Once upon a time...in Room B1 at GS / 2015-16 : Let's go green on Earth Day!

FOR THE 6TH GRADERS

ACTION 1

Look at the document above.
1° What does the drawing represent?
2° What is the topic?
3° What is the slogan?
4° Does the slogan symbolize a problem or a solution?
5° Do you agree with this slogan? Why or why not?
6° Do you know other environmental problems?
Click here and note down these problems:
http://www.michellehenry.fr/earthwq.htm

ACTION 2
Visit the Planet Earth Museum.
Click on the link below and take notes.

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/planet-earth

ACTION 3

Observe, read and reproduce the mindmap (=nuage de mots).

ACTION 4

Read and copy what (=ce que) kids say.
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=288&id=2651

ACTION 5

Write down what YOU can do

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/earthday/play.htm?f

ACTION 6
Make a poster to save the planet!

Need some ideas!
(=Quelques idées!)

Need some slogans!

FOR THE 8TH GRADERS

ACTION 1
Observe this poster and comment on it!

ACTION 2

How Green are you?

Read and answer the quiz below.

1. When you leave a room, do you

a) turn off all the lights?

b) leave on light on?

c) never bother to turn off the lights?

2. Do you

a) take short showers (less than 10 minutes?)

b) have baths?

c) take long showers (more than 10 minutes?)

3. Do you

a) walk or ride a bike for short journeys?

b) take a public transport when you can?

c) travel everywhere by car?

4.Do you

a) separate all your rubbish and recycle what you can?

b) recycle some of your rubbish?

c) never recycle anything?

5.Do you

a) only use heating and air conditioning when you really need them?

b) use heating and air conditioning now and again?

c) have the heating all the winter and the air conditioning on all summer?

ACTION 3

Watch the video and write a report!

News on Global Warming
August 2007

ACTION 4

What to do to look after the Environment?

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/paint-the-words/environment

ACTION 5

Make a Mindmap on the Environment with Wordle or Tagul

FOR THE 9TH GRADERS

ACTION 1

Watch the video and react!

ACTION 2

Complete the activities about the video.
Fill in the gaps of the lyrics.

What about ..............
What about ……………

What about all the things
That you said we were to gain
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was ............. and ……………
Did you ever stop to ……………………
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to ……………………
This .............. .............., this weeping shore?

Aaaaaaaaaah Ooooooooooh

What have we done to the …………………
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only ………………
Did you ever stop to ……………………
All the children …………………… from war?
Did you ever stop to ……………………
This ............... ..............., this weeping shore?

Aaaaaaaaaaah Ooooooooooh

I used to …………………
I used to glance beyond the ..............
Now I don't know ............. ............ ..........
Although I know we've drifted far

Aaaaaaaaaaah Ooooooooooh

Hey, what about .............
(What about us)
What about the ..............
(What about us)
The heavens are ........... .........
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about everything
(What about us)
[ I have given you
(What about us)
What about ..............'s worth
(ooo,ooo)
It's our ..............'s womb**
(What about us)
What about ...............
(What about it)
We've turned kingdoms to ..........
(What about us)
What about ...............
(What about us)
Have we lost their trust
(What about us)
What about ............. ............
(What about us) ]
We're ............... the seas
(What about us)
What about .............. trails
(ooo, ooo)
................ despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the ............ ...........
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)
Where did we .......... ..........
(oooh, oooh)
Someone tell me ............
(What about us)

What about ............ ...........

(What about it)
What about the .............
(What about us)
What about all their .............
(What about us)
Do we ............ .... ...........?

ACTION 3

Copy the songtext once you will have completed it.

ACTION 4

Do the following activities.

a) Name two animal species mentioned in the song.

b) What have we done to them?

Underline the passages in green.

c) Underline in blue a sentence that may refer to natural catastrophes like hurricanes or tornadoes.

d) Underline in black a sentence

that may refer to air pollution.

e) Circle in green a sentence

referring to deforestation.

f) Underline in red an expression or a sentence referring to the evil done to mankind.

g) Circle in red two expressions

showing that the Earth is sad.

ACTION 5

Match the words.

peace •

heavens •

worth •

womb •

kingdoms •

dust •

holy •

creed •

give a damn* •

• cieux

• paix

• royaumes

• sein ; matrice

• valeur

• croyance

• poussière

• sacré, saint

• s’en préoccuper

ACTION 6

Say it in French. Use a dictionary.

a)What about all the things

That you said was yours and mine?

b)Did you ever stop to notice

All the blood we’ve shed before?

c)I used to dream, I used to glance beyond the stars.

d)Now I don’t know where we are,

although I know we’ve drifted far.

e)We've turned kingdoms to dust.

ACTION 7

Watch the video, complete Worksheet A or Worksheet+;
then make a poster for the environment
demonstrating the problems and the solutions.
Need some help?
Click here!
https://www.text2mindmap.com/NnTtjZ?controller=frontpage&
http://www.kfmaas.de/dis_env.html
http://www.mindmapart.com/climate-impacts-mind-map-jane-genovese/
http://ecojourney2013-15.blogspot.fr/2014/01/mind-maps-cyprus.html
http://www.sswm.info/content/mindmapping
http://fr.slideshare.net/logosacademyeduec/environmental-problems-and-solutions

Worksheet A
(Pre-intermediate A2 level)

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2077
Worksheet+
(Intermediate B1 level)
http://languesvivantes.eklablog.net/animals-save-the-planet-a103163195

ACTION +
For everyone
Let'sing all together!