1. ENERGY AND FORCE English
Warming-up
1. How many sources of energy do you know?
2. Have you ever heard of renewable sources of energy?
3. Have a look at the following pictures and match them to the words below. Then,
translate them into Spanish.
nuclear petrol
coal gas oil petrol
reactor station
power
pylon solar panel tanker tidal barrier wind turbine
station
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
4. Can you answer questions 1 and 2 again?
I.E.S. SIERRA DE MIJAS 2006-07 CLIL
Come Castañeda-Fernández González-Luque Ferrer-Martínez Del Río-Navarro Calavia

2. ENERGY AND FORCE English
Reading
1. Read the text and match every paragraph to the titles.
Renewable energy Fossil fuels Wind energy advantages
Wind energy disadvantages Worried about using fossil fuels
Most of our electricity is produced by
using fossil fuels, like coal, gas and oil. But
1. ______________________________
fossil fuels are not renewable and one day
there won’t be any coal or oil in the ground.
Some people predict than in fifty years’
time we might not have enough fossil
fuels to produce the electricity which we
2. _______________________________
need. What would life be like if we only
had electricity for two hours a night? What
can we do about this problem?
Obviously, we can help to reduce
energy consumption at home, but
governments can make a bigger difference.
3. ______________________________
They have to change energy production to
renewable sources of energy such as wind,
sun and water.
Wind energy has got a lot of
advantages. It is free, it will always be
there, and it is clean, no land, air or water
4. _______________________________ is polluted in the production of wind
energy. Also, wind farms are cheaper
than hydro-electric or nuclear power
stations.
But there are some disadvantages, too.
Wind farms only produce a small quantity
5. ______________________________
of energy compared to traditional forms of
energy production and they are very noisy.
2. Which of the following adjectives describe wind energy?
expensive produced clean ugly small noisy
cheap renewable beautiful
3. Answer the following questions.
a. Why are people worried about using fossil fuels?
b. What can people do to help this situation?
c. What can governments do to help this situation?
d. Name renewable sources of energy.
e. What are the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy?
I.E.S. SIERRA DE MIJAS 2006-07 CLIL
Come Castañeda-Fernández González-Luque Ferrer-Martínez Del Río-Navarro Calavia

3. ENERGY AND FORCE English
Writing
1. Get some information about renewable sources of
energy. Then, complete the table with a list of advantages and disadvantages
about them. Follow the instructions below.
Type www.bbc.co.uk/schools on your computer.
Search for Secondary and click on the word Science.
Click on Topics .
Search for Energy Resources and Transfer and click on KS3: Science.
First, click on Physics, then on Energy.
Click on Resources and Energy Transfer and get the required information
from Renewable energy resources.
RENEWABLE ENERGY ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
I.E.S. SIERRA DE MIJAS 2006-07 CLIL
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4. ENERGY AND FORCE English
Language for Learning Key Words and Phrases
A la hora de exponer un tema a nuestros/-as alumnos/-as hemos de asegurarnos que
dominamos toda la terminología y vocabulario necesarios para explicarnos. De igual modo, al
inicio de la unidad habremos de cerciorarnos de que nuestros/-as alumnos/-as reconocen, al
menos, parte de ese vocabulario, especialmente las “key words” que les ayudarán a entender
tanto el tema tratado como las actividades a realizar. Por supuesto, no es necesario que
conozcan todo el listado de vocabulario expuesto a continuación, pero sí sería conveniente que,
como mínimo, al final de la unidad les resultase familiar.
La elaboración de un listado por área y tema de cada unidad didáctica es uno de
nuestros propósitos como profesores de la Sección Bilingüe del I.E.S. Sierra de Mijas.
TOPIC: ENERGY
(ENGLISH)
NOUNS VERBS OTHERS
advantage ventaja blow soplar clean limpio
coal carbon click on pinchar en cheap barato
disadvantage desventaja pollute contaminar expensive caro
fuel combustible produce producir noisy ruidoso
gas gas search for buscar non- no
renewable renovable
nuclear reactor nuclear type teclear polluted contaminado
reactor
oil aciete renewable renovable
petrol gasolina worried preocupado
petrol gasolinera
station
power central de
station energía
pylon poste, torre
metálica
solar panel panel solar
source fuente
tanker petrolero
wind turbine turbina de aire
FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
What can we do...? ¿Qué podemos hacer...?
Type, search for and click on... Teclea, busca y pincha en…
How many sources of energy…? ¿cuántas Fuentes de energía...?
I.E.S. SIERRA DE MIJAS 2006-07 CLIL
Come Castañeda-Fernández González-Luque Ferrer-Martínez Del Río-Navarro Calavia