clil project climate change

1. UNIT 1

2. Climate Change
1)Students will watch a video about climate change.
They will answer:
*What current issue is depicted in the video ?
*What did the boys do to save the planet?
2)Students will read the following groups of words and say which one they expect to find in this
definition
a)Social pressure-continent-culture-high-war-world-men
B)rivers-technology-light-fire-mind-importance
c)rise-temperature-atmosphere-gases-weather
while reading the text students will underline the words they find to check if they were right and
they will guess or look up their meaning.
Definition of Climate Change
What Is Climate Change?
Climate change is the long-term shift in weather patterns in a specific region or globally. Unlike
global warming, which refers to just one aspect of climate change - a rise in the surface
temperature of the earth’s surface – climate change refers to changes in a regions overall
weather patterns, including precipitation, temperatures, cloud cover, and so on.
According to the scientific experts in the field of climatology, climate change is caused by
human activities that have resulted in an increased concentration of greenhouse gases in our
atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, ozone, and nitrous oxide.

3. Before the Industrial Revolution, levels of carbon dioxide (the main greenhouse gas) were
approximately 280 parts per million (ppm) but have now risen to 386 ppm and are rising by
about 2-3 ppm more every year. When combined into what is known as the carbon dioxide
equivalent with other greenhouse gases such as methane, current levels are actually around
440 ppm. These levels are higher than any other level that can be accurately measured in the
earth’s history.
Some have argued that climate change is actually caused by natural occurrences. However,
the earth’s average surface temperatures have risen by 0.4C since the 1970s, which is an
irregular increase that is extremely difficult to explain by natural causes. Certain changes do
occur in the sun’s activity, volcanic eruptions, and other natural events which all contribute to
changes in the earth’s temperatures, but only an increase in greenhouse gasses can explain
the abnormal increases. Human activities that result in the release of these greenhouse gases
well beyond natural levels include things like deforestation, burning of fossil fuels, changes in
wetland construction, and so forth.
Leading scientists believe that climate change on this scale could produce results such as the
following:
Increased surface temperatures
Rises in sea levels
Retreat of glaciers and melting of sea ice
Changes in precipitation
Increases in intensity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes,
and heavy rainfall
Longer, more severe droughts
Expansion of subtropical deserts
Species endangerment and extinction and loss of biodiversity
Melting of permafrost (which speeds global warming)
Drops in agricultural yields
Spread of vector-borne diseases because of increased range of insects
Acidification of oceans creating drops in fishing yields and death of coral reefs
These problems are serious and will likely have severe impacts on the more vulnerable
developing nations. Though global warming (i.e. a rise in earth’s surface temperatures) will
have an impact on human societies, this will be much less disruptive and destructive than the
other changes mentioned above.
3)Students will match concepts and definitions
a-Tornado 1- main greenhouse gas
b-Global warming 2- one of the possible consequences of climate change
c-Climate change 3- rise in Earth’s temperature
d- Carbon dioxide 4- change in weather patterns

4. 4)Students will solve a True or False activity
*“Climate change” does not only refer to a rise in Earth’s temperature
*Scientifics say that climate change is caused by human activities
*Deforestation and burning of fossil fuels contribute to reduce the greenhouse effect
*Carbon dioxide emissions have diminished since the Industrial Revolution
*More severe droughts and extreme weather events are two possible consequences of climate
change
5)Students wil re write sentences using passive voice
Teacher will first explain how the passive voice is built .She will provide explanation and
examples.
a)Scientist measure the greenhouse gases
b)Sun’s activity causes some changes in Earth’s temperature
c)the greenhouse gases explain the abnormal increases.
d)climate change could produce increased sea levels
Carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect which helps to increase Earth´s
temperature
6)Looking at the map…
a)Students will make a list of the countries with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions and
another list including those with the highest levels.(students may implement another map to
check the names of the countries)
b)Students in groups will have to find information (surfing the internet) about the reasons for
high carbon dioxide emissions in a country they choose and design a brief report

5. climate change is here
7)Before reading students wil describe what they see in the image and say if they think that
some people are more affected than others by climate change.

6. DISPATCH
15 October 2010
Impacts of Climate Change on Daily Life in Africa
Pre-meeting and forum examine human and social dimensions of climate change
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Most climate change discussions and deliberations neglect the
interface between climate change and the day-to-day life of the ordinary African, a keynote
speaker said at a meeting that aimed to rectify this omission.
These are the very people who are among the first to feel the effects of climate change and
extreme climate events but with the least adaptive capacity to face the challenges and take
advantage of the opportunities presented by those challenges, according to Ms. Fungayi Jessie
Majome, Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development.
She indicated that social protection can improve adaptive capacities to climate change.
The additional burden of diseases and deaths caused by climate change strains already weak
and under-funded health systems, according to representatives from UNFPA. In
his presentation on climate change and health, Mr. Benoit Kalasa, UNFPA Representative to
Ethiopia, underlined the need to continue strengthening health systems’ functioning and
preparedness in order to cope with these additional challenges. He added that there is also a
need to evaluate existing infrastructure, interventions and human resource capacity, particularly
in areas of surveillance, response systems, risks communication, monitoring and information
use.
The pre-event meeting, which was organized by the United Nations Coordination Mechanism
Cluster on Social and Human Development, was attended by ministers and high level experts
drawn from various stakeholders in the field. UNFPA played a key role in organizing the pre-
event. This week UNFPA also co-hosted a global meeting on population dynamics with respect to
climate change and adaptation possibilities in Mexico.
8)After reading the text students will answer
a)What does the text say about climate change effects and African people?
b)Explain why they possess “the least adaptive capacity”

7. Stop the change
9)Before reading the text students will discuss about possible solutions
and If they think climate change can be stopped or not .
PUBLICATION
State of World Population 2009
Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate
This year's flagship report argues that reproductive health care, including family planning, and
gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity
adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts. Women, especially impoverished
women in developing countries, bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so
far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas,
droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, the report concludes.
The report draws attention to populations in low-lying coastal areas that are vulnerable to
climate change and calls on governments to plan ahead to strengthen risk reduction,
preparedness and management of disasters and address the potential displacement of people.

8. Research cited in the report shows that women are more likely than men to die in natural
disasters—including those related to extreme weather—with this gap most pronounced where
incomes are low and status differences between men and women are high. The international
community’s fight against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes
and treaties take into account the needs, rights and potential of women.
The report shows that investments that empower women and girls—particularly education and
health—bolster economic development and reduce poverty and have a beneficial impact on
climate. Girls with more education, for example, tend to have smaller and healthier families as
adults. Women with access to reproductive health services, including family planning, have lower
fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse-gas emissions in the long run.
10)Students will highlight the main ideas of the text to write a summary.In order to do this
successfully teacher will scaffold the activity by showing them other texts with possible
summaries for them to decide which is the best.
To write a good summary they will have into account.
*Including only key information
*Not adding any extra one
*Using their own words
*Creating a text shorter than the original
Reaching the solution
“The only solution to climate change is to slow the flow, to stop
altogether, and re-absorb greenhouse gas emissions. Many solutions
have been suggested, such as cap and trade systems, carbon capture
and storage, renewable energy, and geo-engineering. Likely a
combination of all of these solutions must be tried if we are to protect
our planet from the most severe predicted effects of climate change.”

9. 11)In groups students will investigate and lecture about every alternative to stop the climatic
change.Their lectures will be accompanied by posters that will be exposed around the school.