LESSON PLAN: 1rst E.S.

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UNIT: 4 Short oral project: RECYCLING

CONCEPTS/ TOPICS TO TEACH: Recycling vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading

and writing about do’s and don’ts to help our world.
GENERAL GOAL: To create a communicative atmosphere so that the students feel they
can participate with easy activities. To introduce new vocabulary, to make them
participate with everyday recycling habits.
SPECIFIC AIMS:
-To consolidate previous recycling and amplify new vocabulary.
-To make them understand the audiovisual listening, there will be a subtitles for them to
make it easier
-To read a text that deals about: Bottles, Eating out, Shopping, paper, plastics, at school,
roads, at home in pairs. Each pair will work one item.
-Most students will be able to produce a poster or leaflet on their topic.
-All students will be able to make simple sentences. Teachers will record them and they
will analyze their oral skills.

REQUIRED MATERIALS: Blackboard, beam projector, internet ( youtube), camera,

dictionaries, recycling worksheet, cards, colours….
Adaptation (For Students With Learning Disabilities):
Some of my students aren’t able to follow the lesson either because they have hard
learning disabilities or because they have never started leaning English. They will be
responsible of the drawings when making the poster. They are asked to learn new
vocabulary but they cannot produce an oral task yet. Although the reading is adapted
and they can read the easiest texts.

Extension (For Gifted Students): Oral extension.

Step-By-Step Procedures: (Teacher notes).

-This task is thought for a class of 20 students, it will last 3 or 4 sessions.

First session:
1- Warmer/ intro.
Explain “litter” and “rubbish” in mother tongue. (Trash and garbage in USA).
2. What is litter? Write the definition on the blackboard.
Students think of examples: use of dictionaries.
 If there are no ideas put this question in context: What litter do you produce at
school?
3-Where does it come from?
Students write ideas. Brainstorm.
Share ideas in groups. Write them down. Draw pictures.
4. What happens to litter? What do you think?
5. Give out sheet. Work on new vocabulary.
Read the text, put the ideas students had and those of the reading together.
Adapted from Thompson Yardley of lazy Summer Books Ltd. Images from Google.

What is litter?
Litter is almost any sort of rubbish which has been carelessly throw away. Most
of it empty or half-empty packaging.

Where does litter come from?

Shops and fast food restaurants sell most of the packaging which careless
people throw away . DO YOU ALWAYS put your bus tickets into a litter bin?
Everybody causes a small amount of litter now and again. Even trees causes
litter…
(BUT leaf litter is broken up by bacteria and fungi and helps to make new soil.)

What happens to litter?

1- Some litter blows about for years .
2- Litter dumped in rivers or the sea may float about for years.
3- Street litter is usually swept up and taken away after a few days by street
cleaners.
4- Some litter is put into litter bins and taken away by council rubbish
collectors.
5- Collected litter is usually buried, dumped or burned. Carelessly burned
rubbish produces poisonous gases which pollute the air.
Second session:

1. Remind the students a little bit what they did last session.
2. Tell them that some years ago there were some students who were really
worried about the environment. And one of them made a speech.
3. “Severn Susuki…(español) la niña que silenció al mundo por 6:32 min”
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=DLV6jaZFLro&feature=related

If you need further information about this girl that now is a woman there is
plenty in Internet.

4. Student will be astonished for 6 minutes but after watching the video
twice there will be a real discussion about the topic. Link this to the new
task of the project:
5. What can we do to help our world?
6. Divide students in groups of three , maximum four…organize your class
and take into account weak learners and gifted learners.
7. Give them the reading sheet and dictionaries. Each group work one of
these topics:
-Bottles, eating out, shopping, paper, plastics, at school, roads, home.

8. After working the vocabulary, give an example of do’s and don’ts.

Alternatively must or mustn’t.

Do ‘s Don’ts

School -Form an environment club…. –throw away paper…..

8. They start their draft of do’s and don’ts. ( must or mustn’t)

9. Pick up and correct.
3rd Session

1. Students go on with the do and don’ts. They have the corrections, so those who
are ready can start their poster in a card with a draw clean and nice!
2. All the students have had time to produce their poster.
3. In group they produce a few sentences about their posters.
4. Tell them that next day they will have to explain their do and don’ts and that you
will record them.
4rd Session:
1. Presentations, record their oral presentation.
2. Assessment of their project:
Work: individual, group work, poster, oral presentation, and a written test(
vocabulary, composition…)
Exam : Recycling Name and Surname:

1. Make a list (of at least 3 items) of do’s and don’ts about your recycling habits at
home. (12 points)

For example:

Do’s Don’ts
Have a shower Have a bath

2. Complete this exercise with the vocabulary given:

Environment, taps, catalytic converter, pollution, kettle, wrapping, throwing
away, recycling.(16 points)

1. How many times do you see people ……………………………paper?

2. …………………………………. used paper saves trees.

3. The next time you go shopping prepare a bag for all the ………………………

4. Form an………………………. club.

5. Do not leave …………..running or have a full bath.

6. Don’t boil a whole …………………………………of water when you need only one
cup.

7. The more traffic that there is on the roads means more accidents and more …………
…………….

8.Buy a car with a …………………………………

3.
Vocabulary: Translate these words: ( 7 points)

Litter:

Street cleaners:

Bins:

Poisonous gases:

Leaf:

Resources:

Light bulbs:

4. Write a short composition explaining how we can help our world. Organize your
writing and think about actions that we can take when shopping, at home, at
school, on the road, eating out…( 15 Points)

How can we help our world to improve?

I think we can take some actions, for example at home…..

What can we do to help our world?

Eating out
When you are next in a fast-food restaurant, you can complain about all the
wrapping, plastic, straws and other bits and pieces which are then throw in the
bin or even dropped in the street. Try to avoid food wrapped in plastic because
it doesn’t decompose easy.

Shopping
The next time you go shopping set aside a bag for all the wrapping and packing
that is used. You may be surprised at how much you collect.
Some packing is unnecessary. Choose products with as little wrapping as
possible, and refuse extra wrapping for something that is already well wrapped.
The shop assistant will probably offer you plastic bags when you come to pay.
Bring your own instead or get a proper shopping bag which should last for years.

Paper

We all know that trees are destroyed and energy used in making paper. Recycling used paper
saves trees, conserves energy and means less waste. Try to use recycled paper if possible.
Do you always need to start a new piece of paper every time you begin a fresh piece of work in
your exercise book? Write on both sides of the page. It saves money and a lot of paper.
When you have a pile take it to a collection point. But try not to go by car-or you can end up
using even more energy of a different type that way.

Bottles
Count how many bottles your family throws away into the dustbin. If you collect them you can
take them to a bottle bank each week.
Bottle and other waste-materials banks are often in open spaces such as supermarket car
parks. You mustn’t throw them near people’s homes late at night because of the noise!
At School
If you can form an environment club, join an environmental organization ; write letters tolocal
companies to ask them what they are doing about pollution; write letters to shops about waste
etc…Don’t forget to use recycled notepaper.
Have a waste-paper bin at school for collecting all the paper you use otherwise throw away in
class.

At Home

Ask your parents to make sure your house is energy-efficient by having a modern, fuel-efficient
water heating boiler, putting thermostats on the radiators and repairing broken windows.
Replace ordinary light bulbs with the long-life type-they use less than half the electricity and
last several times longer.
Do not leave taps running or have a full bath- a shower uses about a tenth of the water and
energy. Don’t boil a whole kettle of water when you need only a cup. And don’t leave the cold
tap running when you brush your teeth.
Use less water from the toilet cistern by taking up some space inside with a plastic bottle full of
water or a brick.

Greening the roads

If your parents are buying a car, ask them to one that is economical on fuel. They might buy one
with a catalytic converter which removes some pollutants that are otherwise sent out the
atmosphere.
If you can, persuade the family to walk, cycle or use public transport instead of the car. The
more traffic that there is on the roads means more accidents and more pollution.