Unit3: Back to Nature

Level: 1L/ Sc
 Unit3: Back to Nature Teacher: Boutouata Farida

Sequence1: Listening and speaking 2

Final objectives:
By the end of this sequence, the learners would be able to:
 Listen and respond to an audio passage about the greenhouse effect.
 Write an SOS about pollution.
 Express feeling opinions and suppositions.
 Recognise and mark the intonation of complex sentences.
 Use if conditional sentences.
The audio script
Our climate is changing and temperatures in general are increasing. Sea levels are rising and the ice is melting on the north
and south poles. One reason for this is the greenhouse effect. A greenhouse is normally something good. It helps us grow things
like tomatoes out of season. That’s because it’s nice and warm inside the greenhouse. The sunlight enters and invisible light
penetrates the glass. This is partly absorbed by the plants and the soil and partly reflected on the outside as invisible heat radiation.
As a result, temperatures rise inside the greenhouse. The planet earth obtains warmth in a similar fashion. Sunlight penetrates the
gas layer of the atmosphere. It’s partly absorbed and partly reflected just like in a greenhouse. However, humans cause a lot of
pollution by introducing large amounts of carbon dioxide causing temperature to rise constantly on our planet.
Adapted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJJM_hCFj0

Language outcomes
Step Time Rational Content Remarks
Voc Grammar Pron
 Unit3: Back to Nature Teacher: Boutouata Farida

15mn Raising The teacher sticks two pictures (1&2) and asks the
learners’ learners about the idea they illustrate in order to 3
awareness introduce the idea of the rise of the earth’s
about the temperature. The she sticks picture3,4& 5 and interacts
green with the them in order to inform them about the
house greenhouse effect.
effect
To
Interaction

introduce
the
listening
passage
 Unit3: Back to Nature Teacher: Boutouata Farida

30mn Task2: Listen again and say whether the following

sentences are true or false. 4
a. Temperatures are decreasing on our planet.
b. Thanks to a greenhouse, we can grow tomatoes
out of season.
c. It is warm inside a greenhouse.
d. Planets Earth gets warmth in a way which is
different from the greenhouse.
e. Large amounts of carbon dioxide cause
temperatures on Earth to rise.
Key:
a b c d e
Interpretation

F T T F T

Task3: Listen again to the text and tick in the

appropriate answer in the following dialogue.
The sea levels
The climate Temperatures
are

getting colder increasing rising

getting warmer decreasing falling
is changing not changing the same

Key:
The climate is changing.
Temperatures are increasing.
The sea levels are rising.
 Unit3: Back to Nature Teacher: Boutouata Farida

15mn Task4: (oral discussion)

Production

Use information from the text and your previous 5

answers to explain the greenhouse effect and its
consequences on our planet Earth.