Care about the environment 

Ecological problems

Aim : to practice in using new active vocabulary of the topic for expressing opinions and discussing problems;

• to find out positive and negative effects that people can have on Nature;
• to develop listening, reading, and speaking skills;
• train to work in groups and make up dialogues;
• to use the modal verb must;
• to teach to be friendly to nature and take care of it

Equipment :pupils’ books, cards with the tasks, paintings, tape recorder

Procedure

1.Introduction

Good afternoon my dear children and our guests. I am glad to see you.

We live a magic world. The   world   is full of wonderful things. It`s   our   nature. Nature gives us life. Nature teaches us to be kind and clever, attentive and it teaches us to understand the world around us. We are the happiest people because we can walk along seaside or listen to songs of the forest or of the wind, or of the birds…                  

Y. Gagarin   said :  ‘’How beautiful our blue planet is! How small is! People of the world, take care of   it   protect   it. »

So ,   I want these care words to be the epigraph of our lesson.

2. Aim

During this   lesson  we’ll find information about our environment and decide what we must, can at should do to save our Planet.  And  at the end of the lesson   we’ll sing   a song.

                                 Main Part

Let’s   start our work with a new lexic. Please, look at the blackboard. There are new words   for you .You read and repeat after me. Then you have   to write them into your vocabularies.

the   environment to     pollute a      rubbish to     protect to    cut down to     hurt to    reduce to    recycle       litter

навколишнє середовище забруднювати сміття захищати вирубувати шкодити скорочувати переробляти сміття

• Hi Vlad. It’s me Iryna. Tanya has an idea to start our own “Clean up the Countryside” club. The grove is in a terrible mess. And we are going to clear away all the rubbish that has been left by rubbish dumpers. Will you join us?

• Sure. That’s a great idea. I agree we have to clear away the mess. When and where shall we meet?

• After classes. At the grove. Don’t forget to bring plastic bags for the rubbish.

• All right. I’ll be at the grove after classes.

• Excuse me. What are you going to do with all this litter? Are you going to leave it here?

• What do you mean, young lady?

• I mean that you should put all your rubbish into a plastic bag and take it away. You just can’t leave  this rubbish here. You turn this beautiful place into a rubbish pile.

• Why do you think so? I’m not going to leave these empty bottles and cans here. I enjoy spending time here and I’ll never spoil this lovely place.

And  now  listen to the additional information of 2 pupils about the pollution of our nature.

Pupil1

My report is about air pollution. You certainly know that the most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. Air pollution  causes a lot of ecological problems, greenhouse effect, holes in the ozone layer. Ozone layer protect us from ultraviolet radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer this radiation can get to the Earth. Such radiation can cause skin cancer. Other problem it’s  plants and factories that pollute the atmosphere, because they don’t have good filters. Also nuclear power stations are rather dangerous, if they go wrong they can cause nuclear pollution. To make air clean we need good filters at nuclear power stations, at factories and plants, and public transport.

Pupil2

My report is about greenhouse effect. Recently the climate has changed a lot in the world. Many people say that it is because of the greenhouse effect. During the last 100 hundred years people have produced a lot of carbon dioxide. This gas lets heat get in, but it doesn’t let much heat get out. So the atmosphere becomes warmer. We produce carbon dioxide when we breathe, burn the thing. Trees take this gas from the air and produce oxygen. But in last few years people have cut down big areas of forests, this means that there becomes more carbon dioxide. So, such changes in nature influence disastrous on the climate. We should join our efforts to protect our  fragile planet.

Thank you for your answers. Without a doubt these are global problems. And what about the rubbish, we can find it everywhere. Please act out the dialogues (pupils prepare the dialogues at home) concerning this issue.

• Is that you , Pavlo? It’s me, Tanya. Our grove looks terrible. It’s piled with rubbish. I was shocked to see that.
• Calm down! Have you got any ideas?
• Yes. I have an idea. We have to do something about this mess. Let’s start our “Clean up Countryside” club.
• Oh, it’s great. Meet me tomorrow and discuss it.
• OK. I’ll give a call to Stas and Oksana.

Warm – up    A Game

Pupils are  divided  into two groups.

Look trough all the words we’ve   used, close your books. Each group tries to remember  as  many words as possible.

               

Work in pairs

Let’s make up rules about using natural resources. Each group fills the gaps and explains what we must or mustn’t do with our nature.

must                                                           mustn’t

1. We… pollute rivers.
2. We… recycle paper.
3. We… protect wildlife.
4. We… drop rubbish on beaches.
5. We… let factories pollute air.
6. We… cut down trees.
7. We… hurt the environment.
8. We… destroy forests.
9. We… reduce  air  pollution.

A work with a text

p111

Repeat after me:

Whale

Stranded

Shore

Shallow

Disoriented

Calves

Circulation

Squids

Tasks p111

I. Put the sentenses in the logical order

II. Match

1-d

2-f

3-a

4-b

5-c

6-e

III. Make up sentences and guess

It is the largest animal in the world.

Its baby is called a calf.

When the calf is born it weights 3 tons.

They are hunted for their meal and oil.

Their natural inhabitant is polluted.

A work with pictures

Look at these pictures. What problems do these pictures related to?

This picture relates to the problem of pollution because this beach is covered with rubbish.

This picture  shows  the pollution of water and air.

This  picture shows  the problem of cutting trees.

A Song John Lennon ’’Imagine’’.

And how as I’ve  promised  at  the beginning of our lesson we’ll sing. Listen to the song by John Lennon and fill in the gaps, than we’ll sing it together.

Summing up

I hope you’ll find the way to help nature. Oscar Wild said:” Who are you to bring the pain into God’s world ? Let’s bring happiness and peace. Your marks are…. Good luck to you. Your homework is to learn new words and make up sentences. I am looking forward to our next meeting.