This lesson plan is for an 80-minute class about Mount Everest for an intermediate to advanced level English course. The plan includes the following activities: a warm-up where students discuss what they know about Mount Everest, a presentation about Mount Everest, questions to check comprehension of the presentation, reading an article about pollution on Mount Everest and highlighting key ideas, working in groups to develop solutions to the pollution problem, and sharing proposed solutions with the class. The plan provides timing, instructions, and scaffolding for each activity, with transitions to link the stages together.

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: 5
Duración de la clase: 80 minutos
Fecha de la clase: 1/07/19
Fecha de entrega de la planificación: 26/06/19
Learning Aims
During this lesson, learners will be able to:
- work in pairs or small groups;
- read about Mount Everest
- read about specific environment issues;
- come up with ideas to protect the pollution problem in Mount Everest;
- 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
“Mount Everest sees many
tourists every day, which has
a huge impact on the local
environment”
“Our goal is to extract as
much waste as possible”

2. N
E
W
Materials
 Board markers
 Eraser
 Laptop
 Set of photocopies
 Pictures
 Blank posters
 Coloured markers
 Projector
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
continue working with Asia and environment issues. But this time about a more
specific place in Asia. Can you guess which one?” I will wait for them to say some
names and I will answer yes or no, accordingly. Then I will say “We are going to
work with Mount Everest.”
WARM- UP (5 minutes)
“Before we start, what can you tell me about Mount Everest?” I will ask them to
tell me what they know about it and then I will show them some pictures with
the projector.

3. PRESENT ATI ON (15 minutes)
Then I will show them an interactive presentation of Mount Everest. “Now we
are going to watch a presentation about Mount Everest”.
https://prezi.com/fuw_rfx1czxv/mount-everest-presentation/
I will ask students to volunteer to read one slide each. If nobody volunteers, I will
point out who reads. If necessary, I willhelp students with pronunciation and big
numbers.
DEVELOP M ENT (PRACTI CE and PRODUCTI ON)
Activity 1 (15 minutes)
I willwrite down questions on the board and students will answer based on what
they remember from the presentation.
Where is Mount Everest located? (The Himalayan, in China, Nepal and Tibet)
How many tourists does the Everest receive every year? (25,000 tourists)
Who was the first person to arrive to the top? When? (Charles Evans in 1953)
Does tourism have any positive impact? (It helped boost the economy)
What about the negative impact of tourism? (Pollution)
Students will copy the questions on their folders and they will answer them.
Then we will check them as a class. I will ask someone to read the first question
and answer, then I will ask the rest of the class if they agree. If they have any
different answer I will ask them to share and we will compare them to see if they
are all correct, or which one is better.
Activity 2 (15 minutes)
“Now we are going to read about some problems that have arisen in Mount
Everest as a result of its popularity”. I will hand out a copy of a recent article

4. about Mount Everest and its pollution problem. Students will read it and
highlight the main ideas. “You can highlight or underline the main ideas”. I will
walk around and answer questions regarding vocabulary or comprehension.
Students will share the main ideas of the text.
Activity 3 (20 minutes)
As a follow up activity, students will get together in pairs or groups of three and
they will try to come up with a creative solution to the pollution problem in
Mount Everest. They willhave to describe what they will do and why and prepare
it in writing. Students can make a poster to describe their solution, if they want
to.
Activity 4 (5 minutes)
After students have thought of different ways of helping solve the problem in
Mount Everest, they will share their possible solutions with the rest of the class.
I will encourage them to share and praise them for their answers. As they share
their ideas, I will make a list of them on the board.
CLOSURE (5 minutes)
To finish the class I will ask them to vote for the best idea by raising their hands
and say why do they think it is the best solution. Then I will thank them for their
work and say goodbye.
“Thank you for your attention. Excellent work today, see you next class. Don’t
forget to bring your challenge ideas. Goodbye!”
APPENDIX
Pictures

5. Article

6. World's highest dump? Mount
Everest is covered in tons of trash and
dead bodies
May, 2nd 2019
Mount Everest has a trash problem.
A clean-up team in Nepal recently picked up more than three tons of garbage from the area
around the world's highest peak, and they plan to grab a total of 11 tons in a 45 day cleaning
initiative that started April 14, local media reported.
"Our goal is to extract as much waste as possible from Everest so as to restore glory to the
mountain. Everest is not just the crown of the world, but our pride," Dandu Raj Ghimire,
Nepal's tourism director, told reporters earlier this week in Kathmandu, according to the
Hindu.
The country's tourism department is teaming up with local government as well as
mountaineering groups in a first of its kind effort to clean the mountain, according to the
Himalayan Times.
Around 500 foreign climbers and 1,000 climbing support staff will make it to Everest's higher
camps this year, according to the tourism department.As theyclimb, mountaineersneed large
packs and often leave behind trash, both degradable and not.
Ghimire said the team would also bring down bodies of climbers who died trying to scale the
peak. According to the Himalayan Times, four bodies were already found at the base camp.
Last month, officials said that more bodies were being revealed on Everest as the
mountain's glaciers melt amid a warming climate.
Past efforts have been made to remove the trash, including a 2014 rule requiring all climbers
to bring back at least eight kilograms, or roughly 17 pounds – the estimated amount the
average climber leaves on Everest, according to the Kathmandu Post.
"If only climbers brought back their own waste, it would greatly help keep Everest clean,"
Ghimire said, according to the newspaper. "It's not about the 8kg waste, but bringing back the
waste they produce."
According to the Everest Summiteers Association, a total 30 tons of trash is still atop the
mountain, ABC reported.

7. The 12-member cleaning team reached the base camp earlier this week and would ascend
as high as they could to remove the waste, the Kathmandu Post reported.
"Everything on Everest, other than rock and snow, will be brought back," said Tika Ram
Gurung, secretary of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, according to the Post. "The goal
is to send the message that we should keep this mountain pollution free."
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/05/02/mount-everest-
polluted-tons-trash-nepal-clean-up-team-reports/3649409002/
Each activity must be described in terms of the following components:
 Timing
 Activitydescription 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
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Acceptable
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Needs
improvement
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Visual
organization
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sequencing
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accuracy
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Observations
Lovely lesson!