Environmental issues: being green & natural resources 环保与自然资源

Answer only the facet asked — your LOCAL environment or global issues. ✗ writing about 全球变暖 when the task says the environment where YOU live ✓ 在我住的城市，最大的环境问题是空气污染和垃圾太多。(Zài wǒ zhù de chéngshì, zuì dà de huánjìng wèntí shì kōngqì wūrǎn hé lājī tài duō.) For a local task use 在我住的城市 with concrete detail; save 全球变暖 for a global task.

Theme-5 cards need a few exact terms plus opinion vocabulary. ✗ going silent because you cannot say recycling bin or natural resources ✓ learn the anchors: 自然资源 (zìrán zīyuán — natural resources), 回收箱 (huíshōu xiāng — recycling bin), 垃圾分类 (rubbish sorting), 保护环境 (protect the environment), then attach 我觉得保护环境很重要，因为……. A missing noun should not sink the answer.

When a task asks what you WILL do in future to be greener, answer in the future, not the present. ✗ 我每天关灯 (a present habit) when the bullet asks what you WILL do next year ✓ 以后我打算参加更多环保活动，也会少买一次性的东西。(Yǐhòu wǒ dǎsuàn cānjiā gèng duō huánbǎo huódòng, yě huì shǎo mǎi yícìxìng de dōngxi.) Signal the future with 以后 / 将来 / 打算 / 会.

Chinese has no plural ending, so number + correct 量词 + noun is the only way to show quantity, and the wrong measure word is a stock error. ✗ 三个树 ✓ 三棵树 (sān kē shù — three trees). 树 takes 棵 (kē). Learn each measure word with its noun — a tree 棵, a match 场, a company 家 — and never default to 个.

A 把 sentence fronts a DEFINITE object and moves it to a result, so it needs a result or direction after the verb — never a bare verb. ✗ 我把塑料瓶回收 (bare verb) ✓ 我把塑料瓶放进回收箱。(Wǒ bǎ sùliào píng fàng jìn huíshōu xiāng.) — I put the plastic bottle in the recycling bin. The complement 放进 (put into) is what makes 把 work; without it the sentence is incomplete.

When a task asks WHAT people should do to be greener, list concrete ACTIONS, not feelings. ✗ 我很喜欢环保，觉得很重要 (I like the environment, think it matters) when asked what you DO ✓ name actions with 应该 / 会: 我们应该垃圾分类、多回收、节约用水，也可以坐公共交通。Give specific, concrete actions, and if the task wants your local area, concrete local detail — not a vague 环境不好.

越来越 (yuè lái yuè) means increasingly / more and more — it already expresses a CHANGE in degree over time, so it can never take the plain degree adverb 很. ✗ 空气越来越很脏 ✓ 空气越来越脏。(Kōngqì yuè lái yuè zāng.) The same holds in a 比 comparison — never 很 there either: 今天比昨天冷, not 今天比昨天很冷. Use 很 only for a plain degree with no comparison and no 越来越: 空气很脏.