This document provides a lesson plan template for a 7th grade lesson on caring for the environment. The objectives are to develop students' comprehension and expression skills related to environmental vocabulary, conditional tenses, and modal verbs. Students will discuss the concept of environment, problems affecting it, and ways to care for it. They will then research environmental issues, propose solutions, and present their findings to the class via a triptych or poster. The lesson will be delivered over two classes involving presentation, discussion, research, and a student presentation component.
3. Content Objectives:
Listening Comprehension: recognize thematic vocabulary, use of
the modal verbs (must, have to and should), use of the Will/won’t
and conditional sentences.
Reading Comprehension: Demonstrate comprehension about
general and specific information of descriptive, informative and
narrative texts.
Oral Expression: Using the vocabulary theme of the unit, se
conditional: if + will + future and sing modals to express obligation
and duties.
Written Expression: Thematic vocabulary of the unit, expressions
of future actions, express of obligations and duties, conditional: if +
Will + future and use of capital letter, dots, interrogation and
exclamation signs and coma.
4. Language Objectives:
Conversation: Create a dialog exemplifying a good and bad
attitude about how to care the environment.
Grammar: make sentences using conditional tenses and modal
verbs about how to care the environment and all of this must go in
the summary.
Reading: Read the summary’s presentation of the classmates and
any other information given by them.
Vocabulary: Use thematic vocabulary in sentences to express
your ideas.
Writing: Write a summary with the better ideas for to care de
environment at the end of the presented activity for each group.
5. Higher Order Questions:
Do you think you can contribute to help
the environment? In what way?
Would you do a personal commitment
to conserve those ideas in your daily
routine?
6. Building Backgrounds:
Links to Students’ Past Experience:
Ask the student if they remember the concept of environment
that they saw in the previous class.
What is environment?
Have you ever gone camping? Do your family clean the place
before and after they use it? Where do they put the garbage?
Teacher links to Prior Learning:
Ask them in relation what they answer before.
Why they think people don't take care of the environment,
even when they know how to do it.
7. Description of Hands-on Activity
Find the meaning of global warming.
Research about the damage in the
environment.
Propose ways to help the environment in
your school or in your city and then show
them in front of the class.
Make a triptych with at least 3 advices or
poster which your classmate can put into
practice in their own homes or school.
8. Description of Lesson Delivery
components
The teacher present to the students information about
the environment and its care through a power point.
It will be done following the next steps:
Explain what is environment.
What kinds of problems you can see in the
environment.
What will happen if we don’t take care of our
environment?
How we could take care of our environment?
Motivate students about the topic.
9. Lesson Sequence
First Class:
Presentation of the objectives to the class.
Show information about the environment.
Explain the activity and answer questions of
the students.
The students start to develop the activity,
searching information on the internet.
The teacher finishes the class remembering
the presentation of the activity for the next
class.
10. Lesson Sequence
Second Class:
The students present their group, and talk about what
they found.
Each student must give some reasons about why we
should take care of our environment.
They explain their solution and how it works, and why
they think their idea is the best.
Finally the students will give the triptych or the poster to
the rest to the class, with the ideas about how to keep
our environment cleans.
11. Review and Assessment
Review Key Vocabulary:
Explain homework. Giving a short review of
the vocabulary they saw in the class and they
should check if they wrote it on their
notebooks.
Review Key Concepts:
The teacher will ask to the whole class to
form groups. The students will talk about
what they have learned in class, then they
will write a short summary in their own
notebooks.
12. Solution
Tips:
You can bring trash can to your school to indicate
where you should throw away the glass, paper, plastics
and organic wastes.
Plant more plants in your neighborhood.
Do not keep taps open while you are not using it.
Always turn off the lights of your house if you are not
using it.
