Man and Nature General questions Man, nature and the city 3. b. List positive and negative things about man and nature.

Positive

NATURE Negative

Positive

MAN Negative

c. Sum up differences and similarities between man and nature. Man and Nature Similarities

Differences

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4. Which words and phrases do you associate with the city /city life and which do you associate with the country/country life? Feel free to add words of your own. anonymity alienation attraction beauty boredom chaos compassion crime despair destruction dirt entertainment excitement freedom harmony health isolation noise opportunity racial tension relaxation restfulness oppression pleasure pollution quiet romance rural security sense of belonging smells tolerance tranquillity ugliness unemployment urban vandalism violence City life Country life

cruelty homelessness peace stress

Vocabulary Man, nature and the city 1. City life and country life. Word classes. Noun anonymity alienation despair

Adjective

Noun suburb

Adjective poor

independent lonely liberated

harmony stress 1. 2. 3.

Superficial Individual

attractive

in/tolerant culture Isolated chaos Tranquil indifferent Impersonal Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student B has to come up with the corresponding adjectives. Student B reads out the adjectives to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to come up with the corresponding nouns.

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Man and the environment

2. Vocabulary for talking about climate change. a. Fill in the missing words. Noun Noun: person

science

Adjective ecological (issues, problems, disasters, politics, protection, movement)

Scientist

environmental (issues, problems, disaster, politics, protection, movement) policy political climate (climatic) most often climate is used Polluter X Glaciologist glacial (erosion, landscape) action active Learning check: student A reads out the noun: person to student B and without looking at the task, student B has to come up with the corresponding nouns and adjectives. Student B reads out the adjectives to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to come up with the corresponding nouns. b. Fill in the missing words and translate the English nouns into Danish. Noun Verb Danish word for English noun emission (the emission of carbon dioxide, industrial emissions, emission controls) reduction (in smth) ’increase (the carbon dioxide (note stress) ’increases in the atmosphere, a significant ’increase in…) im’pact (on/upon) something solution flood/flooding assume protect contributor (the worst contributor to the problem …) advocate (to be an advocate of something) opponent (to be an opponent of something)

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Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student B has to come up with the corresponding verbs. Student B reads out the Danish nouns to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to come up with the corresponding verbs. c. Fill in the missing words. noun

adjective significant warming

verb signify warm rise protect predict

rise (the rise in..) protection prediction (in/accurate predictions) cause

causal (a causal relationship between …. and …) decisive decide Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student B has to come up with the corresponding adjectives and verbs. Student B reads out the verbs to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to come up with the corresponding adjectives and nouns.

Post-reading LEARNING CHECK

Man, nature and the city 1. Vocabulary. No study aids. dansk ro bymiljø landmiljø kedsomhed ensformighed

engelsk t

dansk upersonlig fremmedgørelse umenneskelig fjendtlig harmonisk

engelsk

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Man and the environment 3. Vocabulary. No study aids. a. Match a word on the left with a word on the right global endangered population severe receding alternative carbon ozone

layer droughts glaciers dioxide energy sources explosion warming species

b. Translate into English dansk CO 2 Miljøaktivist Forurene være en fortaler for udslip (f.eks. af CO2) Økologi

engelsk

dansk være en modstander af en stigning Årsag oversvømmelse Tørke forudsigelse

engelsk

4. Written assignment and speech Divide the class into three groups (a, b and c), who then subdivide into groups of three or four: A: You are an environmentalist who has been asked to give a speech at a conservationist “Friends of the Earth” meeting. Your topic is the ways in which man is interfering with and destroying the environment. Write the opening of your speech and be prepared to give it in front of the class. B: You are an environmentalist who has been asked to give a speech at a meeting for right-wing Conservative businessmen who do not believe that climate change is a result of man’s interference with nature. Write the opening of your speech on why climate change is a result of man’s interference with nature and be prepared to give it in front of the class. C: You are a writer of children’s books who has been asked to write a book for children about climate change. Write the opening chapter of your book and be prepared to read it aloud to the class.

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