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.