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  THE WORLD’S DESIRE FOR PLASTIC IS DANGEROUS A . A million plastic bottles are purchased around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change. The demand, equivalent to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second, is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a western, urbanised culture to China and the Asia Pacific region. B . More than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016 across the world, up from about 300 billion a decade ago. If placed end to end, they would extend more than halfway to the sun. By 2021 this will increase to 583.3 billion, according to the most up-to-date estimates. C . Most plastic bottles, which are used for soft drinks and water, are made from Pet plastic, which is highly recyclable. But as their use grows rapidly across the globe, efforts to collect and recycle the bottles to keep the...

  Sometimes we need formal words to write in our IELTS essays. I just want to sum up what I think is useful for your piece of writing.  VOCABULARY: ENVIRONMENT environmental crisis: the state that the environment is destroyed seriously that nearly can't be cured biodegradable (adj):   a substance or chemical that is  biodegradable  can be changed by the action of bacteria to a natural state that will not harm the environment         anonym: non-biodegradable burgeoning (adj):  beginning to grow or develop rapidly         synonym: developing , growing public's consumption of st contamination:  the process or fact of making a substance or place dirty or no longer pure by adding a substance that is dangerous or carries disease         synonym: adulteration ongoing concerns, alarming issues mount a campaign: create a campaign (about environment problems) on a global scale: worldwide herbicid...

  KOALAS A . Koalas are just too nice for their own good. And except for the occasional baby taken by birds of prey, koalas have no natural enemies. In an ideal world, the life of an arboreal couch potato would be perfectly safe and acceptable. B . Just two hundred years ago, koalas flourished across Australia. Now they seem to be in decline, but exact numbers are not available as the species would not seem to be “under threat”. Their problem, however, has been man, more specifically, the white man. Koala and aborigine had co-existed peacefully for centuries. C . Today koalas are found only in scattered pockets of southeast Australia, where they seem to be at risk on several fronts. The koala‘s only food source, the eucalyptus tree has declined. In the past 200 years, a third of Australia‘s eucalyptus forests have disappeared. Koalas have been killed by parasites, chlamydia epidemics and a tumor-causing retro-virus. And every year 11000 are killed by cars, ironically most of them i...