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The Outline of the Lesson “The Future of Our Planet. Solving Environmental Problems”

conducted in the 11^th form

Topic: The Future of Our Planet. Solving Environmental Problems

Objectives:

• to extend students’ understanding of lexis on environmental issues;

• to develop students’ speaking skills;

• to review 4 ways of talking about the future;

• to help students choose the most appropriate future tense.

Materials: a course book Upstream Upper-intermediate, worksheets, cards with the sentences, a video.

Procedure

1. Warming up:

1. Introduction (announcing the topic and listing the objectives)

2. Group discussion about the future of our planet The teacher writes these statements on the blackboard: a) will happen in the next 50 years? b) could happen? c) won’t happen? The Students are given the worksheets with these sentences:

1) Most cars will be electric.

2) Nuclear Energy will end.

3) Alternative energy will be more important than oil.

4) You will recycle all your bags, cans and paper.

5) Almost all the rainforests will disappear.

6) People will continue to sunbathe.

7) The climate will get worse.

8) The next generation will care more about the environment than the present.

9) In elections “Green Issues” will become more important than any other.

10) People will destroy the earth.

Each student has to match his/her sentence with a-c and support their opinion by providing examples and giving the reasons. Other students can disagree and express their opinions so that the discussion can continue.

2. Following-up:

1. Vocabulary exercise (Workbook, page 84, Ex.2) Students revise the pre-taught lexis and focus on the difference between synonyms. Students’ task is to fill in the gaps and give the definition of words in bold.

2. Grammar exercises Students are given several minutes to discuss the following points in pairs:

· Your arrangements for this evening

· Your intentions for the rest of the year

· Your predictions for the planet for 2020

Meanwhile, the teacher draws a simple diagram on the board representing the four main forms of the future that the students are familiar with. These are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, will + infinitive, going to + infinitive. The students are given the second worksheet:

Timetabled events, e.g. TV programme or train departure

Personal arrangements

Predictions (when you can see the evidence)

Predictions (based on no evidence)

General future intentions (not arranged)

Decisions made at the time of speaking

Promises

Decisions already made

Offers, refusals

The task is to fill in the diagram with these rules. Each student has to support his/her answer with the example. Now students can check if they were using the right tense while they were discussing the ideas suggested by the teacher. To check students’ progress the teacher asks students to speak about their partner’s ideas as to these points:

Your arrangements for this evening

Your intentions for the rest of the year

Your predictions for the planet for 2020.

3. Rounding-off

1. Summary of the lesson.

2. Hometask: to do tasks 1, 2, 3 (Student’s Book, page 168)

3. Assessment

• participation in the discussion,

• students' understanding of vocabulary and grammar in class,

• attention in class,

• correct use of grammar rules.

Вчитель англійської мови /Костюкова Л.З./