LC5 The Environment

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LC5 The Environment

• HD-FD 2005-6
• Semester 2 Weeks 1-8

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Themes

• Weeks 1-2 The World We Live In ( water and
  deserts?)
• Week 3 Disappearing Animals
• Week 4 Too Many People?
• Week 5 Dirty World
• Week 6 Me and My Rubbish
• Week 7 Cooking the Planet

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Weekly Planners

• Interruptions
• Essentials
• Suggested Materials
• Online (WebCT and others)
• Course book
• Cluster folders

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Week One

• Al Hijra New Year
• Cheating Simulation
• FND web site
• Cover Sheet and quiz
• Intro to the environment quiz (inc. ring pulls)
• Assessment and Expanded Assessment
• Use of English briefing (to be posted)
• The Living Planet
• Green Quiz (in pack)
• Vocabulary
• WebCT (inc. Precious Wonder)
• Writing Task

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Reading

• Folders
• WebCT (not assessed)
• Falcons (Week 1)
• Dubai Environment (Week 2)
• Assessment (5 of year)
• WebCT - Acid Rain (Week 4 FK 7.8)
• WebCT - Pollution (Week 5 FK 11.8)
• Graded Readers (record in pack)

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Writing (1)

• Week 1 (homework) Review of Semester 1 types
  (holiday/2006 plans)
• Weeks 2 3 Compare and Contrast
• WebCT 1.3 and 2.3
• Two places (e.g. with and without water)
• Two animals
• Weeks 4 6 Advantages and Disadvantages
• One-child policy
• Recycling

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Writing (2)

• Weeks 5 7 Opinion
• Pollution (what can be done?)
• A choice of three
• Studying the environment is a waste of time.
• Is climate change a problem?
• Each UAE household should only be allowed 2 cars.
• Assessment (5 of year)
• The second essay in each genre (weeks 3, 6 7)
  will be timed and assessed
• Semester 2 Writing folder SharePoint LC5
• Jackies material (in pack)

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Listening

• The Living Planet
• WebCT (not assessed)
• Wae Rabo (Week 2), Regreening the Medina (Week
  3), Kuwait Cleanup (Week 5), Global Warming (Week
  7), Catching the Wind (Week 8 13 mins!)
• These will need preparation (e.g. vocab)
• WebCT (assessed 3 of year)
• Precious Wonder (Week 1)
• Elephants Revered, Feared (Week 4)
• Cellphone Recycling (Week 6)
• Appeal for tapes

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Vocabulary

• One list a week, one WebCT test a week
• Weeks 1-3 Lists 4-6
• Week 4 Review lists 4-6
• Weeks 5-7 Lists 7-9
• Week 8 Review lists 7-9
• These tests are assessed (3 of year)
• Other sources (e.g. The Living Planet) for
  environment vocabulary

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Research Project

• UAE environment topic
• Briefing Week 1
• Groups of four or five students
• Teacher has final choice
• Brainstorm the topic for a Mind Map
• Deadline end Week 4
• Assessed 2 of year
• Leading to

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PowerPoint

• Groups create PowerPoint on their topic
• Title slide
• One slide per student
• Sources slide
• SharePoint group sites?
• Leading to

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Presentation and discussion

• Week 8, Sunday and Monday
• Presentation
• 1-2 minutes per student
• Assessed on Comp (group mark
• Assessed on English (individual mark)
• Discussion
• Assessed on English (individual mark)

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Speaking assessment

• 2 of year
• Two components
• Presentation and discussion
• Use of English (Weeks 2 5)

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Other resources

• Teachers folder (SharePoint LC5)
• Links (SharePoint LC5)
• General links
• UAE links
• By theme
• Library resources (in pack)
• DWC Environmental Group