Do Your Steps to Save             Our Planet

Lesson 2

Do Your Steps to Save Our Planet 
Objectives:   
    -to develop students’ reading and listening skills;
    -to encourage students to speak;
    -to teach students to take care of our nature;
Equipment:  pictures, handouts, a CD player.
                                                   Procedure 
WARMING-UP
  -Look at the old Chinese proverb “A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step”. How do you understand it?
  -If I do something and my classmates do the same, all our small steps can add up a lot of forward movement.
  -Start something with one day actions.
  -It’s very important to make some practical and positive actions in our common future.
  -To my mind, I have to participate in any kinds of activities, make my contribution because indifference may lead to terrible results.
  І. 
Let’s do our steps for saving our planet.
Split into small groups and write as many steps-ideas as you may know to show how you can help to save our planet.
We can help to keep the Earth clean, beautiful and unpolluted 
-by planting trees around the school and country houses; 
-by being careful with our rubbish;
-by using public transport not parents’ cars to get to school;
-by riding a bicycle;
-by using stairs instead of lifts;
-by sealing windows in school and at home;
-by putting stickers or posters “Switch off” and switching lights off before leaving the room;
-by saving water in a bathroom, a toilet and in a kitchen;
-by gathering papers for recycling .
  II. 
Read the text and do the following tasks.
Pre-reading activities:
  
1)	Look at the picture and write down ten words that come to your mind in connection with it. 
2)	Think of the heading to the text.
3)	Predict the content of the text.
4)	Find the definitions to the following phrases and read them.
E.g. water droplets;
        water cycle.

Post-reading activity
1.	Complete the statements 1-8 bellow the text by choosing the best answers (A, B, C, D). Write your answers in the boxes bellow the tasks.
                                                  
                                              ALL  ABOUT  WATER
        All living thinks need water to survive. On Earth, there is plenty. Water covers two-thirds of the planet’s surface. Only a tiny of the Earth’s water is fresh water. Most of this is under the ground, or frozen into ice. The seas and oceans contain salt water. The rivers, lakes, streams and ponds contain fresh water. The world’s water is now in danger and people can protect it.        
         There is no new water. The same water keeps moving between sea, air and land. This movement is called the water cycle. Rain comes from clouds. When it falls on to land, a lot of it runs into streams and lakes. Streams run together to  form rivers. Heat from the sun makes some of the water in lakes and rivers turn into gas called water vapour. Rivers flow into the sea. Water from the surface of the sea also turns into water vapour. When it begins to cool, water vapour turns into tiny water droplets. Millions of them join together to form clouds. 

1.There’s … water on Earth
    A plenty of fresh
    B more fresh than salt 
    C not very much fresh	
    D very little salt water
2. Two-thirds of the planet’s … 
     A water is considered to be fresh
     B surface is covered with water
     C water is oceans and seas
     D water in rivers, lakes and streams
3. All the water under the ground is … .
     A fresh
     B frozen
     C salt
     D dangerous
4. There is NO fresh water in … .
     A ponds
     B seas
     C lakes
     D streams           	5. Ice is made mostly of … 
   A water from oceans
   B underground water
   C fresh water	
   D water from rivers
6. Because of the warmth of the sun … 
   A heat turns into light gas
   B underground water turns into gas
   C a lot of water runs to from rivers
   D water turns into water vapour
7. We can say that clouds … 
   A are made of tiny droplets
   B turn into water vapour
   C are most always cool
   D never stop moving
8. There is … .
   A new water coming from clouds
   B no new water in nature
   C mostly dangerous water all around
   D water making oceans and seas move

	
 
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KEY
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C    	B	A	B	C	D	A	B	

 III. 
Here is The Black Box. What is inside of it?
 It’s an equipment for a particular purpose.  It’s used for cleaning water at homes and factories. (It’s a filter)
      You are right. The filter is a device for holding back solid substances from a liquid or gas that passes through it (a coffee filter, an oil filter).
  IV. 
Water is very important for the life on the Earth. There is much water on our planet and, at the same time, there is little drinking water on it. 
        The problem is now how to protect air, water and animals, how to save our planet for us and for our next generations.
        Let’s do the following questionnaire and check our knowledge concerning this problem.
   
    1) People can call it ecological problem. Some countries suffer from it. It can cause serious health problems. It can poison food. It can also damage statues and architecture badly. (acid rains)
    2) Dirty water, poisoned food, industrial waste, heat, acid rains… What is the common name of this fact? (pollution)
    3) What is the most polluted place in Ukraine? Why? (Prypiat’- because of Chernobyl disaster in 1986)
   4) It can cause the holes in the ozone layer. It also pollutes the air we breathe and wastes our time in the morning and evening. (traffic jam)
   5) It is a big spark of electricity that travels from the sky down to the Earth. It produces a great number of oxygen. (lightning)
    6) It has especially suffered from nuclear pollution. French government tested nuclear weapons there. (The Pacific Ocean)
    7) It helps us to breathe. It helps plants to live. The lack of it in the air can cause death. It helps doctors to save people’s lives in the hospital. If it is not enough in the water, fish and other sea creatures can die too. (oxygen)
    8) This thing pollutes the atmosphere very much, but we cannot live without it. It takes people to and from work. (transport)
    9) This is a part of science that studies the relationship between all forms of life. (ecology)
    10) These three words starting with “R” help us to create a cleaner world. (“reduce” , “recycle” , “reuse”)
    11) These useful organisms breathe in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. (trees and plants)
    12) This is the most common greenhouse gas. People breathe it out and the trees breathe it in. (carbon dioxide)
  V. 
Listen to the song “What Have They Done to the Rain” by Malvina Reynolds and fill the gaps.
Just a little (1)______ (2) _____  all around, 
The grass (3) _______ its head to the heavenly sound, 
Just a little rain, just a little rain,
What have they done to the rain?

Just a little boy (4) ______ in the rain, 
The gentle rain that (5) _______ for years. 
And the grass (6) ________ .
The boy (7) __________ .
The rain keeps falling like helpless (8) _________ .
And what have they done to the rain?

Just a little breeze out of the sky,
The (9) _________ clap their hands as the breeze blows by, 
Just a little breeze with some (10) _______ in its eye, 
What have they done to the rain?

Just a little boy standing in the rain, 
The gentle rain that falls for years. 
And (11) _________ is gone,
The (12) _________ disappears, 
And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, 
And what have they done to the rain?
     Key: 1) rain; 2) falling; 3) lifts; 4) standing; 5) falls; 
    6) is gone; 7)disappears; 8) tears; 9) leaves; 10) smoke; 
    11) the grass;  12) the boy.

What has happened to the rain?
 Some accidents at some factories effected the rain and it turned to acid rain.

  VI. 
CONCLUSION
Technology has polluted our environment but it’s our duty to save our planet by reducing pollution and taking care of our nature. We should always remember the wise advice of a great English writer John Galsworthy “If you don’t think about the future, you will not have it”

  VII. 
HOME ASSIGNMENT
Write some rules how to keep our environment clean.