Topic: Save Animals, Save Wildlife, Save Our Planet.

Main objectives:

By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

use the vocabulary on the topic “environmental behaviour” e.g. recycle your

rubbish, eat a healthy balanced diet, avoid using plastic bags, recycle all you can,

use energy saving light bulbs, insulate your home, cut your emissions, use only

the water you need, use biodegradable products, don’t waste energy, turn off

what you don’t need to formulate the rules of environmentally friendly behaviour.

Supplementary objectives:

By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

practice their listening skills for following the instructions and understanding

detailed information for further discussion;

involve critical thinking skills to complete the task;

cooperate working in pairs or groups.

Materials: laptop/ TV, HOs (headings, words for the board game “We’d rather”, charts

for the “onion rings” activity, tasks for the activity “Six Thinking Hats”)

Procedure:

Greeting

Warm up

Name the words you think about when you hear the word “planet”.

E.g.

P1: stars; P2: water P3: people

Lead in

Work in pairs/groups

Read some words from the title of the cartoon “…Save the Planet” and predict what it

might be about. Arrange your ideas into a mind map.

Main Body

Work in pairs

1. Watch the cartoon and complete the title. Say if any of your predictions were

right. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83wINVmrRkA )

2. Watch the cartoon again and choose the correct heading for every episode (HO1)

E.g. Avoid using plastic bags.

3. Match the parts of the sentences. (HO2)

Work in groups

4. Think and write a list of questions about what your group mates do to help the

planet.

E.g . Do you use biodegradable products?

Do you avoid using plastic bags?

Do you follow a healthy balanced diet?

5. Do the “onion rings” activity to get to know the answers for the questions you

have prepared. (Follow the procedure HO3)

E.g. P1 Do you use biodegradable products?

P2 No, I don’t. Do you avoid using plastic bags?

P1 Yes, I do.

6. Discuss your findings in a group and play the board game “We’d rather…” to

make suggestions about what you can do to help the environment.

E.g. We’d rather (Recycle all we can/Use energy saving light bulbs/Insulate our

home/Cut emissions/Use only the water we need.)

7. Choose one hat on the table. The colour of the hat signals the direction of thinking

you need to follow to discuss the issue in a group. Choose the topic for

discussion from HO1. Use prompts from the worksheet to arrange your ideas

about the subject matter according to the colour of your hat. (HO4)

8. Do the project “Do” and “Don’t”. Discuss in a group and write on the poster

paper all the DOs and DON’Ts of your environmental behavior.

E.g.

9. Get ready for the group presentation of your project.

Home Assignment. Take pictures of you and your family members following the rules

of environmentally friendly behavior and introduce them in class.

Feedback (HO5)

1. How interesting were the activities done at the lesson?

Not interesting

Interesting

Very interesting

2. How useful for the future generations the issues discussed might be?

Not useful

Useful

Very useful

3. I would also like to learn my friends’ opinion and ideas about such

environmental issues as:

Using cars and public transport in my village

Recycling in their homes

Healthy eating in their families

Other

Appendix

HO1 Choose the correct heading for every episode of the cartoon

Recycle your rubbish.

Eat a healthy balanced diet

Avoid using plastic bags

Recycle all you can

Use energy saving light bulbs

Insulate your home

Cut your emissions

Use only the water you need

Use biodegradable products

Don’t waste energy

Turn off what you don’t need

HO2 Match parts of the sentences

1. Recycle a) your home

2. Eat a healthy b) the water you need

3. Avoid c) products

4. Recycle all d) energy

5. Use energy e) emissions

6. Insulate f) you can

7. Cut your g) balanced diet

8. Use only h) using plastic bags

9. Use biodegradable i) you don’t need

10. Don’t waste j) your rubbish

11. Turn off what k) saving bulbs

HO3. “Onion Rings” (Activity Description)

(http://courses.britishcouncil.org/teachertraining/mod/page/view.php?id=2755)

1. Make sure you have enough space for this - you could do it outside

2. Divide the class into two

3. One half stands in a circle facing outwards; the other half stands in a larger circle

around them facing inwards. Each learner should be opposite another learner

4. Tell them they have 2-3 minutes to ask and answer as many questions as possible

5. Tell the outer circle to move onto the next learner

6. Stop when they've come ‘full circle’

7. This can be used for any functional language and for practising any language in a

more interesting way

HO4. “Six Thinking Hats”.