UNIT 6

SESSION
Warm up

10 minutes

1. Do the following questionnaire in pairs.

1. Which gas is responsible for

global warning?
a) carbon dioxide
b) Oxygen
c) hydrogen

4. Global warning will cause an

increase of
a) Heat Waves
b) Hurricanes
c) Both

6. What are some consequences

of deforestation?
a) Loss of habitats
b) Soil erosion
c) Both

Did you know?

2. What do you call the

3. What do you call renewable safe
processing of used materials and sources of energy?
their reuse?
a) alternative energies
a) recycling
b) bio-energies
b) reusing
c) solar energies
c) reprocessing

5. Which of these humans

activities contributes the most for
global warning?
a) using fossil fuels
b) cutting down trees
c) riding bicycles

7. Which of these energy sources 8. What is the most renewable

is renewable?
energy source in the world?
a) coal
a) hydro energy
b) natural gas
b) solar energy
c)wind
c) wind energy

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

A)
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.
B)
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.
C)
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.
D)
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.
E)
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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2. Food threat

3. No one is

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4. Inequ

5. hard but not hopeless

Comprehension
1.

2.

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

polluted

public transpory

traffic

pesticides

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.

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

11 Oil is the main source of ____________________ in this country. It would be good to use
cleaner sources like the wind and the sun.
12 There would be less ____________________ on the roads if the government made
___________________ cheaper.
13 Our new car is very economical on ____________________. It can do 100 kilometres on six
litres.
14 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 by
extreme (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 having
an 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

h) fossil

i) gases

j) ice caps

o) warming

d) energy
k) levels

e) environmentally
l) saving

f)exhaust

m) solar

g) farms

n) unleaded

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 selfsufficient 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
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 environmentallyfriendly products? Have you

gone green? Give some
examples.

Could climate change

destroy life on earth?
Discuss a best-case and a
worse-case scenario.

What's a carbon footprint?

How can it be reduced?

Are governments doing

enough to combat climate
change? Give some
examples.

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 words
listeing- fill in the gaps
post-listening- look at the highlighted words in the text.
practice
modals
production
debate- defensar el seu rol
Agricultor, politic, ecologista, el que ven fruta, profesor, flashcards amb les guidelands, vei,
homework
explicar presentacio per a la semana que be
practice de modals

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

session 4;
warm-up; quiz
presentation; readings
practice: links
production; video/
homework; rehearse presentation

stress game in revision unit

session 5