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3 ClIl Geology: The water cycle 4 ClIl Society: Fairtrade Exercise 3 e 3.05
I can understand the water cycle and describe the journey of a river.
I can talk about Fairtrade and design a poster about it.
Allow students time to read the sentences,
1 Match the words in blue in the fact sheet 3 Label the diagram with the words in the box. 1 Read paragraphs 1 and 2 of the text quickly 3 3.05 Read and listen to the article then play the audio. Students read and
with definitions 1–7. to find the words below. What part of speech again. Write true or false. Correct the false listen to the article again and decide if the
1 changes from liquid into gas condensation evaporation precipitation are they? Explain their meaning in your own sentences.
water returns to the sea
2 changes from gas into liquid words. 1 People in the UK don't grow bananas. sentences are true or false. Remind them
3 rainfall conditions label plantation 2 Some banana farmers don’t earn enough to correct the false sentences.
4 water when it exists in the air price profit because companies don’t pay a fair price.
5 the part of the land or body of water at the 3 3 Fairtrade only helps banana farmers. Allow students time to compare their
top answers in pairs, then check answers.
6 ice is in this state 2 Read the article. What is Fairtrade? 4 Foncho buys bananas from farmers and
sells them to supermarkets.
7 water at room temperature is this 4 5 Thanks to the Fairtrade, Foncho's life is AnsWErs
MAKE BANANAS FAIR getting better now. 1 true
2 Read the fact sheet. What happens to water
when it falls to the Earth? Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world. British 4 uSe It! Work in groups. Make a poster 2 true
2 people love eating bananas, but they don’t grow in the UK about Fairtrade. Include pictures. 3 false (Coffee, sugar, cocoa, rice and
THE WATER cyclE 1 and have to be transported. So how it is possible that a Write about workers’ conditions like this: cotton are also Fairtrade products.)
banana only costs eleven pence in supermarkets?
work 4 false (Foncho is a banana farmer who
earn
Now here is a challenge for you. Go and get a glass 1 The reason is that the farmers often get very little Workers often belongs to a farmers’ co-operative.)
of water and take a look at it. Can you guess how old because the companies who buy bananas want can’t 5 true
it is? Well, your water perhaps fell from a cloud just to make big profits. Life isn’t easy on a banana don’t
a couple of weeks ago, but it has been around for plantation. The farmers work long hours and can get Write about consumers’ actions:
the same length of time as planet Earth! That means harmed by dangerous pesticides. Exercise 4 UsE IT!
that your glass of water was around when the first Consumers don’t buy more Read through the task with the class and
creatures swam in the sea and when the dinosaurs 2 Fairtrade is an international movement that tries to should pay enough
roamed the Earth. But how is this possible? help farmers and workers in developing countries. Include a slogan, for example: ask: What kind of pictures could you include?
The fact is that the quantity of water on the Earth Fairtrade products include items like bananas, coffee, Elicit that the poster could show examples
remains the same over time and it constantly sugar, cocoa and rice. When you buy a product with Buy … / Give … / Pay … / Help …
goes through the water cycle. In the cycle, there is Fairtrade label, you know the farmers received a fair of bad conditions, and examples of happy
continuous movement of water on, above and below price and worked in good conditions. Fairtrade farmers.
the surface of the Earth. Firstly, the sun heats the
water in the rivers, seas and oceans, and it evaporates 3 Foncho, a Fairtrade banana farmer in Colombia who Focus on the prompts about workers’
into the air. Plants and trees lose water, too, and this belongs to a farmers’ co-operative. 'We experienced conditions and consumers’ actions. Elicit
also goes up into the air. The water vapour then cools very difficult times when we weren’t in Fairtrade,’
and condenses into small drops which form clouds. some possible sentences, e.g. Without
You can see how condensation happens if you look he says. Today, as a Fairtrade farmer, he gets a Fairtrade, workers often work hard and they
again at your glass of water on a hot day. After a 4 3.04 Read and listen to the fact sheet minimum price for his bananas and his co-operative
short time, water from the air condenses onto the again. Answer the questions. also gets the Fairtrade premium. This means he can don’t earn much money. They can’t send their
cold glass. Back to the sky, though, and the next step build his family a house and support them. children to school. Consumers should buy
is that the clouds gradually get heavier and heavier 1 What is true about the amount of water on
until they can’t hold the water any more, and it falls to Earth? 4 Therefore, next time you are shopping in the more Fairtrade products.
Earth as rain, sleet or snow. 2 Why does water vapour condense? supermarket, look for the Fairtrade label. If enough Elicit some possible slogans, e.g. Buy
Water can change state from liquid to vapour to 3 What happens to a glass of water on a hot people choose to buy Fairtrade goods, more
solid during the cycle, but any form of water that day? companies will pay the farmers a fair price. Fairtrade food! Pay a fair price for your food!
falls from the clouds is called precipitation. When on 4 Name two forms of precipitation. Do you Help people earn a fair wage!
Earth, some of the water runs into rivers, lakes and know any more?
streams and becomes surface water. Some enters the 5 What are the three states that water can Put students into small groups to make
ground and forms underground rivers or lakes before be in? their posters. They can draw their own
eventually flowing back to the seas and oceans. The
cycle is complete. 5 uSe It! Work in pairs. Create a poster illustrations or download pictures from the
to show what happens in the water cycle. internet. Encourage them to make their
Include information from this page.
posters colourful and interesting.
92 ClIl ClIl 93 Ask groups in turn to present their posters
to the class. Discuss as a class which
posters are most likely to persuade people
4 CLIL • Society: use their own words where possible to to buy Fairtrade food.
Fairtrade explain the meanings. Make sure students AnsWErs
understand all the words.
Model pronunciation of words your Students’ own answers.
Aim students might find difficult, e.g. label. Optional activity: Writing
Talk about Fairtrade and design a poster Ask students to imagine they are
about it. AnsWErs
The words are all nouns. a Fairtrade farmer in a developing
Students’ own answers. country. Ask them to write a short letter
Warm-up to a consumer in Britain describing:
Focus on the photo and elicit that it shows Exercise 2 1 what their life was like before they
a banana farmer. Ask: Do you eat bananas? Read out the question and ask: Do you became a Fairtrade farmer
Do they grow in your country? Which know what Fairtrade is? Elicit a few ideas, 2 how Fairtrade has changed their life
countries do they grow in? Do you think the but don’t confirm them at this stage. 3 why consumers should buy Fairtrade
farmers who grow them are well paid for Students read the article quickly to find products
their work? Elicit a few answers, but don’t the answer to the question. Check the Students could write their letters for
confirm them at this stage. answer with the class. homework.

Exercise 1 AnsWEr In the next lesson, put students into
Students work in pairs to scan Fairtrade is an international movement small groups to compare their letters
which helps farmers and workers in
paragraphs 1 and 2 to find the words and developing countries work in good and discuss which ones would be most
work out their meanings. Students can use conditions and receive a fair price for likely to persuade consumers to buy
their dictionaries to help, if necessary. their Fairtrade-labelled goods. Fairtrade products.
Discuss what part of speech each word AnsWErs
is, and discuss the meaning of the words Students’ own answers.
with the class, encouraging students to

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