Unit 9: Preserving the environment

+ ……… are the biggest threats to the environment in our neighbourhood. + In our neighbourhood, the most serious[r]

Look at the following

pictures and tell what are the pictures about ?

WARM UP

The environment

Watch a video and take note

Human beings’ actions

+ Killing animals for fur, food and entertainment.

Environmental impacts + Cutting down forest – deforestation.

What should we do now? Preserve the Environment

UNIT 9

PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT

Getting started

( Environmental impacts)

Activity 1 Listen and answer

1 What’s Nam doing?

2 What are Nam and his father talking

about?

 Nam is writing a letter to give some

advice on environmental preservation.

 Nam and his father are talking about

environmental impacts.

Put the tick in the right column.

Words / phrases Nam’s saying his father’s saying

Activity 2 Vocabulary Pollution (n)

Sự ô nhiễm

Air pollution

polar ice melting (np)

Sự tan chảy băng

greenhouse effect (np) Hiệu ứng nhà kính

fossil fuels (np)

Nhiên liệu hóa thạch

Deforestation (n)

Sự phá rừng

global warming (np)

Sự nóng lên toàn cầu

Vocabulary :

1.polar ice melting(n): 7 depletion (n):

/'poulə ais 'meltiɳ/: sự tan băng / di’pli:ʃn /

2.deforestation (n): hao mòn, cạn kiệt

/di,fɔris'teiʃn/: sự phá rừng 8 editor (n): 3.fossil fuels (n) / ‘editə/

/ 'fɔsl fjuəl/: nhiên liệu hóa thạch ban biên tập

Answer the questions (From 1 to 5)

Work individually

Activity 3

1 What is Nam doing for the school newsletter?

2 What did the editor ask Nam to write about?

3 What does ‘environmental impact’ mean?

4 Why is Nam interested in environmental impacts?

5 Name the threats to the environment mentioned

in the conversation.

Play game: Magic hand

4

3

Question 1

1.He is writing a letter

for the school

Question 2

2 The editor asked Nam to

write some practical

advice on environmental preservation.

1 .

Question 4

4 Because he thinks if we

can see the impacts on the

natural environment, we will know how to protect it.

1

Question 5

5 They are deforestation, pollution, global warning, fuel depletion, polar ice

melting and the rise of sea levels.

1

Magic hand

Activity 4 DISCUSSION

work in 4 groups Look at the pictures and discuss

“What are the biggest threats to the environment in your neighborhood” ?

GROUP 1

GROUP 2

GROUP 3

GROUP 4

Useful expressions

+ The biggest threats to the environment in

our neighbourhood are ……….

+ ……… are the biggest threats

to the environment in our neighbourhood.

+ In our neighbourhood, the most serious

problems with the environment are …………

………

- There is a lot of smoke from the factory and

vehicles

- Land is too dry to do farming

- People use too much pesticides

- Rubbish is so much on two sides of the river

SOLUTIONS ???

PROBLEMS

- Many animals are killed for food, fur…

- Polar ice is melting

- Many trees are cut down to supply paper,

wood.

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

………

2 “ Give some practical advice to

Reported speech

statement

command

Homework:

- Learn the vocabulary by heart

- Write a short paragraph to