Our Planet Earth план-конспект уроку

Урок англійської мови в 11 класі

вчителя іноземних мов

Ткач Юлії Василівни

НВК №209 «Сузір’я»

Урок спрямований на формування комунікативної компетенції

Тема. Our Planet Earth: Environmental Problems in the world (Ukraine).

Мета. 1) Практична:

• формувати навички монологічного мовлення на рівні тексту;
• удосконалювати навички вживання Conditional II в усному та писемному мовленні
• розвивати вміння знаходити потрібну інформацію і стисло передавати зміст;
• розвивати вміння читати і розуміти текст, використовуючи мовну здогадку з опорою на контекст або словотворчі елементи.

 

2) Розвивальна:

• розвивати фонематичний та інтонаційний слух;
• розвивати вміння ефективно співпрацювати під час парної роботи.

 

3) Освітня:

• розширити знання учнів про Україну

 

4) Виховна:

• формувати критичне ставлення до вчинків людей;
• виховувати почуття поваги до природи та оточуючого світу.

Objectives:

• to practice extended use of active vocabulary on the topic;
• to develop students reading , listening, speaking and writing skills;
• to introduce some information about recycling;
• to teach students responsibility for keeping the environment clean.

Equipment needed: smart board or projector with notebook and a blackboard

Material needed: white T-shirts, cards with exercises, the cards with the words typed on them, quotations on the blackboard

Procedure

I. The beginning of the lesson

1) Greeting

2) Bringing into the sphere of foreign language

T: I’d like to start our lesson with the small video. Be very attentive while watching. Try not to miss the background words, phrases and sentences (Video “Human population environmental impact”, youtube.com)

T: What was the video about? (Student’s answers)

What words do you remember from the video? (Pollution, waste, poaching, global warming, exploitation, humans, we are the problem). These words are typed on the sheets of paper and are hung on the blackboard.

T: What topic do these words refer to? (Environmental problems)

II. Main part of the lesson

1) Introducing the topic of the lesson

T: Today we’re going to continue our work on the topic “Our Planet Earth”.  We’re going to dwell on the most vital environmental problems and solutions to them. You‘re going to do some vocabulary work, to watch a short video film and to discuss the main idea of the video. You will also do some grammar exercises and at the end of the lesson you’ll do a creative work.

2) Warm up activity

T: To begin with, I’d like you to read the quotations on the blackboard and discuss them in two groups. What does the quotation mean to you? Do you agree or disagree with the author?

1.  “Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend: you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left…The land is one organism.”

Aldo Leopold

2. “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance Painting to cook a meal.”

Edward O. Wilson

(Students discuss the quotations in groups and then they express their opinions)

3) Vocabulary

T: Now you are going to do some vocabulary work. Do the tasks on the smart board (можна використовувати проектор або просто роздрукувати завдання і роздати)

(Handout # 1)

1. Match the words with their definitions.
2. Cross out the odd word.
3. Match the words in the table with the nouns.

 

4) Home task checking

T: For today one group has got the task. This is the project “Environmental problems in Ukraine and their solutions.”  If you are ready, you’re welcome! (The students perform on the topic. Each lesson is different group. They stick to the following chapters: main sources of pollution, litter lasts, problems caused by pollution, do you know that…, personally I have to, we must, and trash becomes new products).

 

5) Watching the video and discussing it.

 

T: You are going to watch a short video. Before watching it, let’s do an exercise on the smart board. (Handout #2)

Get ready to answer the question on the blackboard after you watch the video (youtube.com, “Spider-Man Earth hour 2014 Superhero Ambassador)

 

What are the earth hour and its aim? (Students’ answers)

 

T: Do the exercise on the cards. Exchange cards and check! (Keys are on the board.

Handout #2)

 

6) Reading and discussing (Handout #3)

 

1. Pre-reading task

 

T: Could you name the most serious problems of the environment?

 

2. While-reading task

T: Now read the text and complete the sentences. They touch the most vital environmental problems:

• Greenhouse effect;
• Deforestation;
• Depletion of ozone layer.

Work in three groups (One text for each group)

Це завдання можна виконати іншим чином, розвиваючи увагу та зосередженість учнів. Представник кожної групи читає текст вголос, а учні його групи повинні почути і поставити слова в речення.

3. Post-reading task

T: Fill in the table below. Suggest your solution to the problem (This task will be for homework).

7) Grammar

a) Discussion

T: While speaking about environmental problems we may use Conditional If+Past Tense-would. Look at the board. This is an example: If factories and plants didn’t pour their wastes into rivers and lakes, the birds, fish and plants wouldn’t die. Explain the usage of the conditional. Give your own examples (Students’ answers)

Possible answers: The food would be healthier to eat, if we didn’t use many chemicals to grow vegetables and fruit. If I were a world leader, I’d introduce laws to reduce pollution.

b) Practice (in their copy books for checking. Or if you have time you can do this task together) Handout #4

III. Summary of the lesson

a) Creative work

T: To summarize what we’ve done and learnt today we will do a creative work. If you were to create a T-shirt for the Ukrainian ecological campaign, what would it be like? Mention the color, the picture, the signs or the words on it and try your ideas on the white T-shirt (each group has one T-shirt, they do this work with the song: Youtube.com, Michael Jackson “Earth Song”).

T: Well done, students. I see you’ve caught the main points of our today’s lesson. Your T-shirts are very nicely and correctly designed according to our tasks. I’m thankful for your fruitful work. All of you get excellent marks today.

b) Home assignment

T: Environmental problems are of great concern to us. Solution of ecological problems requires the cooperation of all nations. By working together, we can really make a difference to our planet- but don’t forget, we can make a difference as individuals, too. We can all do a bit to save the planet and make our world a better place to live on, so I hope you will remember to do so. Now we have come to the end of the lesson. Your homework for the next lesson is to complete the table to the texts we have read today and add your solutions.

Have a good day! Good bye!

Handout #1

1.                Match the environmental words with their definitions.

	Ecology		The process of collecting used products in order to produce useful materials which can be used again (instead of throwing them away as rubbish).
	Acid rain		Carbon dioxide and other harmful gases in the atmosphere which are believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the Earth (are believed to be the cause of the greenhouse effect).
	Deforestation		The natural surrounding in which animals or plants usually live or grow.
	Endangered species		Fuels such as gas, coal, oil, which are produced from ancient plant material.
	Extinct		A rain which contains unusually large amount of harmful chemicals as a result of the burning of substances such as coal & oil.
	Global warming		No longer existing.
	Greenhouse gases		The destruction of forest, resulting from excessive clearing.
	Ozone layer		Animals that are threatened with extinction
	Fossil fuels		The preservation of valuable natural resources that exist in limited amount from the damaging effects of human activity.
	Conservation		The increase of world temperatures due to the greenhouse effect
	Recycling		Layer in the upper atmosphere containing a high amount of ozone gas that absorbs the suns ultraviolet radiation.
	Habitat		The relationship between the air, land, water, animals, plants, etc., usually of a particular area.

Keys: 1-l, 2-e, 3-g, 4-h, 5-f, 6-j, 7-b, 8-k, 9-d, 10-i, 11-a, 12-c.

 

2.                Cross out the odd words.
   1.                pollution, radiation, destruction, population, environment;
   2.                to damage, to endanger, to destroy, to rain, to create;
   3.                safe, nuclear, dangerous, poisonous, harmful;
   4.                paper, waste, glass, wood, plastic, metal;
   5.                rare, valuable, disappearing, extinct, disease
   6.                recycle, reuse, redo, reprocess;
3.                Match the words in the list with the nouns. Use each word only once. Which of the collocations are used to describe threats to the environment? Which describes possible ways to solve environmental problems?

Acid,  Plant,  National,  Oil,  Endangered,  Illegal, Forest,  Fine, Nuclear, Recycle,  Factory, Environmental,  Greenhouse,  Conservation,  Thick

 

1	________	species	6	_______	waste	11	_______	gases
2	________	rain	7	_______	areas	12	_______	trees
3	________	emissions	8	_______	smog	13	_______	household waste
4	________	awareness	9	_______	spills	14	_______	factories
5	________	parks	10	_______	fires	15	_______	fishing

Keys:

1	endangered	species	6	nuclear	waste	11	greenhouse	gases
2	acid	rain	7	conservation	areas	12	plant	trees
3	factory	emissions	8	thick	smog	13	recycle	household waste
4	environmental	awareness	9	oil	spills	14	fine	factories
5	national	parks	10	forest	fires	15	illegal	fishing

 

Handout #2

Earth Hour - exercises

Earth Hour is an annual event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This year it has a very special ambassador

Do the preparation task first. Then watch the video and do the exercises.

1. Preparation: matching

Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.

1........ crowdfunding	a. a representative
2........ to underestimate	b. large
3........ an ambassador	c. a group/organisation
4........ massive	d. an effect
5........ to inspire	e. to undervalue
6........ an impact	f. to start off or set in motion
7........ to launch	g. to encourage
8........ a movement	h. funds for a project from a lot of supporters, usually via the internet

 

2. Check your understanding: true or false. Circle True or False for these sentences.

 

1. Spider-Man is the first Superhero Ambassador for Earth Hour.	True	False
2. Earth Hour is a movement that has created little impact around the world.	True	False
3. Earth Hour is about people from around the world joining forces to improve the planet.	True	False
4. Uganda planted 500,000 trees.	True	False
5. Argentina protected 4 million hectares of sea.	True	False
6. Earth Hour will launch the world's second crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet.	True	False
7. Lights On for the Reef is another Earth Hour project.	True	False
8. You can find out more information at earthhour.org	True	False

 

Earth Hour (keys)

 

1. Preparation: matching

1. h

2. e

3. a

4. b

5. g

6. d

7. f

8. c

2. Check your understanding: true or false

1. True

2. False

3. True

4. False

5. False

6. False

7. False

8. True

Handout #3

1. While-reading task

Read the text and complete the sentence using the words from the box. You may have to make some changes in the word forms.

burn	destroy	atmosphere	experience
cans	produce	hold	drive

The Earth has been getting hotter because we are (1) _______ too many "greenhouse gases". These gases (2) _______ the heat. Trees and plants help take gases such as carbon dioxide from the (3) _______, but we have now (4) _______ too many trees.

There are not enough trees and plants to do this job.

We make carbon dioxide when we (5) ______ wood or (6) _____ cars. CFCs (other dangerous gases) are in refrigerators and aerosol (7) ______. Tin greenhouse effect is noticeable in the warmer temperatures that people have (8) _____ over the last two decades.

 

destroy	encourage	flood	in danger
international	medicine	protect	supply

Tropical forests or rain forests are moist, densely wooded areas with an annual rainfall of 200 cm. The largest rain forests in the world are found in South America.

Tropical forests have (1) _____ us with many sorts of plants for food, (2) ____ and industry. They could probably supply many more. They also reduce (3)               ______, keep water clean, and slow down the greenhouse effect. However, the tropical forests are being (4) _____ to make room for things like farms, mines and plants. About 20 million hectares are lost each year – an area more than twice the size of Austria.

WWF is working to (5) _____ and save the forests that are (6) ______; to plant new trees for fuel wood and to slow down the greenhouse effect and to (7) _____ governments to think about the forests and their importance when giving (8)               ______ aid.

 

dangerous	cancer	chemicals	holes
acid	absorb	diseases	radiation

There is a layer of gas called ozone. It covers the Earth. It protects us from the dangerous rays of the sun because ozone gas (1) _____ the sun's ultraviolet (2) ____. However, when ozone gets near the Earth (in (3) _____ rain, for example) it is also very (4) _____ itself and causes (5) ______.

There are now (6) ______ in the ozone layer. Some (7) _____ used in refrigerators and in the production of foam plastics reduce the ozone layer, allowing harmful ultraviolet rays to enter the Earth's atmosphere, thereby contributing to skin (8) ____.

 

 

 

 

2. Post-reading task

1. Fill in the table below.

Problems	Effects	Solutions to problems
1. Global warming	1. Change in the world climate	1. Reduce use of aerosols;
2.	2.	2.

 

Handout #4

Match the parts of the sentences. Complete them with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1) If people … ( not/ use) petrol in their cars …

2) The world …(to be) a safer place …

3) If you …( to listen) to the weather forecast …

4) If there … ( to be) more trees …

5) Life …( to be) so unbearable …

6) Many species of animals …( to loose) their habitats …

 

A … if we … (to stop) polluting the environment.

B … if we … (to control) the pollution level earlier.

C … you … (to take) your umbrella with you.

D … the air we breathe … (to be) cleaner.

E … they … (not/ to produce) so much carbon dioxide.

F … if we … (to reduce) the global warming.