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4 Listen to the article and check if your variants in 3 were right

5 Listen to the article once again and retell it

6 Discuss the following questions with your partner

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

  1. What did you think when you read the headline?

  2. What do you think about global warming?

  3. When did you first hear about climate change?

  4. Do you agree with people who say global warming is not man made?

  5. What do you think global warming will do to the Earth?

  6. What is your government doing to slow down the rate of climate change?

  7. What are you doing to help save out environment?

  8. Do you think Armageddon might happen one day?

  9. Do you think you need to change your lifestyles and spending?

  10. What question would you like to ask the UN climate change panel?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

  1. Did you like reading this article?

  2. Do you think cost is important in saving our planet?

  3. Do you think 3 percent of economic activity is a little or a lot?

  4. Has global warming changed the weather in your country?

  5. What are the most dangerous weather phenomena that happen in your country?

  6. What can we do to protect species from becoming extinct?

  7. What clean technologies do you think your country will introduce?

  8. Do you think we’re already in deep trouble?

  9. Do you think scientists and governments can control climate change?

  10. Did you like this discussion?

Writing

Write an essay to comment on one of the following quotations:

    1. Henrik Tikkanen: “Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us”.

    2. Changing Times magazine: “In an undeveloped countries, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air”.

    3. Lucy Larcam: “He who plants a tree, plants a hope”.

SPEAKING

Discuss the following questions with your partner and use them as a plan when making up final monologue on the topic.

Questions for Reproduction

  1. Why should people care about the environment?

  2. What stories have you read or heard recently about the environment?

  3. Name environmental problems of our planet. What are the biggest one in the world? In your native city and region?

  4. What would you do to save our environment?

  5. Are you environmentally friendly? If yes, what do you do to help your planet?

  6. What danger does your country have to the global environment?

  7. Do you think your government cares more about its economy or the environment?

  8. Which countries are leaders in caring about the environment?

  9. What do you know about the history of how our environment came to be under threat?

  10. Would you give money to or actively campaign for environmental causes?

  11. What do you think of environmental groups like Greenpeace?

  12. What is the quality of the environment in your country?

  13. What kind of environmental policies does your country have/need?

  14. How important is the natural environment to you in your daily life?

  15. Do you think our environment is beyond repair?

  16. Do you think international meetings on the environment are useful?

  17. What do you think our grandkids will think of the way we treated the environment?

  18. What do environmentalists or ecologists do? Why is their job rewarding?

  19. If the environment could speak, what would it tell us?

  20. What is our duty as protectors of the environment?