Luis talks about his work, life, and philosophy.

Vocabulary

 
 

follow	institute	wonderful
impact	research	basically
map	climate	change (2)
name	namely	pretty (2)
risk	scientist	vegetation
empty	try/tried	across (2)
for me	obvious	avoidable
trend	mankind	evolution
tasty	lay/laid	climate change
stone	scale (2)	globalization
path	mean (3)	challenge
local	attitude	reflect (2)
main	even (2)	all the way
CO2	scale (3)	emit/emission
part	process	ever since
still	commit	understand/understood/understood
trans	codfish	take/took/taken
task	enhance	make/made/made
variety		country (2)

 

 

Questions

 
1. Who is this person? What’s his name?

2. Where is he from? Where does he live and work?

3. What is his job? What does he do?

4. Globalization is modern and recent. Yes or no?

5. Do people live in isolation or are they all interconnected? Give examples.

6. What makes him happy?

7. Is his favorite food beef and chicken?

8. He wants to visit Russia. Why does he want to visit Russia?

A. Do you live in Portugal? Are you from Portugal? Have you been to Portugal?

B. Have you met people from Portugal? What were they doing?

C. Describe the climate and geography of Portugal.

D. Describe the economy of Portugal. What does it import and export?

E. What are some problems of Portugal?

F. What is Portuguese food or cuisine like?

G. What are some tourist attractions (cultural, historical, natural)?