Earth Day

Earth Day is a worldwide initiative to raise awareness and take action to help the environment. Here you can find a lesson plan for a speaking and listening class for B2 students, which discusses environmental issues based on some of the materials published on the website of earthday.org.

In this class students are likely to activate words like: climate
change, greenhouse effect, waste, pollution, overpopulation, ozone-layer
depletion, consumerism, extinction of endangered species, deforestation, destruction of habitats, nature reserves, breeding areas, conservationism, fossil fuels, renewable energy, non-renewable
sources of energy, harmful, toxic, overfishing, to raise awareness, water
management, landfills, solar panels, wind turbines, to tackle the
problem, threats to the environment. Whereas in the video "Plogging Paul" below, they will come across words like trash, plogger, windy (winding) roads, country lanes, bushes, to make the biggest impact, to create a ripple [effect], to start a conversation, to inspire.