Students can track their weekly plastic usage using this worksheet.
Can be used for all ages.
Use as part of a series of lessons about plastic, the environment and how we can reduce our usage.
The pack contains:
a student worksheet with vocabulary, a short article, comprehension questions, discussion questions and optional creative speaking activity
a teacher answer key
a lesson plan with timings.
The article and content is geared towards low to mid-level A2 ESL students aged 10 to 14.
Powerpoint presentation that shows how long every day plastic items take to decompose. There is a strong focus on educating people about single use plastic, especially straws and plastic bags. Originally created for an Indonesian and tourist market, the last slide can be used to learn how to say NO to plastic.
Watch the video and complete the worksheet, which focuses on vocabulary and the concept of sustainability in the fashion industry. Enable students to learn about where clothes come from, the environmental impact of clothes production and new innovations in the industry. Discussion questions will stimulate creative and critical thinking around the topic.
Includes answer key.
Photo: copyright HM Foundation
Skills lesson: Reading and speaking
Level: Intermediate
Reading for gist
Reading for specific information
Speaking about conservation
Worksheet, answer key and lesson plan
Ages: teens and adults
This lesson uses a zen pencil comic to teach students about prefixes and suffixes. It also teaches them to take a piece of text and decode meaning from it, in this case, a quote by C.S Lewis (author of Narnia).
The lesson plan is for 60 minutes and is aimed at Intermediate/ Upper Intermediate Level
An infographic that can be used to educate students about sharks and shark attacks.
Objectives:
- Controlled practice of comparative sentence structures ("more than" and "less than")
- Pronunciation of numbers
- Changing misconceptions regarding sharks
Level: Pre-Intermediate and above
Level: Intermediate and above
Students watch a video and complete questions afterwards.
This is a great opportunity to workshop ideas around job creation for the future which incorporates environmental principles.
This is a two-part lesson exploring the themes in the Steve Cutts short film, “Happiness”. Part one focuses on comprehension and discussion, and part two focuses on debating, listening to other points of view and making up your own mind on a subject. Optional lesson extension homework assignments included.
Lesson about Lifestraw, how it works and how it improves people's lives.
Includes text for quiz activity, images for eliciting answers and lesson plan about how technology can improve and save people's lives.
Pre-intermediate to Intermediate.
Skills: reading and speaking
Time: 60 min
Lesson Plan for creating, conducting, analyzing and presenting the results of a survey.
The survey topic is plastic water bottle usage at school.
Grades 3-5