This lesson aims to practise listening skills and introduce new vocabulary, as well as enhance students’ environmental literacy.
All the questions in the pre-listening exercise include key vocabulary from the video that students will watch later on.
The link at the top of the worksheet will take you to a news report that covers several different stories, while the lesson plan deals with just one of them. The clip in question starts at 3 mins 3 secs and stops at 6 mins 8 secs.
You can first have your students watch the full 3-minute clip and listen for the gist. Encourage students to tell you what they’ve understood, or – with higher-level students – to answer the questions in task II before they watch the report for the second time.
The timings that correspond to the instructions in each task are given in square brackets.