A selection of English ESL greta thunberg printables

This is a text on Greta Thunberg and her impact on teenagers, society and the political erena. 

It is followed by some comprehension exercises: , synonyms,  questions about the text, and grammer exercises.

Hope you find it useful.

Greta Thunberg

Reading Comprehension. A brief biography to know who Greta Thunberg is and why her style of life created a great movement of young people. Read and fill in the gap. Read and answer the questions.

Listening comprehension

It is about Greta Thunberg's famous speech at the COOP 24 

Three exercises : overall comprehension, fill in the blanks and right/wrong

The key is provided

Greta Thunberg speech

Greta Thunberg Speech

Ideal to work with teenagers.

This is a text on Greta Thunberg speech at the UN on climate change. Students watch/listen to the video and fill in the blanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDnPj0G0wY 

There's also a question guide!

Greta Thunberg Speech

This is a listening based worksheet based on Greta Thunberg\'s speech on climate change in 2018. Students must look at the video then answer the questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg

It is followed by some comprehension exercises: questions on the text.

Hope it\'s useful





Greta Thunberg speech 2018

Video worksheet of an interview with Greta Thunberg on CBS This Morning. Vocabulary activities, listening comprehension activities, and discussion questions about climate change. The answers to the questions are provided, but there are open questions as well. 

Interview with Greta Thunberg 

This is a reading comprehension worksheet about Greta Thunberg, ideal for use on the topics of climate change and activism. Students should read the text and then answer the true or false questions referring to the text. Students should then answer the second set of questions using full sentences. 

climate change - activists - Greta Thunberg

This expanded worksheet provides a comprehensive look at Greta Thunberg's life, from personal details to her daily routine and her activism. It includes a variety of questions designed to practice using question words and learning about personal habits and routines. The information, while educational, incorporates creative elements to engage students and inspire them to think about their own impact on the world. This activity aims to improve students' English skills while encouraging them to consider important environmental issues.

Greta Thunberg For Young Learners

This is a text on Greta Thunberg speech at the UN on climate change.Students must look at the video and fill in the blanks. 

https://youtu.be/bW3IQ-ke43w

 It is followed by some comprehension exercises:  questions on the text. 

Hope it\'s useful 

Greta Thunberg speech at the UN

Greta Thunberg addresses World leaders at the UN. This is a listening activity based on her speech (a video that you will easily find on YouTube). Can be part of a lesson on global warming and environment or on argumentation and structure of speech.



Greta Thunberg Speech at the UN

In support of Friday’s for Future Students’ movement.



Useful for improving your students' Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing  skills and, above all, for enhancing environmental awareness and activism.



Includes webquest with QR images which encode links to the webpages where your students will get answers to the 8 questions related to the Climate Crisis.



Post-activity conversation cards and links to videos and songs related to the topic.

 



OUR EARTH MATTERS QR WEBQUEST in support of Greta Thunberg.

Activities in support of Fridays for Future Student's movement. Based on Greta Thunberg's speech at COP24, Katowice, Poland. December 2018.



Especially interesting if as a teacher you support 15th of March Students' Global Strike or Fridays for Future.



The activities focus on grammar: conditional sentences, passive, too and enough and the use of will and future continuous from a communicative approach.



The main point of the exercises is making students think about Thunberg's words, about the concepts of climate justice and the living planet, as well as the role of people and politicians today,

GRETA THUNBERG’S SPEECH POST-LISTENING ACTIVITIES. COMMUNICATIVE-GRAMMAR FOCUS.

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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