The document discusses environmental problems and potential solutions. It provides prompts for students to discuss which environmental issues should be included on posters to raise awareness in their local community. Students are then asked to discuss what ordinary people can do to help solve two selected environmental problems, such as recycling, using public transportation, or adopting alternative energies like solar power. Key vocabulary around sustainability, waste disposal, pollution, and the ozone layer is also defined.

1. WHAT ON EARTH’S GOING ON?
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE

2. SPEAKING, PART 3.
Environmental problems.
In this part of the text I want you to discuss together.
EXAMINER: I’m going to explain a situation to you. The
children in a school class are preparing posters to raise
environmental awareness in their area (situation)
Talk to each other about each image. Then decide which
two of these pictures would be the most useful for the
children’s posters (task)

3. SPEAKING, PART 3
USEFUL LANGUAGE

4. Which
environmental
problems
should be
included in the
poster?
Which
environmental
problems
should be
included in the
poster?
SPEAKING, PART 3
INTERLOCUTOR: Now I’d like you to talk about something together for about two minutes.
TASK 1: First you have some time to look at the task.(intelocutor allows 15 minutes). iMAGINE .The children in a
school class are preparing posters to raise environmental awareness in their area. Talk with your partner about
which environmental probles they should include in the poster.
Task 2. Thank you. Now, you have about a minute to decide which two environmental problems people should have
more awareness about children must show in their posters.

5. What can
ordinary
people do to
help solve
these issues?
What can
ordinary
people do to
help solve
these issues?
SPEAKING, PART 3
INTERLOCUTOR: Now I’d like you to talk about something together for about two minutes.
1.TASK 1: First you have some time to look at the task.(intelocutor allows 15 seconds)
2.Imagine that you belong to an environmental group and you want to inform people of the environmental
issues below. Talk with your partner about what ordinary people can do to help sove these problems.
2. Task 2. Thank you. Now decide which two issues ordinary people could do most to help solve.
Recycled paper
Dog messCarbon Monoxide
Rising sea levels Toxic effluent

6. Factory fumes
Exshaust fumes
Cigarette butts
Oil slick/spill
Dumping waste
Litter/rubbish
Household waste
FUMES-WASTE-RUBISH

7. ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
RECYCLING CONTAINERS/BINS
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
BOTTLE TOPS
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLYRECYCLE GFLOBAL WARMING
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
SOLAR PANNELS
AEOLIC ENERGY
ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES

8. OTHER VOCABULARY:
-SUSTAINABLE ENERGIES: energías sostenibles
-TO GET RID OF WASTE: deshacerse de los desperdicios
-DAMAGING (ADJ): dañino
-THE OZONE LAYER (/leier/): la capa de ozono
-TOXIC
-CONTAMINE: hacer que algo sea impuro por verter o
exponerse a la polución. (POLLUTED≠CONTAMINED)