hello everyone welcome back to the English Danny Channel I am teacher
Sarah today's video is part of our 30 days to powerful vocabulary series in this series
we explain important vocabulary words each day to help you understand and speak better about
different topics in English today's topic is world problems now let's get started
there are many problems in the world today and they are often part of our conversations it can
be difficult to talk about world issues in English so today let's learn some helpful vocabulary we
can use to talk about world problems our words today are environment Natural Resource poverty
exploitation and epidemic our first word today is environment the environment is all the land oceans
air plants and animals that make up our natural world when someone mentions the environment when
talking about world problems they are referring to problems in nature do you think the environment is
important our next term today is natural resource a natural resource is something from nature that
we use for our own purpose for example trees are a natural resource because they are something in
nature that we can use to make things like houses paper and furniture some other natural resources
are water minerals oil soil and even the animals we eat another word we often hear when talking
about Natural Resources is shortage a shortage means that there is not enough of something for
example in the desert there is a shortage of water let's talk about our next word poverty poverty is
a noun and is the state of having little or no money and few or no possessions poverty means
extremely poor if someone does not have much money or any money and cannot buy things like food a
home or medicine they live in poverty let's use it in a sentence many people in the world today still
live in poverty or I think poverty is a serious problem our fourth word today is exploitation
this is a high-level vocabulary word that we can use as a noun exploitation or as a verb exploit
exploitation means to treat someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work it also means
to use someone or something to achieve one's own purposes here is an example of exploitation if
someone has a very successful business but pays their workers so little that they live in poverty
that is exploitation child labor and sweatshops are also examples of exploitation our last term
today is epidemic this is a noun that means something bad usually a disease that spreads
very fast across a large region or across the world right now we are living through the kovin
19 epidemic it is a disease that spread very fast around the world some other famous epidemics were
the AIDS epidemic and SARS let's use it in a sentence we need to prepare better for
the next big epidemic this word can also be used to talk about other bad things that spread fast
for example we could say there is an epidemic of cheating on exam in my school okay students that's
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