Environment Is In Danger!

Тема уроку:   «Environment Is In Danger!»

(Розробка уроку для 9 класу)

Мета уроку:

 Освітня:                                                                                                                             1. Активізація ЛО з теми у мовленні учнів; 

2.  Практика учнів в обговоренні проблемних питань з  використанням вивченої лексики.

                                                                                                                                         

Розвиваюча:

Розвиток пізнавальних інтересів учнів через нестандартні форми подачі матеріалу;

Удосконалення навичок діалогічного та монологічного мовлення;

Розвиток навичок аудіювання;

Розвиток уваги, образного мислення та здатності до спілкування.

Виховна:

Розуміння  складності екологічних проблем та виховання бережливого відношення до природи, почуття відповідальності за місце, де ти живеш.

Тип уроку: комбінований

Обладнання: мультимедійний проектор, ноутбук, екран, плакат.

Procedure

I. Introduction

1. Greeting

T.: Good morning, dear friends!

We live in a magic  world. This wonderful land is our nature. Nature give us life. Nature teaches us to be clever and kind, attentive and creative. It teaches to understand the world around us. But our planet is very fragile. Every year small and big natural disasters occur in different parts of the world.

2. Theme, aims

T.: As you have guessed the theme of our lesson is “Natural Disasters”.

Today we’re going to dwell on the most vital environmental problems and solutions to them. You ‘re going to do some vocabulary work, read a text and discuss the problems the people are facing, you’re going to listen to people talking at the end of the lesson you’ll do a quiz to see how friendly you are to the environment.

Warm up activity

T.: To begin with, I’d like you to read the quotations on the blackboard and discuss them in two groups. What does the quotation mean to you? Do you agree or disagree with the author?

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend: you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left…The land is one organism.”

Aldo Leopold

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance Painting to cook a meal.”

Edward O. Wilson

II. Main Part

1. Checking the vocabulary

T.: Now you are going to listen to the sounds. What are these disasters? Which pictures do they match? How do they make you feel?

2. Imitation

Which of these words / phrases below are related to a hurricane/ an earthquake? Act out these events, without using words.

• Deep rumbling noise
• Buildings/ rocking
• Objects / flying
• Wind / howling
• People / shaking
• Ground /shaking

3.Reading skills. Pair work

Pre –reading activity(HO #1).

        T.: Let`s clear up what some natural disasters mean. Which of the disasters do you think are :

Caused by people?

Made worse by people?

Natural?

Avalanche – cніговий обвал

Cyclone – циклон

Drought – посуха

Earthquake – землетрус

Flood – повінь

Hurricane- ураган

Landslide – обвал, зсув

Volcanic eruption- вулканічне вираження

P1 will give the definition to the disaster.

P2 should give the name of the disaster.

While – reading activity.

Read the text and complete the gaps  (1-6) in the text with the sentences (a-g).There is extra one sentence.

A  But geological evidence shows that 73, 000 years ago there was a much greater eruption.

B Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas of  France, Britain and Germany have all been under water.

C That is probably not the most important factor either.

D Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are not useless.

E On top of all that, add climate change and the spectre of global warming.

F Fir example, the Yellow River, once notorious for flooding the Chinese landscape, failed to reach the sea at all on 226 days in 1997.

G One answer is overpopulation.

Answers: 1D  2B  3F  4G  5E  6A

             Hell and High Water

          Here is how become a disaster statistic. Move a shanty town on an unstable hillside near  a  tropical coast. Crowd together as more and more people arrive. Wait for the world to get a little warmer. More evaporation means more rain, which means the slopes will get progressively more waterlogged. One day, the land will turn to mud and the neighbor will begin to go downhill. Literally. And if the slope is steep enough, the landslide will accelerate to more than 200 miles an hour. Peter Walker, of the international federation  of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, has seen it all too often. “First, your house has been washed away. Second, the land that you farmed has disappeared.(1)___________”

         In the last decade, floods, droughts, windstorms, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and forest fires have become increasingly common. There has been disastrous flooding in Asia, Central and South America and Oceania. (2)_______Storms have been getting worse everywhere too, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US, the Caribbean and Central America. Drought has affected large areas of Sub – Saharan Africa for years and many others zones are becoming drier.(3)______A number of nations have already been in armed conflict over water, and drought in the West of the US has resulted in enormous forest fires.

         Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have always been a threat in certain parts of the world. A volcanic eruption virtually wiped out the small Caribbean island of Montserrant in 1997 and there have been serious earthquakes in Greece, Turkey and El Salvador. The quake that rocked the small Central American country of El Salvador in 2001 came as the people were still rebuilding their houses and recovering from 1998`s Hurricane Mitch.

         So why is nature beginning to turn on us? (4)___________The population of the world is growing at the rate of 10, 000 people an hour, 240, 000 every day, nearly 90 million a year, with most of the growth in the developing world. People in agricultural areas, unemployed and sometimes undernourished, move to the cities, and then set up homes on poor soil, crowded into substandard buildings. (5)________This has mainly been caused by the mismanagement of the world`s resources: carbon emissions from rich countries; the activities of the big multinational companies; the deforestation of the world`s forests. As a result a hotter ocean breeds fiercer cyclones and hurricanes. It surrenders greater quantities of water as evaporation, and more powerful winds dump this water against mountainsides with increasing fury. Atlantic hurricanes, for instance, are 40 percent more intense now than they were 30 years ago.

         Volcanoes and earthquakes are even more dangerous than in the past as around half the world`s population now lives in cities. There are more than 500 active and semi – active volcanoes, about fifty of which erupt each year, and more than 500 million people now live within range of a volcanic eruption. An even greater number live at risk, in some degree, from earthquakes which have taken a toll of more than 1.6 million lives in the last hundred years.

          All betting from the disaster professionals is that things will get worse. Professor McGuire, of University College  London, is a volcanologist who has been warning for years that the world has not seen the worst nature can do. The worst eruption in human history was probably Mt Tambora in 1815, in Indonesia. It pumped so much dust into the stratosphere that it effectively cancelled the following summer in Europe and America.(6)________”It reduced temperatures by maybe 6ºC in some places and the whole planet was plunged into winter for years. And there are about two of these events every 100,000 years….”

         Post – reading activity.

Answer the questions.

• What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future?
• Who is the most likely to be a victim of natural disaster?
• Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts?
• Why are volcanoes and earthquakes more dangerous now?
• What could be the biggest threat to the planet in the future?
• What effect might this threat have?

4.Relaxation

T.: I see your eyes are tired. Let`s make a pause and relax. You can see a picture on a screen. Please, follow the lines with your eyes. Do it three times.

5.Listening skills

T.: Now we`ll listen to two eye – witness accounts.

Pre-listening activity.

T.: Read the following sentences . What could the information be about?

A   1.The wind was howling and the sky was dark.

      2. A free flew right past me.

B   1. As we were running the tremor was getting worse.

      2. The buildings were rocking from side to side.

While- listening activity.

T.: Listen and check. Which natural disaster is each one about?

Post –listening activity.

Decide whether the statements are Right or Wrong. If there is not enough information choose Doesn`t say.

A tree hit John Lewis as he was running.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

The weather in Dade County was very bad on August 24th.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

Mrs. Johnson was shopping at the time of the earthquake.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

Mrs. Johnson`s friend couldn`t run fast.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

6.Speaking skills

T.: Imagine you were an eye   - witness to one of the natural disasters. Act out short exchanges.
7. Quiz “Do You Worry about the Environment?”( HO# 2)

         T.: To sum up what you have discussed, I want you to do the quiz in order to see if you are environmentally friendly. Compare your score with your classmates’, think of how you could increase your awareness of these problems and get ready to give a feedback.

   III. Summarizing

    1. Conclusions     

  T.: It seems to me that today we have done something meaningful and it will help other people to stop for a while and think what they do on the earth, how they live and what to do if we want to survive on the planet. Thank you for participation in our lesson and don`t forget that the nature of our planet is in our hands.

2. Home task

Imagine you were an eye – witness to one of the natural disasters. Write your account for the local magazine. Write:

When it happened

Where you were

How people were feeling

What you were doing

What was happening

Who was with you

                                                                                                  Ho # 1

Decide whether the statements are Right or Wrong. If there is not enough information choose Doesn`t say.

A tree hit John Lewis as he was running.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

The weather in Dade County was very bad on August 24th.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

Mrs. Johnson was shopping at the time of the earthquake.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

Mrs. Johnson`s friend couldn`t run fast.

A Right        B Wrong   C Doesn`t say

HO # 2

DO YOU WORRY ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?                        

1. Imagine you are on holiday abroad. You eat loads of chocolate-covered sweets but there aren't any rubbish bins to put their wrappers in. What do you do?

a. Keep the wrappers in your pocket until you see a bin.

b. Throw them on the ground. It's not your fault there aren't enough rubbish bins.

c. It depends. If there's a lot of rubbish on the floor, you might "drop them accidentally".

2. On the way home you are very thirsty. What do you buy?

a. Something in a non-recyclable plastic bottle.

b. Something in a glass bottle or aluminium can.

c. Something in a carton.

3. Your personal stereo always needs new batteries. What do you do?

a. Buy rechargeable batteries.

b. Put the old batteries in the bin and buy new ones.

c. Buy new ones and take the old ones to a recycling centre.

4. If you lived near a beach, how would you react if a fast food restaurant opened near the beach?

a. Be pleased but also worried about more rubbish on the beach.

b. Be pleased. Now can eat burgers on the beach.

c. You never eat at fast food places because there is too much packing.

5. You buy a couple of things in a shop. When you pay, the cashier is about to put the things in a plastic bag. What do you say?

a. "No, thank you ". (You have brought your own bag from home.)

b. Nothing. You let him/her put the things in the bag.

c. It depends if you can carry the things easily without a bag.

6. There are a couple of flies in your bedroom. They are annoying you. What do you do?

a. Try to kill them with a newspaper.

b. Try to kill them with a horrible-smelling aerosol.

c. Hit the air with a newspaper so they leave you alone.

7. You are writing a letter to a good friend. You have made several mistakes and need to cross things out. What do you do?

a. Start the letter again on another piece of paper.

b. Continue writing; your friend will excuse your mistakes.

c. Continue to write but if you make any more mistakes, start again.

Now add up your score:

1.  a = 3, b = 1, c = 2;   

2.  a = 1, b = 3, c = 2;

3.  a = 3, b = 1, c = 2;   

4.  a = 2, b = 1, c = 3;   

5.  a = 3, b = 1, c = 2;

6.  a = 2, b = 1, c = 3;

7.  a = 1, b = 3, c = 2

ANSWER:

7—10: You do not worry about the environment at all! You think pollution is someone else's problem, not yours. You think recycling and saving resources are too time-consuming. 11—17: You care about the environment and you have good habits, which help save it. However, there are probably a few other things you could do. 18—21: You definitely care about the environment. You think about it when you make every day decisions. If more people in the world were as good as you, the planet would have fewer problems.