How to present and give the goal of a document (recap) + oral comprehension

17.11.2010

Hey,

today we first talked about the different pictures from the chart and we particularly insisted on the first three. Here is what we said about them:

1) The photograph represents a polar bear on a iceberg; it aims at representing a shocking reality. It intends to make the viewers / spectators react. It is used to denounce global warming.
If we continue to pollute, the world is in danger.

2) The advertisement campaign depicts a forest: the trees look like two lungs; the right one is damaged. It aims at denouncing deforestation.
If we continue to cut down trees, we won't breathe in the future.

3) The movie poster represents penguins...

Then we continued the lesson with the quick study of a graph about temperature and carbon dioxyde. It served as a help to understand the audio document about global warming.

You can listen to it again below:

Here is what we wrote about the document:

The document makes a list of the possible reasons why the temperature is going up / rising / increasing. It aims at sensitizing people about global warming.
It intends to make us react and reduce our carbon dioxide emissions / our carbon footprint.

HW: for next time, you need to learn your lesson and new vocabulary. You also need to find out about Farenheit conversion (0°, 100°, and 37°C) + fill the worksheet about "charities".