Summary
Students discuss key challenges such as pollution, deforestation, and renewable energy while examining the role of governments, businesses, and individuals in fostering sustainability. The lesson emphasizes the use of modal verbs to express necessity, advice, and possibility in environmental contexts.
Activities
Discussion questions: Students reflect on personal environmental habits and responsibilities.
Vocabulary exercise: A gap-fill activity introduces key terms such as carbon footprint, conservation, and renewable energy, helping students articulate complex ideas about sustainability.
Grammar practice: Students review and apply rules for modal verbs, completing sentences and rewriting statements to express necessity or possibility.
Speaking practice: Students share opinions on topics like renewable energy, conservation efforts, and eco-friendly business practices.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary emphasizes environmental and sustainability concepts, including terms like pollution, sustainability, renewable energy, deforestation, carbon footprint, and conservation. Students practice using these words in both structured exercises and open discussions.
Grammar focus
The grammar component centers on modal verbs such as must, should, might, may, can, and ought to. Students learn to express obligations, possibilities, and advice, practicing with exercises and rewriting prompts to deepen their understanding of modal verb usage.
