Lesson project

Class: XII
Prospects Advanced
Teacher:
School: Liceul Ioan Buteanu Gurahont
Title of lesson: Disappearing World
Topic: the environment
Time: 50 minutes
Materials: whiteboard and pens, laptop, students book,
Aims: -

to enrich vocabulary on the topic

to express opinions on the topic

to use time expressions and Past Continuous Tense

Activity 1
Warm-up
10 minutes
The students are asked to say what they think is disappearing from our world.
The students look at the image in their books which depicts planet Earth. It is an
image from outer space taken from the Apollo spaceship. What makes our planet so
unique?
The students brainstorm adjectives related to the image and write these words on
the white board. The words are written on two columns positive and negative
adjectives.
Activity 2
Reading
20 minutes
The students read an advertisement from Greenpeace, the international
environmental organization. The text paints a grim picture of the way humans have
mistreated the planet. The text is read out loud and the unknown words are explained by
the teacher.

Activity 3
Comprehension
10 minutes
There are three questions in exercise 2c. which need answering. The students are
asked to work in pairs and try to find an answer which they then share with the class.
Possible answers would be that:
- human-like apes used tools and started building primitive living spaces and apelike humans discovered fire and used basic sounds for communication;
- humans have destroyed the crown jewel of our solar system;
- it shows how little time it has taken man to cause so much destruction to the
planet.
Activity 4
5 minutes
The students are asked to do a memory exercise and remember what they were
doing at certain moments in the past. They use the time expressions highlighted in the
text. They take turns to answer using the past continuous tense.
Eg. What were you doing one year ago? I was taking my driving exam.
Activity 5
5 minutes
The teacher shows the students a few posters of the Greenpeace organization
which have environmental message and a strong visual impact and the students say what
they find more interesting and meaningful.
Homework
The students are asked to think about how the world has changed during the last
100 years and imagine how it will look like 100 years from now.