Lessons 4 and 5 of 13

1. I.S.F.D LENGUAS VIVAS BARILOCHE –
PRÁCTICA DOCENTE III
ENTREGA DE PLANIFICACIÓN
ALUMNO PRACTICANTE: María Silvia Maestromey
Año y sección: 3er nivel
Nivel lingüístico del curso: mixto pre-intermediate to advanced
Cantidad de alumnos: 18
Tipo de Planificación: clase
Unidad Temática: Continents
Clase Nº: 3
Duración de la clase: 80 minutos
Fecha de la clase: 13/06/19
Fecha de entrega de la planificación: 08/06/19
Learning Aims
During this lesson, learners will be able to:
- work in pairs;
- read about specific environment issues;
- come up with an idea for a campaign to protect the environment;
- think of creative ways of helping the environment
Language Focus
LEXIS FUNCTIONS STRUCTURE
R
E
V
Pollution, contamination,
environment, challenge,
hashtag, slogan
Reading about environment
issues
Talking about possible ways
of helping the environment
“Pollution kills 7 billion people
annually”
“World ED is the biggest
annual event”
“WED was hosted by India”
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2. Materials
 Board markers
 Eraser
 Laptop
 Set of photocopies
 Projector
 Speakers
 Pictures
 Video
 Posters
Procedures
ROUTINE (5 minutes)
I say hello to the students and take attendance: “Hello everybody! How are you
today? Let’s see who is here and who is absent” As they get ready, I will try to
remember their names and I will present today’s topic. “Today we are going to
start with a new continent. Do you want to guess which one?” I will wait for
them to say some names and I will answer yes or no, accordingly. Then I will
ask them “Can you tell me something about this continent?”
WARM- UP (10 minutes)
“Before we start I am going to show you a short video about Asia, just so you
are more familiar with this continent”. I will ask them to take down notes and
then tell me what they got from the video.
Asia Destination World.mp4
I will check what information they got from the video. “What can you recall
from the video we have just seen?” I will wait for them to give me some

3. answers and I will encourage them to remember more “What else? Remember
the animals mentioned? How many countries are there in Asia? How many
people live there?” I will elicit some answers and write them down on the
board.
PRESENT ATI ON (10 minutes)
“Now we are going to work with only two countries in Asia and we are going to
concentrate on one specific thing they both have in common” I will give
students a word search, I will explain that they will have to search for some
words and find a hidden message. “I am giving you a word search, but this one
is special, you have to not only find the words from the list, but you will also
find a hidden message once you find them all”. I will walk around monitoring
students and paying attention to the ones who have trouble finding words. I
will point them where some of the words start to help them find them. I will
also tell them that words can be found in different directions: vertical,
horizontal, diagonal, and they can also be from left to right, top to bottom and
vice versa.
Once they get the hidden message, I will ask them to share with the rest. I will
write World Environment Day on the board in red and I will ask them if they
have ever heard of it before. I will ask them to tell me if they know what World
Environment Day means. I will tell them “World Environment Day is held each
year on June 5, it was actually held last week. It is one of the principal vehicles
through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates worldwide awareness of the
environment and enhances political attention and action.” In case some of them
do not know what the UN is I will explain it by saying “The United Nations (UN)
is an intergovernmental organization that aims at maintaining international
peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving
international co-operation, and being a centre for harmonizing the actions of
nations.”

4. I will continue linking the video to this following activity by saying: “Remember
from the video which the two most populous countries in Asia are?” I will wait
for their answers and say “Good! China and India! WED was hosted in those
countries the last times. This year it was in China and last year it was in India”.
I will write down China 2019 and India 2018 on the board bellow World
Environment Day.
DEVELOP M ENT (PRACTI CE and PRODUCTI ON)
Activity 1 (10 minutes)
“Now I am going to give you the following article so you can read a bit more
about World Environment Day. You have to read it and find the following
information. You can highlight it or underline it.” I will write the information on
the board:
 What is the purpose of WED? (The protection and improvement of the
human environment)
 Who is the host of this celebration? (The country has hosts the event
changes every year. Last year it took place in India and this year in
China.)
 Which is the theme? (The theme also changes every year. Last year it was
“Beat Plastic Pollution” and this year “Air pollution”.)
 How many times has this event been held so far? (It has been held 46
times.)
Activity 2 (15 minutes)
“Now that you finished reading and you know a bit more about WED, what do
you think are the main problems that are facing the environment at the
moment?” I will wait for students to answer two or three different problems
and them I will ask: “What can we do to help?” After they suggest a few possible

5. ways of helping, I will stick a poster on the board with information about the
last five WED – poster 1.
Year Host Theme Reason
2019 China air pollution 7 million people
die annually for
this cause
2018 India plastic pollution heavy burden of
plastic waste
2017 Canada connecting people
to nature
going outdoors
and protecting the
Earth
2016 Angola wild life prevent illegal
trade in wild life
2015 Italy “Seven Billion
Dreams. One
Planet to Consume
Care”
raise aware for the
environment
I will give students a couple of minutes to read the poster. “Please, take a look
at this poster with a chart holding information about the last five WED.” After
that I will tell them “Every year, as you just read, WED has a different host
country and a different theme that arises from the current problems the
environment is facing. Each year, WED also has a different slogan and a
different symbol. These are some symbols over the last five years”, as I show
the symbols from my computer through a projector.
Then I will explain what else changes over the years: “Besides hosts, themes
and symbols, WED has a different slogan and even hashtag every year.” I will
ask them to tell me if they know what a slogan is (a catch phrase used to
identify a particular product, for example). I will explain if some students do
not understand by mentioning a famous slogan such as “Just Do It” by Nike or
“Impossible is nothing” by Adidas. I will continue saying “In 2017, the slogan
was Connecting People to Nature – in the City and on the Land, from the Poles to

6. the Equator. I will stick a poster of the slogan on the board – poster 2 – in case
some students need to read it to understand, and I will explain what it means in
case it is necessary.
Activity 3 (20 minutes)
I will ask students to get in pairs and pretend that they have to pick next year’s
WED theme. I will also ask them to think of ways of helping to solve the issue.
In case they need some guidance, I will tell them “For example, for this year’s
WED suggested ways of helping the environment were…” and I will point the
poster on the board. (I will stick another poster on the board – poster 3). In
case they can’t think of any them I will suggest noise or water pollution. I will
walk around monitoring their work and I will ask them if they need help with
vocabulary of if they need extra information.
Activity 4 (5 minutes)
After they finish activity 3, I will ask them to design a hashtag and a symbol for
2020 WED. I will let students look at the symbols of previous WEDs to get
inspired. I will tell them that this year’s hashtag was #BeatAirPollution together
with #WorldEnvironmentDay, which has been used for several years now. I will
explain “As you may know, hashtags are a very effective in social media sites
where people can follow hashtags and see all the posts that use them. They are
also a great way of sharing and spreading information”.
CLOSURE (5 minutes)
To finish the class I will show them the mask challenge “Another way of
making people aware of the problems in the environment is making a
challenge. This year’s WED challenge was the mask challenge. Face masks are a
great symbol to show people want to breathe clean air.” I will give students

7. some time to think “Can you think of a challenge for your WED 2020? Bring
your idea as homework for next class.”
“Thank you for your attention. Excellent work today, see you next class. Don’t
forget to bring your challenge ideas. Goodbye!”.
APPENDIX
WORD SEARCH

8. WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY ARTICLE
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
DATE: Wed 05/06/19
Related Organisation/Agency: United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations, aware that the protection and improvement of the human
environment is a major issue, which affects the well-being of peoples and
economic development throughout the world, designated 5 June as World
Environment Day. The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity
to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by
individuals, enterprises and communities in preserving and enhancing the
environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform
for public outreach that is widely celebrated in more than 100 countries
World Environment Day is the biggest annual event for positive environmental
action and takes place every 5 June.
The theme for World Environment Day 2018, hosted by India, was “Beat
Plastic Pollution”, which was a call to action for all of us to come together to
combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time. The theme
invited us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to
reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife
– and our own health.
2019 CELEBRATIONS
World Environment Day 2019 will be hosted by China, with a theme of "Air
Pollution". We can't stop breathing, but we can do something about the

9. quality of air that we breathe.
Approximately 7 million people worldwide die prematurely each year from air
pollution, with about 4 million of these deaths occurring in Asia-Pacific. World
Environment Day 2019 will urge governments, industry, communities, and
individuals to come together to explore renewable energy and green
technologies, and improve air quality in cities and regions across the world.
Air Pollution facts:
 92 per cent of people worldwide do not breathe clean air
 Air pollution costs the global economy $5 trillion every year in welfare
costs
 Ground-level ozone pollution is expected to reduce staple crop yields by
26 per cent by 2030
Symbols
The main colors featured in many promotions for this event are natural colors
depicting nature, the Earth and its natural resources. These colors are often
softer shades of green, brown and blue. Images of natural the Earth's features,
such as snowy mountains, clean beaches, unpolluted rivers, and photos of
natural flora and fauna, including fern leaves, are used to promote campaigns
supporting the day.
Sources:
https://www.greeningtheblue.org/event/world-environment-day
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/world-environment-day
WED SYMBOLS

12. POSTER 1
Year Host Theme Reason
2019 China air pollution 7 million people
die annually for
this cause
2018 India plastic pollution heavy burden of
plastic waste
2017 Canada connecting people
to nature
going outdoors
and protecting the
Earth
2016 Angola wild life prevent illegal
trade in wild life

13. 2015 Italy “Seven Billion
Dreams. One
Planet to Consume
Care”
raise aware for the
environment
POSTER 2
ConnectingPeopleto Nature – in theCity
and on the Land, from the Poles to the
Equator
POSTER 3
 Use public transport or car sharing, cycle or walk
 Switch to a hybrid or electric vehicle and request electric taxis
 Turn off the car engine when stationary
 Reduce your consumption of meat and dairy to help cut methane
emissions
 Compost organic food items and recycle non-organic trash
 Switch to high-efficiency home heating systems and equipment
 Save energy: turn off lights and electronics when not in use
 Choose non-toxic paints and furnishings
CHALLENGE

14. Make a pledge and challenge others to take action
 Take a photo or video of yourself wearing a mask to post on social media.
Don't have a mask?
 Get creative and make your own!
 In your post share the action you’ll take to reduce air pollution
 Tag 3 people/organizations/ companies to challenge them to do the
same.
 Use #WorldEnvironmentDay and #BeatAirPollution in your social media
posts and don’t forget to tag @UNEnvironment.
Each activity must be described in terms of the following components:
 Timing
 Activity description and instructions as they will be said to
students (include direct speech)
 Scaffolding strategies
 Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one
To be completed by your tutor:
Lesson plan
component
Excellent
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Very Good
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Good
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Acceptable
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Needs
improvement

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Observations Great job!
Keep an eye on timing, so that you can accomplish your goals.