The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: Video Lesson

What is the greenhouse effect? Whys is our climate changing? Why is the temperatute of our planet getting higher? What are we doing wrong? How can we help to make things better? Watch this video lesson and find out:

Save the Bees!

Image: Earth.com

Next Friday we are celebrating World Environment Day 2020. This year, the theme of this special date is “Celebrate Biodiversity”.  

1 million species of plants and animals are in danger of extinction and this is a good moment to think about how important those species are and what we can do to protect them. Bees are among those endangered species. Here, you will find some information about these lovely creatures and how we can help them thrive.

                                    

                                    Bee World Vocabulary Crossword

Save the Bees! Video lesson 

What will happen if all the bees die?

Bees Fact File - Writing Exercise

Vocabulary help: key words glossary

Plastic Bottles: Video Activity

What happens to the plastic we throw away? Where do the bottles we don't recycle end up? Watch the video and find out. You can also do the comprehension activity  (pre-intermediate level).

Click HERE for the COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY

Our Carbon Footprint

What does "carbon footprint" mean? What is your carbon footprint? What can you do to reduce it?
Watch and find out:

How big is your environmental footprint?  Click HERE to try WWF's Carbon Footprint Calculator.

What can we do to reduce ourr carbon footprint?

Ordinary Life and Global Warming - Video Activity

ORDINARY LIFE

This video shows the morning routine of an average family, habitual actions that we repeat day by day without thinking about them even if they terribly damage our planet.

Watch the video and make a list of the conducts and behaviours that we can consider environmentally unfriendly and explain why they can have a negative effect on our planet.

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Have you heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Do you know what it is made of? Watch the video and find out.

             

Reading: "Eating less meat could save lives"

           

More than 45,000 lives a year could be saved if everyone began eating meat no more than two or three times a week, health experts claim today. Widespread change to low-meat diets would stop 31,000 early deaths from heart disease, and 9,000 from cancer, according to new analyses of British eating habits. Dramatically reduced meat consumption would slow down climate change and deforestation in South America, where rainforests are being chopped down to raise cows, which are later exported to Europe.

Eating too much meat, particularly processed meat, is unhealthy because it can involve consuming more fat than official guidelines recommend. “We don’t need to go vegetarian to look after ourselves and our planet, but we do need to cut down on meat,” said Peter Bennett. “While the government has ignored the environmental aspect of meat and dairy consumption, it can’t ignore the lives that would be saved by switching to less and better meat.”

Meat producers criticised the report. “The vast majority of consumers eat less than average recommendations of red meat already,” said Chris Lamb. “It is over-simplistic to say that changing one element of the diet can have such a dramatic result. Red meat has a valuable role to play as part of a healthy diet.” Jen Elford, of the Vegetarian Society, added: “Of course less meat is better than more, but we can’t start solving the environmental and health problems without moving away from animal protein.”

1. Summarise the text in your own words as far as possible. (50 words maximum)

2. Find in the text synonyms for:

a. extensive, general
b. illness
c. reduce
d. of considerable importance

3.  Answer the following questions. Use your own words and expressions.

a. How are the rainforests affected by meat consumption?
b. Why is eating too much meat so bad?
c. What arguments do meat producers use to defend themselves? Give two.

4. Write a composition on the following topic (120 words)

What can you do to have a healthy lifestyle?