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Unit summary 4 Material world CLIL p93 c
Language focus reference p102
Vocabulary • The environment and consumerism
Vocabulary I can give my opinion on world issues. Recycling one aluminium can saves enough
energy to power a television for three
5 . It takes six weeks to recycle your
The environment and consumerism: old drink can into parts of a plane, a car or a new
afford, damage, destroy, develop, pollute, THINK! What types of pollution do the photos show? Can you can!
produce, protect, provide, recycle, reduce, think of three more problems in the world today?
run out of, save, throw away, use, waste 1 Check the meaning of the words in blue in the eco-intellect
fact file.
Adjectives: describing objects: d
1.30 Read the fact file and complete the sentences with
automatic, digital, ecological, electronic, 2 the words in the box. Then listen and check. Which fact is We must protect our world.
hi-tech, home-made, multi-functional, the most surprising to you? We’re running out of natural
resources and destroying
natural, recycled, second-hand, smart, seventeen £700 100 1993 rainforests. Twenty-four trees 3 1.31 Watch or
solar, useful, waterproof every year hours minutes weeks make one tonne of newspaper. listen to four people
A tonne of recycled newspaper talking about the
saves 6 trees. environment. Which
Language focus person is not concerned
about the future of our
Quantifiers . planet? Why? Do you agree?
Question tags Check your eco-intellect! Yana Mitchell Paul Will
The earTh provides everyThing we need, buT how e
much do you Think abouT iT? develop your
Speaking eco-inTellecT by learning how your acTions can In some parts of the world, Key pHrases
I can express my preference when affecT The world we live in. people can’t afford to buy Expressing opinions .
I’m worried about
food. In other parts, people
comparing things. buy more than they need. It’s important that we .
A typical UK family wastes We need to stop .
approximately 7 We need to start .
Writing of food every year. I’m quite concerned about .
I can use to, in order to and so that to b Plastic bags damage the
explain the purpose of an object. environment and kill marine Let’s stop throwing so much
animals. They pollute our towns
a and cities. We use each plastic rubbish away.
We need to start recycling things.
bag for an average of only f
The UK produces more than twelve 4 .
Vocabulary • The rubbish 2 million tonnes of Having a shower instead of a bath 4 Use IT! Work in groups. Read the quote
1
reduces the amount of water
. On average,
environment and their own weight in rubbish every we waste. A toilet made before and talk about whether you agree with it or
not using the key phrases.
each person in the UK throws away
uses 60% more
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consumerism seven 3 . water than toilets made since then. throw something away, it must go somewhere.
There is no such thing as ‘away’. When you
Aim
Give your opinion on world issues. Finished?
Discuss three things that your school can do to
reduce waste. What three things can you do at home?
THINK!
Focus on the photos and ask: What types of
pollution do they show? Elicit a few ideas. If 38 39
students are struggling for ideas, focus on
one of the photos and ask more questions,
e.g. focus on the children wearing ANSWerS Optional activity: Vocabulary
masks and ask: Where are they? Why are Students’ own answers. Give a few examples of opinions using
they wearing masks? Elicit the idea of air exercise 2 e 1.30 the verbs in the fact file, e.g. I think
pollution and write this on the board. Focus on the words in the box and check people shouldn’t throw away their old
Put students into pairs to discuss the that students understand all the words. clothes. They should recycle them. I think
questions and think of three more Students read the fact file again and everyone should try to use less water.
problems. Ask some students to tell the complete the sentences with the correct Put students into pairs to write three
class their ideas, and discuss the answers words and phrases. Allow students time to opinions about the environment using
as a class. Encourage students to give compare their answers in pairs, then play the verbs in the fact file. Monitor and
detailed answers. Ask more questions, the audio for students to listen and check help while they are working.
if necessary to prompt them, e.g. Why is their answers.
pollution of the seas a problem? Who is it a Put pairs together into groups of four
problem for? How does it affect people? Is Check answers with the class and ask: to compare their sentences and decide
there pollution in your town or city? Which fact is the most surprising to you? which ones they all agree with.
Why? Elicit a range of answers from Ask groups in turn to read out the
ANSWerS individual students. sentences they all agree with.
Students’ own answers.
ANSWerS ANSWerS
exercise 1 1 100 Students’ own answers.
Students read the fact file quickly and 2 every year
check the meaning of the blue words. 3 weeks
They can use their dictionaries to help. 4 minutes
Check that students understand all the 5 hours
verbs. Model the pronunciation of verbs 6 seventeen
your students might find difficult, e.g. 7 £700
damage, recycle. 8 1993
Students’ own answers.

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