Activitat

Writing about the environment

Personatges:

Rachel Louis Carson Homestead (Rachel Carson)

Tema: Medio ambiente

Competències

Competència en Comunicació Lingüística

Competència personal, social i aprendre a aprendre

Matèries i cursos per Sistema Educatiu

Espanya > Anglés > 3r ESO > Comunicació

Enunciat

<img title="Women's Legacy logo" src="//inclusion.womenslegacyproject.eu/images/LogoWL.svg" /><hr />Rachel Carson was a scientist and ecologist whose book Silent Spring warned of the dangers to all-natural environments from human actions. &nbsp;
 ACTIVITY 1: Read one of her most famous quotes and discuss with your partner its meaning. Then, share your ideas with the rest of the class.&nbsp;
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&ldquo;Underlying all of these problems of introducing contamination into our world is the question of moral responsibility -responsibility not only to our own generation but to those of the future.&rdquo;&nbsp; &nbsp;Rachel Carson, San Francisco, October 1963. &nbsp;<a title="The fracking of Rachel Carson" href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-fracking-of-rachel-carson/">https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-fracking-of-rachel-carson/</a> (30/01/2022).
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ACTIVITY 2 : Why is it important to take care of the environment? What can we do? What do you normally do to be ecofriendly? Discuss in pairs and then share your ideas with the rest of the group.
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ACTIVITY 3 : Now that you understand the quote and the importance of taking care of the environment, write 10 rules you can start today in order to preserve and take care of all natural environments.
Use modal verbs of advice and obligation such as should, ought to, must, have to or could. Be creative in the way you present it. &nbsp;

Observacions i context

- Entre otras mujeres contemporáneas y ecologistas defensoras del medio ambiente destacamos a Mei Ng, Vandana Shiva, Wangari Muta Maatha, María Cherkasova y Jane Goodall.
- Resaltamos los siguientes movimientos ecologistas iniciados por mujeres: Chipko Movement, Green Belt Movement, Navdanya Movement, Kenyan Land Takeover, Dakota Access Pipeline Protest.

Descripció

Introducción a la actividad de la científica Rachel Carson y análisis de una de sus citas.

Posteriormente el alumnado deberá escribir un decálogo sobre cómo cuidar el medio ambiente utilizando los verbos modales. El objetivo es trabajar estos verbos.

Modelos contextuales y géneros discursivos de uso común en la comprensión, producción y coproducción de textos escritos.

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