Thursday 4th April

Conversation Topic: Aviation, Renewable Energy, Pollution

Follow up links relating to discussion:

Renewable Energy/Pollution

• Article: The Pros and Cons of electric cars http://www.bankrate.com/financing/cars/pros-and-cons-of-electric-cars/
• Article: Are Electric Cars the future? - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415070,00.asp
• Article: Electric Car Sales in China - http://chinatrack.typepad.com/blog/2012/10/china-in-the-debates-electric-car-sales-in-china.html
• Video and Transcript: The Future of Energy http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/future-energy-production 
• Video (no transcript) : What are the greatest challenges to the world's energy needs? http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/b-metcalfe-what-are-the-greatest-challenges-to-the-worlds-energy-needs.htm

Geopolitics

• Radio Interview with Stuart Banner on the Harvard University Press Podcast on his book "Who owns the sky?" http://www.hup.harvard.edu/news/audio/BANTRE.mp3
• Article: Arctic Ownership Claims http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/arctic-ownership-claims

Things to remember:

• "Possession/Position" - be careful to distinguish between [e]/[i] in the middle of the word
• "take something into account" 
• definition = to remember to consider someone or something. 
• example = "It is important to take into account the amount of money it costs to build these solar panels." 
• "When considering alternative renewable energy sources we must take lots of things into account."
• The pronunciation of "metal" - http://translate.google.com/#fr/en/metal
• Ecraser - to crush -  http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/g/ecraser.htm