The land of Plenty?
Laser B1
9th form
Мусаева Г.Ә.
№39 қазақ орта мектебінің
ағылшын тілі пәні мұғалімі
Ақтөбе қаласы
The aims:
Developing: to develop students’ logical thinking, imagination, reading,
listening and writing skills.
Educational: to build
students humanity, love to the environment.
Practical: to read and
learn new texts, to consolidate passive voice and the causative form.
Visual aids:
an interactive board.
At the beginning of the
lesson I want to ask you attention to these rules, you should follow them:
The golden rules:
-Be active Be attentive
Be emotional Don’t interrupt each other Don’t say “ I don’t”
First think then speak
I. The
theme of our lesson is the land of Plenty? Today the ecological situation of
our region is at a critical point. Our lives depend on the state of our living
place. We have learnt about the environment and we have read texts. And now we
should do many tasks at the lesson. I want to begin our lesson with the words
of John Kennedy, he was 35th president of the United States of America: “Ask
not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
John F. Kennedy
II. Warm-
up: What comes to your mind when you hear the word <<
environment>>?
III. Additional
task. We’ll return to this task at the end of our lesson.
1. How can we stop people
from littering our towns and countryside?
2. How can we encourage
people to recycle?
3. How can we deal with
the problem of air pollution from cars and factories?
IV. Writing:
Let’s revise our new words.
Write a verb from the box
in each gap to complete the sentences.
Reduce recycle
destroy solve pollute dispose degrade
1. You should recycle
that paper rather than throw it away.
2. We’ve got to reduce
the amount of rubbish we throw away.
3.Cars pollute the
atmosphere far more than factories do.
4. How are you supposed
to dispose of batteries?
5.They’ll completely destroy
the natural beauty of the area if they build a motorway through the hills.
6. How long does it take
a plastic bag to degrade?
7. The hole in the ozone
layer is a problem we’ve got to solve soon.
V. Reading: Before
reading the text pay attention to the main idea of the text.
Read an article and
choose from the sentences A-F the one which fits each gap (1-5). There is one
extra sentence which you do not need to use.
A. We got lots of
recycling bins and started sorting our rubbish into glass, plastic, paper, and
food waste.
B. Now we the teachers
travel into work together and parents pick up other people’s children as well as
their own.
C. What makes the school
so special?
D. You should also be
careful about amount of water you use.
E. In addition, they tell
people not to throw their old clothes away.
F. This means we don’t
use electricity as we used to.
Go
green!
Bunningford Secondary
School has just received an award for being the greenest school in the city.
(1) C. What makes the school so special. We spoke to their biology teacher,
Miss Taylor, who explained to us how they had gone about changing their school
to make it into an environmentally friendly one. The first thing we did was
look at the rubbish we were making as a school. We knew that we had to find
better ways to dispose of it. (2) A. We got lots of recycling bins and started
sorting our rubbish into glass, plastic, paper, and food waste. This means that
most of our rubbish now goes directly for recycling.
‘Secondly, we have taken
responsibility for cleaning
up the fields around the
school. Once a month, the area is cleaned up by a group of volunteers from the
school. Everything we find there is taken to the local recycling centre. We
want to show with this action how each person really can make a difference.’ ‘We`ve
also had a solar-powered water heater installed on the school`s roof. (3) F.
This means we don’t use electricity as we used to. That`s important because the
less energy we use, the less has to be made. The way a lot of electricity is
made causes pollution.’ ‘Another thing that causes pollution is cars. At our
school, we have organized the parents and the teachers so that as few cars as
possible are used. (4) B. Now we the teachers travel into work together and
parents pick up other people’s children as well as their own. There are a lot
less exhaust fumes around our school now.’ ‘The students have also made some
lovely posters which explain all about environmentally friendly products and
how we can change our ways to be more green. They want to make their parents
aware of what they can do. The posters show how buying unpackaged goods reduces
the amount of rubbish we produced. They suggest having one strong bag for your
shopping rather than taking plastic bags from the supermarket every time you go
there. (5) E. In addition, they tell people not to throw their old clothes
away. If they are given to a charity, somebody will use them.’
Well, what can
we say? Well done, Bunningford School!
Let’s revise Passive
Voice and causative form.
Find out the sentences in
Passive and in causative form.
Now answer the questions:
1)Why is this text called
“ Go green”?
2)What ways did they find
to dispose the rubbish?
3)How did they use less
energy?
4)Were there a lot less
exhaust fumes around their school?
5)What did the students
make?
VI. Listening:1.
The next task is listening. Before listening to the text I’ll give you
definitions:
End up-
to be in a place or state after doing something or because of doing something.
Drive up-
approach while driving; approach, move towards;
Affect-
to change or influence something often in a negative way.
Fumes-
smoke or gas that has an unpleasant smell and that may be harmful.
Rural-
relating to the countryside or in the countryside
Edge-
the part of something that is furthest from its centre
During the rush hour-
the time of the day when a place is very busy and there is a lot of traffic
Provide-
to give someone something that they want or need.
2. You will hear five
different people talking about the areas where they live.
For questions 1-5, choose from the list (A-F) the problem each person mentions.
Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to
use.
A .There is a lot of pollution
in the air. Sp 1. F
B. There isn’t any countryside.
Sp 2. C
C. There is a lot of pollution
in the water. Sp 3. B
D. There aren’t any
bottle banks. Sp 4.D
E There aren’t any rubbish
bins. Sp 5. A
F There is a lot of
rubbish.
3.Listening:
Sp 1: I`ve lived here all
my life and I quit like it. It`s not exactly a rural area, but there are parks.
There`s lake near here and tourists drive up to visit, maybe to have a picnic
around there. I`ve noticed that things like bottles and plastic bags have
started to appear. It`s a shame, really, because it used to be an attractive
area and I really don`t know why people don`t just take it all home with them.
Sp 2: There are a few
factories where I live and they’re really ugly. I think they make glass and I
know that some of the chemicals end up in the river. There are often reports
about it in the local newspaper, but nobody seems to do anything. A lot of
people are very angry about it because it’s starting to affect thing , like
fishing.
Sp 3: My neighbourhood is
quite clean, I suppose. I
do get tired of looking
at concrete buildings, though. It wouldn’t be so bad if there were green spaces
for kids to play in or to take a walk in. You’ve got to travel to find those,
though, and I don’t have a car. It would be lovely to live on a farm, or maybe
near a river, wouldn’t it?
Sp4: We’ve been learning
about recycling at school, and i think it’s very important. I’d do more if
they provided the facilities. There’s nowhere to take your used glass, though,
so we just put bottles in the rubbish. It creates a lot of waste. I heard
they’re thinking of doing something about it, and I hope they do.
Sp5: Where I live is
right on the edge of town. The main problem we have is people driving to work
through our area. During the rush hour, when everyone is trying to get to work
in the morning, there are often traffic jams and the air is full of fumes. It
can be quite difficult to breathe sometimes. When I’ve got a day off work, I
have to go out to the countryside just to get away from it!
4. Read the sentences
and decide if these sentences are true or false.
Speaker1: People take the
rubbish with them. F
S2: Some of the chemicals
end up in the river. T
S3: There are green
spaces for kids. F
S4:They have been
learning recycling at school.T
S5: It is quite easy to
breathe. F
VII. Grammar:
1.Before doing the exercises
let’s revise Passive voice and the causative form.
Complete each sentence
using the word given so that it means the same as the sentence before:
1.Logging companies cut
down thousands of trees every year. are Thousands of trees
are cut down every year by logging companies.
2.Sprays destroy
ozone. destroyed
Ozone is destroyed
by sprays.
3.They are building a new
factory in this area. is A new factory is being built
in this area.
4. They will have
recycled more than 30 tonnes of glass by the end of the year. been
More than 30 tonnes of glass will have been recycled by the end of
the year.
5. They are going to
plant more trees and bushes next month. be More trees and
bushes are going to be planted next time.
6. New filters have been
installed by the local industries. have
The local industries have
installed new filters.
7. A few volunteers are
cleaning the beach. is
The beach is being
cleaned by a few volunteers.
8. This is a plastic
bottle. made
This bottle is made
of plastic.
9. The fire destroyed the
forest. was
The forest was
destroyed by in the fire.
2.Write the sentences
using the causative form:
1. A company is
processing their waste.
They are
having their waste processed by a company. are processing their waste had by a
company.
2. Someone is going to
repair my car.
I am
going to have my car repaired.
am going to
have repaired my car.
3. Technicians will
install new central heating in our neighbour’s house.
Our neighbour
will new central heating installed.
will
have new central heating installed.
4. The gardener is mowing
the lawn right now.
We are
having the lawn mow right now.
are having the
lawn mown right now.
5. A technician repaired
our washing machine.
We had
repaired our washing machine.
had our washing
machine repaired.
6. An architect has
desighned Mary’s house.
Mary
has had her house designed by an architect. has had designed her
house.
7. A doctor must examine
his broken leg.
He must
have his broken leg examined by a doctor. must have examined his broken leg by
a doctor.
VIII. Additional
task. Answer these questions:
1.How can we stop people
from littering our towns and countryside?
Fine people on the spot
for dropping rubbish, have more bins, have them emptied more regularly
2.How can we encourage
people to recycle?
Charge people for plastic
bags in supermarkets or don’t provide them , have a competition to make
something out of recycled
products,make the price of recycled paper , cheaper than non-recycled
3.How can we deal with
the problem of air pollution from cars and factories?
Get people to boycott
companies that pollute the environment, encourage car manufacturers to design
more environmentally friendly cars, improve public transport,create more
bicycle lanes
IX. Speaking.
Do you want your school
to be the greenest school in our town?
What will you do?
Some of you have prepared
projects,now listen to them.
X. Hometask: Ex.2
p.105 to write an essay
XI. Reflection:
I want to finish our lesson with the words
Be clean – go green!
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