Efl guess What! Teacher's Book 6 Grade 6

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The environment
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Unit aims
Students will talk about environmental 
issues. This includes:
•
learning vocabulary for sources of energy and 
materials
•
saying what we should and shouldn’t do to help 
the environment
•
asking what we should do to help the environment
•
designing an eco-friendly home
•
learning about recycling
Background information
The photograph 
shows a house made from recycled bottles at Cap-
Egmont, Prince Edward Island, Canada. This house 
and other similar buildings were created by Edouard 
Arsenault, a lighthouse keeper. No one lives in the 
bottle houses, but they’re open for tourists to visit.
Introduction to the unit
•
Read the unit title and model the pronunciation of
The environment
for students to repeat. Tell them to 
look at the photograph and ask 
What’s Unit 6 about?
Elicit 
recycling
or model the word if necessary for 
students to repeat.
•
Then ask 
What’s different about the house in the 
photograph?
(
It is made from bottles/recycled materials.
)
 
Where is this house? Do you think anyone lives there?
Tell students about the bottle house (see
 Background 
information 
above)
.
•
Ask 
What other materials can be recycled? 
(
Paper, 
cardboard, plastic 
– students may also mention 
metal/
aluminum, 
which is covered in this unit.) 
Which materials 
and things do you recycle at home and in school? Why is 
it important to recycle things? 
(
Recycling is good for the 
environment.
)
•
Then ask students 
How else can we help the 
environment?
Accept any ideas and explain that students 
will be discussing this issue in the unit.

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Good for the environment.