Global Issues
Build your Polish vocabulary for global issues: words for caring for the environment, and words for world problems such as hunger, war and peace, each shown with its English meaning.
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Global issues in Polish
This module builds your Polish vocabulary for global issues, such as protecting the environment and problems that affect the whole world. Each Polish word is shown with its English meaning, so you can learn to recognise it. These words help you talk about pollution and recycling, and about world problems such as hunger and war.
Pollution and recycling in Polish
Start with four common words. Each Polish word is shown with its English meaning.
Planet or people?
It helps to sort the words into caring for the planet and world problems that affect people.
A few more words
Three more useful words: śmieci means rubbish, pokój means peace, and świat means the world. When you talk about a global issue, you can add an opinion with poważny, which means serious. For example, to jest poważny problem means this is a serious problem.
Match the word
- środowisko
- recykling
- śmieci
- chronić
- The environment
- Recycling
- Rubbish
- To protect
Which is the environment?
Which Polish word means the environment?
- środowisko
- recykling
- śmieci
- klimat
Match more words
- głód
- wojna
- pokój
- świat
- Hunger
- War
- Peace
- The world
Words about the environment
Which TWO Polish words are about caring for the environment? Choose all that apply.
- recykling
- chronić
- wojna
- głód
Order the words
Order these to talk about the environment: first name the environment, then a way to protect it, then a problem that harms it, then an opinion word.
- środowisko
- chronić
- zanieczyszczenie
- poważny
Environment words in Polish
The Polish word for the environment is _____. Sorting rubbish so it can be used again is called _____. Dirty air and water is _____. When people do not have enough food they suffer from _____. The opposite of war is _____.
Spot the environment words
Tap the TWO words about caring for the environment.
- środowisko
- recykling
- wojna
- głód
Which is hunger?
Which Polish word means hunger?
- głód
- wojna
- pokój
- świat
Choose the word
For each meaning, choose the correct Polish word.
- You want the word for dirty air and water that harms nature. Which word?
- You want the word for when there is no war. Which word?
- You want the word for sorting rubbish so materials can be used again. Which word?
Write about a global issue
Write two or three sentences in Polish about a global issue, such as protecting the environment or a world problem.
- Name a way to care for the environment
- Name a world problem such as hunger or war
- Give your opinion using a word like poważny