Climate Change

Session four

Aim: This lecture aims at developing students' knowledge about climate change 

Objective: students will possess vocabulary related to the topic through listening as they will be able to discuss and do different activities. They will also improve their writing skills.

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  • Pre-Listening: answer the following questions

    1-What is the difference between ‘weather’ and ‘climate change’?
    2-How do we say ‘we tackle climate change’?
    3-How to say ‘decrease temperature’? 
    4-What does CO2 do? How does it affect the temperature? 
    5-How can cutting down trees affect the atmosphere?
    6-What are renewable energies? 

  • While-listening: listen to the video and take notes, compare your notes in pairs.

  •  Activity 1: Listen  and answer the following questions
    1-When did the CO2 begin to change?
    2-What are the reasons leading to climate change?
    3-How high is our planet’s temperature now? 
    4-When did the experts expect the planet temperature to become 1.5 degrees?

    Activity Two: Explain the words in the table:

    Words

    Meaning

    Climate crisis

     

    CO2

     

    Greenhouse Effect

     

    Activity Three:  Listen  and discuss what catastrophes can occur due climate change?

  • Post listening: 

    •  After discussing the topic of Climate change and listening to the video, it's your turn to summarize the reasons that lead to climate change using the different vocabulary learnt in this session.