This lesson plan aims to teach 9th grade students about environmental protection. The key goals are to learn new vocabulary related to the environment, develop students' language and social skills, and form attitudes of caring for the environment and tolerance. The lesson uses a combination of individual, group, and whole class activities. Students will define "environment", discuss environmental problems, complete a crossword puzzle, read texts on various polluters and solutions, and sing a song about nature. The lesson aims to widen students' knowledge while developing their skills.

1. Comprehensive school of the I – III levels # 10
of the Mirnograd town council of the Donetsk region
The lesson plan
on the subject «Environmental protection»
Grade 9
The date: 01/12
The lesson aims:
Practical:
- To learn the new words on the subject «The environment protection»;
- To form the language, speech, social and cultural, educational and learning,
life, information, self-educational, communication competence of the pupils;
- To train listening, communication skills, independent working with texts,
writing skills;
- To form independent working with the level B 1 tasks of EIE skills.
Developing:
– to develop linguistic skills, memory and attention of the pupils;
Educational:
– to widen pupils’ general outlook;
Up-bringing:
- To form careful attitude towards the environment;
- To form the team work skills,
- To develop tolerant attitude towards people living with AIDS/HIV;
The lesson type: combined
Equipment: computers according to the number of pupils, smartboard, teacher`s
computer, markers, white board, distributive material, dictionaries, self-
assessments cards, Power Point presentation.
Intersubject communications: Computer science, Biology, Health
Fundamentals.
The lesson procedure:
1. Giving the subject and the goals of the lesson
Teacher: Good morning, dear pupils and guests! Do you know that the first of
December is the day of tolerant attitude towards people living with AIDS? We
must keep in mind that all the people have to take care of their health and about

2. something else. Can you look at the pictures and try to guess the subject of our
lesson?
Pupils` answers
Teacher:Yes, you`re right. Todaywe are going to speak about the ways of how to
save the environment from damage as the subject of our today’s lesson is “The
environment protection”.
There is a saying: "Mankind won't die in a nuclear nightmare, it will suffocate
in their own waste". So, today we are going to find all the possible ways out. By
the end of the lesson we`ll have to specify the main polluters, the problems they
cause and possible solutions of the problems.
One of the pupils reads the rules of the lesson on the smartboard
Teacher: So, let`s be active, do our best, answer without hesitation. Keep in mind
that any answer is received. Don’t forget to put your points into the self-assessment
cards during the lesson, and, of course, try to use less paper, as it can help save our
environment. So, are you ready? Ok, let`s start then.
1. Warming-up:
Can you give the definition of the word «environment»? What environmental
problems do we face today?
The pupils answerthe questions and the teacher writes the ideas on the white
board using markers
2. Basic knowledge actualization:
Teacher: Thank you for your answers. And it`s time for the next challenge. Take
your self-assessment cards. There is a crossword there. Do you see it? Your task is
to do it.
1 ●●●E●●●●
2●●●●●●●●●N
3●●V●●●●●●●●
4●●I●●
5 R●●●●●●
6●●●●●●O●●●
7 ●●●N●●
8 ●●●M●●●
9 ●●E●●
10●●●●●●●●N
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3. 1. It says there will rain. FORECAST
2. A man who tells us the weather forecast. WEATHERMAN
3. It’s all around us. ENVIRONMENT
4. It’s a synonym to the words “every day”. DAILY
5. Sometimes it appears after the rain together with the Sun. RAINBOW
6. It’s a building with glass walls and a glass roof where the plants grow.
GREENHOSE
7. It’s a synonym to the “destroyed”. RUINED
8. Animals who feed their children with milk. MAMMALS
9. It’s a synonym to the words “to make clean”. CLEAN
10. It’s a process of polluting. POLLUTION
11. It produces oxygen. TREE
Teacher: Ok, children, well done. What word have you got in the result? Well,
let`s have a look at the smartboard. This is how your crosswordscompleted have to
look like.
One of the pupils reads the questions of the crossword. Pupils give the
answers.
(The answers to the crossword are highlighted on the smartboard)
Teacher: So, now you can check up the spelling. Do it, please.
Teacher: Now put the points you`ve got to your self-assessment cards.
Ok, and now you are going to check up your hometask. Use your computers for
this. You have to do the tasks of the two levels. The fist level task proposes the
True/False sentences according to the text of Ex. 3 p. 64. The second level tasks
suppose you know the words from the text. The number of the points you can get
you can see in the task. Let`s start. You have 3 minutes only.
1) The Home Assignment checkup:
The pupils take their seats at the computers and do the individual tasks. (Reading
comprehension, Ex. 3 p. 64).

4. Summarizing
Task 1:
Put true or false according to the text of Ex. 3 p. 64: (0 – 6 points)
1. In Britain five quarters of rubbish ends up in landfill every year. F
2. They don’t like to use plastic bags in Britain. F
3. There aren`t any plastic bags in the British streets today. F
4. All over the world people prefer eating traditional homegrown foods. T
5. The Australian Aborigines used to eat food found in the wild. T
6. Many cities, towns and villages all over the world suffer from the lack of
clean fresh water. T
7. More and more forests are cut down for urban development today. T
8. Animals all over the world suffer from the forests to be cut down. T
9. Monkeys in the streets of Delhi, India, are satisfied living in the urban
conditions. F
10. Acid rains are dangerous for our soil. T
11. A lot of charity projects all over the world provide the environment
protection. T
12. Acid rains don`t damage water resources. F
Task 2 (0 - 6 points)
Find a word or a phrase that has the opposite meaning to each of these words
and phrases.
1. To start up - ….. (to end up)
2. Dirty - ….. (clean)
3. A village area - ….. (urban)
4. To continue to live in the area - ….. (to move)
5. To plant - ….. (to cut down)
6. An expensive project - ….. (charity project)
Teacher: Ok, children, well done. Now put the points you`ve got to your self-
assessment cards.
3. Basic knowledgeformation:
Teacher: They produce oxygen. What are they? ……… (The trees). Yes, you`re
right. Now, children we are going to work in groups. Please, choose the tree and
take your seats according to the colour of it.
Orange team Green team Yellow team

5. Teacher: At the next stage of our lesson we are going to work with the texts and
do the task to look them through, to find and read out:
The green team - polluters;
The red team - problems they cause;
The yellow team - possible solutions.
While working you should work with the new words which are highlighted in the
text. Find them in the dictionaries, write their transcription and meaning into your
vocabularies. You have 4 minutes only.
Reading in groups
The texts
CARS
The biggest polluter today is the car. Exhaust fumes are the main cause of
bad air quality, which can make people feel ill and have difficulty breathing. This
problem is especially bad in some cities where on days when there is not much
wind, a brown layer of smog hangs in the air. The number of cars is increasing
every year, and this causes serious congestion. Governments then build new roads
to try to improve the situation, but this means that they cut down trees and destroy
more of the countryside. One of the main problems with cars is that they cause a
lot of pollution and often carry only one person. Public transport is more
environmentally friendly because buses and trains can carry large numbers of
people at the same time. Car pools are another way of reducing the number of cars
on the roads. Even cleaner solutions are electric cars and bicycles.
PLANTS AND FACTORIES
Pollution is damage to the air, seas, oceans, rivers or land caused by
chemicals, toxic waste and harmful gases, as a result — acid rain, holes in the
ozone layer.
Acid rain is rain that is harmful to the environment because it contains acid
from factory smoke. Acid rain causes damage to trees, rivers and buildings.
The ozone layer is a layer of gases that protects us from ultraviolet radiation
from the Sun, which can have a harmful effect on animals and causes skin cancer
in humans. The ozone layer is being damaged by chemicals, especially CFCs, and
when holes appear in the ozone layer, harmful light from the Sun reaches the
Earth.
We can help the environment by recycling or choosing to buy green
products. Recycling is when you use something again instead of throwing it away.

6. Glass, cans, paper and plastic can be recycled. Examples of green products are
recycled paper, wood from sustainable sources, and organic fruit and vegetables.
POWER STATIONS
The greenhouse effect is caused by harmful gases known as greenhouse
gases. These gases are produced when we burn fuels, especially coal burned in
power stations to make electricity.
These gases go up into the Earth’s atmosphere and stop heat from leaving
the Earth.
Because the heat cannot escape, the Earth is getting warmer. This is known
as global warming. Global warming may cause the ice at the North Pole and South
Pole to melt and seas levels to rise, leading to serious flooding in many parts of the
world. In other places temperatures will rise and there will be less rain, turning
more of the land into desert.
Renewable energy sources such as wind power, wave power and solar
power do not pollute the environment. They are much cleaner than oil and coal.
Teacher: Well, children, it`s time to check up the results of your work. Please,
choose the speaker of your team and we are ready to listen to your answers.
Listening to the pupils` answers. The teacher writes their ideas on the white
board
Teacher: Ok, children, now put the points you`ve got to your self-assessment
cards.
Teacher: And now dear pupils and guests, let`s have some rest and enjoy singing
the Louis Armstrong`s famous song “What a wonderful world».
(Wonderful nature views appear on the smartboard)
Pupils sing the song and do simple exercises with their hands.
Teacher: Thank you very much, you were really great! And here come`s the time
for the next challenge. Are you ready? Let`s start then.
Listening (4 minutes, 2 times)
Teacher: Now you are going to listen to some tips on how to help our
environment survive. Listen to them carefully and try to memorize all of them.
Remember, the more tips you`ll learn the more points you`ll get. If you are ready
we gonna start.
Listening and watching the video material
«Eight everyday things you can do to save the environment»

7. Pupils name the ways of the environment protection starting with the
words: TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT WE CAN, they are placed on the
board. Then the tips are shown on the smartboard to check up whether all of
them were mentioned or not.
Teacher: British and American children learn a lot about the environment at
school. All of them remember the three R’s:
- We can reduce using electricity.
- We can reduce using water.
- We must recycle cartons.
- We must reuse glass bottles.
- We can recycle newspapers.
- We must recycle paper.
- We can recycle plastic containers.
All these actions help to reduce pollution, deforestation and not to damage the
nature. And do you know the meaning of the most widely used signs concerning
the environmental protection. The more signs you`ll name the more points you`ll
get. Start the sentences with WE MUST/ WE MUSTN`T
Playing the mini brain-ring game. 5 min
Teacher: well, it`s time to summarize. Please, choose the leaders of your teams to
present the information to complete the table: 2 minutes for each speaker - 6 min
The polluters The problems they
cause
Possible solutions
Listening to the teams` leaders
4. Summarizing
Home assignment: Ex.7 p. 65 – to read and act out the dialogue adding examples
from your personal experience, Ex.8 p. 65 – to discuss the questions in pairs.
Teacher: OK, children, you see the globes on your desks and the paper hands.
Please, write the conclusions you have come to by the end of the lesson and glue
the hands to the globes and if you wish share your ideas with the class.
Well, I hope you will always remember that all of us are the children of our
planet the Earth. Be tolerant and responsible to save it for the further generations.
Our lesson is coming to the end and I want to thank you for your fruitful work.
Giving marks to the pupils