THE ENIVIROMENT

B2/C1

Todays Class
Reading/Vocabulary: The environment Speaking: Describing pictures, answering questions, role-play and giving advice. Writing: A report on the environment Listening: Wind Turbines

VOCABULARY
Choose words that reflect your opinion of these three statements: 1) We should educate the public about our environment . 2) Within a few years we will have solved our environmental problems. 3)Within the next ten years the only chemicals we use will be environmentally friendly ones.

1) useful/useless 2) possible/impossible 3) likely/unlikely

READING-THE ENVIRONMENT

Read the text and take note of the vocabulary and the prepositions used.

Predicting the future

1)What do you think are the biggest problems that cause climate change? 2) What can governen ts do to protect the environment 3) What can individuals do?
Describe this picture and what is it trying to portray? What is the message?

Pronunciation

ROLE-PLAY

SPEAkING/LISTENING: YOuR THOUGHTS

Discussion: Environment

DISCUSSIONS: THE ENVORNMEnT

REPORT WRITING
Youre expected to write in clearly organized sections and include factual information leading to a suggestion, recommendation or conclusion. You want to persuade readers to follow your course of action. You must use appropriate style. Use headings and sub-headings Use your own vocabulary.

Planning!
What do you have to do? What is the style? Who are you writing to? What do you have to include? What headings will you use?

Grammar; Vocabulary, Linkers, expressions! Common mistakes, spelling, word count.

REPORT
You are a Green Peace member and on the student advisory board for environmental issues at Cadiz University. Your Dean has asked you to compile a list of suggestions and recommendations as to how the university can become greener. (250-300 words) They are particularly concerned with: Fossil fuel consumption Waste management and sustainability Conservation of sea and animal life in the bay

LISTENING
Part 4- CAE Complete the sentences. You will hear a headmaster of a primary school talking about the production of electricity by wind power.

Level 10 unit 7, 2
IDIOMS-NATURE

When I told my mum I would be at home at 2.oo, she had a cow! My mum got upset How did you know it was my birthday today? A little birdie told me An unnamed person told her Your brother is such a scaredy cat! Your brother is afraid to do something The phonecall seemed a little fishy to me so I hung the phone The phone salesman was dishonest and I felt suspicious of him Our world is a dog-eat-dog world Only the strong or the best survive

How could you and your family cut down on those things?

Which of these things do you think have the worst effect on the environment? Wrapping paper People flying abroad during the Xmas holidays People driving to their parents houses during the Xmas holidays Making Xmas cards Sending Xmas cards Overconsumption of food Buying food which doesnt get eaten Packaging of Xmas foods and Xmas presents Disposing of the rubbish that is created Unwanted presents that are rarely or ever used Xmas products which companies produce and have to be thrown away because they arent sold Throwing out of old things that Xmas presents have replaced Electricity used by Xmas lights Xmas decorations Growing and annual throwing away of (real) Xmas trees

What could the government, charities and individuals do about each one?

Christmas Waste Facts One billion Christmas cards could end up in bins across the UK this year. One tree is needed to make about 3,000 cards Nearly 3,000 tonnes of aluminium foil is used to wrap Christmas turkeys
An estimated 83 square km of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey Around 125,000 tones of plastic packaging will be thrown away over the festive season - that's the equivalent weight of more than 50,000 polar bears