environmental issues

Lesson plans

customer making return of parcel and worker in protective gloves

What happens to our returns?

Vocabulary: returning a product, online shopping
Speaking: discussing reasons for returning products, holiday shopping, online shopping, return policies
Video: Returns day: How does it impact the environment?

B1 / B2

Business, Environment

3:00

devastation and collapsed buildings n an aftermath after an earthquake

Morocco earthquake

Vocabulary: earthquakes (tremor aftershock, collapse, warning signs, to be prone to, magnitude, death toll, devastating)
Video: Why Morocco’s earthquake was so deadly
Speaking: conversation questions, brainstorming

B1 / B2

Environment

6:07

How green are electric cars?

Vocabulary: electric vehicles and sustainability (life cycle analysis, a silver bullet, emission-free at the tailpipe, greenwashing, power grid)
Grammar: linking contrasting ideas (although, despite, in spite of, while, yet)
Speaking: conversation questions, debates, evaluating advantages and disadvantages

B2 / C1

Environment, Technology

5:00

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Heatwaves

Vocabulary: other ways to say “It’s very hot”
Functional language: talking about negative consequences
Speaking: conversation questions, brainstorming, creating an awareness campaign

B2 / C1

Environment

5:52

climate change drought with dead tree and a green tree on the side

Climate refugees

Vocabulary: migration and climate change
Grammar: the passive voice
Word formation: uninhabitable, displacement, unsustainable, humanitarian

B2 / C1

Environment, Social issues

4:00

Earth Day

Vocabulary: the environment (carbon footprint, renewable resources, endangered species)
Video: Gaylord Nelson and the origins of Earth Day
Grammar: first and second conditionals

B1 / B2

Environment

1:59

updated

Sunrise over the sea. The sea level is rising

Tackling rising sea levels

Vocabulary: environmental issues and natural disasters
Video: US coastal cities trying to hold back rising sea levels
Synonyms: deal with and run out of

B1 / B2

Environment

2:23

updated

Garbage sorting. Organic food waste from vegetable ready for recycling in compost bin on blue

Stop food waste

Collocations: food (unsold food, fussy eater, surplus food)
Video: Canadians get creative in solving food waste problem
Speaking: food waste questionnaire, conversation questions