Environment 8-9

Environmental Day Quotes || Top Environmental Day Sayings & Quotes with Images – YouTube (1:30)https://youtu.be/QXT0pHFkJUM

World Environment Day celebrated on 5th June every year and is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment.

Koko the gorilla urges mankind to stop killing Earth | Daily Mail Online (1:14)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1240795/Koko-gorilla-urges-mankind-stop-killing-Earth.html

Koko the gorilla urges mankind to stop killing Earth Koko the gorilla has used sign language to deliver a 60-second message telling humans to stop killing the earth

Nature Is Speaking – Penélope Cruz is Water | Conservation International (CI) – YouTube (1:28)https://youtu.be/fwV9OYeGN88

Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder all join forces to give nature a voice. Watch the films and ta…

MAN – YouTube (3:36) https://youtu.be/WfGMYdalClU

Watch this animated video and discuss the effects that man has had on the environment. Can also be used as a writing prompt. See below

Recycling with My Friends – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/zuoU3an6qxk

Mr. Dwayne Reed is a singer, songwriter, and teacher in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote and performed this song about the importance of recycling in schools

There’s no way these guys gave their permission to be in this video. But I don’t think they mind. – Upworthy (3:48)https://www.upworthy.com/theres-no-way-these-guys-gave-their-permission-to-be-in-this-video-but-i-dont-think-they-mind?c=ufb1

Don’t try and convince me this isn’t the most catchy chorus, like, ever.

10 Environmental issues vocabulary and language exerciseshttp://www.eslflow.com/Elements-of-the-contemporary-environment-vocabulary.html

Environmental issues are an interesting topic for the English language classroom. So it’s good to start off with some basic visually supported vocabulary exercises about environmental issues, endangered species, natural disasters and the weather

Environmental Vocabulary for English Learnershttp://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_environment.htm

Vocabulary used to discuss environmental issues can help English learners learn key vocabulary. Tables provide terms, phrases, and example sentences.

Words for Nature Lovershttps://www.grammarly.com/blog/words-for-nature-lovers/

What beautiful things surround you? From regal snowcapped mountain ranges or transparent aquamarine ocean waters, the beauties that nature offers delight people around the globe.

Newsela Daily Deck: Plastic Food Packaging | Pear Deck for Google Slideshttps://app.peardeck.com/share/view/wcyis2

A lesson about Biology with interactive, formative assessments built in. Created with Pear Deck for Google Slides. Copy and customize for your class.

Meet Lauren Singer – zero waste girl | LearnEnglish Teens – British Councilhttp://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/meet-lauren-singer-zero-waste-girl

How much rubbish do you throw away each day? Lauren Singer studied environmental science and decided to change her lifestyle to try and produce less waste. She’s now known as ‘zero waste girl’!

Food Waste – Breaking News English Lesson – ESLhttp://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1409/140926-food-waste-2.html

English News Lessons: Free 26-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini-lesson – Food Waste – Handouts, online activities, speed reading, dictation, mp3… current events.

Smog Sunrise – Breaking News English Lesson – ESLhttp://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1401/140121-sunrise.html

English News Lessons: Free 26-Page lesson plan / 2-page mini-lesson Reading / Listening text in several levels with various activities 

BBC Learning English – Course: lower intermediate / Unit 24http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/lower-intermediate/unit-24/

Do you like to travel to new places? Do you enjoy nature? Would you also like to help people? Then this unit is for you! Find out about ecotourism – travelling to beautiful natural places without damaging the environment.

Planet 100: The Pacific Trash Vortex Explained – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/xc6LvdsyJ4U

You’ve heard about it on the news. You’ve read about it in blogs, What exactly is the Pacific Trash Vortex? Planet 100 is here to give you the facts. Very fast speech, slower to .75A lesson plan

Reading Rainbow: How Trash Is Recycled with LeVar Burton – YouTube (6:24)https://youtu.be/w1l8HXa3HLk

5 billion tonnes of garbage is created by humans every year. That’s why it’s important to reduce, reuse and recycle – it’s a process we are all responsible for

You Can Live Without Producing Trash – YouTube (4:37) https://youtu.be/nYDQcBQUDpw

One New York woman is making an effort to change the way we think about waste. – Interview with Lauren Singer, who produces no trash (yr 9)

Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic (Part 1/3) – YouTube (20:47)https://youtu.be/D41rO7mL6zMVice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean’s flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:

Cleaning our oceans: a big plan for a big … – SafeShare.tvhttps://safeshare.tv/x/ss5b77caaa5b196#

When 11-year-old Haaziq Kazi first prototyped his invention to clean plastic from the surface of the ocean, it lasted for about 7 seconds before coming apart in his bathtub.

10 Strange Ways To Save The Environment – YouTube (2:38)https://youtu.be/RgVPDyFpxnc

10 Strange Ways to Save The Environment With the rainforests disappearing and global warming melting the ice caps, people will try anything to save our Earth…

Environment conversation questions – Teflpediahttps://teflpedia.com/Environment_conversation_questions

You are free to use this material in class. For general advice on using conversation topics, see our ESL conversation questions article. For our complete list of topics click here. For more help on…

MAN – YouTube (3:36) https://youtu.be/WfGMYdalClU

Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at man’s relationship with the natural world. Watch this animated video and write about the effects that man has had on the environment