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[waynehead]

I work at a high school, so this would be with fairly large classes (~30-35) of intermediate students. I teach lessons from the book and then plan my own activities, and most of the time good ideas just leap from the page, but I can't really come up with anything interesting this time around. Any/all help/ideas appreciated.

[caribmon]

You should show them the chart that shows the earth temperature going down for 800 years and then the proposals from Goldman Sachs about carbon taxes going directly to the bankers and monitoring your breathing rate and use of natural gas in your home. They'll shut off your house when you don't pay your carbon taxes while Al Gore lives in a mansion and drives Hummers.

[rollo]

Try teaching some vocabulary related to global warming. If you can get photos of pollution give them a rough idea of what you are talking about. They may not have the language skills to understand the science.

[SpiralStaircase]

I've had a lesson on GW every year. Students aren't particularly fond of the topic (kind of bland) but have a lot of fun with the assignments. I have sometimes involved extreme weather with this topic. Things Koreans don't see too much of: Tornados, hail, avalanches, freezing rain, Ice Storm '98!!!

Usually take a mythbusters slant on the subject. Groups are asked to write one fact and one myth. I select the best ones and the class is tested (true or false).

Be sure to add some crazy myths to the pile to spice things up. I usually take them from movies (Day after Tomorrow, the Core, 2012...)

Good luck.

[ttompatz]

[PigeonFart]

Divide your presentation up into parts;

1. What is global warming? (show evidence, pics of receding icecaps etc)

2. What is the cause? (burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide. This gas causes the 'greenhouse effect')

3. What are the effects? (flooding, drought, more storms, sea level rise)

4. What can people do to stop it? (recycle, use renewable sources of energy, deforestation, etc)

Do a powerpoint presentation (with relevant vocabulary and lots of pictures). It will take many hours/days to make, but you can then show it to different classes.

After your 10 or 15 minute interactive presentation, give them some paperwork where they have to match the pictures to the vocabulary.

Then divide them into groups and make each group come up with more solutions to reduce global warming (ride bikes, air dry clothes, turn down heat, turn off lights, etc).

[le-paul]

2 teams/groups

give each group information on a subject related to the environment (pros and cons - example building new runways).
let them prepare their arguments and then set them against each other. award points for good sentences, points, good counter arguments etc.
tried and tested.

[ddeubel]

Geog. at the movies has some video - http://www.gatm.org.uk/

I think it always cool to show students the sunlight map. Live view of the world. http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html

I have a lot of stuff on the World page of EFL Classroom under RESOURCES.

Also, two films of note. Earth - The Pale Blue Dot on vimeo and HOME on youtube....

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[waynehead]

Thanks for the ideas everyone!

[guava]