Today's lesson will focus on climate change, including practicing note-taking from a video and written text, learning climate change vocabulary, and discussing the topic with friends. Students will take notes on a video about climate change impacts, practice matching vocabulary words to definitions, read and discuss a climate change article, and mingle to ask and answer questions about whether global warming has stopped.

2. Today we will:
 Practice taking notes from a video.
 Learn and practice vocabulary
related to climate change.
 Practice taking notes from writing.
 Discuss climate change with our
friends.

3. What are the biggest problems
facing the world at the
moment?
Discuss with your partner. I’ll ask for
answers in 2 minutes.

5. Video Work
What
- People losing
their homes
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When Where
Why Who Result

6. Vocabulary
climate change greenhouse effect rises
global warming atmosphere emissions
extinction natural variation eco-systems
Activity 5. With your partner match the words from your notes to the definitions below.
1) The process in which gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat. __________________
2) A change in the earth's climate over a period of time. __________________
3) When the average temperature on Earth is getting hotter. __________________
4) A verb or noun which is a synonym of increase. __________________
5) Greenhouse gases caused by human activity. __________________
6) A system of plants and animals living together. __________________
7) When a type of plant or animal disappears completely. __________________
8) The layer of gases around the Earth. __________________
9) Normal or expected changes. __________________

7. Climate Change
Activity 3
- Read the article.
- Work with your partner IN ENGLISH.
- Discuss whether example 1 or example 2
notes are better and why.

8. What are Good Notes?
- Use bullet points.
- Are written in your own words.
- Are concise.
- Don’t just repeat sentences from
the text.

9. Make Notes -> Mingle
1) What is climate
change?
climate change
- weather/climate different – short
term vs. long term
- Greenhouse effect – natural process,
keeps earth warm enough!
- people changing balance – climate
change
Example

10. Mingle
A. What number do you have?
B. I have number 3.
A. Oh, I don’t need number 3, bye!
A. What number do you have?
B. I have number 5.
A. Oh, great. Has global warming stopped?
B. …………………………………………………………….