“THINK GLOBALLY, ACT GLOBALLY”
The
topic of the lesson: Environmental
Protection
Objectives: to facilitate free speaking by eliciting personal
experience and knowledge; practice in expressing and exchanging opinions on the
subject; to develop listening and speaking skills; to get pupils to realize the
necessity of environmental protection;
Equipment: The textbook “English” 10th form by V.
Plakhotnyk, English Learner’s Digest” Articles for reading, project “Think
globally, act globally”, tape -recorder, cassette, pictures, placards with
quotations.
Type
of the lesson: A Round Table
Discussion
Aim: T. The topic we are going to discuss is one of the
most actual problems of the world -it’s the protection of nature, keeping our
environment clear and safe. It’s important to increase our knowledge of
environmental needs. If we can be active participants in the protection and
rebuilding of our environment we can help our planet to survive and keep it
healthy for future generations. Everybody on the Earth must think of saving our
planet before it’s too late. The pupils of the 10th form understand
the problem of environmental protection and they work on project “Think
globally, act globally” and today they present their project.
Warming –up. Now, read out loud the following quotations,
translate them and say if you agree with these words.
Forests precede civilizations, desert follow them.
Francois-Auguste Rene
Earth and water can produce again and again for the benefit of
all
Stewart L. Udall
WE are in somewhat the
same position in regard to polluted air as the fish are to polluted
water
Allan V. Knees
Look after your planet, it’s the only we have
Prince Philip of Britain, President of the WWF
Listening.
T.: The UN has received a letter. It is from nature.
Listen to it, please.
1. Pre-listening
activities.
a/ What do you think what this text is
about?
b/ Presenting new vocabulary
a plea, garbage, beg, fur, tunks, .
2. While - Listening activities.
While listening try to take notes and find out the
answers to the following questions:
1. What ecological problems are discussed in this
letter?
2. Who destroys the nature?
3. Will people be able to sell “air”?
3.
Post-listening activities.
Answer the questions:
1.
Why is our land dying?
2.
Why do people kill the animals?
3.
What is the main component of our
life?
4.
D people realize the danger of
pollution?
5.
Will they be able to change the
situation?
6.
What should you do to save our
planet?
Project
Presentation.
1. Role- play. “At Round Table”
T.: We meet at United Nation round table discussion.
Now the group of experts presents their work. Let me introduce them: the
experts, delegates from Ukraine and Great Britain.
P.: studied the problem of environmental
pollution.
Our land is very polluted. In big cities cars and
buses have polluted the air. Many people in cities now have very bad health
problems. Factories have also polluted the land and the water. As a result many
rivers and lakes are now dead. People all over the world are worried about what
is happening to the environment. The Earth is our home and all people must take
care of it. We must do everything possible to save the nature, to make our
rivers and air clean.
T.: The next expert researched the
problem of deforestination.
P. : People destroy more and more forests. We say that
trees are in serious danger now. All over the world people have cut down
millions and millions of trees. As a result, many types of animals and plants
are now disappearing. Trees are also important because they help to produce
oxygen and control the climate. What is killing the trees? It is probably
air pollution or acid rains. In some places great forests are being destroyed
for firewood and building material. Something must be done. Why the trees are
very important?
The trees are important because they provide a
home for many other plants and animals too. They protect the flowers which
grow on the forest floor. They provide food for insects, reptiles, birds and
animals. They protect the soil from the wind and the rain. The forests are
the lungs of our planet. Trees produce oxygen which we breathe. If the trees
die, we will too.
( The pupil demonstrates the tables )
T.: You see many scientists show their anxiety
about the depletion of the ozone layer.
P.: Around the Earth, there is a special type of
oxygen called “ozone”. Ozone is important because it stops ultraviolet
radiation from the sun. Many aerosol sprays and factories destroy ozone and
they have made a very big hole in the ozone layer. This means that too much
ultraviolet radiation now enters the Earth. This is very dangerous because it
can cause cancer.
T.: Speaking about trees you have mentioned acid
rains. Look at this picture and comment on it.
P.: Acid rain is a kind of air pollution. The
factories send smoke high into the air. This smoke mixes with water vapour in
the atmosphere and falls in rain. The rain in many places isn’t natural any
more. It is full acid chemicals.
T.: Now we are going to listen to the
experts from Ukraine.
P.: Look at the map, please. You see that Ukraine
has the most polluted landscapes in Eastern Europe. The most polluted air is in
industrialized cities of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and
Zaporizhzhia. OtherUkrainian cities with major chronic air pollution problems
include Kyiv, Komunarsk, Makiivka and Odessa. The water is polluted with
chronic. The Dnister and the Danube are the most polluted bodies of water.
Hundreds of small rivers supply water for villages and cities of Ukraine. Those water arteries are so polluted as to pose fatal health risk to the people
who depend on them. The Sea of Azov is polluted. The sea’s salinity has
increased by 40 percent. The radioactive isotopes after the accident at the
Chornobyl’s accident has affected the air, land and water of Ukraine.
T: You know, the delegation of Great Britain is also present at our round table. Let’s interview them to be aware of the
ecological situation on the islands.
P1: Are the ecological problems of great
importance for British Government?
-
Yes, of course. British Government
pays great attention to the ecological problems.
P2: What pollution is critical? Why?
- I think that air pollution is critical because of
the burning oil, coal, gases and cars smoke the people has problems
with their health.
P3: What are the consequences of the
acid rains?
-
The consequences of acid rains are
great. They polluted the water in the rivers and lakes, they damaged
agricultural fields and their products.
P4: What do the common English people
do to lessen the pollution?
-
First of all, they try to keep
their street clean, they use public transport instead of their own cars, save
water, gas, electricity. Sometimes people say that they are greedy, but that’s
not right, they are economical.
P5: What measures are your government going to do in
order to prevent the pollution?
-
They are going to use the material
saving technologies.
-
They will close ecologically
harmful industries.
-
They will increase the number of
preserve territories.
-
The most important action is to
educate people on ecological problems.
-
T: Now, let’s listen to our designer.
P9: Look at the placards.
They are painted for ecological advertisement. We want
to send them for newspapers, magazines, ecological organization. I think they
cover the main ecological problems.
Writing. T:
Today we have received a plea from nature, we have found out the causes of
pollution and were given some advices. Now as real experts we shall write to
Green Peace.
Dear Sir
Our
research group came to the following conclusions:
n You should take under control the extincting animals.
n You should reduce carbon dioxide in the air.
n You should control smoke from the cars in great
cities.
n You should provide monitoring of air pollution.
n You should bring drinking and bathing waters up to
standard.
n You should hang the photo of the Earth, taken from the
space, in every classroom in the world. Our planet will remind about the
relationship between the individual and the home planet.
Yours faithfully,
10th form of Grigorovka
3.
The end of the lesson:
Summarizing: Did you like the lesson?
Have you widen your outlook?
Have you enlarged your vocabulary?
Do you think it’s possible to change the situation?
What do you suppose it depends on ?
T: I think it depends on us. You
must take care of our planet, you must protect our environment, keep water,
air, land clean. You are young and you will live in our planet and it’s your
moral duty to save our planet for the future generation. Our Earth is so
beautiful. Nature gives people its riches to live and enjoy. That’s why we must
take care of it. Then we’ll be happy to live on the most beautiful planet in
the Universe. Nature has its rights, and it is the duty of a man to respect and
defend these rights.
Homework: Write a letter to your American or English
pen-friend about your project devoted to the ecological problems. Ask him or
her to write about
the ecological problems
in his native place.
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