Language Feature: Vocabulary for Water and Environment

  • Photo of to illustrate the concept of recycling or of sustainable environment.
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    Environment

    These wordlists help students learn the meaning of useful words such as biodegradable and non-renewable, and demonstrates how to use them in a sentence.

  • Photo of a natural disaster: flood, hurricane, etc.
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    Environment: Natural disasters

    In this lesson plan, students unjumble words to reveal four natural disasters before listening to information on hurricanes and floods. Comprehension questions focus on the what, why, where and when. A follow-up activity asks students to match vocabulary such as ’drown’, ’evaporate’, disrupt’ and ’blow down’ to their definitions.

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    The Earth: Air and water

    A lesson plan to teach pupils about the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.

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    Introducing ecosystems

    A comprehensive set of resources about ecosystems, introducing habitats and environments, as well as examining the food chains and food webs within an ecosystem. Each reading text is followed by a variety of vocabulary and speaking activities that build students’ knowledge of the subject and confidence with ecosystems terminology. Extra ...

  • Photo to illustrate the water cycle.
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    The water cycle

    This lesson plan uses pictures and activities to teach the stages of the water cycle and related vocabulary words.

  • Photo of different weathers or seasons. If it's too hard to have one with more than one season, than just a photo of one season or one type of weather.
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    The Weather And The Four Seasons

    A lesson plan for pupils to use the present continuous to describe the weather and practise vocabulary for the months, the seasons and clothes.

  • Photo of extreme weather (thunderstorm, blizzard, etc.)
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    Weather and Climate

    Over two hundred weather and climate words from ‘affect’ to ‘wispy’! Definitions and contextual sentences in clear English provide a very useful record of essential vocabulary for you and your students.

  • Photo of animals in the ocean.
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    Underneath the Sea

    A song video and interactive games on the topic of the ocean.

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    Fun Fillers: Cute Traces!

    Get your students to relax while practicing tracing with these cute drawings.

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    Playtime!: Guessing Game

    Have your students practice Yes / No questions with this fun guessing game.