Lesson 1

Discuss

What are the people doing? How are they helping the environment? Match a verb and a noun with each photograph. Then listen and check.

a. plant trees

b. pick up rubbish

c. reuse mobile phones

d. install solar panels

e. save wildlife

f. recycle plastic bottles

Find

Look through the unit. Where do people want to plant trees at Ras Mohammed?

They want to plant new trees in the mangrove forest.

Reading

1. Read some online posts from teenagers who want to help the environment. Match each post with one of the photos from page 44. Use a dictionary to search for difficult words.

1. The fivers in Kaziran2a National Park in India often flood and the problem is getting worse because of climate change, later this year, I'm going to help my father to save wildlife from the flood water. This can be dangerous, but my father works in the park and he knows how to keep me safel. e

2. There's a lot of air pollution from the traffic in our city and this is very unhealthy. Trees are good for the environment and help reduce air pollution -so next week, we're going to plant trees on the roof of our school and make a school roof garden. a

3. Hove phones, but I know that throwing away old phones can be bad for the environment l started a project in school to recycle mobile phones. From tomorrow, people are going to bring us their old phones and we're going to reuse parts from them to repair other phones. c

2. Read the posts again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1. In Kaziranga National Park, it sometimes rains a lot. T
2. The work in India is dangerous for the person sending the online post. F. He says it is dangerous to save wildlife from the flood water, but his father knows how to keep him safe.
3. The roof garden will help people to be more healthy. T
4. They are going to plant trees In front of their school. F. They are going to plant trees on the roof of the school.
5. It is a good idea to throw away old mobile phones. F. It is best to reuse parts of old mobile phones.

Language

3. Choose the correct word.

1. The boy in India is going to help his father today / later this year.
2. The students are going to plant trees tomorrow / next week.
3. People are going to bring in their old phones from tomorrow / next Saturday.

Speaking

4. Make questions about your future intentions. Then ask and answer the questions in pairs.

1. do / at the weekend? / are you /What / going to.

What are you going to do at the weekend?

2. are /Where /to go /next holiday? /you going /for your......

Where are you going to go for your next holiday?

3. your /improve /are you /How /English? /going to......

How are you going to improve your English?

4. recycle / your / Are you / going to / old? /mobile phone / when / it's......

Are you going to recycle your mobile phone when it's old?