Unit overview

Learning outcomes

• Reading: articles and texts on climate change, climate justice and global environmental issues; extracting key details, defining vocabulary from context and understanding cause-and-effect relationships.
• Language: modal verbs for logical deduction in the present and the past; expressing blame or regret.
• Listening: key information from a radio interview with a meteorologist.
• Writing: a persuasive essay on climate change using specific vocabulary and persuasive techniques.
• Speaking: group discussions and debates about climate change, its effects and the role of individuals and youth activists.

The unit's five lessons

• Climate Justice and Global Activism; An Interview with a Meteorologist; Climate Change and Coastal Cities; Global Climate; How to Help Our Environment.

The unit's central argument

• The people who cause the least damage must not suffer the most — that is the core of climate justice.
• Individual action is small but not meaningless: combined, small steps produce a large impact.