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IELTS Vocabulary Renewable Energy Sources
Jan 9, 2025
IELTS Vocabulary Renewable Energy Sources
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IELTS vocabulary renewable energy and
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sustain sustainable Technologies hi
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there my name is Ben Worthington and in
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this very practical tutorial we're going
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to look at the passive voice we're going
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to look at pros and cons regarding
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renewable energy you're going to hear a
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boat load an absolute ton of topic
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specific vocabulary collocations we're
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going to look at model sentences we're
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going to look at speaking part three
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questions and model answers this will be
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insanely valuable for you if you are
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struggling with vocabulary and if you're
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struggling with
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ideas now the way to solve your struggle
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with ideas is to get information about
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the
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topic and this is a very effective this
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tutorial will be a very highlevel
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practical
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straightforward way in which you can
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very quickly in about 20 minutes learn
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about renewable energy sources you don't
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need to know it inside out you just need
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to have a rough idea so you can at least
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you know if if we were talking you could
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at least speak to me about it for a
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minute or so that's all you need okay
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and it's a very
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easy um topic to get your head around
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it's not something so Niche but it's
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definitely recommended because the
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examiners you know they're setting their
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questions they're impacted by what's
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going on in the world and a very very
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frequent and important topic is climate
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change and one of the solutions op
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proposed Solutions towards climate
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change or regarding climate change is
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renewable energy sources so you're going
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to learn about these right now in an
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ielt context and get all your
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vocabulary and um also we're going to
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look at a grammar Point called the
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passive voice I've covered the passive
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voice before but there's no harm in
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doing it again repetition is the mother
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of all learning before we jump into this
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class let me just tell you who I am my
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name is Ben Worthington I'm from the UK
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I recently came back I have been outside
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of the UK for a long time a lot of
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English people used to say I don't sound
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English which is kind of
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infuriating one Belgian person actually
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after I helped them in the train station
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in Valencia Spain they said oh your
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English is really
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good
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so I just smiled and said thanks
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yeah this is what happens when you live
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abroad and you're not interacting with
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people from your own country and you're
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teaching English every day and that's
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what exactly what I was doing and then I
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started finding students who were
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struggling with the eye out so I was
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like and then I tried to teach it I was
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struggling too and then I quickly got my
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act together and started helping those
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students and gaining my competence
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gaining my skills improving them to the
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point uh where we are today and we've
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got our AIS Checker it's completely free
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we've got uh courses to help you pass
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fast and it's all centered around a very
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practical way to move forward so let's
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jump into it what are renewable energy
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and sustainable energy uh energy
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sustainable energy Technologies well
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these are pivotal they are key to help
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us move away from fossil fuels these
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include uh wind turbines uh wind energy
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solar energy uh biomass biog gas all of
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these these are all different types of
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energy and the general idea is that
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they're going to help us move away from
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fossil fuels which are contributing to
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global warming because when they are
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used when they are burnt they give off
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CO2 let's jump into it
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so passive voice the passive voice is
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used especially in academic English to
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emphasize the action and the receiver of
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the action rather than the actual doer
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so this is particularly useful in
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scientific and technical writing and as
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I said before academic writing to focus
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on the process and the
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results so if you're studying for iarts
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academic um having a good grasp of the
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passive structure will be insanely
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useful for when we have to describe a
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natural process for
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example so here's an example sentence
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the electricity is generated by the wind
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turbine and this highlights okay the
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process and the outcome without
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specifying who actually is operating the
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turbine there we go let's have a look at
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some of the pros and cons regarding
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renewable energy one it reduces
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greenhouse gas
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emissions now as I said in a previous
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tutorial you can't just leave it like
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that you would have to say this is
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because or it reduces greenhouse gas
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emissions
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since it does not rely on fossil fuels
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okay so see these are the pros of
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renewable energies but we some of a lot
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of them will need developing and you
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develop it by using because s and why
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asking yourself why and keep going down
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that little rabbit hole okay um next Pro
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of renewable energy it decreases
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dependency on fossil fuels it enhances
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energy security and Supply
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stability side note a good exercise here
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is to ask
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yourself or or write down these points
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and then try and develop them f and if
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you can't develop them further just put
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what you wrote down into Google start
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reading about it
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and um start getting into the practice
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of after all of these Pros saying this
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is because and try and complete the
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sentence okay uh it supports local
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economies and job creation in new
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Industries this is because pause think
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why why does it support local economies
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it encourages local technological
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inovation and efficiency this is because
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okay it improves Public Health by
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reducing pollution it promotes energy
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Independence it increases the consumer
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choice in energy
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sources all of these are given as
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absolutes you need to transform them
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into
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um into hedged statements it can
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increase consumer Choice it often
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promotes energy Independence it can
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improve Public Health by reducing public
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uh pollution what are some of the cons
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High initial cost for infrastructure and
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technology technolog technology
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development intermittency issues with
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solar and wind energy this is because
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when it's cloudy solar shuts down when
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it's not
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windy wind turbines cannot produce
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electricity it requires significant land
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use for some technologies impacting
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local ecosystems
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how are you going to develop this one
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just think pause how are you going to
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develop that it requires significant
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land use for some technologies impacting
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local
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ecosystems it can lead to a displacement
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of communities especially in large Hydro
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projects this is because okay it may
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face public resistance due to aesthetic
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and environmental concerns in the UK a
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lot of environmentalists um were
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against wind turbines being put on the
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mes here and one comment was that they
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chop up birds okay I shouldn't be
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laughing it's not funny but the I always
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remember one environmentalist saying
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they chop up birds and this is obviously
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because as the bird flies through the
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wind turbines the blade if it gets
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unlucky chop uh energy output can be
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less predictable than traditional fossil
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fuels we kind of just mentioned that one
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before when we're talking talking about
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intermittency and this one was better
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because we mentioned uh fossil fuels
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which don't have that don't has as
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severe intermittency issues topic
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specific vocabulary and
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collocations Energy Efficiency solar
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power generation wind turbine
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installation hydroelectric capacity
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geothermal plants biomass conversion
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renewable sources that's a great one I
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love it when it's double barreled when
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they both start with the same letter I
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find it easier to
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remember and as I've said in previous
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tutorials a collocation like that when
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we say renewable there's a higher
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percentage chance of using resources
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than um another word and because we know
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as native English speakers and higher
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level English speakers because we know
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that there's higher chance we're half
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expecting it and that
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eases um it makes it listening to
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somebody who's using a lot of
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collocations makes listening to them
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easier because we're expecting what they
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say next sustainable development goals
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and Green Technology adoption some great
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words let's have a look at these in
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context solar power generation is
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increased significantly when Energy
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Efficiency measures are implemented
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wind turbine installation has been
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completed across social regions to
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harness wind energy
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effectively hopefully you've noticed
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these are what these are mainly all of
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them will be sorry most of them will be
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in the passive structure just to get you
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familiar with
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it wind again wind turbine installation
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has been completed across coastal
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regions to harness wind energy efficient
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effectively so we don't don't know who
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installed them that we and we don't need
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to in this specific sentence the main
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focus is on what happened which was wind
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installation sorry wind turbine
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installation and that's what's a useful
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feature of the passive structure
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geothermal plants are operated to
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provide a constant supply of energy due
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to the Earth's heat beautiful biomass
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conversion into energy is seen as a
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crucial step towards achieving
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sustainable development
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goals sustainable development goals are
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achieved through dedicated International
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cooperation again probably want to hedge
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that are often
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achieved yeah a reduction in harmful
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emissions is ensured by the adoption of
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biomass conversion techniques fancy
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sentences these new standards for Energy
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Efficiency are set by regulatory bodies
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to promote green technology adoption
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super let's have a look at speaking part
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three questions and model answers why is
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renewable energy considered important
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for future
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Generations now you may want to just
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pause this before um you hear my answer
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try it try writing down a few points if
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you're alone pause the
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recording and speak your answer and and
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i' strongly recommend you speak your
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answer because you be what happens with
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a lot of us is like we say ah I could
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easily answer that and then when you
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actually do it when you actually start
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opening your mouth and speaking your
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words you're
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like nothing comes out and the only way
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to solve this is by actually doing it
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actually um pause and recording now and
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answer this question why is renewable
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energy considered important for future
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gener
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erations here's my answer renewable
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energy is considered crucial because it
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ensures a sustainable and stable
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environment for future Generations
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Technologies like solar power generation
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and wind turbine
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installation play key roles in this
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significantly reducing the Reliance on
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fossil fuels and also decreasing
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pollution should governments in invest
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more in renewable energy infrastructure
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again pause pause the recording give
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yourself a minute oh yeah pull out your
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phone set the timer for 30 seconds or a
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minute how long can you talk about this
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should governments invest more in
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renewable energy
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infrastructure you know what I I
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remember one student she really
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struggled with nerves and she knew the
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topics she had ideas but when it came to
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actually talking about it she stumbled
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this is incredibly common what she would
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what the way she solved this was getting
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a list of topics speaking questions she
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did this for both the IELTS writing and
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I speaking and jotted down a few ideas
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of each one and then for the speaking uh
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she went through these and with the
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ideas in front of her she started
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talking about them of course when she
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got no idea she went online and
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researched it but she got the questions
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then she jotted ideas if there are any
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blank spots where her mind goes blank
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she goes online and she researches it
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comes back now she's got a full few
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bullet points and then stage three was
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going through every one of them talking
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aloud and then using the actual bullet
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points and step four stage
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four was just looking at the questions
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and talking about the topics without the
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notes so it's just taking taking small
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steps towards getting to that speaking
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competency that we need and she did all
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of this alone a side note if you want to
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do this what you can do nowadays is
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transcribe your answers you can use your
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phone for
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this using the dictation function um you
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can use other software and then get your
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answer transcribed into Google doc and
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there you're going to get it corrected
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you're going to see the errors that you
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make next tip uh next question sorry
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what are the main barriers to adopting
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Renewable Energy Technologies the main
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barriers include High initial costs
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technological challenges like energy
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storage and even public resistance to
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changes in the
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landscape however these are being
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addressed through advancements in
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technology and increased public
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awareness politician style answer that
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how have sustainable Technologies
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changed in the past
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decade over the past decade sustainable
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technologies have evolved rapidly solar
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panels have become ever more efficient
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and less expensive and wind turbines
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have been en enhanced for better
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performance this Evolution has made
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renewable energy more accessible and
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practical is renewable energy common in
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your
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country very very very common question
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this does XYZ happen in your country all
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right in my country renewable energy is
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becoming increasingly common thanks to
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government incentives and growing public
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awareness of environmental issues
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projects like hydroelectric capacity
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expansion and wind turbine installation
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are becoming more prevalent as part of
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this
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push there we go so hopefully you've got
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more ideas now about renewable energy uh
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the technology behind it and renewable
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energy
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sources hopefully you were taking notes
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hopefully you've implemented some of the
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actions I was suggesting such as pausing
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answering it yourself discovering your
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own weak spots and yeah this is you know
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I'm trying to help students who are
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