GENERAL AIM

• Recognizes cause and effect relationships on academic topics.

COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE

• Students will be able to demonstrate sympathy with their environment.
• Students will identify problems with the environment and natural disasters and being “green”.
• Students will analyze changes in our cities and look at ways to help the environment.

GRAMMAR PURPOSE

• Future tense – predicting what life will be like
• Present continuous – what you are doing to help improve the environment
• Zero and first conditional – cause and effect, possible situations in the future
• Vocabulary when agreeing and disagreeing about personal opinions
• Vocabulary about environmental issues and green projects

Step 1:

a. Listen to the earth song by Michael Jackson and look for the lyrics to understand deeply its meaning and reflect. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU)

b. Now listen to the song again, but with the lyrics on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lbOgBtE3w) and highlight the vocabulary related to the environment, write the words down in a list and look for their meaning.

c. Choose 5 words that you wrote in your vocabulary and create 5 sentences with them.

Step 2: Based on Michael Jackson’s song, write a formal letter to the president of Colombia telling the different environmental issues in our country, the causes and consequences, why they are important, and why we all must take care of the earth.

Example:

• Simple future tense

• Present continuous tense

• Zero conditional

• First conditional

• Agreeing and disagreeing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYg0bK4WZbY
• Environmental issues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_6cKHS4dk

Step 1: Answer the exercise from the book. English please 9

• Vocabulary about the environment – Page 124, exercise 1, 2,3. Page 125, exercise 4. Page 127, exercise 10. Page 138, exercises 7, 8, 9. Page 151, exercise 9.
• Changes and solutions to improve the environment – Page 129, exercise 4 and 5. Page 130, exercise 6,7,8. Page 131, exercise 13. Page 144, exercise 1,2.
• Environmental issues – Page 134, exercise 11, 12. Page 136, exercise 1. Page 140, exercise 1. Page 141, exercise 4. Page 150, exercise 8.
• Present continuous – Page 139, exercise 10, 11. Page 145, exercise 4 (1,2,3), 5. Page 146, exercise 6.

Step 2: Play the games and take a screenshot of your score or your answers.

• Future and present continuous tenses - https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/future-tense-game/ , https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/will-future-predictions
• Zero conditional - https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Zero_Conditional/Quiz_conditional_zero_pj329073gs
• First conditional - https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/First_conditional/First_Conditional_mk1059502au

Step 3: Read the following text about Deadpool and answer the questions.

• Who is Deadpool? Who is Thanos?
• What is the yellow/green/red/blue/orange/purple gem for? Explain it.
• How Deadpool can defeat Thanos?
• What is the main idea of the reading?
• Do you think the topic is interesting? Why? Why not?

Note: upload the 3 steps of the workshop at the Sygescol platform.

Step 1: Read the following text and reflect.

Step 2: Create a decalogue, a leaflet, or an infographic (10 items) that you consider important to take of the planet. 10 actions that you, your family, friends, and community can do to reduce environmental issues. You can use canva or genially. Be as creative as you can.

Here are some examples:

Note: upload your decalogue/leaflet/infographic in the following link (decalogue/leaflet/infographic here)

English please 9

Record a podcast or audio (no more than 2minutes) answering the following question.

Note: upload your podcast or audio in the following link (podcast/audio here)

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