PROJECT ONE ACTIVITY CLASS
Work in your sheet of paper or notebook the following exercises.
1) Read the text about Environmental Education in Italy and find the meaning of
those words into Spanish.
Became, was, study, were, serve, follow, made, want, learn, help, believe, prevent, share, integrate,
mandatory, truth, fight, protest, climate change, successfully, might, hopefully, citizen, must.
2) Look at the mind map and complete with the expression from the box
3) What are the effects of pollution on the environment and on people? Look at the
labeled picture and complete the table with this information.
4) Now read the text 1 and 2 and answer the following questions about pollution.
a. Find the synonyms for these expressions in the texts.
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Contaminated food: ________________________________
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Polluted air: _______________________________________
b. Read text 2 and label the pictures.
c. Come back to the reading exercise Environmental Education in Italy and find
synonyms for the following words.
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d)
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f)
Protest
Mandatory
Environment
Destruction
Classes
Program
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d. Choose one environmental issue and write in three lines about one of them that
has attracked your attention the most and explain why?
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e. Complete the sentences using the linker of consequence. (Because, therefore, as
a result, whereas, but)
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He loves foreign holidays, ………………………. His wife prefers to stay at home.
Many animals are dying in the Amazon Region ………………………………………. of the oil spill in
the Aguarico, San Miguel and Coca River.
The government spends a lot of money in environmental campaigns ,………………………… people
don’t aware and take care the planet.
Some animals are in danger of extinction, …………….. nobody stops hunting and selling them.
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A lot of land and trees had fallen down and damaged the road, ……………………………. a huge
landslide in San Luis town.
5) Connect the sentences part with a liker of consequence
6) Read the paragraph and identify the correct connector of consequence and
underline the correct alternative.
7) Imagine that you are the Minister of Education in Ecuador. You have decided to
implement a program like the one in Italy, 33 hours of environmental studies in
one school year. In groups of 3-4 students, fill out the curriculum form. Then
share your papers as a class. ¿Do you have a lot of things in common
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What would the curriculum look like?
What would the goal of the course be?
What topics would you study?
 What activities would you do with students from your grade level?
8) Read the following text and answers the questions below
QUESTIONS
1.-Which country has made the environmental education mandatory?
2. How are the environmental topics integrated in the school lessons?
3. How many hours did students study about climate change during the academic
year?
4. How does Italy’s curriculum serve for the United Nations?
5. What must citizens do to the environment?