Global Issues: Environment, Poverty and Homelessness

Caring for the world

This module builds your Bengali for global issues: looking after the environment, and supporting people affected by poverty and homelessness. Each Bengali example is shown with a simple way to say it in brackets, then its English meaning: পরিবেশ (poribesh) means the environment. A full sentence looks like this: আমি পরিবেশ ভালবাসি (ami poribesh bhalobashi), meaning I love the environment.

Words for global issues

Start with four useful words, two about the environment and two about people in need.

Match each environment word

Small actions help

Global issues can feel huge, but small actions add up. Saving energy, cleaning up and using less all protect the environment. People matter too. Supporting someone who is homeless, or standing against unfair treatment, is part of caring for the world around you.

Which word is a flood?

Which Bengali word means a flood?

• বন্যা (bonna)
• পরিবেশ (poribesh)
• সমাজ (shomaj)
• ধনী (dhoni)

Spot the two environment words

Select the TWO words that are about the environment.

• এসিড রেইন (esid rein)
• সৌর শক্তি (shour shokti)
• গৃহহীন (grihohin)
• বৈষম্য (boishommo)

Match each society word

Planet and people

Reading the whole word tells you whether it is about the planet or about people. Here are more of each.

Find the two environment words

Tap the TWO words that are about the environment.

• এসিড রেইন (esid rein), acid rain
• ধনী (dhoni), rich
• সৌর শক্তি (shour shokti), solar energy
• গৃহহীন (grihohin), homeless

Reading a sentence

Now read a full Bengali sentence, verb last as usual: - আমি পরিবেশ রক্ষা করি (ami poribesh rokkha kori) = "I protect the environment". Three parts: আমি (ami, "I"), পরিবেশ (poribesh, "the environment"), then the verb রক্ষা করি (rokkha kori, "I protect") at the end.

What does it say?

In আমি পরিবেশ রক্ষা করি (ami poribesh rokkha kori), what does the sentence say the person does?

• They protect the environment
• They harm the environment
• They clean a dustbin
• They support a friend

Help the environment

Put the steps of helping the environment at home into a sensible order.

• Notice how much you waste
• Use less energy at home
• Recycle your waste
• Walk or cycle instead of driving
• Tell others what you have learned

Complete the global-issues facts

The world around us is called the _____. Dirty air is called air _____. Clean power from the sun is _____ energy. Someone with nowhere to live is _____. Treating people unfairly is _____.

Read the notice

Use what you know to read each Bengali word on a notice. Choose each time.

• A recycling point is marked আবর্জনাপাত্র (aborjonapatro). What is it?
• A leaflet is about সৌর শক্তি (shour shokti). What is it about?
• A charity supports people who are গৃহহীন (grihohin). Who does it help?

Write about a global issue

In English, write about how you help the environment and how a community can support people in need, using some of the Bengali words. This is written in English and is not auto-marked.

• Name two things people can do to protect the environment, with their Bengali words
• Explain one way a community can support people who are homeless
• Say why treating everyone fairly matters
• Write one full Bengali sentence about what you love, using ভালবাসি