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Homeless Bear WWF

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POLAR BEAR ALERT
VIDEO “Polar Bears and melting ice”
(First part of the video – until 0:46) :WHERE? WHO? WHAT?
-Watch the first pictures : what can you see? So, where does the scene take place?
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-Who is talking? (name, job/function)
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-What is the problem ?
+ causes :………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………
+ consequences :……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
(Second part of the video – from 0:46 to the end) : AND NOW?
Are there hopes or solutions to the problem? Which ones?
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Who produced and promoted the video? Comment on it !
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POLAR BEAR ALERT
Word Bank :
A bear /bɛəʳ/
(A bear cub)
To swim
The ICE/aɪs/
To melt
Food / Hunger
To survive
An activist
To get involved
The environment
An endangered
species
Homework

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POLAR BEAR ALERT :NOW THINK !
Observe les phrases.
a) It’s becoming more and moredifficult for mothers to give birth.
b) There is less and lessice in the Arctic.
c) Polar bears have to swim longer and longerdistances to find food.
d) More and morepeople are growing concerned about the fate of polar bears.
e) There are fewer and fewer bears alive !
Maintenant complète le tableau suivant.
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De plus en plus
...-ER and ...-ER
MORE AND MORE ...
De moins en moins
LESS AND LESS ...
FEWER AND FEWER...
Entraine-toi : traduis les phrases suivantes !
-Il y a de moins en moins de glace en Arctique, et cela pose de plus en plus de problèmes.
-Chaque année, de plus en plus d’ours polaires disparaissent à cause du changement climatique.
-Les chances de survie de l’ours polaire sont de moins en moins importantes.
-Les ours doivent nager de plus en plus longtemps pour trouver de la nourriture
-De plus en plus d’organisations internationales s’impliquent dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique.
POLAR BEAR ALERT : NOW THINK !
Observe les phrases.
a) It’s becoming more and moredifficult for mothers to give birth.
b) There is less and lessice in the Arctic.
c) Polar bears have to swim longer and longerdistances to find food.
d) More and morepeople are growing concerned about the fate of polar bears.
e) There are fewer and fewer bears alive !
Maintenant complète le tableau suivant.
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De plus en plus
...-ER and ...-ER
MORE AND MORE ...
De moins en moins
LESS AND LESS ...
FEWER AND FEWER...
Entraine-toi : traduis les phrases suivantes !
-Il y a de moins en moins de glace en Arctique, et cela pose de plus en plus de problèmes.
-Chaque année, de plus en plus d’ours polaires disparaissent à cause du changement climatique.
-Les chances de survie de l’ours polaire sont de moins en moins importantes.
-Les ours doivent nager de plus en plus longtemps pour trouver de la nourriture
-De plus en plus d’organisations internationales s’impliquent dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique.
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The climate divide (book p36-38)
Write about the causes and consequences of global warming ! Use the grid to make
sentences !
Causes (subjects)
Verbs
Consequences
Power plants
Warmer temperatures
Heating and air-conditioning
Travelling with airplanes and
automobiles
Rising sea level
Burning of coal
Heat and drought
Deforestation
Generate
Create
Produce
Lead TO
Threaten
Contribute to
More carbon dioxide emissions
Earth global warming
Floods
Tropical storms
Bad fires
More dangerous hurricanes
Less ice in the Arctic
Some animal species (polar bears…)
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NOW RECAP !
Complète le recap de la leçon avec les mots ci-dessous.
Global warming –preserve - taken place – drought – greenhouse effect – the heat – air-conditioning
– a world issue - rise - gases - environment – hurricanes - plants.
The picture p37 illustrates the effect of pollution on the Earth and more especially the
___________________________________ issue.
Global warming is DUE TO _______________________ generated by human activities (airplanes,
heating, ____________________________________, power ___________ for electricity…) : these gases
act like the glass of a greenhouse : they let in the sun’s heat. But, as
___________________________ can’t escape back into space, temperatures ___________________________
around the world.
Pollution has led to the ______________________________________ and Global warming has
become _______________________________. Nowadays, there are important consequences on the
climate and our ____________________________________ : the Arctic ice has started melting, lots of
disasters (floods, _________________________________) have taken place, there have been bad
fires because of the heat and ___________________________, snow accumulation has declined…
It is important we try to apply solutions to ________________________ our planet Earth !