2 6 Speaking and listening – Pre-intermediate to Upper-intermediate ENVIRONMENT Environment: the natural world in which people, animals and plants live.. What’s the most beautiful place
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Speaking and listening – Pre-intermediate to Upper-intermediate
ENVIRONMENT
Environment: the natural world in which people, animals and plants live
What’s the most beautiful
place in your country? Why do
you like it? Describe it
Describe the natural environment in your country
(Are there mountains, fields, forests, rivers? Is it clean?)
What’s the ugliest place in your country? Why don’t you like it?
Describe it
What kinds of pollution do you
know? Which is the worst?
Discuss in group
What do you recycle?
How can we recycle more? Talk about it
Think of a place where there is
no pollution at all
What is it? Where is it?
Some people carelessly throw
away rubbish wherever they go
What can we do about this?
Some factories dump waste water in rivers and ocean How can we prevent this?
What are fossil fuels?
Give examples Where are they used? Can they be replaced?
People throw away tons of
garbage every day How can we
reduce the amount of garbage?
Traffic jams cause air pollution How can we reduce traffic jams? Brainstorm
Do you drink bottled water?
Why or why not? What is its effect on the environment?
What happens to garbage after
it is collected? How and where
do we get rid of it?
Big cities are often very noisy places How can we reduce noise pollution?
‘Honestly, I don’t care I won’t
be around in the future.’ Do you share this opinion? Explain
Are you prepared to change
your lifestyle to save the
Earth? How? Explain
What is renewable energy? Give examples Is it used in your country? Explain
‘I know we need to change, but I don’t want to give up the comfortable life I have now.’
Do you agree? Discuss.
Pardon? Match British and American words
3 dustman/binman c sidewalk
Match
electric car garbage dump hydroelectricity incinerator nuclear power plant recycling
solar panel wind turbine 5