Environmental Problems

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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

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What do you know about Greta Thunberg?

Slide 1 - Mind map

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What do you know about
Environment/ Climate change

Slide 2 - Mind map

AIMS
After this lesson you should 
- know the meaning of the following words:
 pollution – global warming – waste –   smog –  – greenhouse effect –protect the environment – fossil fuels- reduce carbon emission
- know Greta Thunberg
- do assignment 30 together 
- be ready to do WASP 32, 33, 34 
- practise listening and reading skills

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Slide 4 - Video

1. Who are the characters in this story?

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plastic
B
three plastic bottles

Slide 5 - Quiz

2. Plastic is made of _____________.

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pellets
B
oil and gas

Slide 6 - Quiz

3. How much plastic ends up in landfills?

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all of it
B
hundreds of millions of tons

Slide 7 - Quiz

4. Rainwater flows through the waste and absorbs toxic compounds. The toxic water is called leachate, and it _____________________.

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evaporates
B
can move into groundwater, soil and streams, poisoning ecosystems and harming wildlife

Slide 8 - Quiz

5. How long can it take for a bottle to decompose?)
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100 years
B
1000 years

Slide 9 - Quiz

6. What is the name of the massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean?

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The Pacific Garbage Patch
B
The Pacific Trash Gyre

Slide 10 - Quiz

How many plastic-filled trash vortexes, or gyres, are there in the world's seas?

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one
B
five

Slide 11 - Quiz

8. Why do the animals eat the plastic?

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They think it's food.
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Because they are starving.

Slide 12 - Quiz

9. Do most plastics biodegrade?

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Yes, they do.
B
No, they don't.

Slide 13 - Quiz

10. Bottle number three is _____________.

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in the Pacific Garbage Patch
B
recycled

Slide 14 - Quiz

Wasp assignment 30 
Watch the following video.
While watching: What points does Greta Thunberg address in her speech? make a list. 

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Slide 16 - Video

Assignment 30.1
What point does Greta Thunberg address in her speech? Make a list.
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Slide 17 - Open question

Assignment 30.2.
Thunberg is a controversial figure: some people seem to love her, while others can stand her. Why do you think this is?
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Slide 18 - Open question

Homework
Do assignment 32, 33, 34.
On ELO you will find an answer sheet.

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Getting ready for your test
Learn: Glossary p. 29-30 
Learn: assignments 2B, 5AB, 6, 7, 10, 13AB, 19A, 19B, 20, 21, 32A, 32B
Practice: VMBO GL/TL reading exam texts HERE
Practice: Adjectives and adverbs HERE
Practice: The gerund HERE

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