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Vocab: Environmental Protection

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์žฌํ™œ์šฉ / ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค / ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค / ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ / ์ž์›
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TL;DR ๐Ÿฆ„
  • โ™ป๏ธ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = recycling โ€” Korea takes this seriously; ์ž์› = natural resource โ€” what recycling protects
  • ๐Ÿ’ก ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to use sparingly/treasure โ€” covers both saving resources AND cherishing things
  • ๐ŸŒฑ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค + ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ = the action pair โ€” doing it actively, not just knowing about it
๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽง Iru Helper Note โ€” Head to the Korean Helper Widgets and hear today's vocabulary at natural speed. ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค is a great phrase to hear in full โ€” it captures the Korean emphasis on active participation. ๐ŸŒ

๐ŸŒˆ The Big Picture

Korean environmental vocabulary is built around action. It's not enough to know the problem โ€” you ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค (put it into practice), and you do it ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ (actively, not half-heartedly). At the centre is the cycle: you ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค ์ž์› (use resources sparingly), ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค (recycle) to protect them, and ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค (actively do your part).
These five words appear constantly in Korean everyday conversation, school content, and any topic touching on ํ™˜๊ฒฝ (environment) or ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ (sustainability).

๐ŸŽจ The Core Environmental Protection Family

1. ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ€” recycling โ™ป๏ธ
์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค = to recycle. ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ = recyclable waste. ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐํ•˜๋‹ค = to sort and collect for recycling. Korea has a very systematic recycling system โ€” ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ is a daily reality, not a concept.
2. ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ€” to use sparingly, to save, to treasure ๐Ÿ’›
Dual meaning: (a) to conserve/save โ€” ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to conserve resources; (b) to cherish โ€” ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to cherish something dearly. In environmental contexts, always meaning (a).
3. ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” to put into practice, to act on ๐ŸŒฑ
The "making it real" verb. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค = to practise environmental protection. ์ž‘์€ ๊ฒƒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค = to start practising from small things. โ‰  ์•Œ๋‹ค (knowing) or ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค (saying).
4. ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ€” actively, proactively, with full engagement ๐Ÿ’ช
The adverb of active participation. ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค = to actively participate. ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค = to actively put into practice. โ‰  ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ (passively).
5. ์ž์› โ€” natural resource ๐ŸŒฟ
์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to conserve resources. ์ž์› ๋‚ญ๋น„ = resource waste. ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ž์› = natural resources. ์ž์›์„ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค = to recycle resources.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ How They Work in a Sentence

๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์›์„ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Through sorted collection we can recycle resources. โ™ป๏ธ๐ŸŒฟ
โ€” ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ + ์ž์› + ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค
ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ง๋งŒ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
To protect the environment you shouldn't just talk โ€” you need to actively practise it. ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒฑ
โ€” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค; -์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  = instead of doing
๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ์Šต๊ด€์ด ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์š”.
Small habits of conserving water and electricity create big changes. ๐Ÿ’›
โ€” ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค applied to ๋ฌผ/์ „๊ธฐ

๐Ÿงฉ General Formation Rule

  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular: ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์š” / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค
  • ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ†’ regular: ์•„๊ปด์š” / ์•„๊ผˆ์–ด์š” / ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€ / ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋‹ค
  • ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ regular: ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์š” / ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š” / ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• / ์‹ค์ฒœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ adverb: before verbs โ€” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค / ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค / ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค
  • ์ž์› โ†’ noun: ์ž์›์„ / ์ž์›์ด / ์ž์› ๋‚ญ๋น„ / ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ž์›

๐Ÿ“š Cross-check note

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๐Ÿชž Synonym Alert

  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ = reusing (same item again); ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = recycling (processing into new material)
  • ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค = to save/economise (more deliberate); ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to use sparingly / treasure (warmer, more natural)
  • ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰ˆ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค โ€” ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค = to act (any action); ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค = to put a stated value or plan into practice
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ‰ˆ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ โ€” ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ = diligently/hard; ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ = actively/proactively (implies initiative, not just effort)
  • ์ž์› โ‰ˆ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ โ€” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ = energy (a type of resource); ์ž์› = natural resources broadly

โš ๏ธ Pitfalls to Dodge

โŒ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰  ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ โœ… ํ…€๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์š” โœ… / ๋ณ‘์„ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์š” โœ… โ€” reusing the same item = ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ; processing into new material = ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ.
โŒ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = ์‹ซ์–ดํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ โœ… ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค context decides: ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = save energy; ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = cherish a friend.
โŒ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ์ด์—์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ + verb โ€” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ is always an adverb; it needs a verb after it.
โŒ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (no object, vague) โ†’ โœ… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค is most natural with a clear object stating what you're putting into practice.
์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๊ณ , ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋ฉด โ€” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’š
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Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form.
1. ๋นˆ ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ์บ”์€ ๊ผญ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
Empty bottles and cans must be recycled. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
2. ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€์„ ๊ธธ๋Ÿฌ์š”.
I'm developing a habit of conserving electricity. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๋ผ โ†’ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€์„. ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค modifier = ์•„๋ผ๋Š”.
3. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋กœ๋งŒ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
Don't just talk about environmental protection โ€” put it into practice. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
4. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I actively participated in the environmental campaign. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
5. ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์€ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋ฉด ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด์š”.
Once natural resources disappear they cannot be recovered. ๐ŸŒฟ
Answer
์ž์› โ†’ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ž์›์€.
6. ๋ฌผ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์•„์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.
It's important to use water sparingly. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๊ปด โ†’ ์•„๊ปด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.
7. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์š”.
In Korea a lot of recycling is done through sorted collection. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์š”.
8. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๊ฑธ์Œ์ด์—์š”.
Reducing resource waste is the first step of environmental protection. ๐ŸŒฟ
Answer
์ž์› โ†’ ์ž์› ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋‹ค.
9. ์ž‘์€ ๊ฒƒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ๋ด์š”.
Try actively practising from small things. ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  / ์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด ๋ด์š”. Two key words together.
10. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด ์“ฐ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง€๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If we conserve resources and recycle we can save the Earth. ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’›โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์ž์› / ์•„๊ปด / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์ž์›์„ ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง€๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to recycle
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ โ†’ recyclable waste
  • ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to sort for recycling
  • ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ†’ to use sparingly / treasure
  • ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋‹ค โ†’ to use sparingly
  • ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to put into practice
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ actively, proactively
  • ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ passively (opposite)
  • ์ž์› โ†’ natural resource
  • ์ž์› ๋‚ญ๋น„ โ†’ resource waste
  • ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ž์› โ†’ natural resources
  • ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ โ†’ environmental protection
Memory tips ๐Ÿ’ก
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = ๅ†ๆดป็”จ = use again + actively
  • ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = sparingly OR cherish (context!)
  • ์‹ค์ฒœ = ๅฏฆ่ธ = real + step = walking the talk
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ‰  ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ (active vs diligent)

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๐Ÿ“ฆ
๐ŸŽฏ Practice Hub โ€” Vocab: Environmental Protection
ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์‹œ์ž‘! ๐ŸŒ This Practice Hub drills all five words โ€” ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ, ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค, ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์ž์› โ€” across five exercises. By the end you'll talk about environmental action in natural, engaged Korean. ๐ŸŒฑ
๐Ÿ”Š Audio reminder: Use the Korean Helper Widgets to hear any sentence.
๐Ÿ“ Instructions: Fill in each blank with the correct word or form.

Exercise 1 โ€” Recycling โ™ป๏ธ

A. ๋นˆ ๋ณ‘์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Empty bottles can be recycled. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
B. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ์ƒํ™œํ™”๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
In Korea recycling has become part of everyday life. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์ด ์ƒํ™œํ™”๋ผ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ƒํ™œํ™” = becoming part of daily life.
C. ์ข…์ด ์ƒ์ž๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please recycle the paper boxes properly. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
D. ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œจ์ด ๋†’์•„์ ธ์š”.
If you sort well the recycling rate goes up. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์œจ์ด ๋†’์•„์ ธ์š”.
E. ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์†Œ์žฌ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
This product is made from a recyclable material. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์†Œ์žฌ. ์†Œ์žฌ = material.
F. ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you recycle plastic you can conserve resources. โ™ป๏ธ๐ŸŒฟ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
Recyclable waste needs to be sorted separately. โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
์žฌํ™œ์šฉ vocabulary:
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to recycle
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ recyclable
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ โ†’ recyclable waste
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์œจ โ†’ recycling rate
  • ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to sort for recycling
  • ์†Œ์žฌ โ†’ material
  • ์ƒํ™œํ™”๋˜๋‹ค โ†’ to become part of daily life
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ vs ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ: ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = processing into new material (plastic โ†’ new bottle). ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ = using the same item again (ํ…€๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์š”).

Exercise 2 โ€” Conserving ๐Ÿ’›

A. ๋ฌผ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์•„ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์Šต๊ด€์ด ๋์–ด์š”.
Conserving water has become a habit. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๊ปด โ†’ ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์Šต๊ด€์ด ๋์–ด์š”.
B. ์ „๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฝ‘๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
One way to conserve electricity is to unplug things you're not using. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๋ผ โ†’ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š”.
C. ์ž์›์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚จ๊ธธ ๊ฒŒ ์—†์–ด์š”.
If we don't conserve resources there'll be nothing left for future generations. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๋ผ โ†’ ์•„๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด.
D. ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด ์“ฐ๋ฉด ์š”๊ธˆ๋„ ์ค„์–ด์š”.
If you use energy sparingly the bills also decrease. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๊ปด โ†’ ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋ฉด.
E. ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์•ผ ํ•  ์ž์›๋“ค์ด ์ ์  ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
Resources that should be dearly cherished are gradually disappearing. ๐Ÿ’›๐ŸŒฟ
Answer
์•„๊ปด โ†’ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์•„๊ปด์•ผ ํ•  ์ž์›๋“ค์ด. ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ + ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = to cherish dearly.
F. ์ž์›์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์—์š”.
Conserving resources is the foundation of environmental protection. ๐Ÿ’›๐ŸŒ
Answer
์•„๋ผ โ†’ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด.
G. ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๋‚ญ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ค„์–ด์š”.
If you use things sparingly waste decreases. ๐Ÿ’›
Answer
์•„๊ปด โ†’ ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๋‚ญ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ค„์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
์•„๋ผ๋‹ค contexts:
  • ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ†’ conserve resources
  • ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๋‹ค โ†’ use sparingly
  • ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ†’ conserve energy
  • ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค โ†’ cherish dearly
  • ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€ โ†’ habit of conserving
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค dual meaning: (1) conserve/save (์ž์›, ์—๋„ˆ์ง€, ๋ˆ = object that can run out) (2) cherish/treasure (์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ๋ฌผ๊ฑด = object that's precious). Context determines meaning.

Exercise 3 โ€” Putting It Into Practice ๐ŸŒฑ

A. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜ˆ์š”.
There are many ways to practise environmental protection. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€.
B. ์ž‘์€ ๊ฒƒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
Try practising from small things. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
C. ์•Œ๊ณ ๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
Just knowing and actually practising are different. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.
D. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I've decided to start practising recycling from today. ๐ŸŒฑโ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. -๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค = to decide to.
E. ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ ˆ์•ฝ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ์Šต๊ด€์ด ๋ผ์š”.
The more you practise energy saving the more it becomes a habit. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋ฉด ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก.
F. ์ง์ ‘ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์š”.
Change happens only when you practise it yourself. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์•ผ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์š”.
G. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ๋ฉด ๋” ์ž˜ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
If you teach me how to practise I can practise even better. ๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์‹ค์ฒœ / ์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ฃผ๋ฉด ๋” ์ž˜ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค contexts:
  • ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ practise environmental protection
  • ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ์„ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ practise recycling
  • ์ž‘์€ ๊ฒƒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ start from small things
  • ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ decide to practise
  • ์‹ค์ฒœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• โ†’ way to practise
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ‰  ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค. ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค = to act (any action). ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค = to put a specific stated value/plan/goal INTO practice. ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ†’ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์š” = the gap to close.

Exercise 4 โ€” Active Participation ๐Ÿ’ช

A. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
We need to show active interest in environmental issues. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
B. ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์— ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
Please actively participate in the campaign. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
C. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
I acted actively to protect the environment. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
D. ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์›€์„ ์คฌ์–ด์š”.
Not passively but actively I gave help. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์›€์„ ์คฌ์–ด์š”. ์†Œ๊ทน์  โ‰  ์ ๊ทน์ .
E. ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด์š”.
I try to actively solve problems. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ .
F. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์•ผ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด์š”.
The environment changes only when you actively practise. ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒฑ
Answer
์ ๊ทน์  / ์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์•ผ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด์š”. โœ…
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Box
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ actively, proactively
  • ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ โ†’ passively (opposite)
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to actively participate
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to actively practise
  • ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ to act proactively
Tip ๐Ÿ’ก ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ vs ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ: ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ = diligently (about effort level). ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ = actively/proactively (about initiative and engagement). You can work ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ while being ์†Œ๊ทน์ . You can be ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ without working ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ. They're different dimensions.

Exercise 5 โ€” Mixed Mastery + Pitfall Patrol ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

A. โŒ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ โ†’ โœ… ํ…€๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š” / ๋ณ‘์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”
I reuse my tumbler / I recycle bottles. ๐Ÿ’›โ™ป๏ธ
Answer
์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ โ†’ ํ…€๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์š” โœ… / ๋ณ‘์„ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์š” โœ…. Same item again = ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ. Processing = ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ. โœ…
B. โŒ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ์ด์—์š” โ†’ โœ… ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”
I actively participate. ๐Ÿ’ช
Answer
์ฐธ์—ฌ โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด์š”. ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ = adverb; needs verb. โœ…
C. ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๊ณ , ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•ด์š”.
Conserve resources, recycle, and actively practise to protect the environment. ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’›โ™ป๏ธ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒ
Answer
์ž์› / ์•„๋ผ / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ / ์ ๊ทน์  / ์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๊ณ , ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์š”. All five words. โœ…
D. โŒ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (vague) โ†’ โœ… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ–ˆ์–ด์š”
I practised environmental protection. ๐ŸŒฑ
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์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋‹ค needs a clear object. โœ…
E. ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์–ด ์“ฐ๊ณ  ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋ฉด, ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟ๏ผฟํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
Conserving natural resources and recycling is actively practising environmental protection. ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’›โ™ป๏ธ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒฑ
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์ž์› / ์•„๊ปด / ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ / ์ ๊ทน์  / ์‹ค์ฒœ โ†’ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ž์›์„ ์•„๊ปด ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. All five words. โœ…
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Pitfall Recap
  • โŒ ์žฌํ™œ์šฉ = ์žฌ์‚ฌ์šฉ โ†’ โœ… ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค! processing vs same item
  • โŒ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ alone โ†’ โœ… ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ + verb
  • โŒ ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = ์‹ซ์–ดํ•˜๋‹ค โ†’ โœ… ์•„๋ผ๋‹ค = conserve OR cherish
  • โŒ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š” (vague) โ†’ โœ… N์„/๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ฒœํ–ˆ์–ด์š”
Environmental action formula:
์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๊ณ  + ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  + ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋ฉด = ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๐ŸŒโœ…
๐ŸŽ‰ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์–ดํœ˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ! ๐ŸŒ Now you can talk about environmental action in natural Korean โ€” ์ž์›์„ ์•„๋ผ๊ณ , ์žฌํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด์š”. ๋ง๋งŒ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์ง์ ‘ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•ด๋ด์š”! ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’š