Teenage climate change activists - then and now
This lesson is a double bill featuring two teenage climate change activists - one from the present and one from the past.
The worksheet can be used over two separate lessons. You might also pick just one of the resources to inspire a discussion on climate change and climate activism, depending on your audience.
Even if you don't choose the podcast (which you can find by following the link to the NPR website), you might want to use the slogans from the Warm-up exercise to introduce the subject and set the mood for the rest fo the class.
For more prompts for the warm-up activity, you can show your class a google search result of images with even more slogans fromt the global climate strike (Sept. 20 - 27 2019). Young or mature, most students are likely to react more readily to such striking images.
As a follow-up activity, you could ask your learners to work in pairs and come up with some more catchy slogans that would comment on the actions of their own government.
The list of vocabulary on this worksheet is not exhaustive as my intention was to design a speaking lesson plan rather than distract students with vocab exercises which usually slow the pace of a class down.