Yes, We Can! (Save Our World)

IES ICÀRIA: ESO 2

YES, WE CAN! (SAVE OUR WORLD)

Maria Rosa Batlle

IN THIS PROJECT WE ARE GOING TO:
Talk about pollution
Reflect about sustainable development
Reflect, talk, read, listen and write about ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Learn to express ability, obligation and prohibition

HOT EARTH

Open the web page http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/climate_home.html

0.Read the Introduction and DO THE PUZZLE

http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/crossword/puzzle.html

1.Click on “What’s Climate?” and write the definition of climate

2.Click on “HOTTING UP”. Answer:

a.  Which are the fuels that we use the most?

b.  What’s the main cause of the rise of temperature on the planet?

3.Click on “Greenhouse Earth”

a.What is a greenhouse?

b.Why is the warming up of the atmosphere called “greenhouse effect”?

c.Which gas is involved in the greenhouse effect?

4.Click on “What happens next?”

a.What will happen to the oceans?

b.What will happen to the penguins?

c.What will happen to us?

5.Click on “Good news for fish, very bad news for people”

a.Who will suffer most? Why?

b.Which cities will be flooded? Why?

c.Which diseases will spread?

6.Click on “Storms Ahead”

a.What will happen to the weather?

7.Click on It’s not really happening, is it?

a.Who thinks that the climate change is not really happening?

b.Why do they say that it’s not happening?

8.Click on Yes, climate change is real... and very unfair!

a.What is the Kyoto conference?

b. Which countries damage the atmosphere the most?

9.Click on “Twelve Really Important Things you can do to help stop global warming “

Read the information carefully and fill in this grid:

TO PROTECT THE PLANET :
WE MUST / WE MUSTN’T / WE CAN

DO THE QUIZ http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/quiz/climate-quiz.htm

PROJECT: IN PAIRS, PREPARE A PRESENTATION about CLIMATE CHANGE

Include:

Ø  What is happening to the planet( hotting up, greenhouse effect….)

Ø  The causes of this

Ø  The consequences (what will happen to us, the animals etc, the atmosphere, the flora…)

Ø  what WE CAN- WE MUST & WE MUSTN’T DO – WE SHOULD or SHOULDN’T DO… to protect the planet in your blog.

Ø  Use pictures!!!

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