ruben unit 1 the environment

7/30/2019 Ruben Unit 1 the Environment

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THE ENIVIROMENT

B2/C1


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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


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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


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READING-THE ENVIRONMENT

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


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Predicting the future

1)What do you think are the

biggest problems that causeclimate 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?


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Pronunciation


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ROLE-PLAY


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SPEAkING/LISTENING: YOuR

THOUGHTS


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Discussion: Environment


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DISCUSSIONS: THE ENVORNMEnT


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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.


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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.


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REPORT

You are a Green Peace member and on thestudent 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


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LISTENING

Part 4- CAE

Complete the sentences.

You will hear a headmaster of a primaryschool talking about the production of

electricity by wind power.


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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 phoneThe 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


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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 createdUnwanted 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 decorationsGrowing and annual throwing away of (real) Xmas

trees

How could you and your family cut

down on those things?

What could the government,

charities

and individuals do about each one?


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Christmas Waste Facts

One billion Christmas cards could end up in

bins across the UK this year. One tree isneeded 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

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