Environmental studies

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES THROUGH LANGUAGE TEACHING
ACET Language Centre
CORK, IRELAND
3/7/2023 - 14/7/2023
Dr. Széllné Hajdú Indira
Óbudai Árpád Gimnázium
Erasmus+

And this can also be used in the classroom:

give a TO DO list to your students to explore their environment

if they know it quite well give funny or challenging activites (e.g. count how many stairs are their in X street, or ask the busdriver if he knows any passengers by name)

also include some GREEN tasks (e.g. Where can you take flat batteries to recycle in this district?)

it is also possible to restrict it to the school building especially in case of new students who need to get acquainted with the new place anyway

action-focus tasks are especially enjoyable, include some (e.g. draw the ..., ask..., find...)

Give a time limit to complete the TO DO list and also give students time to share their experience.

HAVE FUN :-)

Digging deeper into the topic of teaching about environmental issues an academic paper is advised to be read:

An attempt of integration of teaching contents of the subjects ecological education and English as a foreign language
by Snezana Kirova and Snezana Stavreva Veselinovska
Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Pedagogy, University "Goce Delcev"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S1877042811004459

Materials from the internet can also help the teachers:
ESL BRAINS provide good source for lessons with lesson plans and work sheets.

We did the lesson based on a reading:
Social Media as a Tool for Environment Protection by Emily folk

https://eslbrains.com/social-media-for-environment-protection

And another one based on a video:
Our relationship with nature

https://eslbrains.com/our-relationship-with-nature/

We also learnt some teaching techniques to use when teaching other subjects like sciences in English for breaking tasks down, guessing from context, checking instructions, scaffolding techniques.

For primary schools' teachers, some techniques were shown how to engage young learners, among them:

with games of run and touch
singing action songs
listening to stories
craft activities
revise with the shark version of hangman
having a word bag with drawing or writing and voting for the word of the week