Climate change
Listen to the video and answer the following questions
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/video/88000/nb/88101_16×9_nb.asx
- How important is for a young hunter to learn from older people?
- What do scientists say?
- What do they get from icebergs and the wilderness?
- What does the wildlife ranger say about people from the industrialised world? Why?
- What do hunters search for?
- What’s their fear?
- What has happened to those who have already gone to towns?
- What do hunters eat?
- What did their forefathers foretell?
Key
CLIMATE CHANGE.INUITS
1.How important is for a young hunter to learn from older people?
Very important so that he could pass their culture to his children and grandchildren.
2. What do scientists say?
Artic ice has been going down steadily by 40 per cent in the last 2 decades.
3.What do they get from icebergs and the wilderness?
Drinking water from ice and the wilderness supplies all the necessities for survival.
4.What does the wildlife ranger say about people from the industrialised world? Why?
They make him angry. In the cities there are a lot of cars, planes, they’re polluting the earth I feel that something should be done.
5.What do hunters search for?
Seal holes
6.What’s their fear?
That climate change will push more inuits into the town when they travel they´re cut off from their family and culture.
7.What has happened to those who have already gone to towns?
They are often caught between two worlds. Their suicide rate is 6 times the national average.
8.What do hunters eat?
Frozen caribou meat, cut off and eaten raw.
9.What did their forefathers foretell?
The North will be summer all year.
