GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE

1) What do you think GLOBAL WARMING is?

A) When summer lasts two more weeks.

B) A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth's atmosphere.

C) When it’s hot all over the world.

2) Put the sentences in the order you think is the correct one.

when it gets a little bit warmer

and a little bit bigger means floods

the ocean on the Earth is like a planet-size thermometer

it’s expanding and getting a little bit bigger

3) Watch the first part of the video and check your answers to the previous exercise.

4) Vocabulary Bingo! Write the word next to the definition.

Any material that produces heat or power.

A hard black mineral that is found below the ground and burnt
to produce heat.
A thick liquid that is found in rock underground.
A chemical element that is found in all living things.
A gas breathed out by people and animals or produced by
burning carbon.
The smallest unit consisting in a group of atoms.
The quality of being hot.

5) Complete the text with the words in the box.

GREENHOUSE – FUEL – SEAS – CARBON – ELECTRIC POWER – OIL – COAL – ATMOSPHERE –
GAS – CARS – CARBON DIOXIDE – SUN – MOLECULES – HEAT – WARMS

Our factories, _______, trains and planes and ________ ___________ plants, almost all run on _________ made of
ancient living things: ________, __________ and natural gas. They contain _________ and when they burn it they
produce _______ ___________, which chemists call CO2.
As light from the ________ goes through the Earth’s ______________, it passes by CO2 ____________.
When the sunlight reaches the surface, it ________ the soil, the _________ and the plants.
Some of that warmth returns up into the outer space as ___________ energy.
The ___________ effect works as a big __________ dome that prevents the heat from escaping.

6) Watch the second part of the video to check your answers to the previous exercise.
 7) Match the halves to make complete sentences.

Our world has always been kept warm by… …it’s never gotten this warm this fast.

But as far back as we can measure… …dying.

Ice at the poles is… …expanding.

CO2 mixing into the ocean it’s making it… …what we call the greenhouse effect.

Ocean life is… …melting.

The warming ocean is… …rising.

So sea levels are… …acidic.

More heat in the air means… … more energy, more storms, more
droughts, more fires and more floods.

8) Watch the third part of the video to check your answers to the previous exercise.

9) Work in groups and answer these questions:

Are global warming and climate change connected? Why? Why not?

You have been working in groups collecting information about natural disasters. Is there a way to connect global
warming and climate change with the natural disasters you are studying? How?