OUR FRAGILE PLANET

A video

1. Think of several practical ideas for everyday life on how to be environmentally friendly.

2. Discuss the ways of being environmentally friendly to find out the most effective ones (use your weblog for it).

3. Try to live a day or two according to the practical tips of being green.

4. Make your own video telling people about the practical ideas for everyday life on how to be environmentally friendly.

5. Watch the other tree videos and discuss how you should change your everyday life to help our Planet.

Presentation

Create a team PowerPoint presentation of the result of your research and surveys.

Each presentation should contain:

• the description of the problem;

• the causes of it;

• the effects of the process to living organisms:

- plants,

- animals,

- humans

• things that you could do to improve the situation.

1. In your team, share your information and prepare a presentation for the other three teams. Remember, you need to do everything together. Rehearse a little.

2. Present it in the class for the discussion. Be ready to answer their questions.

• Duration: 6-8 minutes.

• All group members have an equal part (2 minutes each).

• Be creative.

• Speak correct English. No reading aloud.

• Be ready to answer questions.

3. Listen to the other three presentations. Ask as many questions about the aspect presented as you can.

A survey based on your questionnaire

1. Make a questionnaire.

discuss in your weblog what you would like to ask people about;
revise the grammar rules of asking questions: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/questions
practice online making different questions: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/questions
study easy steps to create the most complex survey: http://www.esurveyspro.com/article-questionnaire-development.aspx
think of 10 questions minimum;
place them in your weblog so that you can discuss the questions and possible answers;
collaborate with partners then make the first draft of your questionnaire;
show it to your teacher;
make final editing changes to your questionnaire;
type the questionnaire

2. Conduct a poll among your friends, relatives, groupmates, etc.

3. Analyze the results and present them in written form using charts.

Now you are ready to start working on the products of the webproject.

A brochure

Create a brochure or several ones telling the world about the ecological problems. Go through the link to find how.

https://templates.office.com/ru-ru/Буклеты

1. Search a concrete problem you are going to write about. Example, Lake Baikal, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Problems of Big Cities, etc.

2. Search the Internet on your topic.

3. Place the most interesting information, videos, pictures, etc. in the weblog.

4. Keep collecting, discussing and editing the information.

5. Make the first draft of your brochure.

6. Teacher and group-mates review of first draft. Revise first draft. Repeat the process with draft 2.

7. Collaborate with partners then make the first draft of your group brochure.

8. Show it to the rest of your classmates.

9. Make final editing changes to your brochure.

10. Make the brochure.

2. Go through the links and make your own research of the problem.

http://www.britannica.com/ - Online encyclopedia for research of information.

http://www.epa.gov/ - Learn more about how to protect human health and the environment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment - Environment news, comment and analyses from the Guardian

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/ - Environment facts, Environment science, etc.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ - Environment facts, Environment science, etc.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ - Latest news on environment issues and debates.

http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/en/ - Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action!

http://wwf.org/ - WWF's ultimate goal is to build a future ehere people live in harmony with nature.