The theme: It is Our Planet. How to Protect The Enviroment
Lysakova L. P. a teacher of English-methodologist
Mayaku Educational Complex
Volyn region
Objectives:
· To develop students reading, listening, speaking skills;
· Enrich students knowledge about environmental problems;
· To teach students to protect environment;
· To develop critical thinking.
Equipment: Solution Upper-Intermediate (students Book. Work Book), tables, texts. Karpuk. English Study. 11th form.
Procedure
Introduction
Our mother planet is showing the real warming light. “Be careful”. “To take care of the planet is to take care of people’s own house.” The topic of our lesson is “Environment”. We shall speak how to protect nature.
The protection of nature has become one of the most burning problems nowadays nature provides us with mineral resources, forestland fields. The rapid growth of science, technology and industry resulted in an increasing negative effect on the nature of the whole world.
Huge industrial enterprises pollute the water we drink, the air we breath, the land which gives us bread, vegetables and fruits.
· Acid rains destroy the ozone layer and causes greenhouse effect.
· Polluting leads to the reduction of man’s lifespan.
· The worst situation with air pollution is in big overpopulated cities. Breathing in big industrial cities is equivalent to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.
•The world's oceans are filled with poisonous industrial waste, chemical
fertilizers and pesticides.
Questions of the pupils:
1. In what way do people pollute their surrounding?
2. Why is environmental pollution such a serious problem?
3. Why is the pollution problem not only serious but also complicated?
4. In what way can people reduce pollution?
For many centuries people, who lived before us had been trying to make their life on the planet easier and more comfortable. They thought that resources of the Earth were endless and used them without thinking about future generations. They chopped down forests and killed animals. In the 19th centuries the world ecology was born.
II. Warming-up
• What does the notion "Environmental mean?". It means the land. Water,
air the place where animals. Plants live. Today people cause lots of harm to
it; they use and damage the natural World.
• What are your associations will environment
III. Main Part
1. Vocabulary Practice.
Complete the sentences using the words from the box.
2. Matching
Mach the words. Use phrases to complete the structures.
1. Reduce a) Transport
2. Weekly b)Jam
3. Public c) Limit
4. Give d) Fuels
5. Traffic e) Shopping
6. Spud f) Pollutions
7. Fossil g) Somebody a lift
3. Reading
While reading.
Fill in the gaps using appropriate words.
4. Quiz
1. What causes ocean levels to rise? (Global warming)
2. Why is the ozone layer important (It protects the Earth from suns radiation)
3. Why should we use sprays without CFC8 (They are friendlier to the ozone
layer)
5. Discussion
The problem of environment protection has become of vital importance not only in Ukraine but also in other countries.
- What should we do to protect environment?
- What are the most serious environmental problems?
- What can people do to change the situation?
- What environmental problems do we have in Ukraine? What do you do to
help our environment?
IV. Summary
Analysis of the students' activity, to sum up the results of the work.
V. Homework
To write the essay: What we should do to protect the nature. What we shouldn't do in order not to pollute the environment.
My name is Helen-Olivia Braun and I am representative of GreeenPeace.
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues.
Greenpeace uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:
• Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our
planet: climate change.
• Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and
creating a global network of marine reserves.
• Protecting the world's remaining ancient forests which are depended on by
many animals, plants and people.
• Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite
resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
• Creating a toxin free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in
today's products and manufacturing.
• Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and
ecologically responsible farming practices.
Thank for your attention.
(Theme 1)
Dear representatives of the council of the United Nations Organization (UNO) we open our sitting on the theme "Protection of the environment in the world". It is the burning question of our actual life.
We invite the representatives of the council to take seats. The representatives of the Mass Media are present at our conference.
(Theme 2)
At the end of the XXth century humanity faced the problem of the beginning of the ecological crisis. The ecological crisis of the XXth century has another aspect compared with all the previous ones. This is the first crisis on our planet totally caused not by technical reasons. The rapid biosphere changing caused by this ecological crisis appeared to be in hundreds and thousands of times faster than
natural evolution.
The representatives of different countries have gathered the information about burning questions of the ecological situation in their countries.
We give the floor to Miss... the representatives of the...
1. Great Britain 1. Kerry McCarthy
2. Germany 2. Johanna Von Klaus
3. Poland 3. Magda Szczecin
4. Japan 4. Jan Leen
5. Ukraine 5. Olena Kozak
6. USA 6. Katelyn Mctague
(Theme 3) So we will taking to consideration all the proposals. We will learn all these
documents and will check up all the information proposed by Irina
Kisilyova. At the next sitting we will discuss all these problems. I think we
must be tolerant and polite to each other.
Environmental protection in GB
Kerry McCarthy
I'm here to talk about the environmental concern.
I think, people need to be very aware of the impact of the Western diet on the environment as well. I mean, some people would become vegans because of health reasons, and some cause concerned about animal welfare. But I think, increasingly people are beginning to look at the impact of industrialized farming,
and the fact that we just cannot sustain a Western - style diet.
The world population is predicted to grow from 6.7 billion at the moment to 9 billion by 2050, and even if we don't have those levels of population growth, even if we stick to current levels, and everyone adopted the Western - style diet, we'd needed 3 planets the size of Earth in order to sustain ourselves. A vegan diet is very sustainable, because on average it requires a third of water and a third of the land to produce a vegan based diet, than it would to produce an animal -based diet. And not because farm animals eat much more protein than they produce. A lot of land is needed to produce food for cattle. So, we need to explore ways that are less harmful and wasteful, and have less impact on our environment and natural resources.
What would happen to the farmer's livelihoods if we all moved to plant -based diet rather than animal - based?
Obviously if people did do that, they would still be consuming crops, that they actually grown by farmers. That would be a role for farmers to move towards more sustainable way of farming. We could actually change the landings to benefit the wildlife, the planet, the animal and us. You would actually encourage the wildlife, which is under great pressure with the current conventional farming.
A lot of work has been done in the UK. We have s^ve ral corprrierciaj stpck^ fj9§ fa,rrns. We could, ha,ve a, lot of the crops growing here ^(iat we're actually importing ^t the moment. A lot of things could still be grown outside; we wouldn't have to have heated greenhouses. Increasingly people rea|ize that food and the environment are so closely interconnected
Thank for your attention. Environmental protection in Germany
Johanna Von Klaus
Germany is located amid other heavily industrial nations whose air pollution and water pollution enter the country with the wind and rain, and in the rivers, every summer many automobiles, including those from other European countries, drive across Germany's autobahn on their way to vacations in southern Europe. Among Germany's homegrown environmental problems, the most important are probably those connected with industrial overdevelopment and automobile traffic. Pollutants released by factories and automobile exhausts are blamed for the widespread destruction of forests from acid rain.
Agricultural development results in fertilizer and pesticide runoff into lakes and streams, contaminating the groundwater supply. Germany also received some nuclear fallout at the time of Chernobyl'
reactor meltdown. Public resistance halted the development of nuclear energy in Germany.
Among the worst problems were the open remnants from strip mining and the legacy of the chemical industry, both located in southern East Germany. The poisoning of soil and groundwater by uncontrolled industrial and agricultural development required enormous expenditures for cleanup.
The burning of brown coal, the only kind of coal abundant in East Germany, has led to health problems, including respiratory ailments and lung and heart disease.
In the 1970s an environmental protest movement developed, and our Green Party—a political party that focuses on environmental issues—was formed. The most remarkable result of this increased environmental awareness was the development of an "eco-industry," a new manufacturing sector that makes pollution-control devices and other environmentally useful equipment. This industry has also produced new jobs, helping counter the fears of both trade unions and existing industries that environmental controls would cost jobs and handicap business.
Thank you.
Environmental protection in Poland
Magda Szczecin
Poland's environmental situation has improved since the ouster of its communist regime, which has been accompanied by decreased emphasis on heavy industry and increased government awareness of environmental issues.
As of the mid-1990s, 75% of Poland's forests have been damaged by airborne contaminants and acid rain.
Pollution of the air, water, and land were the most significant environmental problem facing Poland in the 1990s.
Industry-related pollution affects particularly the Katowice region, where dust and sutfar cfexfde emissions exceed acceptable levels.
Water pollution in the Baltic Sea is 10 times higher than ocean water. Poland has 55 cu km of renewable water. Two percent is used to support farming and 64% is for industrial purposes.
The nation's wildlife has also suffered from degeneration of its habitats. Ten mammal species were endangered. Six bird species and one type of plant are also threatened witlt esrtfection.
Seven out oftwertty-seven areas of ecological hazard are located in South Poland, close to the Silesia-Cracow region.This region is most affected by several
factors of both industrial and non-industrial origin. Air pollutants are of prime importance for the whole area.
Many of the mentioned contaminants create an appreciable threat to human health. Poor infrastructure, nervous stresses, ugly environments and other factors are potential additional threats to human health, causing civilizational diseases. The ecological awareness of most people is rather poor, and extremely weak within some social groups.
Thank you.
Environmental protection in Japan
Jan Leen
Environmental pollution in Japan has accompanied industrialization since the Meiji period, wide Anti-Nuclear Power Week Campaign.
Current Issues Waste management
Japan as of now has taken a much more proactive approach to waste management. In particular, Japanese city and prefectural authorities have focused on the reduction of solid waste going into landfills. This of course is in response to the lack of affordable space available for landfill sites. Their approach relies heavily on four major factors: 1) technological advancements in incineration, 2) technological advancements in plastics recycling, 3) Comprehensive production-side recycle stream package labelling, and 4) wide consumer-side/household participation in recycling and waste material separation ("bunbetsu"). Global warming
As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, and host of the 1997 conference which created it, Japan is under treaty obligations to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions level by 6% less than the level in 1990,M and to take other steps related to curbing climate change. Japan is the world's fifth biggest emission emitterm The Cool Biz campaign introduced under former Prime Minister of JapanJunichiro Koizumi was targeted at reducing energy use through the reduction of air conditioning use in government offices. Nuclear power
Japan maintains one third of its electric production from nuclear power plants. While a majority of Japanese citizens generally supported the use of existing nuclear reactors, since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Dai Ichi power plant
on March 11, 2011, this support seems to have shifted to a majority wanting Japan to phase out nuclear power. Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan was the first leading politician to openly voice his opposition to Japan's dependence upon nuclear energy and suggested a phasing out of nuclear energy sources towards other sources of renewable energy
Thank for your attention
Environmental pollution in Ukraine
For many centuries the people who lived on our planet before us had been trying to make their life easier and more comfortable. They thought that resources of the Earth were endless. They used those resources without thinking about the generation that come after them.
In the 20th century, the rapid growth of science and technology resulted in an increasing negative effect on the biosphere of the Earth.
Huge industrial enterprises pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land which gives us bread, vegetables and fruits.
Their discharge of dust and gas into the atmosphere returns to the Earth in the form of acid rains. It also destroys the ozone layer of the Earth and causes "greenhouse effect".