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:

Analysis of the visuals:

1) The photograph depicts a polar bear on a small iceberg.
It's a symbol for global warming.
The picture intends to represent reality and is used to make us react. It aims at warning people about the dangers of climate change.
If global warming continues, endangered species will die.

2) The ad campaign depicts a forest. It looks like lungs but one of the lungs is damaged. The symbol is that if we continue to cut down trees, we won't have oxygen in the future. We won't be able to breathe.
The document aims at representing a shocking reality.
It intends to make us react. It is used to sensitize people about deforestation.

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:

Unfortunately, we haven't had time to write anything about the document in the lesson copy books for the moment. So next time, we'll need to be fast in order to catch up with the other groups.

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".

Files:

Oral Comprehension sheet -> Download here.