english 1a & 4a

environmentally friendly

umweltfreundlich

values

Werte

e.g. People have very different moral ....

score

Punktzahl; Spielstand, Resultat; Punktzahl erzielen e.g. The final ... was 3 - 1 to group B and Janet ... the most points.

packaging

Verpackung

avoid doing something

vermeiden etwas zu tun

tap

Wasserhahn

tap water

Leitungswasser

add up

addieren, aufsummieren; aufgehen

divide by

dividieren durch

subtract from

subtrahieren von

live up to one's intentions

seinen Absichten gerecht werden

e.g. I couldn't ... ... ... my ... to eat less meat.

failure

Versagen

put a question to somebody

jemanden fragen

turn out

sich herausstellen

e.g. The hotel room ... ... to be much smaller than it looked like in the picture.

make sacrifices

Opfer bringen

likely

wahrscheinlich

SYN: probably

come true

wahr werden

fossil fuels

fossile Brennstoffe

generate electricity

Strom erzeugen

pay a fine

eine Geldstrafe bezahlen

single-use containers

Einweggefässe

desalination plant

Entsalzungsanlage

e.g. ... ...s are being used more and more to provide people with freshwater.

frequent occurrence

häufiges Ereignis

reusable

wiederverwendbar

e.g. They are now selling ... shopping bags.

follow a certain diet

sich an einen Ernährungsplan halten

e.g. I am feeling better because I am ...ing ... low-fat ....

ban, banned, banned

untersagen; verbieten (all three forms)

below zero

unter Null

boiling

siedend heiss

e.g. It's too hot today. It's ....

breeze

Brise

chilly

frostig

e.g. It's a bit ... in here. Shall I put the heating on?

cool

kühl

damp

feucht

e.g. My jacket is still ... from walking in the rain yesterday.

drizzle

Nieselregen; nieseln

e.g. It started to ..., but didn't rain heavily.

freezing

sehr kalt

e.g. It's ...! I'll have to scrape the ice from my car. freeze - froze - frozen

freeze, froze, frozen

frieren, fror, gefroren

humid

feucht

e.g. We live close to a river so the air is often ... in summer.

humidity

Feuchtigkeit, Luftfeuchtigkeit

mild

mild

pour with rain

in Strömen giessen, regnen

shower

Regenguss

e.g. Let's wait a minute to see if it's just a short ....

warm

warm

fog

Nebel

foggy

neblig

mist

Dunst, feiner Nebel

misty

dunstig, leicht neblig

smog

Smog

e.g. The pollution causes a thick ... which covers the city.

blizzard

Schneesturm

e.g. A ... is a snow storm with very strong winds.

drought

Dürre

flood

Überflutung; überfluten

hail

Hagel

heatwave

Hitzewelle

hurricane

Hurrikan; Orkan

lightning

Blitz

e.g. The flash of ... could be seen for miles.

monsoon

Monsun

e.g. We get very heavy rains in the ... season.

thunder

Donner

e.g. Our cat is afraid of ... and lightning.

bright

hell; heiter

changeable

wechselhaft

e.g. The weather is often very ... in the UK.

clear

klar

heavy

stark (hier)

e.g. The rain was so ... I had to stop driving.

icy

gefroren; glatt

settled

beständig

e.g. After a period of changeable weather, it became much more ....

strong

stark

sunny

sonnig

thick

dicht

e.g. The fog was so ... I couldn't see anything.

scorching

sengend, sehr heiss

e.g. Yet another ..., sunny day - 42 degrees.

feel the effect of

Auswirkung spüren

e.g. People living in rural areas already ... ... ... ... climate change on their crops. "to effect: bewirken; effect of something on something:

effect

bewirken, hervorrufen, erbringen

effect of something on something

Auswirkung von etwas auf etwas

climate change

Klimawandel

on a community level

auf einer Gemeinschaftsebene

share something

etwas teilen

have an impact on something

sich auf etwas auswirken

wildfire

Lauffeuer

spread like wildfire

sich wie ein Lauffeuer verbreiten

huge

riesig

significant

bedeutsam; auffallend

live according to something

sich im Leben nach etwas richten

predictable

voraussagbar; vorhersehbar

predict

vorhersagen, voraussagen

prediction

Vorhersage, Voraussage

erode

erodieren, auswaschen

erosion

Erosion, Abtragung von Boden

be a shame

schade sein

e.g. It is such ... ... you didn't get the job.

What a shame!

Wie schade!

SYN: What a pity!

riverbank

Flussufer

increasingly

zunehmend (Adverb)

increase

Anstieg, Zunahme

decrease

Abnahme, Rückgang

decline

sich verschlechtern; weniger werden; ablehnen

e.g. The interest in the product ... sharply after it proved to be harmful to health.

desertification

Wüstenbildung

prime example of

Musterbeispiel für

e.g. This house is a ... ... ... 1950s architecture.

destroy

zerstören

destruction

Zerstörung, Vernichtung

indistructable

unzerstörbar

be equivalent to

gleichwertig sein zu

e.g. Is 50 $ ... ... about 30 £?

rainfall

Niederschlag

be closely connected with

in einem engen Zusammenhang stehen

connect to something

an etwas anschliessen

make something seem very real

etwas sehr real erscheinen lassen

meteorologist

Meteorologe, Meteorologin