This document provides vocabulary and phrases to discuss climate change in English. It begins with an introduction to climate change terms like greenhouse gases, emissions, and pollution. It then discusses the causes of climate change, including man-made global warming and the greenhouse effect. The document encourages commenting on experiences with climate change and the current weather, and provides additional language learning resources.

1. LEARN ENGLISH
HOW TO TALK
ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE
A masterclass with ABA
English

2. Let’s discover
CLIMATE CHANGE
VOCABULARY

3. Basic Nouns
● Sun
● Rain
● Fog
● Wind
● Cloud
● Lightning
● Thunder
● Forecast
● Temperature

4. Forming adjectives
● add “-y” to the end of the
noun
Cloud → Cloudy
Fog → Foggy

5. Other adjectives
● Hot
● Warm
● Cool
● Cold
● Dry
● Humid

6. How to create sentence
about weather conditions
● It’s (It is) + adjective
It’s very foggy today. I don’t think
I’ll be riding my bike to school.
● It’s (It is) + verb ending in -ing
It’s raining cats and dogs! We’ll
have to cancel the picnic.

7. What is climate change?
● What do you know about
climate change?
● Do you know what climate
change is?
● How do you feel about
climate change? Do you think
there’s something we can do
to reverse it?

8. What causes climate
change?
● Emissions (gases and other
substances released into the
air by cars and factories)
● Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions have
increased a lot over the last few
decades.

9. What causes climate
change?
● Greenhouse effect
● Greenhouse gases
Due to these high emissions, the
greenhouse effect has become
harmful to our planet.

10. What causes climate
change?
● Pollution
Pollution levels in Japan are so
high that there are already
illnesses caused by it that are
named after Japanese cities.

11. What causes climate
change?
● Man-made climate change /
global warming
I think that by now, no one could
deny that most of global
warming is man-made.

12. New phrases about
climate change
● Instead of climate change:
climate crisis, climate emergency,
climate breakdown
● Instead of global warming:
global heating (conveys the idea
that the world is becoming a
hot oven rather than simply
becoming temperate

13. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS
COMMENTS...
● Have you experienced the
effects of climate change where
you live?
● What’s the weather like right
now?

14. ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES
● Hundreds of
practical articles to
learn English for real
life.
● Languages:
English, Spanish,
Italian, Portuguese,
French, German,
Turkish
facebook.com/ABAEnglish
twitter.com/ABAEnglish
youtube.com/ABAEnglish
instagram.com/ABAEnglish

15. Time to answer
your questions!

16. How to talk
about routines
Don’t miss the next class!!

17. See you next time!