ASUN CUESTA
English Teacher
1st Session
Oceans
Task 1
What do you know about the ocean?
With a partner…
•You have 30 seconds to name all the marine animals you can think of.
•Keep a tally.
•Try not to repeat any!
How much of the Earth do you think is covered in water?
71%/ 50%/ 26%
How much water is salt water?
10%/ 34%/ 96.5%
Listen and answer the questions:
What are the oceans responsible for? (two things)
What is the problem?
What are in danger?
What does the speaker love about the ocean?
How does he feel when he is watching it?
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT....
Now, we brainstorm and complete the chart below in your notebook. Write at least one word related to the ocean (sea creatures, geographical features,...). All of the words must begin with the letter of the alphabet given. Some letters may have many different answers, while others may not have an answer.
A___________________ B___________________________ C________________________
D___________________ E___________________________ F________________________
G___________________ H___________________________ I________________________
J____________________ K___________________________ L________________________
M___________________ N___________________________ O________________________
P____________________ Q___________________________ R________________________
S____________________ T___________________________ U________________________
V_____________________ W___________________________ X________________________
Y_____________________ Z____________________________
Task 2
A Plastic Ocean is a new documentary that looks at the problems that are caused when plastic waste goes into the sea as we saw. Let´s remember it with the trailer:
Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.
1…… a crisis a. an area where waste is buried under the ground
2…… to degrade b. a small part of something
3…… a landfill site c. a difficult or dangerous situation that needs urgent attention
4….. to dump d. a diver who holds their breath under water
5…… to endure e. in perfect condition
6…… a free diver f. to get rid of something quickly without worrying about it
7…… a fraction of something g. to suffer
8…… pristine h. to break down into smaller substances
1. Check your understanding: multiple choice Circle the best answer to these questions.
1. When did the first narrator start following blue whales?
a. When he was a teenager
b. When he was a child
c. When he was an adult
2. How many tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans every year?
a. 8 million
b. 5 million
c. 9 million
3. What does the narrator do for a living?
a. He’s a TV presenter.
b. He’s a diver.
c. He’s a journalist.
4. How does the free diver feel about her work helping to clean the oceans?
a. That more people should do it
b. That it’s her way to pay back the ocean for all the pleasure it has given her
c. That it’s an impossible job
5. Why is the plastic in the ocean never going to degrade?
a. Because it has nowhere to go
b. Because there is too much of it
c. Because more and more is being dumped daily
6. How many pieces of plastic were found in a ninety-day-old chick?
a. 256
b. 266
c. 276
7. What has been built on the landfill sites?
a. Beaches – including resorts for tourists
b. Factories – including plastic bottle factories
c. Communities – including their food production
8. What does the main narrator believe is possible?
a. He believes change is possible and it starts with us.
b. He believes change is possible if we stop buying plastic bottles.
c. He believes change is possible if we stop throwing bottles in the ocean.
Discuss with your partner:
1) Do you use a lot of plastic?
2) What do you think we can do, as individuals, to help improve the problem of having too much plastic in our oceans?
3) In what ways have you used plastic items this week?
4) What do you do with your plastic?
5) Should there be more recycling of plastic?
6) What should man do to help protect the oceans?
7) Is the level of plastic in the oceans dangerous?
8) How can you help make the dangers of plastic in oceans be reduced?
9) What are governments doing to clean up the oceans?
10) What is man doing about all the plastic in the oceans?
11) How does plastic end up in the ocean?
12) How would you clean up the oceans of plastic?
MILTON ACTIVITIES
UNIT 14: How arty are you?
Past simple regular and irregular.
UNIT 15: In my days…
Wh- questions in the past.
UNIT 16:A story to tell.
Past simple and past continuous