Vocabulary activities, videos, songs on this topic

2. PROTECTING NATURE
Do you know what does ENVIRONMENT mean?
Which environmental problems do you know?
Look for the meaning of the following words and write them under
the correct pictures:
Environment Pollution Global warming Climate change
Animal rights Endangered Nuclear waste Fertilizers
species
Acid rain Forest fires Ozone layer Nuclear energy
Exhaust fumes Ship oil spills Oil-slick Radio-active
waste
Wildlife Drought Earthquake Flood
Tidal wave Volcanic Typhoon Carbon dioxide
eruption
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4. Match the next words (1, 2…) with the expressions (a, b...).-
…….1. Pollution a) Endangered species
…… 2. Environment b) Nuclear waste
…… 3. Global warming c) Climate change
…… 4. Animal rights d) Exhaust fumes
Click here and listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpIWgGRCT8
WE can HELP make the world cleaner and better for the FUTURE
generations. You know that this POLLUTION affects all LIVING
BEINGS. For example, WE can LEARN to RECYCLE at home, at
school, in the street …
Do you and your
family recycle?

5. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ARE
THE 3 Rs?
3Rs
REDUCE RECYCLE
REUSE
Define the Rs after looking for the information on the following web
page http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/. Don’t forget to point at the
robot “Recycler”:
REDUCE means…………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………..
REUSE means……………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………
RECYCLE means…………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………….
Now you are READY to BE THE WINNER playing this
game. Click here http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/fz_challenge.aspx

6. RECYCLING CONTAINERS ACTIVITY
Game! Click here
http://www.mma.es/secciones/area_infantil/juego_recicla.htm and
then put each waste item into its container. There are four wrong
ones:
DVD
Green Yellow Blue Magazines
Glass Bottles
……….. …………. …………. Jars
Newspapers
……….. .. .……… ………… Paper bags
………... …………. ………… Aluminium cans
Steel cans
………… …………. ………… Milk and Juice Cartons
Plastic Bottles
………… …………. …………
Waste Paper
………… …………. …………
Cardboard
…. ….. …. Batteries
Clothes
Toys

7. Let’s look at these photos carefully!!!
A B
1. Write sentences using the following expressions:
There is a…
There isn’t any…
There are some…
There aren’t any …
Now add more sentences,
2. Use these adjectives to COMPARE the two beaches:
Clean Comfortable Good Beautiful Ugly Polluted
Bad Pleasant Nice Uncomfortable Noisy
Ex. The Beach A is cleaner than the Beach B

8. S P E A K IIN G
SPEAK NG

9. WRITE THE APPROPIATE TITLE
THE SITUATION OF THE FORESTS
WATER POLLUTION
AIR CONTAMINATION

10. SPEAKING and WRITING activity
Let’s ask and answer questions about things you
recycle at home, which containers do you use and
the process of recycling, etc. Discuss with your
partners in groups of four. Answer to the questions
and write some notes .Your teacher writes all the
answers on the whiteboard.
What Things do
you recycle?
Is it easy to find a
bottle container?
And a green
container?
How many things do
you think we can
Does your family recycle?
recycle?
We waste too
We pollute the water, many trees…
rivers, and parks.
What about
plastic and cans?

11. READIING
READ NG
a) How many times can you find environment /-al in the text?
b) Find three comparative adjectives
c) Find words related to the environment.
Ex. Rainforest destruction…
CLICK http://ecoagents.eea.europa.eu/ AND ENTER INTO
QUIZ TIME; THEN SELECT THE CLIMATE OR THE WATER QUIZ.

12. NOISE
POLLUTION
1. WHAT IS NOISE POLLUTION?
2. NAME SOME BAD EFFECTS ON OUR HEALTH AND
ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
3. TELL US THREE THINGS WE CAN DO AT SCHOOL,
AT HOME, IN THE STREETS FOR NO NOISE.
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION
HTTP://WWW.NONOISE.ORG/ABOUTNO.HTM

13. LIISTENIING
L STEN NG
Watch this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK--p9e33Q
What about __________ What about ______________
Michael Jackson
What about __________ What about it
What about all the things We've turned kingdoms to dust - Earth song -
That you said we were to gain What about us
What about killing __________ What about _____________
Is there a ________ What about us
What about all the things Have we lost their trust Animals
That you said was yours and mine What about us
Did you ever stop to notice What about crying __________ Time
All the blood we've shed before What about us
Did you ever stop this notice We're ravaging the seas Rain
This crying ________ this we make sure What about us
Earth
What about ___________trails
What have we done to the __________ Burnt despite our pleas Sunrise
Look what we've done What about us
What about all the __________ What about the holy ________ Joy
That you pledge your only son What about it
What about flowering fields Torn apart by creed World
Is there a time What about us
Fields
What about all the dreams What about the common ______
That you said was yours and mine What about us Seas
Did you ever stop to notice Can't we set him free
All the children dead from _______ What about us Stars
Did you ever stop to notice What about ___________ dying
This crying earth this we make sure What about us Heavens
Can't you hear them cry
Crying
I used to dream What about us
I used to glance beyond the _________ Where do we go wrong Nature’s
Now I don't know where we are Someone tell me why
Although I know we've drifted far What about us Man
What about ____________ boy
Hey, what about yesterday What about it Days
What about us What about the _________
Planet’s
What about the ___________ What about us
What about us What about all their _________ Peace
The _____________ are falling down What about us
What about us What about the men Elephants
I can't even breathe What about us
What about us What about the _________ man Baby
What about everything What about us
Whales
What about us What about Abraham
I have given you What was us Land
What about us What about death again
What about ___________ worth Do we give a damn? Children
It's our _______________ womb
What about us War
Forest

14. TALE: WHAT SCORCHING WEATHER!!!
The latest in the series of illustrated
children's books on Tom and his friend
Lila the fox tells us about heat... too
much heat! The forest is on fire — but so
is the planet on which Tom and Lila and
all of us are supposed to live.
Explaining global heating and climate
change, this colourful little book makes
interesting reading not only for children.
Easy-to-read and published in the 20
official EU languages, learners of a new
language will find it useful too.
Click into this page:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/pubs/pdf/weather/en.pdf
and let‘s do these activities in pairs.-
1. Look at the pictures in the tale and write your own story
with your partner.
2. Find some words related to the Nature: sun, trees…
3. Find some words related to the Environment and the
Global Warming: Climate change, fire, floods…

15. LISTEN AND WATCH THIS VIDEO
CORNER OF THE
Click here and fill in the blanks EARTH - Jamiroquai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_q_DXIhVk&feature=related
Little darlin' don't you see the ________ is shining
Just for you, only __________
If you hurry you can get a ray on you, come with me, just to ________
Like every humming _________ and bumblebee
Every _________, cloud and every __________ Me
I feel so much a part of this Sun
_________'s got me high and it's beautiful Today
I'm with this deep eternal ___________
From death until rebirth Bird
At
This corner of the ________ is like me in many ways Play
I can sit for ________ here and watch the emerald feathers play Nature
On the face of it I'm blessed Smiles
When the _________ comes for free Corner
I know this corner of the earth it smiles at me Sunflower
So inspired of that there's nothing left to do or _________ Face
Think I'll dream, 'til the ________ _________ Tree
Eternal
The _________ it whispers and the _________ don't seem to care Beautiful
And I know inside, that it's all __________ May
It's the chorus of the breakin' __________ Universe
The mist that comes before the sun is born Dawn
To a hazy afternoon in _________ Earth
Nature's got me high and it's so ___________ Mine
I'm with this deep __________ universe from death until rebirth
Hours
Shine
You know that this corner of the earth is like me in many ways
Sunlight
I can sit for hours here and watch the emerald feathers play
Clouds
On the _________ of it I'm blessed
Free
When the sunlight comes for _________
Wind
I know this corner of the earth it smiles at me
Say
I know this corner of the earth it smiles at me
Stars
I know this ________ of the earth it smiles at me
I know this corner of the earth it _________ at me
I know this corner of the earth it smiles ______ me
This corner of the earth, is like me in many ways
I can sit for hours here and watch the emerald feathers play
On the face of it I'm blessed
When the sunlight comes for free
I know this corner of the earth it smiles at ________

16. LET ‘S WATCH THE FILM
WALL-E
Wall-e is a robot who lives with his
pet and friend the cockroach.
He cleans the Earth. Human beings
are in the Axiom, because of the
terrible Pollution. Eve comes to look for some kind of Life:
for example, a Plant. And they fall in Love. And the
Adventures start …they try to save the Earth.
AFTER WATCHING QUESTIONS
Who is the leading actor?
Who are the other actors and actresses?
What is the relationship between the characters?
Where does the story take place?
How does the story begin?
Which is the meaning of the film?
Which is the most interesting part of the film?
Which is the most boring part of the film?
Which is the actor/actress do you like most? Why?
Which is the actor/actress do you dislike most? Why?
How does the film end?
Do you like the story? Why?
PLAY WITH WALL-E HERE!!!
http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/wal
l-e/flash_site.html?deeplink=Games

17. Hello World!!!
OUT IN THE DARK AND DAYLIGHT
Out in the dark and daylight,
Under a cloud or a tree,
Out in the park and play light,
Out where the wind blows free,
Out in the March or May light,
With shadows and stars to see,
Out in the dark and daylight…
That’s where I like to be. Aileen Fisher
Have you listened to this song from the film WALL-E
soundtrack? Do you dare to fill in the blanks with the
following words? I am sure that you will do it very
GOOD….

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=TWzNJOfLVJ4&feature=related
Down tto Eartth
Down o Ear h
Petter Gabriiell
Pe er Gabr e
When we messed up our _________
and set sail for the sky
Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ________? We're coming down to the _________
Did you feel you were tricked There's no better place to go
By the ________ you picked? We've got snow upon the mountains
Well come on down We got rivers down below
We're coming down to the ground
All these rules don't apply We'll hear the birds ______ in the trees
When you're high in the _______? And the land will be looked after
So come on down send the ______ out in the breeze
Come on down
We're coming down
We're coming down to the ground Comin' down to earth
There's no better _______ to go Like _______ at birth
We've got snow upon the _________ Comin' down to _______
We've got ________ down below
We're coming down to the ground Redefine your priorities
To hear the birds sing in the _______ These are extraordinary qualities
And the land will be looked after
We send the seeds out in the _________ We're coming down to the ground
There's no better place to go
Did you think you'd escaped from ________ We've got snow upon the mountains
By changing the script and the scene? We've got rivers down below
Despite all you made of it We're coming down to the ground
You're always afraid of the change We'll ______ the birds sing in the trees
And the land will be looked _______
You've got a lot on your ________ We send the seeds out in the breeze
Well you can come as my guest
So come on down We're coming down to the ground
Come on down There's no _______ place to go
We've got snow upon the mountains
We're coming _______ to the ground We've got rivers down below
There's no better place to go We're coming down to the ground
We've got ________ upon the mountains We'll hear the birds sing in the trees
We've got rivers down below And the land will be looked after
We're coming down to the ground We send the seeds out in the breeze
We'll hear the _______ sing in the trees
And the land will be looked after Redefine your priorities
We send the seeds out in the breeze These are extraordinary __________
Like the fish in the ______ That you find on earth
we felt at home in the _______ That you find on earth
we learnt to live off the good _______
we learnt to climb up a tree Coming down
Then we got up on two _______
but we wanted to _______ Coming down
_______ _______

19. FIINAL
F NA L T A SK
T A SK
PERCEIVE AND EXPLORE
THE GREEN CORNERS OF
YOUR TOWN…
ROSE JACARANDA
DAISY PALM TREE
SUNFLOWER ORANGE TREE
AND TAKE SOME PHOTOS, WRITE THEIR NAMES AND CREATE
AN EXHIBITION IN OUR HIGHSCHOOL.

20. SELF-EVALUATION SHEET
Complete this test after doing all the previous activities.
I CAN VERY OK NOT
WELL MUCH
Listen, understand, pronunciate
and take information about the
environment
Ask and write questions on the
topic
Give my opinion of
environmental problems
Write short paragraphs
Read and understand easy
passages about the
environment
Look for information and
exchange opinions

21. SHELF-EVALUATIION SHEET
SHELF-EVALUAT ON SHEET
UNIT: PROTECTING NATURE
What activities have we done?
What did you like? What did you dislike?
What did you find easy? What did you find difficult?
What have you learnt?
Linguistic Non-linguistic
What else would you like to learn about the topic?
What can we do next?