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4 Material world CLIL p93 c Optional activity: Key phrases

Language focus reference p102
Vocabulary • The environment and consumerism
I can give my opinion on world issues. Recycling one aluminium can saves enough Ask students to complete the key
energy to power a television for three
5 . It takes six weeks to recycle your phrases with their own ideas. Put
old drink can into parts of a plane, a car or a new them into pairs to compare their ideas,
THINK! What types of pollution do the photos show? Can you can! then ask some students to share their
think of three more problems in the world today?
ideas with the class. With weaker
1 Check the meaning of the words in blue in the eco-intellect classes, students could work in pairs to
fact file.
d complete the phrases, then in groups of
2 1.30 Read the fact file and complete the sentences with We must protect our world. four to compare their ideas.
the words in the box. Then listen and check. Which fact is We’re running out of natural
the most surprising to you?
resources and destroying ANSWerS
seventeen £700 100 1993 rainforests. Twenty-four trees 3 1.31 Watch or Students’ own answers.
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
person is not concerned exercise 4 USe IT!
about the future of our
. planet? Why? Do you agree? Read the Remember! box with the class
Check your eco-intellect! Yana Mitchell Paul Will and point out that we use the -ing form
after the verbs stop and start. Elicit a few
The earTh provides everyThing we need, buT how more sentences beginning Let’s stop …
much do you Think abouT iT? develop your e Key pHrases
eco-inTellecT by learning how your acTions can In some parts of the world, Expressing opinions and Let’s start … to practise the structure.
affecT The world we live in. people can’t afford to buy
food. In other parts, people I’m worried about . Read through the quote with the class
buy more than they need. It’s important that we . and check that students understand it.
A typical UK family wastes We need to stop .
approximately 7 We need to start . Put students into small groups to discuss
of food every year. I’m quite concerned about . whether they agree with the quote or not,
b and why. Monitor and help while they
Plastic bags damage the
environment and kill marine Let’s stop throwing so much are working. Ask groups in turn to tell the
and cities. We use each plastic
We need to start recycling things.
a animals. They pollute our towns rubbish away. class about their discussions. Discuss as a
bag for an average of only f class how individuals can waste less, e.g.
The UK produces more than 4 . by recycling or reusing things, not using
1 twelve Having a shower instead of a bath
million tonnes of
rubbish 2 reduces the amount of water 4 Use IT! Work in groups. Read the quote plastic bags, etc.
. On average, and talk about whether you agree with it or
each person in the UK throws away we waste. A toilet made before not using the key phrases.
their own weight in rubbish every 8 uses 60% more ANSWerS
seven 3 . water than toilets made since then. There is no such thing as ‘away’. When you Students’ own answers.
throw something away, it must go somewhere.
Finished?
Refer fast finishers to the Finished?
Finished? activity. Students can write their ideas
Discuss three things that your school can do to individually, then compare with another
reduce waste. What three things can you do at home?
fast finisher. Alternatively, ask students to
read their ideas to the class. Discuss as a
38 39 class which ideas students think are the
best and what changes they could most
easily make in their lives.
exercise 3 r e 1.31 page 113 Optional activity: Video More practice
Read out the questions, then play the Write these questions on the board: Workbook page 26
video or audio. Students watch or listen Practice Kit Vocabulary 4
and decide which person is not concerned Which speaker thinks that ...
about the future of our planet. Discuss with 1 healthy food is too expensive? Assessment
the class which person is not concerned 2 people should buy less? Five-minute test, Teacher’s Resource Disk
and why, and ask students if they agree. 3 we should do something about
Encourage them to give reasons for their pollution and climate change?
answers. Encourage as many students as Play the video or audio again for
possible to join in and express their opinions. students to listen and answer the
ANSWerS questions. Check answers with the class.
Speaker 4 (Will) isn’t worried about the ANSWerS
environment because the Earth’s been 1 Speaker 3 (Paul) 2 Speaker 1
around for a long time and the weather’s (Yana) 3 Speaker 2 (Mitchell)
always changing. ‘That’s just the way
things are.’

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