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Teach English, Teach About the Environment Unit PlanTeach English, Teach About the Environment Unit Plan
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US Environmental Protection Agency
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Teach English, Teach About the Environment

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Spread the message of recycling while teaching your English language learners new vocabulary and practicing verb tenses. Included here are four lesson plans for each level (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) as well as accompanying worksheets, images, and facts about the environment.

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the simple present tense, the environment, recycling, reusing, English Language Development, Grammar, Vocabulary, interrogatives, the present tense, the past tense, the simple past tense, plural words, pronunciation, the perfect tenses, oral presentations, auxiliary verbs

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languages

Instructional Ideas

  • Pick and choose lessons based on the level of your class; you might use two beginning lessons and two intermediate lessons to meet the specific needs of your learners
  • Make an effort to encourage recycling in your classroom and at your school during the unit

Classroom Considerations

  • While designed for teaching adults English, this could easily be used in a secondary classroom
  • You may have some issues using the Flash Facts included; instead of printing them out (which will use up a great deal of yellow ink), you might use them as slides or type up your own versions
  • You may wish to check some information in the facts for current information; for example, one fact references the year 2008, and you might be able to find more recent information

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  • Comes with background information for teachers as well as materials designed to help train language teachers
  • Images and facts about the environment and recycling are included in the appendices

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  • None

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