MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dear students,

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

KYOTO PROTOCOL MECHANISMS

Copenhagen Climate Conference has just started!

The 15th United Nations Climate Conference has just started in Copenaghen.

Watch the short film broadcasted during the opening ceremony. The film shows a six-year old girl who has a nightmare about the destruction of the planet due to climate change. She wakes up and begs politicians to “please help the world”, in a touching scene on top of a skyscraper.



Follow the Conference on www.cop15.dk!

Grammar exercises for next week class test

Dear students of the 4th year,

below you find some links to exercises about the grammar topics you have to study for next week grammar test:

Zero conditional

Conditional sentences type I

Conditional sentences type I

Conditional sentences type II

Conditional sentences type II

Modal verbs of deduction

Modal verbs of deduction

LISTENING ACTIVITY 5: Vatican goes green

Click here to listen to the BBC report "Vatican goes green"
While listening answer the following questions:

1. What will they install on the roof of Nervi Hall?

2. How many acres does Vatican City include?

3. What will the new energy help doing?

4. Will Vatican skyline be destroyed?

5. Which goal does the Vatican want to reach by 2020?

6. What does Pope Benedict think about environmental problems?

Click here to get the script and check your answers.

LISTENING ACTIVITY 4: London set to ban plastic bags

Click here and listen to the report "London set to ban plastic bags".

While listening say if the following sentences are true or false (T/F):

a. London has banned all stores from giving plastic bags to shoppers T/F
b. People use around 1.6 billion plastic bags in London every year. T/F
c. It takes around 4,000 years for a plastic bag to decompose. T/F
d. London has no ambitions to be an example by banning plastic bags. T/F
e. London stores think banning plastic bags is not necessary. T/F
f. Retailers are still working to reduce the number of bags. T/F
g. Stores are worried people would buy fewer products with no bags. T/F
h. 19.2 percent of Londoners agreed with the plastic bag ban. T/F


Click here to get the script and check your answers.

Mind map: Greenpeace

Mind map of the text "Greenpeace" on page 42 of the book Directions.

Material for the next weeks 2

Dear students

click here to download and print the material for the next weeks.

We will start using it next Tuesday (IIIA) and next Thursday (IVA).

Thank you.

AUDIOVISUAL COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY: Africa sustainable energy

Dear students,

below you find the video on which we've worked this week in class.



By clicking here you can re-do the listening activity and check your answers.

LISTENING ACTIVITY 3: India to confront climate change

Click here and listen to the following BBC report talking about India's plan against the threat of climate change.


While listening answer the following questions:

1. What is the consequence of climate change on the environment according to Indian Prime Minister?

2. In his opinion, what are the solutions to avoid it?

3. How many Indian people does the climate change affect?

4. What’s Indian government plan to cut carbon emissions?

Then click here to get the full text of the report and check your answers.

LISTENING ACTIVITY 2: Katia's Green Concerns

Katia talks about some environmental problems and possible solutions for her country.
Listen to her and try to understand what she says by doing the test.

Click here to do the activity!

LISTENING ACTIVITY 1: What environmental problems does your country have?

Dear students,

I will publish a series of listening activities so thay you can start preparing yourself for the listening test we will do in class in the next weeks.

Follow this link.
Watch the video and do the quiz.

Good work!

Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of the area needed to support a population’s lifestyle. This includes the consumption of food, fuel, wood, and fibres. Pollution, such as carbon dioxide emissions, is also counted as part of the footprint.

Using this assessment, it is possible to estimate how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody lived a given lifestyle. For 2005, humanity's total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.3 planet Earths - in other words, humanity uses ecological services 1.3 times as fast as Earth can renew them.

Do the quiz and calculate your ecological footprint!

Mind maps: "Climate change" and "Climate change may destroy us"

Dear students,

below you find the mind maps of the two articles on pages 40-41 of the book "Directions".

1. Climate change




2. Climate change may destroy us



This is the summary of the 2nd article based on the mind map:

A report about climate change, commissioned by the Pentagon, predicts a global catastrophe: rise of sea levels, Siberian climate and drought are some of the natural disasters which will affect the planet. As a consequence, by 2020 shortage of water, of food, of energy supplies and famine will bring nuclear conflicts, riotings and wars across the world and they will cost millions of lives.

Remedial tests

Dear students of the 3rd year,

below you find the dates and the topics of the remedial tests:

1) Tuesday 17th November:
Present Perfect
Study of the pages 52-54-56 (Grammar book)
Study of the irregular verbs on page 402 until to hurt

2)Friday 20th November:
Present Perfect or Simple Past
Study of the pages 62-66 (Grammar book)
Study of the irregular verbs on page 402 until to run

3)Tuesday 24th November:
Comparatives and superlatives
Study of the pages 234-236-403 (Grammar book)
Study of the irregular verbs on page 402 until to stand

4)Friday 27th November:
Simple past or Past Continous
Study of the pages 46-48 (Grammar book)
Study of the irregular verbs on page 402 until the end (the entire verbs list)

CLIMATE CHANGE

This week we've started talking about our project:
SAVE THE 3E. ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND ECOLOGY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Below you find the video "Climate challenge" we've watched in class. The video has been produced by the British government to promote people's awareness about climate change and evironmental problems.



If you click here you will get the answers to the questionnaire "How green are you?" that we've done today.

Material for the next weeks

Dear students of the IIIrd year and the IVth year,

click here to download the material we will use for the next weeks during our lessons on climate change. Please print it and bring it to school.

Thank you.

Present Perfect

Dear students,

today we've revised the Present Perfect in class.
If you click here you will get the paper about the Present Perfect I've shown you.

Good work!

A tip for improving our pronunciation

Hi students!

Sometimes it happens that we don't know how to pronounce a word.
What can we do?
We can look it up into a Dictionary of English pronunciation.

Just digit the word and listen to the right way of pronuoncing it!

Next week grammar test

Are you ready for next week grammar test?

Below you can find some links with plenty of exercises in case you want to practice a little bit more

1) Simple Past

2) Present Perfect

3) Simple Past or Present Perfect?

4) Future with Will

5) Future with to be going to

6) Will or to be going to?

7) Comparative form and superlative form of adjectives

8) Can, could, be able to

9)Simple past or past progressive?

10) Prepositions of time and place

Welcome

Welcome to your new English blog!

Here you'll find the material we will use in class.

So you won't loose your way to English!

I will also post some links of useful websites to practice your English and deepen the topics we will discuss together.

Enjoy!