W11 - Pre -Int

Pre – Intermediate – Week 11 - Ecology

I)            Reading  & Vocabulary :

1)   Read the article: Climate Change March

In London today, 20,000 people took part in protest marches and demonstrations as world leaders were meeting for climate change talks. The event was organised by the Campaign Against Global Warming.

The day started early outside the US embassy with poetry readings and speeches.  Protestors then marched slowly to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and shouting slogans .

A group of protesters on bicycles made their way to 10 Downing Street and

delivered a letter to the Prime Minister demanding urgent action on climate change.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, Trafalgar Square was swarming with people and buzzing with activity. There was a carnival atmosphere with music provided by a samba band, a New Orleans jazz band and Scottish pipers.

Most of the protesters marched peacefully, but a small group of people broke away from the peaceful demonstrators. They smashed shop windows and tried to set fire to a supermarket. Five people were arrested.

2)   Are these statements true or false?

a)  World leaders participated in protest marches and demonstrations.

b)  The protestors carried banners and shouted political messages.

c)  A group of protesters on bicycles went to 10 Downing Street.

d)  They delivered a letter asking world leaders to do something immediately

about the economy.

e)  Trafalgar Square was extremely crowded and very busy in the afternoon.

f)  A small group of protesters separated from the peaceful demonstrators and went shopping.

3)      Look at the underlined phrases in the article. Find phrases with similar meanings in the sentences in the text above.

took part in =  participated in

4)      What evidence of climate change have you noticed in your country? What are you and your family, your local government, your national government doing about it?

Discuss with your partner.

II)         Listening  & Vocabulary:

1)   Listen to interviews with four protestors at the Climate change march. 

Match each person with an opinion (1-4)

Jo, 26                 Jake, 14             Debbie, 37                     Ronny, 27

1  ‘I’m in favour of protecting wild animals.'

2  ‘I’m against food imports.'

3  'I'm against big cars in the city.'

4  'I believe in responsible tourism.'

2)   Complete the sentences below with the words and the following phrases  

against      anti      believe      don't feel      in favour      really care     support 

a)   I'm not __________-cars – I just think more people should use public transport.

b)   I don't __________about people. They can look after themselves.

c)    I'm _____________of small family-run companies.

d)   I ____________ in responsible tourism.

e)   I' m __________ cars in the city centre.

f)     I _____________ local farmers.

g)   I ____________ strongly about politics.

Which statements do you agree with? What other things do you feel strongly about?

III)       Grammar 1: Subject questions 

1)    Look at the sentence and the questions (1 and 2) below. Answer questions (a-c)

subject          verb               object

Jo            believes  in        responsible  tourism

1       Who  believes in  responsible  tourism?  2  What  does  Jo  believe in?

a)  What is the subject of the main verb in question 1?

b)  What is the subject of the main verb in question 2?

c)       In questions where Who (Which, What or Whose) is the subject of the verb, do you use do, does or did?

2)   Write questions for the missing subjects or objects

a)  Mahatma Gandhi believed in [object]. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe in?

b)  [subject] said, 'I have a dream' in a famous speech. Who said, 'I have a dream'

in a famous speech?

c)  'Slogan' means [object]. What …

d)  [subject] has a boat called 'Rainbow Warrior'. Which organisation…

e)  Thirty-six million people protested against [object] in 2003. What …

f)  [subject fought against apartheid for over fifty years. Who …

Ask your partner the questions. Choose answers from below

Greenpeace          Martin Luther King              Nelson Mandela      non-violent protest

polítical message                the Iraq war

IV)        Grammar 2: Dynamic and  stative meanings

1)   Dynamic  meanings (something  'happens')

He  has lunch  at  1.00  p.m. / He's  having  lunch  now.

Note:  use  simple  or continuous  forms.

2)   Stative meanings (nothing  'happens')

I believe  in  democracy.  / We want to  help.

Note: use  simple  forms  only. Some  verbs  (have,  look, think)  can  have  both meanings.

3)   Look at the verbs in these extracts from the interviews above.  Answer the questions.

‘I’m having fun with my friends.'       'They're polluting our rivers.'

a)  Do the verbs describe actions or states?

b)  What is the name of the tense used in each extract?

4)   Rewrite these sentences by putting the verb in brackets in the present continuous.

a)  A phone (ring) ____________ . 

b)  A teacher in  another class (talk) _______________ . 

c)  The traffic (make) __ a lot of noise. 

d)  A clock (tick) ______________ .

e)  Birds (sing) __________  .

f)  Rain  (fall) ______________ .

g)  A student (laugh) __________  .

h)  People (chat)  ______________  .

V) Homework: look at the verbs in brackets. Do they describe an action or a state? Complete the sentences with the present simple or the present continuous.

a)  Sue (think) _______________  of going out this evening.

b)  Rosa (think) ________________  politics is boring.

e)  Marta (have) ________________ a TV in her bedroom.

d)  Julie (have) _________________ difficulty with this exercise.

e)  Brian (look) ________________ like his father.

f)  Rob (look) ________________ for a new place to live.

g)  Jane (like) _________________James Bond films.

h)  Tony (know) ________________ how to play the piano.