Making a speech about environmental issues
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use my understanding of climate change to give a speech.
Key learning points
- Climate change is driven by human activity - specifically, an increase in greenhouse gases.
- Climate change will have significant impacts on the planet and human beings.
- We can discuss who has responsibility to address climate change and what should be done to improve the situation.
- As part of this process of discussion, people may make speeches on either side of the debate.
- We can use the PEPS (point, explanation, proof, summary) structure to help make a speech persuasive.
Keywords
Climate change - a long-term change to global temperatures and weather
Greenhouse gases - gases that create the greenhouse effect that warms the earth
Speech - the communication of someone’s thoughts, through words, to an audience
PEPS - a way of structuring a speech, giving a point, explanation, proof and summary
Common misconception
Pupils may believe that 'bad' weather is evidence against any drastic change in the climate.
Temperatures are rising, which leads to more extreme weather generally - not just to more dry and hot weather.
Teacher tip
You may wish to change the scenario in the second learning cycle to reflect a local issue that is relevant to your pupils; a new flyer can be easily made in any word processor using a template.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these linguistic features are not commonly found in a journalistic report?
Q2.Which is the correct definition of 'direct speech'?
Q3.Which of the following will we not find in reported speech?
Q4.Tick the examples of reported speech.
Q5.Match the sentence types to the examples.
When the police arrived, the protest ended.
The police arrived, ending the protest.
The police, who arrived at 2pm, ended the protest.
Q6.Which sentences have the parenthesis correctly punctuated?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which is the best definition of climate change?
Q2.What is the main driver of climate change?
Q3.Put the steps in order to explain how human activity has driven climate change.
Q4.Which of the following are effects of climate change?
Q5.Which of the following probably has the most responsibility to act on climate change?
Q6.Put the parts of an effective speech in order.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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