Topics for April
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ArticleSocietal and Governmental Priorities: Secondary (B1)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme
This lesson can help your students recognize that societal and governmental priorities exist and that they can be questioned.
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LessonCLIL: Geography—Deserts and Rainforests
Talk with your students about the Amazon rainforest and Sahara desert ecosystems with this CLIL lesson.
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ArticleCritical Issues: Adult (B2)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme
This lesson can help your students question social or governmental priorities and advocate personal viewpoint.
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LessonTopics: Environment
Students are introduced to the topic of the environment in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary. ...
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Warmer/FillerCurrent Themes: Unsustainable Tourism
Use this handy worksheet to get your students talking about the harmful effects of mass tourism.
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ArticleThe Earth: Air and water
A lesson plan to teach pupils about the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.
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Lesson‘Tastes like water’: how a US facility is recycling sewage to drink
Read about a California project that turns sewage into drinking water in less than an hour and could be a blueprint for other water-scarce regions.
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ArticleHow Oil and Gas were Formed
Students learn how oil and gas were formed over two million years ago.
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ArticleEnvironment: 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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ArticleGlobal Institutions: Secondary (A2)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme
This lesson can help your students evaluate critical perspectives of global institutions.
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ArticleEnergy animations
Bring science and geography to life through these animations which teach students aged 7 to 14 about the energy that powers everything from their computer to the bus that transports them to school.
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LessonDitch the balloons and swap the plastic toys for cake: how to have a waste-free birthday party
Read about what we can do to make parties more sustainable.
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LessonCelebrations: April Fool’s Day
Prank your students this April Fool’s Day while they practise geography-related vocabulary with this text about a fake dream island.
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LessonCelebrations: Easter
Introduce your students to interesting facts and new vocabulary about Easter, Easter eggs, and the Easter Bunny.