Topic outline
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This EPI contains material which may be used in class.
Nicholas Sowels
Personal Paris 1 webpage9 September 2024
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During this semester we will spend five sessions working on transport and climate change. These sessions are based on five modules, which will broadly follow a course plan designed by GPT-4 in response to the following prompt:
"Develop a course outline on the energy transition for master's degree students in international transport. The course should include 5 modules of 2 hours each. It should begin with a general overview of the main causes of global warming and should then move on to use of oil-based fuels in transport, by the main modes of transport (maritime, air transport, roal haulage and rail freight). The course should then survey what is being done in these sectors to reduce their carbon footprint. Finally, the course should conclude with what households and individuals can do to reduce their carbon footprint and more generally lead more environmentally friendly lives."
The actual, final content of the modules may change, depending on how relevant this course design is and how feasible it is to complete in class. Much of the work, which will be inserted between other class activities, will be done by you in groups. The modules are:
Module 1: Introduction to Global Warming and Its Causes
Module 2: Oil-Based Fuels in International Transport
Module 3: Carbon Footprint Reduction in the Transport Sector
Module 4: Grassroots Action: Households and Individuals
Module 5: Toward an Environmentally Friendly Future -
English for airports and flying by Babel Coarch
Crossword for air transport
Crossword for travel and transport
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BBC articles on various aviation stories. Stories begin with an article on the future of aviation with Covid-19.
CNN Travel: “The odds of catching Covid-19 on an airplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say”, 20 August 2020.
My Epi "Anglais ressources partagées" offers various listening comprehension activities which you may wish to do.
See also "Conseils et astuces pour rédiger en anglais" for some time on avoiding many common mistakes made by French people writing in English.
David Yergin, "How will the pandemic affect the sprint away from fossil fuels?", The Guardian, 8 October 2020.
Consels et astuces pour rédiger en anglais
https://cours.univ-paris1.fr/course/view.php?id=24530
Anglais ressources partagées
https://cours.univ-paris1.fr/course/view.php?id=24532