Book6 Unit4 Global Warming Listening ＆ Speaking. Sample sentences for checking homework: 1. It was James who broke the window. 2.It was the little ants.

Book6 Unit4 Global Warming Listening ＆

Speaking

Sample sentences for checking homework:

1. It was James who broke the window.

2. It was the little ants that destroyed

the whole building.

3. It is her grandma who brings her

up all these years.

4. It was the hope in his heart that

enabled him to escape from the

prison.

Answer key for Exercise 1 (P62):

1. An organization run by kids for kids

who are concerned about the environ

ment.

2. 1996.

3. Kids from all over Australia and fr

om other countries; they decide wh

ich projects to work on in the follo

wing year.

4. It teaches them about greenhouse gas

es and how they can cut down greenh

ouse gases by not travelling to school

by car so often.

5. You'd decide on an environmental

problem that you'd like to solve.

Then you'd work out a plan of

action that has all the steps needed

to solve the problem.

6. Planting trees at school or on

farms; looking after a piece of

land; developing activities that

reduce, reuse and recycle waste.

7. On the Internet / on their website.

8. Because she believes that if we

don't care for the environment, we

and future children won't be able to

survive.

Answer key for Exercise 2(P62):

Name of the organization

Its purpose

Time when it was set up

Millennium Kids

It's for kids who are concerned about the environment.

1996

Examples of

activities

a yearly conference; school

programmes eg a play call

ed "The Horse who Saved t

he World"; environmental

projects

Examples of

projects

Other

information

planting trees at school or on

farms

looking after a piece of land

developing activities that red

uce, reuse and recycle waste,

such as plastic bags

They have a website.

Listening text

The listening text is an interview bet

ween some students and an Australi

an teenager about an environmental

organization called Millennium Kid

s.

MILLENNIUM KIDS

Julie, a teenager who belongs to an

organization in Australia called

Millennium Kids, is visiting a class.

The teacher and students are asking

her questions about the organization.

TEACHER: Julie, can you tell us

about Millennium Kids?

JULIE: Sure. It's an organization

run by kids for kids who are

concerned about the environment.

STUDENT: How was it started?

JULIE: It was started by four

Western Australian kids who

organized a children's conference

on the environment in 1996. Now

we hold a conference every year.

Kids come to it from all over Australia

-- and also from other countries. It's

great fun. And we decide which

projects we'll work on in the following

year.

STUDENT: What sorts of things do

you do?

JULIE: All sorts. For example, we

have a school programme that helps

kids understand about greenhouse

gases. Actually, we perform a play

called "The Horse who Saved the

World". We teach kids that they can

cut down greenhouse gases by not

travelling to school by car so often.

It's so much better for our environm

ent if we walk, ride a bike or go by b

us, isn't it? (murmers of agreement).

STUDENT: Well, I already walk to s

chool so what else could I do?

JULIE: Oh, lots of things. You could

work on a project with your friends.

You'd decide on an environmental p

roblem that you'd like to solve - it ha

s to be one you think you can solve -

it might be something to do with nati

ve animals, trees, air, water or waste.

Then you'd work out a plan of action

that has all the steps needed to solve

the problem.

STUDENT: What are some of the pr

ojects kids have done?

JULIE: Oh, there are so many. Let's see

... planting trees at school or on farms; l

ooking after a piece of land; developing

activities that reduce, reuse and recycle

waste. Actually, at the moment, we're as

king kids to find ways of reducing, reusi

ng and recycling plastic bags - they are s

uch a problem.

STUDENT: Do you have a website?

JULIE: We certainly do. I'll write it

on the board later.

TEACHER: Well, Julie, Millennium

Kids sounds like a really good idea.

JULIE: Yes, I love being a Millennium

Kid. If we don't care for the environm

ent, you, I and future children won't b

e able to survive. That's a pretty good

reason to do something, don't you thin

k?

• Sample discussion:

Sa: Plastic bags can be seen

everywhere. Some people always

leave litter everywhere including

plastic bags.

TALKING (P63)

Sb: Yes. They shouldn't have done i

t. Sometimes we even find plastic ba

gs hanging on trees. They spoil the b

eauty of the cities.

Sc: Apart from the facts that you m

entioned, plastic bags are doing gre

at harm to the environment.

Sa: What do you mean ? Is it a very,

big environmental problem?

Sc: Yes.

Sb: Can you explain why?

Sc: First, plastic bags are made fro

m non-renewable resources.

Sa: Does it mean those resources

are lost to us if they are not

recycled?

Sc: Exactly. Second, plastic bags

pollute the soil because they can

hardly break down.

Sb: It sounds terrible!

Sc: The bad effects are more than t

hat. Plastic bags kill seabirds, sea

mammals and countless fish each y

ear world wide.

Sb: But how does this come about?

Sc: Plastic bags float easily in air

and water and travel long

distances. What's worse, when the

animals die and break down, the

plastic bag can become free again

to kill another animal.

Sa: It's time for people to do somethi

ng about this problem.

Sb: Yes. But how ? We have to face t

he fact that 2 billion plastic bags are

used every day in China. It's impossi

ble to stop it in one day!

Sc: Yes. But people can use fewer an

d reuse them.

Sa: So let's do it right now. And we sh

ould let more and more people know i

t.

Sb: Right. Hope everyone can do som

ething to it. Together, individuals can

make a big difference.

• Some common and unusual

ways to reuse plastic bags.

You can use plastic bags to:

● store and freeze food

● store clothing

● take things when you go shopping

● pack school lunches in

● carry things when you're out

● crochet a rug

● crochet a big bag

● create artwork

Answer key for Exercise 1 (P65)

Year Event Facts about the event

1987Ian Kiernan

competed in an

around-the-

world yacht race

He was shocked at

the pollution in the

ocean.

1989

Clean-up day

for Sydney H

arbour

40,000 volunteers;

collected old car

bodies, plastics,

glass bottles,

cigarette butts

1990

the first

Clean Up

Australia

Day

300,000 volunteers

2001

Clean

Up

Australia

Day

most common kinds

of rubbish: cigarette

butts, glass bottles

and plastic bags

1993the first

Clean Up

the World

30 million

volunteers in 80

countries

2001Clean Up

the World

40 million

volunteers in 128

countries; cleaned

streets, beaches,

river banks and

parks

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY

Tom is giving a talk to his class about

Clean Up Australia Day.

Today I'm going to talk about Clean

Up Australia Day.

LISTENING TASK and

SPEAKING TASK (P65)

Clean Up Australia Day is one day in

the year when people get together and

clean up their environment. Clean Up

Australia Day started with this man –

— Ian Kiernan. Ian is a great sailor

and in 1987 he competed in an around-

the-world yacht race.

When he was sailing in this race, he

was shocked at the pollution in the w

orld's oceans. There was rubbish flo

ating everywhere. So when he got ba

ck to Sydney he started organizing a

clean-up day for Sydney Harbour.

In 1989, 40,000 people volunteered to c

lean up the harbor. They collected ton

nes of old car bodies, plastics of all kin

ds, glass bottles and cigarette butts.

It was so successful that lan organi

zed the first Clean Up Australia Day.

More than 300,000 people

volunteered to help the first time it

was held in 1990. After that in

March, every year, more and more

people help. Here's a table showing

the most common kinds of rubbish

found in 2001 on Clean Up Australia

Day.

You can see that the top three are

cigarette butts, glass bottles and

plastic bags. As much of the rubbish

as possible is recycled - about 20% -

and the rest goes to rubbish tips.

Clean Up Australia Day works

very well – there are now many places

that won't need cleaning this year

because they're still clean from the

last Clean Up Day. In fact, it has

been so successful that we now have

Business Clean Up Day, Schools

Clean Up Day, as well as Clean Up

Australia Day.

After he started Clean Up Australia

Day, Ian's next goal was to take his ide

a to the world. He got the support of t

he United Nations Environment Progr

amme and, as a result, Clean Up the

World started in 1993.

In Clean Up the World's first year

30 million people in 80 countries

were involved on a weekend in

September. In 2001, about 40 million

people from 128 countries took part.

They cleaned streets, beaches, river

banks and parks.

Homework

Prepare a talk about

“Clean Up China Day”.