Environment ESL Lesson Plans

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Why use Fluentize’s environment ESL lesson plans?

There’s a number of reasons why teachers use our environment ESL lessons for adults and teens, so let’s dive into the main ones.

Unique & Practical Topics

One of the factors that makes Fluentize's environment ESL lesson plans stand out is the unique topics. In every lesson, we aim to find interesting and diverse ESL environment topics that engage your students and teach them something new beyond just language skills.

However, we also bring you topics and materials that are practical. It’s important for students to develop skills that will help them in real-life scenarios. While each lesson varies, each environment ESL lesson plan on Fluentize contains activities for speaking, listening comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, writing, or pronunciation. All of the activities are designed so that students can practice and learn new language skills, whether they’re A2, B1, B2, or C1.

In summary, our goal is to bring you topics that are current, relevant, or useful, in addition to off-the-beaten-path topics that aren’t covered in a lot of other ESL lesson resources.

Strong Lesson Structure

Another point to highlight is the structure of each environment ESL lesson plan. Each of our lesson plans is created in a methodological way so that each activity leads smoothly into the next, which helps students develop their skills in the most effective way possible.

We strongly believe that the better organized the lesson materials are, the stronger the impact they’ll have on students. When lesson plans are well-structured, it makes the material more understandable for students, and makes it easy for you, as the teacher, to guide the student towards positive learning outcomes. Therefore, the lesson structure is something we pay attention to and take seriously when creating each environment ESL lesson plan for you.

Authentic, Engaging Content

The last point is that all of our ESL lessons about the environment are based on engaging, online videos. Given that video is one of the most engaging content formats to use as an ESL lesson resource, we pride ourselves on using online videos as the base for all of our lessons.

When used properly, video can have a strong, positive impact on students and enhance their learning experience. Videos provide students with authentic material. The benefit of this is that the speakers in the videos tend to use natural language — it’s not graded down to cater to language learners. This provides students with an important, real-world element in an ESL classroom, which pays off in real-world communication.

Carefully-Selected Videos

We also pay very special attention to the videos we select to base our lessons. Not all online videos make for a suitable lesson plan, and we consider multiple factors when searching for videos. These factors include video length, the animation style, and how engaging or dynamic it is. We’re confident that the videos we’ve selected for our ESL lessons engage your students, drive interest, and encourage them to learn.

Whether your students are pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate, or advanced, our ESL environment lesson plans are especially useful in helping students who work across a range of environment sectors, or study certain environment fields for a future career. Alternatively, perhaps you have a student who is simply interested in the environment, and wants to have lessons geared towards environment topics that interest them personally.

Regardless of students’ job needs or personal interests, teachers who use Fluentize will find ESL lessons that feature topics like climate, weather, renewable energy, sustainability and green practices, pollution, or natural resource management.

With a supplementary video to accompany each of these ESL lesson plans, both teachers and students get the best of both worlds — high-quality ESL lesson materials and authentic, engaging video content.

FAQ About Our Environment ESL Lesson Plans

Why are ESL environment lesson plans environment important?

ESL lesson plans focusing on the environment are important for a variety of reasons. Allow us to cover some of these below.

Topics your students can relate to

Environmental issues are all over the news and are a big part of our future. Therefore, ESL lesson plans that focus on the environment can equip students with the language skills and vocabulary they need in real-life situations, such as discussing climate change, pollution, nature conservation, or other important issues that are relevant in their own lives or affect them in some way.

Promote global awareness and active participation

ESL environment lessons can promote global awareness and encourage students to think about their role in addressing environmental challenges. Lessons may even encourage students to improve their behaviors or motivate them to advocate for environmental activism of some kind. For example, they may inspire students to become involved in local environmental initiatives or community service projects. For these types of purposes, students can develop the language they need for advocacy and participate in discussions about environmental policies and solutions.

Overall, ESL lessons on the environment can promote a sense of responsibility toward the planet and its sustainability, as well as encourage students to become more involved citizens.

Empower your students for the future

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, students can also learn a lot of practical skills through environment ESL lessons. These skills can lead learners to find job opportunities that require them to understand environmental laws and regulations, conduct field research, or manage waste and recycling. Learning about these kinds of environment topics in their lessons can help them develop skills for a variety of other educational, professional, and personal purposes.

Overall, ESL lesson plans can empower learners by preparing them for future job prospects. Proficiency in environment-related language and concepts can pave the way to various career opportunities in fields such as ecological or scientific research, biology, environmental law, urban planning, climate science, or renewable energy.

What is included in each of your environment ESL lesson plans for adults and teens?

Whenever you unlock the lesson materials for any of our environment ESL lessons, you will gain access to the printable version, interactive PDF version, teacher's guide, and the Google Slide E-Lesson, if available. We currently have the Google Slide version of our ESL lesson materials available for over 100 lessons, and we're gradually working backwards in the lesson library to create the Google Slide lesson format for the lessons that don't have them yet. However, any new lesson that is released will come with the Google Slide version!

Regardless of the lesson format, each of our ESL environment lesson plans comes with the following structural parts:

Preview Activities

Our preview activities consist of engaging lesson introductions and discussion questions or conversation topics about the environment. The overall goal of this section is to engage students on the topic of the lesson and prepare them for the video.

Our preview sections also come with vocabulary activities or prediction-based exercises to contextualize the theme of the lesson. This also helps prepare students for the upcoming parts of the lesson.

Listening & Viewing Comprehension Activities

Our listening and viewing comprehension activities are based on an online video, and designed to train students’ listening skills. We implement a wide range of listening-for-gist and listening-for-detail activities in this section, including short answers, true/false statements, event sequencing, multiple choice, among many other activity types. The goal in this part of the lesson is to ensure that students understand the content they watched.

Viewing Follow-Up Activities

Our viewing follow-up activities come right after the video viewing phase of the lesson, and are designed to engage students in discussion about the video they watched. This could include their opinion about the video, how useful it was, or any other relevant questions about the topic.

In addition, the main goal of this section is to prepare students for the final activation phase of the lesson. These often include activities on vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation.

You’ll find that this section often includes quotes from speakers in the video, which we build upon and use as the base for a variety of useful activities for your students. As mentioned, the skills they practice in this part prepare them for the activation phase of the lesson as described below.

Communicative Activations

An “activation” is simply an activity that is developed a bit more in detail and has students put certain skills into practice in some kind of real-world, communicative, and contextualized scenario. We do our best to make our activations engaging and realistic, as well as fun, for both teacher and students.

Some example types of activations you’ll see are role plays, interviews, creative writing, planning, presenting, researching, among many others.

An example of a communicative activation in one of our ESL environment lesson plans is described as follows:

In this free lesson plan on living off the grid, students use some advanced environment vocabulary that they learned from the video and in the viewing follow-up to describe their dream “paradise” location to live. There is a role-play-task for students to imagine that they actually live in this location, and then they use some of these adjectives below to describe this place during a phone call with a friend:

pristine - lush - snow-capped - vast - crystal-clear - idyllic - majestic

Since there is also a lifestyle-related theme tied into this particular lesson, there are a handful of adjectives describing lifestyle they can use in the activation, including:

exhilarating - laid-back - alluring - bustling - gratifying

While we use a wide range of activation styles, this is just an example of one you might expect to find in one of our lesson plans.

Quiz & Review

In each lesson plan, there is a quiz and review section at the end that repeats and covers some of the most important material, activities, and skills in the lesson plan. As of 2022, all of our lessons also include a section at the end of the quiz & review section for “lesson reflection”. This means that students can discuss a few questions mostly focusing on their experience with the lesson — what they learned, found difficult, or enjoyed about the lesson.

Teacher Guide

We also provide teachers with a guide, which includes answers to each activity and exercise in the lesson plan. Sometimes it also offers some ideas they can work with as they conduct the lesson.

Most of our environment ESL lesson plans will come in this type of lesson structure and format, with some variations depending on the lesson.

What are some hot or trendy topics for ESL lesson plans about the environment?

We'd say that some of the hottest ESL topics in the environment sector include the following:

  • Climate Change
  • Waste Reduction
  • Conservation Efforts
  • Environmental Activism
  • Plastic Pollution
  • Sustainable Living
  • Eco-Tourism
  • Green Technology

You'll find lesson plans based on all of the above-mentioned topics in this section. These are all hot and trendy environment topics that can help engage students in discussions about pressing global issues. In addition, the media and the growing environmental concerns about our planet can drive student interest in these topics.

Keep in mind that teaching about the environment in ESL classes, and covering topics like climate change, waste reduction, conservation, and more, has many benefits. It helps students connect with real-life issues, making learning more relevant. These topics also broaden students' global perspective and improve critical thinking. Teaching responsibility and civic engagement can also encourage empathy toward the environment. 

Overall, the topics listed above represent the future of the environment. This contributes to the growing demand for expertise and rising interest in these areas in the ESL classroom. Using ESL lesson plans that focus on the above-mentioned environment topics can lead to engaging and meaningful learning experiences for students.

Does Fluentize take recommendations for environment ESL lesson plans and videos?

We'd be glad to take recommendations for any ESL environment topics or lesson plans. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any videos that would suit your students. While we can't guarantee that we can create a lesson plan for your requested topic, we will certainly consider it and put it in the production queue. Users can also request custom lesson requests for a fee and their requested topic will be moved to the top of the production queue.

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