THE BEAUTY OF OUR NATURE

LESSON 1

THE BEAUTY OF OUR NATURE

OBJECTS: 
-to develop students listening and speaking skills; 
-to practise in using Conditionals II;                                                                                         
-to to see and enjoy the beauty of our nature. 
EQUIPMENT: textbooks, pictures, handouts, a CD player.
I.INTRODUCTION
II.WARMING-UP
Listen to the English poem “Leisure” by W. H. Davies and share your opinion with us.
What is this life if, full of care,                                                                                                              We have no time to stand and stare?                                                                                    No time to stand beneath the boughs                                                                                   And stare as long as sheep or cows.                                                                                      No time to see, when woods we pass,                                                                                            Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.                                                                                  No time to see, in broad daylight,                                                                                                                            Streams full of stars, like skies at night.                                                                                                               No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,                                                                                               And watch her feet, how they can dance.                                                                                     No time to wait till her mouth can                                                                                                 Enrich that smile her eyes began.                                                                                                      A poor life this if, full of care,                                                                                                        We have no time to stand and care.
--Really our life is poor when we have no time to put everything away and just go to the forest or to the field to see their beauty.
--I fully agree with this English writer because we haven’t got time to enjoy the local landscape. We are so busy doing different things at home, at school.
 --I think it’s a very deep and wise poem. The poet wants us to be closer to our nature.
T.- You are right. We have not only to enjoy the beauty of our land but also to protect it and take care of it because a human being and nature are inseparable.

III. 
There some words written on the blackboard. Match them to the questions sticked around the class.
1.	How do we call air, water, land where we, people, live? (ENVIRONMENT)
2.	How do we call the destruction of wildlife and countryside’s beauty, shortage of nature resources, the growth of contamination? (POLLUTION)
3.	What gas can’t people live without? (OXYGEN)
4.	How is the rise of the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere called? ( THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT)
5.	How do we call drops of water mixed with harmful substances in the atmosphere that fall down on the ground and spoil plants and soil? (ACID RAIN)
So the main ecological problems nowadays are:
-pollution of atmosphere;
-pollution of water;
- contamination of soil.

IV. 
Listen to the text and say why the European scientist worries about the environmental situation. Name the problems mentioned in it.

	Not only people in Europe but all over the world join different organizations to protect our environment. Listen to the information about some of them.
          There are several groups in Britain that try to protect the environment. The most famous group is Greenpeace, which campaigns in many countries around the world. They have campaigned against hunting whales, pollution in the North Sea, nuclear power, testing nuclear weapons and many other issues. Greenpeace supporters organize demonstrations and they also take direct actions. For example, they block pipes that pour polluted water into the sea.
        Another important environmental group is Friends of the Earth. They have led campaigns against global warming, the destruction of the rain forest, and the hole in the ozone layer. There is also a Green party, which is a political party. It regularly fights elections and it has won seats in the European Parliament and on local councils.
         There are many other groups that are concerned with protecting the environment, for example, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which campaigns to protect birds against dangers such as pesticides and hunting. Some environmental groups are very old. The oldest is the National Trust which was set up in 1895 to protect parks, buildings and monuments in Britain.
         The Ministry of Environmental Protection was founded in Ukraine. The task is to control the state of environment and sources of pollution, to protect the water resources of Ukraine, to extend the network of nature reserves and to maintain co-operation with international ecology organizations.
         Campaign for environmental protection is supported by public organizations and individuals. The Ukrainian Green party is very active today. “Zeleny Svit” is a Ukrainian ecological newspaper. It calls on protection of the natural wealth and on using it in a more careful and economical manner for the sake of present and future generation.
(Problems:  forests and rainforests;   the habitat for animals;    air pollution;      water pollution).

V.  
RELAXATION 
(Sound of the ocean or sea)
Where have you just been in your dream?
-I have been on a golden beach sunbathing.
-I imagined myself surfing in the blue clean ocean.

VI.
If you were a part of this wonderful natural world what would you like to be?
E.g. If I were a part of this wonderful natural world I’d be the Wood full of wonders. People can come and relax in the wood, listening to the birds’ singing, picking up berries and mushrooms, collecting unusual plants, watching squirrels, hares, hedgehogs.
VII.
Split into two groups and write what we will have to stop doing if we want to save our nature (Group I) and what we’ll have to start doing if we want to save it (Group II). 
E.g. Stop having bath but have shower because showers use less water.
        Start planting more trees because they produce oxygen for breathing in and defend us from flood.
VIII. 
CONCLUSION.
Our lesson is coming to an end. Did you enjoy it? I hope you did. You have done a great job. Our hometask is to meet near our school at 16 o’clock and go to the forest to conduct the lesson there.