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Unit 2
A hard life Culture

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Write these questions on the board: Living in
In which countries do you think 06 diff erent climates
SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the photos and try to
SPEAKING
it snows every year? How do you 1 match each one with a part of the world.
imagine life changes when it snows? A
What becomes more difficult? How Australia | the Himalayas | the Philippines | the Andes
can we use the snow in a positive 2 2.06 Read and listen to the article. Check your ideas.
way? Discuss in pairs or small groups.
CREATIVE
06 CLIMA TE SOLUTIONS
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
Living in different climates
Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. As temperatures increase, the ice caps and glaciers around the world
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increase in extreme weather events such as hurricanes and wildfires and serious shortages of water.
1 Ask students to describe what All over the world there are people living in difficult conditions. But difficult conditions often inspire creative solutions.
they can see in the photos before Every year the Philippines are hit by huge tropical typhoons. One man who wanted to tackle global warming
looking at the words in the box These violent storms often kill hundreds of people and cause directly was inventor Eduardo Gold. He used the
and completing the exercise. billions of dollars in damage to the islands. In an attempt to idea that light colours reflect the sunlight to try to
stop mountains in the South American Andes from
fight back, one company has come up with a house that is
designed to stand up to the strongest of winds. The houses heating up and losing their glaciers. His plan was
2 2.06 Tell students not to try to are built in a dome shape and the curved surfaces are much simple; with the help of a few friends he started
better at surviving in storms than traditional flat roofs and
painting the mountains white in the hope it would
understand every word, but to walls. They are also better at surviving earthquakes. keep their surfaces cooler. Although his idea was
focus on checking their answers included in the World Bank’s ‘100 ideas to save the
planet’ in 2009, Gold died in 2014 and his work had
to Exercise 1. Wildfires often cause massive destruction in many places limited success.
around the world, destroying land, homes and lives. In 2015
A the Himalayas B the Andes bush fires burned down vegetation in a large area of South A lack of water is one of the most serious problems
Australia leaving nothing but bare earth. This made the land
C Australia D the Philippines difficult to farm as strong winds blew the soil away. A farmer we can face. In the Himalayan Desert water is very
called Brian Fischer had a brilliant idea to stop the problem. difficult to find during the spring months. To help
With the help of his sons he ploughed the fields in spirals. solve this problem, the Ice Stupa project has come
3 Check/clarify: glaciers, melt, This means that it doesn’t matter which way the wind blows up with a very clever solution. In winter, a pipe
hurricanes, wildfires, destruction, because it can never blow away the soil. takes water from higher up in the mountains down
to the desert, where it rushes out as a fountain.
bushfires, shortages of water, Because it is so cold in the desert, the water freezes
inspire, creative solutions, tropical B and makes frozen towers of ice. In the spring the
ice melts giving the farmers the water they need
typhoons, dome shape, curved for their land.
surfaces, ploughed, spirals.
Before students read the article C
again, get them to read the D
questions through.
1 They are dome shaped because 3 Read the article again. Answer the questions.
1 What shape are the houses in the Philippines
curved surfaces can survive storms and why?
and strong winds better than flat ones. 2 What caused the problem in Australia and how
did one farmer try to solve it?
2 Fires and winds caused the problem. 3 What problem does an ice stupa solve?
He ploughed the fields in spirals. 4 What did Eduardo Gold do and why?
3 A lack of water in the spring. 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs. What other areas of the
SPEAKING
4 He painted some of the mountains world are difficult to live in and why?
in the Andes white to try to stop 26
them from heating up and losing their
glaciers.
Culture notes
4 At the end of the exercise, The Philippines (officially, the Republic of the Philippines) is a country in
listen to some of the students’ Southeast Asia, made up of about 7,641 islands in the western Pacific Ocean.
ideas and encourage open class The capital city is Manila.
discussion.
Australia (officially the Commonwealth of Australia) is a country comprising the
mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and lots of smaller
islands. It is the world’s sixth largest country by area. The capital city is Canberra
and the biggest city is Sydney.
The Andes mountains are the longest mountain range in the world, running
7,000 km through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and
Argentina. At the highest point, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina reaches about
6,961 metres above sea level.
The Himalayas is a mountain range in Asia, running 2,400 km across Bhutan,
China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. It has many of the Earth’s highest peaks,
including Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.
Social Responsibilities
Understanding and discussing global issues – environmental, political, financial and social
Is aware of different global issues (e.g. global warming).
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