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Carbon footprint
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Carbon footprint
CONTENTS
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Audio script
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
The environment
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘Carbon footprint’ and expressions with ‘foot’
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary, language and discussion
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Carbon footprint
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Gavin Dudeny, an expert
on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the word ‘carbon footprint’.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking, Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do
Vocabulary, Exercise 2
- without dictionaries at first.
Practise the pronunciation of the vocabulary, as they will hear it in the talk.
D
Students read
Listening: Section 1, Exercise 3
and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer question ‘a’.
Students listen again and do
Listening: Section 1, Exercise 4
.
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
Students read
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 5
and then listen to Section 2 of the talk.
They answer question ‘a’.
F
Students try to answer
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 6
. They listen again to Section 2 to
check/complete their answers.
G
If you wish to do some extra work with the class, hand out
Student Worksheet 3
For the vocabulary exercise, give the students copies of the audio script and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work focuses on other expression with ‘foot’ or ‘feet’
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Carbon footprint
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Did you know that when you buy flights with certain airlines you can now pay a bit more
to offset your carbon footprint? Or perhaps you’ve read about big pop groups who plant
forests of trees every time they do a tour, again, to offset their carbon footprint? But what
exactly is a carbon footprint, how is it measured and where did it come from?
Originally a footprint was exactly what you might imagine – the print made by a foot. In
the sixties, space travel transformed the word, using it to mean the landing area for a
spacecraft, and it has continued to be common in technical circles, with people talking
about the footprint of computers (that’s the space they take up on a desk), printers and
many other such gadgets. Small footprints are considered to be a positive thing, large ones
are generally bad.
Listening Section 2
Everybody has a carbon footprint – it’s the amount of carbon dioxide we produce with any
action or activity. As carbon dioxide contributes to ‘greenhouse gases’, our carbon
footprints have a direct impact on the environment. You can estimate your carbon footprint
on any number of popular websites: if it’s small, then you’re probably leading a relatively
green lifestyle. But what happens if it’s big?
Well, the answer is that you can ‘offset’ it. This modern answer to the problem is for
people to contribute to balancing the negative effects of their actions by using green fuels,
recycling, reforestation and a number of other activities which are said to contribute to a
lowering of the carbon dioxide.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Carbon footprint
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. transformed
changed, modified or altered
b. in technical circles
contexts or situations that are connected to science and
technology
c. greenhouse gases
gases that stay in the atmosphere and lead to global warming
d. estimate
calculate approximately
e.
green lifestyle
a way of life that is good for the environment
f. green fuels
sources of energy that are less harmful to the environment
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
iii.
Carbon footprint
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘space travel transformed the word, using it to mean the landing area for a
spacecraft.’
b.
False – ‘it has continued to be common in technical circles.’
c.
False – ‘Small footprints are considered to be a positive thing, large ones are generally
bad.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a. ‘
Everybody has a carbon footprint – it’s the amount of carbon dioxide we produce
with any action or activity.’
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