HSK 3.0 Level 6 · Lesson 12 of 25
环境：灾害、能源、环保与基础设施
自然与环境 · 环境
52 minute lesson · task-based course
环境：灾害、能源、环保与基础设施
Analyze an environmental decision through risk, energy, infrastructure and affected groups.
By the end of this lesson
- Understand reports about disasters, energy development, low-carbon practices and infrastructure.
- Explain an environmental problem, compare responses and express a bounded evidence-based view.
- Write an environmental case analysis, proposal or supported opinion.
LEARN IN CONTEXT
Read and listen across several real contexts
This lesson uses the number and type of texts that fit the topic. Learn the same language across different situations instead of forcing everything into one dialogue.
海边小城要不要修新的防洪墙
Why this text is here: Compare protection benefits, ecological costs and uncertainty.
三类环境方案的比较维度
Why this text is here: Use a multi-criteria frame rather than a single cost number.
- 工程保护
- 建设速度、保护范围、维护费用、失效条件Construction speed, protection scope, maintenance cost and failure conditions
- 生态措施
- 恢复时间、生态收益、占地和极端天气承受能力Recovery time, ecological benefit, land use and extreme-weather resilience
- 社区准备
- 预警、撤离、保险、弱势群体帮助和应急供电Warnings, evacuation, insurance, support for vulnerable groups and emergency power
Step 3 · Vocabulary
Lesson vocabulary
Learn the word, then read it again in a sentence or mini-scene from this lesson. A vocabulary card by itself does not count as taught course language.
(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper
coastal; seacoast
extreme
to suppose; to presume; to assume
(coll.) even if
to evaluate; to assess; assessment
ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment); ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment); (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 數字生態|数字生态[shu4 zi4 sheng1 tai4] "digital ecosystem")
earnings; profit
to defend; to safeguard; to protect
tight (closely sealed); stern; strict
to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse)
to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
energy; vitality; vigor
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
Vocabulary in context
These short sentences and mini-scenes make the lesson's additional words usable instead of leaving them as isolated cards.
Step 4 · Sentence patterns
Build usable sentences
Study the pattern, then replace the example information with details from your own situation.
Conditional compounds
凡是……都…… / 除非……才…… / 除非……否则……Use these patterns for general rules or necessary conditions. Keep the logical relationship explicit.
Concessive condition
就算……，也……Use 就算…也… to state that the result remains unchanged even under an assumed condition.
Step 6 · Guided practice
Submit the quiz to unlock lesson completion.
Step 7 · Communication task
写一份环境方案比较
城市正在讨论能源、垃圾处理、防洪或公共交通项目。
Your task
- 说明当前环境问题
- 比较至少两个方案
- 指出受益群体和潜在副作用
- 写出需要持续监测的风险指标
Self-check rubric
- At least three lesson words are used accurately.
- At least one lesson pattern is complete.
- The response completes the communication target.
- The Chinese can be read aloud without relying on English.
Step 8 · Review
Complete the mastery check
A lesson is complete only after the quiz, communication task and self-review requirements are met.
Reach at least 70%.
Write at least 190 non-space characters.
Complete all three self-checks.
Communication target
What you should be able to do after this lesson
Analyze environmental issues through disaster risk, energy use, protection measures and infrastructure choices.
- Understand reports about disasters, energy development, low-carbon practices and infrastructure.
- Explain an environmental problem, compare responses and express a bounded evidence-based view.
- Write an environmental case analysis, proposal or supported opinion.