epidemic of  cheating on exam in my school okay students that's  
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it for today's 30 days to powerful vocabulary  lesson please like and share this video and  
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