16 48 The Blue Planet Language in use: Grannies for Future a) Read the text about the environmental group Grannies for Future. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–N) for each gap (1–11). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. When the scale of the climate crisis was brought home to Cordula Weimann, she … 0 to make some changes to her life. She used to drive a sports car and take flights on … 1 . Then she launched the Grannies for Future movement. Cordula Weimann didn’t opt for a quiet … 2 . Instead, the 62-year-old grandmother has embarked on a … 3 to educate her fellow seniors about their impact on the planet. “Of course, we older people have been contributing to climate change for a long time,” she says. “But you are only really … 4 if you know that what you are doing is wrong. And we had not been told just how devastating consumerism is to this planet. You can’t … 5 us for that.” The Leipzig-based mother of three – who also has three grandchildren – founded Grannies for Future in 2019 in … 6 of the global youth climate movement, Fridays for Future. “I said to myself, ‘If the old people don’t get on board, the youth won’t have any chance of making it.’ And that’s how Grannies for Future came about.” With the group, she’s hoping to raise climate awareness … 7 the older generations and motivate them to take concrete steps to shrink their carbon footprints. “It is certainly a fact that when the children are out of the house and retirement is just around the … 8 , many older people say, ‘Now I’m going to treat myself.’ And then they travel the world more, drive big cars and generally consume more.” Weimann is speaking from … 9 . She had a convertible sports car and took flights when she went on holiday. With three children and a career, her thinking was, “‘If I work so much, then I want to reap the benefits.’ The more I worked, the more I needed this … 10 .” She says she now lives in a carbon-neutral, wooden house in Leipzig. She also ditched her sports car for an electric one. She doesn’t purchase new clothes anymore as a rule, eats little meat and buys … 11 produce as often as possible. She also doesn’t fly, even though she has children abroad. A among H experience 0 G 6 B balance I guilty 1 7 C blame J mission 2 8 D challenges K organic 3 9 E climate L retirement 4 10 F corner M support 5 11 G decided N vacation b) Find one sentence for each of these words on the internet, write it into your learning journal and try to memorise it. c) Without looking at the text above, match the following parts of phrases. 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