A. Cairns & R. Rakas
Inconvenient Truths
TESL Ontario 2008
ESL Textbooks with Environmental Themes
TITLE
PUBLISHER
UNIT/TOPIC
Amazing!
Interviews and
Conversations
A Canadian
Conversation Book
Active Listening 2
Prentice-Hall
Canada,
1993
Prentice
Hall, 1993
Cambridge,
2007
Chapter 10: The Environment
Lots of facts, interviews with Canadians (listening)
A story about lobster trapping
Pollution, hazards, nuclear power, overpopulation,
natural disasters, endangered species
Making a Difference – Unit 12
 Helping the environment
 Recycling
Active Listening 3
Cambridge,
2007
Values – Unit 14
 Who’s right? Developing an island for tourism
Volunteer work - Expansion 4, pg. 77
 tree planting in the Philippines
All Clear Idioms in
Context
All Talk
Problem Solving for
New Students of
English
Amazing 2!
Canadian
Newspaper Stories
Being Canadian
Language for
Citizenship
Breakthroughs
Canadian
Concepts 4
2nd edition
Canadian
Concepts 5
2nd edition
Canadian
Concepts 6
1st edition
Heinle, 1993
Don’t throw it away – recycle! – Unit 11
Heinle &
Heinle, 1992
Lesson 6: Save the Planet
lots of illustrations, good for lower levels
Prentice-Hall Chapter 12: The Edible Cup
About biodegradable containers
Problems with Styrofoam
Prentice-Hall Brief reading on the environmental problems in
Canada,
Canada
1996
OUP
Global warming
David Suzuki and Farley Mowat speaking
(listening)
Prentice-Hall Unit 2: Taking Care of the Earth
Canada,
Environmentally friendly lifestyle in pictures
1997
A garbage quiz
Prentice-Hall Unit 9: Buy Me! Buy Me!
Canada,
How we are driven to buying more
1998
Prentice-Hall Unit 7: The Environment
Canada,
Our Fragile Earth
Waste Not, Want Not
How Green Are You
Glossary of environmental terms
Problems and solutions
A. Cairns & R. Rakas
Canadian
Snapshots: Raising
Issues
Inconvenient Truths
Longman,
2005
TESL Ontario 2008
Future World – Unit 6
 Genetically-modified crops
 CBC news report on GM crops (video)
Water, Water Everywhere, but Dare We Take a
Drink? – Unit 9
 Lessons of Walkerton (video)
 Access to safe drinking water (written by
David Suzuki)
 Bottled Water (jigsaw reading)
 Boil Water Orders @ Ontario Parks (role play
a phone call)
Communicating in
Business
Cambridge,
2004
Discussions A-Z
Intermediate
Cambridge,
1997
English for
Business
Thomson,
2007
English Idioms in
Use
Cambridge,
2002
Expanding Tactics
for Listening
Have Your Say!
Oxford,
2004
OUP, 1999
Hot Topics 1
Thomson,
2006
Unit 11 – State opinions about various
environmental issues (exploitation of forests;
animal testing; nuclear energy etc.)
Jobs – Dirty Jobs (nuclear, tobacco,
pharmaceuticals, fast-food etc.)
Waste Not Want Not – Are you a waster?
Zoology
 Ethics of zoos
 Ethical treatment of animals
 Pharmaceutical companies & animal testing
Unit 5 – Global Concerns
Lesson 5 – Global Concerns in the Business
World (energy; pollution; outsourcing etc.)
Lesson 6 – Ethical Trading/Fair-trade
Unit 4 – Knowing & Understanding
Unit 8 – Dealing with Problems
Unit 16 - Danger
Unit 33 – The Elements
Unit 36 – Animals – Describing People
Unit 37 – Animals – Describing Situations
Unit 42 – Nature
Global Issues – pollution, mega cities – Unit 24
Unit 4: Nature and the Environment
Animal World
Natural Disasters and the Environment
Gluttony - you are what you eat!
 Gluttony – how’s & whys
 Underfed & Overfed
 World Obesity – whose fault is it?
A. Cairns & R. Rakas
Interchange 3
1st edition
Interchange 3
3rd edition
Let’s Talk 2
North Star
(R & W, High-Int)
North Star Basic (L
& S, Basic)
Now Hear This
Take Charge
Using Everyday
Canadian English
Tapestry 3
Touchstone 3
Vocabulary In Use,
Intermediate
Inconvenient Truths
1993
TESL Ontario 2008
Unit 11: Business Goes Green
Consumers demand environmentally responsible
products (reading)
OUP, 2005
Unit 7: The World We Live In
Perspectives, discussions
All skills included
Cambridge,
The Environment - Unit 11
2002
 Threats to the environment
 Saving the environment
Longman,
From Trash to Treasure – conservation,
1998
composting, earthships (homes made of recycled
materials powered by solar energy) – Unit 5
Longman,
A Piece of the Country in the City – Unit 2
1998
 The country & the city
 Community Gardens
Heinle, 1994 Recycling garbage, conserving energy – Unit 14
Prentice-Hall Unit 2: In the Community
Canada,
On bike paths, garage sales
1997
Thomson,
The Nature of Things – environmental concerns –
2000
Unit 9
OUP 2006
Unit 12: Natural Disasters
OUP 1999
Chapter 86: Pollution and the Environment