UNIT 6

SESSION 1

Warm up 10 minutes

1. Do the following questionnaire in pairs.

1. Which gas is responsible for global warning?a) carbon dioxideb) Oxygenc) hydrogen

2. What do you call the processing of used materials and their reuse?a) recyclingb) reusingc) reprocessing3. What do you call renewable safe sources of energy?a) alternative energiesb) bio-energiesc) solar energies

4. Global warning will cause an increase ofa) Heat Wavesb) Hurricanesc) Both5. Which of these humans activities contributes the most for global warning?a) using fossil fuelsb) cutting down treesc) riding bicycles

6. What are some consequences of deforestation?a) Loss of habitatsb) Soil erosionc) Both

7. Which of these energy sources is renewable?a) coalb) natural gasc)wind8. What is the most renewable energy source in the world?a) hydro energyb) solar energyc) wind energy

Did you know?

Presentation

25-30 minutes

2. Read this article from the Guardian about climate change. In pairs, choose a title for each paragraph from the box below.

CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT: 5 KEY POINTS

Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply and it is going to get worse. Increases in crop yields which are needed to sustain a growing population have slowed over the last 40 years. Some studies now point to dramatic declines in some crops over the next 50 years especially wheat, and to a lesser extent corn. Rice so far is unaffected. The shortages, and the threat of food price spikes, could lead to unrest.

Climate change poses a threat to human security, and could lead to increased migration. Potential shortages of food and water, because of climate change, could be drivers of future conflicts. These won't necessarily be wars between states, but conflicts between farmers and ranchers, or between cities and agriculture industry which wants water for food. On the flip side, those conflicts are going to get in the way of government's efforts to protect people from future climate change.

Some are more vulnerable than others. Poor people in poor countries and even the poor in rich countries are going to bear an unfair burden of climate change, the report said. Climate change is going to exacerbate existing inequalities, and it is going to make it harder for people to claw their way out of poverty.

As temperatures rise beyond 2 degrees to 4 degrees our current trajectory there are limits to how far society can adapt to climate change. The only way out is to cut emissions now and buy some time by slowing warming and at the same time make plans for sea walls, relocations, and other measures that can keep people out of harms' way.

The report notes that research on the effects of climate change has doubled since the last report in 2007 and so has understanding about what needs to done to insulate people from more severe consequences.

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1. Human security

2. Food threat

3. No one is safe

4. Inequality

5. hard but not hopeless

Comprehension

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3. Explain the meaning of the following words from the text.

1) Crop (paragraph A) _____________________________________________________________2) Wheat (paragraph A) ____________________________________________________________3) Price spikes (paragraph B) ________________________________________________________4) On the flip side (paragraph C)______________________________________________________5) To claw out of (paragraph D) ______________________________________________________6) To insulate (paragraph E) _________________________________________________________Practice

25-30 minutes

Vocabulary

4. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.artificial concrete crops endangered energy

environment factory free range fuel organic

pesticides polluted public transpory traffic veal

wildlife

Rhinos are an _____endangered______ species. We have to protect them or they will become extinct.

Its amazing how much ____________________ you can find in a city garden: foxes, hedgehogs, frogs and lots of birds and insects.

Theres too much____________________ in modern cities. Why cant we have more parks and open spaces instead of all these skyscrapers?

We need stricter laws to protect the _____________________ from the smoke and gases released by cars and factories.

I dont usually eat sweets. The ___________________ colourings and flavourings give me a headache.

This apple juice is ____________________ . That means the fruit trees werent sprayed with chemicals.

I only eat ____________________ chicken and eggs. I dont approve of chicken farms where the animals are kept in small cages.

Most farmers spray their ____________________ with _________________ to stop insects eating them.

This farm is like a ____________________ . The animals are treated like machines.

In order to produce ___________________ , farmers take calves from their mothers when they are two weeks old and keep them in small, dark cages.

Oil is the main source of ____________________ in this country. It would be good to use cleaner sources like the wind and the sun.

There would be less ____________________ on the roads if the government made ___________________ cheaper.

Our new car is very economical on ____________________. It can do 100 kilometres on six litres.

A ship carrying oil crashed on the rocks here last year and now a lot of the coast is ____________________.

Environment collocations

5. Complete the text with the words in the list to form collocations.

Environmentalists predict that our planet is going to be affected byextreme (1)_______ change if we keep using (2)_________fuels. These fuels produce large amounts of greenhouse ____________ such as carbon dioxide, which cause temperatures to increase. This phenomenon, known as global (4) ___________, is already havingan effect. In some areas, higher temperatures and lower rainfall is causing desertification. The polar (5)____________are melting and sea (6)_______________are rising, resulting in flooding. There are ways in which we can minimize these effects. For example, we can generate renewable (7)__________ using wind (8)_________ or (9) ___________panels. We can put (10) ____________petrol in our cars to make the (11)________fumes less toxic, and use energy (12)____________light bulbs in our houses. Cities could introduce a congestion (13)__________to cut down traffic, and promote (14) _________friendly transport, like bikes. (15)_______________offsetting schemes can also make a difference.

a) carbon b) charge c) climate d) energy e) environmentally f)exhaust g) farms

h) fossil i) gases j) ice caps k) levels l) saving m) solar n) unleaded

o) warming Production

25-30 minutes

6. In groups try to find solutions to the following situations.

CASE 1

You have a food supply and population problem on your country. Your population is expanding very rapidly much more rapidly than your food supply. You are barely self- sufficient in food now, and by the year 2000 your population will have almost doubled and there will no longer be enough food to go round. You also have a problem of population movement. Many of your people are moving from the countryside to the towns, with the twin results that there is urban unemployment and poverty and rural depopulation, with not enough people left to farm the land. What laws could you introduce to deal with these problems?

CASE 2

You have many ecological problems on your country. There is too much traffic. There is a lot of litter in the streets. Your chemical factories are polluting the air and the rivers: trees are dying because of the sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere And fish are dying because of poisonous waste in the rivers. The use of fossil fuels has harmed the ozone layer in the atmosphere, affecting the climate, and disposal of radioactive waste from your nuclear power plants is a problem. What laws could you introduce to deal with these problems?

Homework

SESSION 2

Warm up 10 minutes

1. In pairs, pick up a flashcard and ask your colleague the following questions. Swap roles.

What is climate change? Is it the same as global warming?Do you think climate change can be stopped? What should be done?

Do you use environmentally-friendly products? Have you gone green? Give some examples.Could climate change destroy life on earth? Discuss a best-case and a worse-case scenario.

Are governments doing enough to combat climate change? Give some examples.

What's a carbon footprint?How can it be reduced?

Scientists predict that the ice caps will melt. What effect could this have on life on earth?

Some people claim that climate change is just part of a natural cycle and that it is not man-made. What do you think?

session 2

warm up

presentation

listening from radio 4. pre-listening. Explain the meaning of the following of the wordslisteing- fill in the gapspost-listening- look at the highlighted words in the text.

practice

modals

production

debate- defensar el seu rolAgricultor, politic, ecologista, el que ven fruta, profesor, flashcards amb les guidelands, vei,

homeworkexplicar presentacio per a la semana que be

practice de modals

session 3warm-up: presentation: samplepractice: production: homework writing essay topic

session 4;warm-up; quizpresentation; readingspractice: linksproduction; video/homework; rehearse presentation

stress game in revision unit

session 5