Unit 3

Lesson 1

• Read the text below and figure out the title of the unit 1 word 11 letters (ENVIRONMENT)

Harry’s feet parted company with the snowy ground, then slammed hard onto what felt like frozen earth covered with leaves. 

“Where are we?” he asked, peering around at a fresh mass of trees as Hermione opened the beaded bag and began tugging at tent poles. 

“The Forest of Dean,” she said. “‘I camp camping here once with my mum and dad.” 

Here too snow lay on the trees all around and it was bitterly cold, but they were at least protected from the wind. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling, ch. 19. The Silver Doe, p.316

• Watch the video below and do the worksheet.

Lesson 2

• In your house, you have 7 minutes to make a list of everything you think is bad for the planet and the environment.
• Now give your list to your neighbouring house and add their ideas to yours if needed. Do it until you have all the ideas from all the houses.
• Next, file the different ideas in categories 
• For each category, find at least 3 solutions

Lesson 3

• Create the mind map corresponding to all those ideas.
• Have a look at the introduction of the document below: What is it about?

Then, in groups of 2 or 3, you will receive one part of the document below. Discuss it. Make a list of new words related to the environment and imagine a dialogue between the three of you presenting that solution to your classmates. 

Lesson 4

• Then have a look at the bingo cards below. You're going to create the same ones but different: one one side, you're going to build a card with 25 things and on the other, you are going to say if it's a good thing or a bad thing. If it is a bad thing, offer a solution. You need to have at least 10 good things, 10 bad things and 5 environmental disasters. 

Lesson 5

• Watch the video below and take notes: how many parts are there in the video? For each part, try to find out as much information as you can. Put them in a table if it's easier for you.

This is one of many examples of what is happening on our planet. What else do you know? What examples do you have? Make a list of different places where the environment is threatened and then imagine the following situation:

• You are a journalist asking questions to a biologist about the place you have chosen. Make a video in the same way as the video: with the different parts and ask some questions to the biologist you are interviewing. 
  - Les Seychelles
  - Les Maldives
  - Venise
  - La Mer Morte
  - Les glaciers des Alpes
  - Les forêts malgaches
  - Le bassin du Congo
  - Le parc national de Glacier
  - Les pôles
  - Everglades, Floride
  - Galapagos Islands
  - Glaciers in Patagonia
  - the Alaskan tundra
  - Paques Islands
  - The Kilimandjaro
  - Athens Acropole

Lesson 6

• Have a look at the posters below. Try to look at them for only 1 minute (put a timer on) and then when you have looked at them all, in a table (like the one below) make a list of all the similarities and differences between them.
• Then define their goal: what is it? How do they achieve it? Do they achieve it?

CORRECTION:

Those documents all represent the consequences of global warming onto Earth. They are all divided into two parts: what is expected and what is going to happen. 

The use of the colours also show that what is green and blue is nice but what is red and orange is dangerous. It works the same as a traffic light.

The two posters with the animals are different: they do not have the same clear opposition but the animals stand alone in an unwelcoming nature. So there is still the division between them and what is going to happen.

=> Therefore, we can say that those posters are awareness posters: they are created to make people react.

Vocabulary:

to make someone do something
traffic light
unwelcoming
to be expected

• Assignment: Create your own awareness poster for the place you have worked on in Lesson 5.

Lesson 7 - Final task

• Watch the video below and fill in the worksheet.

Add elements to the lists of pros and cons and what we should do or if we shouldn't do anything. In pairs, choose one side and start arguing with each other for 5 minutes. 

• Together, let's make a list of the vocabulary you need to express your opinion. Once it's done, you will be placed into groups of four with two who are doing something for the environment and the others who are not doing anything. Your job is to convince the others. You will work in pairs and after 3 minutes you will change groups and start the arguing again.

Every time you have to decide on a winner and add your marks on the board. 

• Once you have finished the debate: mix the pros and cons and discuss the different topic breached. Write a compromise. Post it on the wall.