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The 11th Hour Workshop

The documentary "The 11th Hour" addresses the grave problems facing the planet's ecosystems from global warming, deforestation, mass extinction of species, and depletion of ocean habitats. It features over 50 contributors including scientists, politicians, and activists discussing these issues and potential solutions. The film calls for restorative action through sustainable technology, social responsibility, and conservation in order to reshape human activity and ensure humanity's future on Earth.

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The 11th Hour Workshop

The documentary "The 11th Hour" addresses the grave problems facing the planet's ecosystems from global warming, deforestation, mass extinction of species, and depletion of ocean habitats. It features over 50 contributors including scientists, politicians, and activists discussing these issues and potential solutions. The film calls for restorative action through sustainable technology, social responsibility, and conservation in order to reshape human activity and ensure humanity's future on Earth.

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“The 11th Hour” Workshop

“The 11th Hour” is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo
DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual
Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, and about a year after
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, another film documentary about global warming. With contributions
from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul
Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming,
deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's
premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these
problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity
through technology, social responsibility and conservation.

1. Select the syllable carrying the stress in the word:

Atmosphere Community Impact Society


Balance Disasters Media Species
Biosphere Environment Nature Suicide
Civilization Genes Pressure Survive
Climate Humanity Scientists Temperature

2. Match the word with its meaning:

1. Amazing (5) Separate


2. Century (8) Attain
3. Depict (10) Inside
4. Detail (4) Specify
5. Isolate (6) Tight
6. Narrow (3) Illustrate
7. Perhaps (9) Astonishing
8. Reach (1) Unbelievable
9. Stunning (2) 100 years
10. Within (7) Maybe

3. Practice the pronunciation of the following verbs:

Compared Created Destroyed Isolated


Complicated Damaged Evolved Recognized
Conditioned Depicted Infected Trapped

4. What do these words have in common? These words are adjectives

Ecological Incredible Superior


Environmental Intellectual Technological
Fundamental Large-scale
Global Marvelous
5. From the beginning of the documentary to the minute 19’32, write about your opinion
about two experts from the video that you think are inspiring and have an impact in you
regarding the concept of Nature, Humanity, Life and Global Warming.

I was struck when astrophysicist Stephen Hawking stated: "life on Earth is possible only
because a number of parameters lie in certain very narrow ranges" and one of those
ranges is that the earth has the right temperature and pressure to live with water, what
some cosmologists call the "anthropic principle". Scientist David Suzuki states: "we live
in a human-created environment where it's very easy to think we're different from other
creatures...we don't need nature...it's the economy that's the most important thing". And
in reality we have lost the connection with nature in such a way that our relationship
with it is one of domination and destruction.

6. From the minute 37’32 to 49’55, write about your opinion about the political, economic,
consumerist and environmental situation we have been experiencing right now taking into
account the interviews and comments from this segment.

Evidently, the situation in which we find ourselves now responds to a consumerist


ideology that has placed economic, technological and industrial activity as an end in
itself and not as a means for humans to coexist on earth. In addition, public policies are
not at the service of the common good or in reference to the environment.

7. From the minute 1’12’12, to 1’21’36 what do you think you can do in order to appreciate
nature more and make a change? Include a conclusion.

I believe that we need to redirect the course towards a more collective, humanistic and
profoundly ecological consciousness. An awareness of the common good based on an
education that allows us to forge new convictions, attitudes and lifestyles. It is a great
cultural challenge that allows a transition from a consumerist economic development
model to a sustainable development model.

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