Unit 10: Ethics Task 4: Listening: Vũ Thị Thanh Quyên Phạm Trọng Hiếu Phạm Ngọc Phương Thủy Lê Minh Phương

Unit 10: Ethics
Task 4: Listening
Vũ Thị Thanh Quyên
Phạm Trọng Hiếu
Phạm Ngọc Phương Thủy
Lê Minh Phương
A&B: CD 2.26 David Hillyard, Director of Programmes at
Earth Watch, is describing his organisation.
A: Listen to the first part of the interview and complete the gaps. Write
ONE WORD for each gap.
EarthWatch is an (1)…………………..research and (2) …………………..and (3)
………………….. organization, and we have over (4) …………………..field
research projects around the (5)……………….. . That involves, er, (6)
………………….. looking at how animals and (7)………………….. are coping in
their natural (8) …………………..
B. Listen and answer the questions.

1. Where does EarthWatch have offices?
2. How are EarthWatch’s field research projects designed?
ANSWER A
1. international
2. conservation
3. education
4. 100
5. world
6. scientists
7. plants
8. environment
ANSWER B
2. How are EarthWatch’s field research

1. Where does EarthWatch have offices? projects designed?
So that members of the public, company
The US, the UK, India, Melbourne (Australia), employees, teachers, young people and
Japan, China young scientists can join researchers in the
field as field assistants and collect real data
that contributes to understanding what is
happening.
SCRIPT CD2.26
Earthwatch is an international research and conservation and education organization and we have
over 100 field research projects around the world that involves scientists looking at how animals
and plants are cooping in an nature environment. So in all this hundred project support office from
officers that we have in the US and the UK, in India, in melbourne, in the Japan and China and the
purpose of our work to provide the scientific data about what's happening to animals and plants in
the world as climate change and as human population expands and as the environment is degraded.
All our project research is design in a way members of the public: company employees, teacher,
youth, young scientists can join our researchers in the field as field assistance and collect real data
that is contributing to understanding what is happening.
C. CD2.27. Listen to the second part of the interview and
complete the gaps. Write NO MORE THAN TWO (2) WORDS
for each gap. (I = interviewer, DH = David Hillyard)
I : What role can corporate sponsors play in helping the environment?

DH: Companies have a huge role to play. Er, our (1)…………………………is based on the companies operating and
producing goods and services that we (2) ……………………. So, fundamentally, businesses need to change the way they
operate in order to help and reduce the (3)………………………… of their operations. I think many companies are able to set
(4)…………………………, to innovate and to find (5)………………………… to the environmental problems we have. So,
erm, most people in the world work for a company, so the (6)………………………… for companies to educate and engage
their employees and get their employees (7)…………………… and (8) …………………………to do something in their own
communities or in their (9) …………………………with respect to the environment is a big opportunity that… that
EarthWatch certainly believes in, and EarthWatch works with many companies to try and promote (10)
………………………………….. and promote good practice so that those (11)……………………………………… can then
influence other companies to follow, and also influence government.
1. global economy
2. consume
3. environmental impact
4. leading examples
5. new solutions
ANSWER 6. opportunity
7. inspired
8. motivated
9. workplace
10. environmental change
11. leading companies
I : What role can corporate sponsors play in helping the environment?
DH : Companies have a huge role to play. Er, our global economy is
based on the companies operating and producing goods and services
that we consume. So, fundamentally, businesses need to change the
way they operate in order to help and reduce the environmental impact
of their operations. I think many companies are able to set leading
examples, to innovate and to find new solutions to the environmental
SCRIPT problems we have. So, erm, most people in the world work for a
company, so the opportunity for companies to educate and engage
CD 2.27 their employees and get their employees inspired and motivated to do
something in their own communities or in their workplace with respect
to the environment is a big opportunity that… that EarthWatch certainly
believes in, and EarthWatch works with many companies to try and
promote environmental change and promote good practice so that
those leading companies can then influence other companies to
follow, and also influence government.
D. CD2.28. Listen to the final part of the interview and decide if the
statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false statements.
1. HSBC, a partner of EarthWatch, is a Chinese bank.

2. EarthWatch provides a learning opportunity online for employees
of WWF, the Smithsonian Institute, and HSBC.
3. EarthWatch is establishing five climate – change research centres in
the world.
4. Over the next five years 3,000 HSBC employees will join EarthWatch’s
field researchers.
5. EarthWatch will conduct field research in India, in Brazil, in the US, in
China and Japan.
6. EarthWatch call company employees involved in its research
ambassadors for environmental change.
1 F (Chinese bank->global bank)
2 T
ANSWER 3 T
4 F (3.000 -> 2.000)
5 F (Japan -> UK)
6 T
SCRIPT CD2.28
So, for example, we work with HSBC, the global bank, on a climate partnership which is in collaboration
with other key conservation organisations such as WWF and the Smithsonian Institute, and through that,
we're providing a learning opportunity online for every single HSBC employee around the world and also
setting up five climate-change research centres around the world, and 2,000 HSBC employees over the next
five years will join our field researchers in India, in Brazil, in the US, in the UK and in China to carry out
data collection to understand how forests are, are coping with climate change and what is happening and
what, what, how animals and plants are being affected. So that's a very important programme, and it's a very
important way of getting company employees involved in our work, understanding what the issues are and
then taking that back into their workplace and becoming, we call them climate champions, ambassadors for,
for environmental change, so that they can then influence their colleagues and also the way that HSBC
operates as a business. So that's an example of a very important programme for us, erm, and a demonstration
of how a company can, erm, can and should make a difference in terms of these issues.
E. In what other ways
could businesses involve
their employees in
environmental issues?
Hold an environmental workshop that highlights
1
the consequences when environmental problems
arise and how it affects employees' lives.
ANSWER
Create surveys about the environment, climate
2
change and ask employees to take surveys.
Ask employees to conduct research on

3
environmental issues and relate them to their
jobs and departments
Thanks For Listening

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B. Listen and answer the questions.

2. How are EarthWatch’s field research

I : What role can corporate sponsors play in helping the environment?

1. HSBC, a partner of EarthWatch, is a Chinese bank.

4 F (3.000 -> 2.000)

5 F (Japan -> UK)

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