Raise students’ awareness in protecting the environment through extra curicular english session about the climate change in vietnam

Group 2: The causes of climate change Group 3: The affects of climate change Group 4: The solution to protect the environment 1.2 Students:  Get the assignment  Work in groups at home

THE BRIEF OUTLINE

Initiative Experience

English Extracurricular session with the topic : “Raise students’ awareness in

protecting the environment through extra curicular English session about the climate change in Vietnam”

PART A: INTRODUCTION

1 Rationales.

English has played a vital role in society and made considerablecontribution to education, culture, science and technology The number of peoplelearning English for various purposes such as job, business, traveling,… iscontinually on the increase everyday

In our country, English has been regarded as the most important foreignlanguage nowadays, especially since the Vietnamese government carried out theopen door policy English has been taught for a long time in Vietnam andbecomes a compulsory subject However, the emphasis on transmission ofstructural rules and forms often serve as the principal method of teaching English

in Vietnamese schools Most of Vietnamese teachers tend to focus on teaching asmuch grammar and vocabulary as possible This can not do much for students toassure a successful communication in daily life

Therefore, to help my students both practice speaking skill and raise theawareness of protecting the environment, I have decided to organize an extra-

curricular session of English and choose: “Raise students’ awareness in protecting the environment through extra curicular English session about the climate change in Vietnam”as the theme for my study.

2 Aims of the study.

Each work has its own aims, so does this study The aims of my study are:

 To help students master English more and develop skills of group-work

 To help students raise students awareness of conserving the history

 To fulfill my career passion and improve my teaching skills

3 Limitation of the study.

In this study, I mostly concentrate on organising students’ activities to study theclimate change in Vietnam with four main events:

1 How has climate change affected Vietnam?

2 Some reasons cause the climate change

3 The consequences that might occur

4 Some possible solutions

4 The object of the study.

+ Class 11A2 consists of 46 students

+ The students’ awareness of protecting environment before and after theextra-curricular English session

5 Method of the study.

 Asking students gain the information about the climate change in VietNam and in the local where they are living

 Using analytic methods

 Observing and asking colleagues for ideas and experiences

 Practising the application of the study

Please answer the following questions honestly, thank you so much!

Question1 Which of the following statements about pollutant are true:

A The climate change only harmful for humans

B The climate change alter the environment in a negative way

C The climate change refer specifically to toxic inorganic substances made byhumans

D The climate change affected directly to develope the economy and the people’ the heath in over the world and Viet Nam

Question2 The following are the climate change, with one except Choose theexception:

A the global warming

B the global colding

C help develop the economy greatly

D pipe discharging waste from a manufacturing plant

Question4 The climate change affects to?

A human health

B animals

C plants

46 0 7 14 21 3 0 1

 Divides the class into 4 groups.:

1 Group 1(12 students From 1 to 12 in the list of the class)

Leader : LE THI BICH THUY Vice: TRAN DUC HIEP

2 Group 2(12 students From 13 to 24 in the list of the class)

Leader : LE THI THUY Vice: NGUYEN NGOC MINH

3 Group 3(11 students From 25 to 35 in the list of the class)

Leader : LE THU HA Vice: TRINH QUY PHAT

4 Group 4(11 students From 36 to 46 in the list of the class)

Leader : LE THI THU Vice: MAI HAI NAM

 States the assignment obviously

Group 1: What is the climate change?

Group 2: The causes of climate change

Group 3: The affects of climate change

Group 4: The solution to protect the environment

1.2 Students:

 Get the assignment

 Work in groups at home or during the break at school to search for theinformation needed

 Exchange and make a complete report

 Prepare 5 questions to ask other groups in the coming session

2 Procedure:

2.1 Warm- up:

Teacher introduce about the topic of extra-curricular session: The air pollution

- Teacher shows four questions that related to the environment and gave to thestudents to prepare at home

- Teacher calls leader of each group to answer

- Teacher gives feedback and comment

- Teacher leads to topic and announces the extra- curricular session starts

2.2 Presentation.

The representative of each group will present what they have collected in front ofthe class and the rest listen to them carefully

2.2.1 Group 1 Presenter: LE THI BICH THUY

The content: The definition of the climate change

LE THI BICH THUY: First, I present the definition of climate change

Climate change describes a change in the average conditions — such as

temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time NASA

scientists have observed Earth’s surface is warming, and many of the warmest years on record have happened in the past 20 years

Weather describes the conditions outside right now in a specific place For

example, if you see that it’s raining outside right now, that’s a way to describe today’s weather Rain, snow, wind, hurricanes, tornadoes — these are all weatherevents

Climate, on the other hand, is more than just one or two rainy days Climate

describes the weather conditions that are expected in a region at a particular time

of year

Is it usually rainy or usually dry? Is it typically hot or typically cold? A region’s climate is determined by observing its weather over a period of many years—generally 30 years or more

So, for example, one or two weeks of rainy weather wouldn’t change the fact that Phoenix typically has a dry, desert climate Even though it’s rainy right now,

we still expect Phoenix to be dry because that's what is usually the case

Picture1: The definition of the climate change

Climate change describes a change in the average conditions — such as

temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time For example, 20,000 years ago, much of the United States was covered in glaciers In the

United States today, we have a warmer climate and fewer glaciers

Global climate change refers to the average long-term changes over the entire Earth These include warming temperatures and changes in precipitation, as well

as the effects of Earth’s warming, such as:

 Rising sea levels

 Shrinking mountain glaciers

 Ice melting at a faster rate than usual in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic

 Changes in flower and plant blooming times

Earth’s climate has constantly been changing — even long before humans came into the picture However, scientists have observed unusual changes recently Forexample, Earth’s average temperature has been increasing much more quickly than they would expect over the past 150 years

Picture 2: Alaska's Muir glacier in August 1941 and August 2004 Significant

changes occurred in the 63 years between these two photos Credit: USGS

2.2.2 Group 2 Presenter: LE THI THUY

The content: The causes of the climate change

Human activity is the main cause of climate change People burn fossil fuels and convert land from forests to agriculture Since the beginning of the

Industrial Revolution, people have burned more and more fossil fuels and

changed vast areas of land from forests to farmland

Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas It is called

a greenhouse gas because it produces a “greenhouse effect” The greenhouse effect makes the earth warmer, just as a greenhouse is warmer than its

surroundings

Carbon dioxide is the main cause of human-induced climate change

It stays in the atmosphere for a very long time Other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide, stay in the atmosphere for a long time Other substances only produce short-term effects

Not all substances produce warming Some, like certain aerosols, can produce cooling

Picture 3: The causes of the climate change

There are three positions on global warming:

(1) that global warming is not occurring and so neither is climate change

(2) that global warming and climate change are occurring, but these are natural, cyclic events unrelated to human activity

(3) that global warming is occurring as a result primarily of human activity and

so climate change is also the result of human activity

The claim that nothing is happening is very hard to defend in the face or masses of visual, land-based and satellite data that clearly shows rising average sea and land temperatures and shrinking ice masses

The claim that the observed global warming is natural or at least not the result of human carbon emissions (see Climate Skeptics below) focuses on data that shows that world temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels have been

equally high or higher in the past They also point to the well understood effects

of solar activity on the amount of radiation striking the earth and the fact that in recent times the sun has been particularly active

In general, climate scientists and environmentalists either (1) dispute the data based on, for example, new ice core data or (2) suggest that the timing issue – that is, the rapidity with which the globe has warmed and the climate changed simply do not fit the model of previous natural events They note also that

compared to other stars the sun is actually very stable, varying in energy output

by just 0.1% and over a relatively short cycle of 11 to 50 years quite unrelated to global warming as a whole The data strongly suggests that solar activity affects the global climate in many important ways, but is not a factor in the systemic change over time that we call global warming

2.2.3 Group 3 Presenter: LE THU HA

The content: The effects of global warming

The impact that global warming is causing on earth is extremely serious There aremany hazardous effects that will happen in the future if global warming continues

It includes melting of polar ice caps, leading to an increase in sea level drowningcoastlines and slowly submerging continents

Recent studies by National Snow and Ice Datacenter “if the ice melted todaythe seas would rise about 230 feet” Another effect is climate change leading to theextinction of various species More hurricanes, cyclonic storms, heat waves,drought, and extreme rainfalls will occur causing disaster to humankind

The effects of global warming or climate damage include far-reaching and lasting changes to the natural environment, to ecosystems and human societies caused directly or indirectly by human emissions of greenhouse gases It also includes the economic and social changes which stem from living in a warmer world Human caused climate change is one of the threats to sustainability

long-2.2.3.1: Effects on weather

The main impact of global warming on the weather is an increase in extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, cyclones, blizzards and rainstorms

Of the 20 costliest climate and weather disasters that have occurred in the United States since 1980, eight have taken place since 2010, four of these in 2017

alone.Such events will continue to occur more often and with greater

intensity.Episodes of intense precipitation contribute to flooding, soil erosion, landslides, and damage to structures and crops

2.2.3.2: Effects On land

Flooding

Warmer air holds more water vapor When this turns to rain, it tends to come in heavy downpours potentially leading to more floods A 2017 study found that peak precipitation is increasing between 5 and 10% for every one degree Celsius increase.In the United States and many other parts of the world there has been a marked increase in intense rainfall events which have resulted in more severe flooding Estimates of the number of people at risk of coastal

flooding from climate-driven sea-level rise varies from 190 million,to 300

million or even 640 million in a worst-case scenario related to the instability of the Antarctic ice sheet

Wildfires

Prolonged periods of warmer temperatures typically cause soil

and underbrush to be drier for longer periods, increasing the risk of wildfires Hot, dry conditions increase the likelihood that wildfires will be more intense andburn for longer once they start.Global warming has increased summertime air temperatures in California by over 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit such that the fire

season (the time before the winter rains dampen the vegetation) has lengthened

by 75 days over previous decades As a result, since the 1980s, both the size and ferocity of fires in California have increased dramatically Since the 1970s, the size of the area burned has increased fivefold while fifteen of the 20 largest fires

in California have occurred since 2000

In Australia, the annual number of hot days (above 35°C) and very hot days (above 40°C) has increased significantly in many areas of the country since

1950 The country has always had bushfires but in 2019, the extent and ferocity

of these fires increased dramatically.For the first time catastrophic bushfire

conditions were declared for Greater Sydney New South Wales and Queensland declared a state of emergency but fires were also burning in South Australia and Western Australia

Global warming is projected to have a number of effects on the oceans Ongoing effects include rising sea levels due to thermal expansion and melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and warming of the ocean surface, leading to increased

temperature stratification.Other possible effects include large-scale changes in ocean circulation The oceans also serve as a sink for carbon dioxide, taking up much that would otherwise remain in the atmosphere, but increased levels

of CO2 have led to ocean acidification Furthermore, as the temperature of the oceans increases, they become less able to absorb excess CO2

The oceans have also acted as a sink in absorbing extra heat from the atmosphere

Picture 4: Global ocean heat content from 1955–2019

Picture 5: The effects of the global warmin g on ocean

2.2.3.3: Effects On health

Humans are exposed to climate change through changing weather patterns

(temperature, precipitation, sea-level rise and more frequent extreme events) and indirectly through changes in water, air and food quality and changes in

ecosystems, agriculture, industry and settlements and the economy.Air pollution, wildfires, and heat waves caused by global warming have significantly affected human health,and in 2007, the World Health Organization estimated 150,000 people were being killed by climate-change-related issues every year

A study by the World Health Organization concluded that climate change was responsible for 3% of diarrhoea, 3% of malaria, and 3.8% of dengue fever deaths worldwide in 2004 Total attributable mortality was about 0.2% of deaths in 2004; of these, 85% were child deaths The effects of more frequent and extreme storms were excluded from this study

Picture 6: Effects of global warming on human health

2.2.3.4 : Effects on Economic impact

Economic forecasts of the impact of global warming vary considerably Researchers have warned that current economic modelling may seriously

underestimate the impact of potentially catastrophic climate change, and point to the need for new models that give a more accurate picture of potential damages Nevertheless, one recent study has found that potential global economic gains if countries implement mitigation strategies to comply with the 2°C target set at the Paris Agreement are in the vicinity of US$17 trillion per year up to 2100

compared to a very high emission scenario