Rainforests

ESL Lesson. Rainforests; second lesson. (First lesson presented vocabulary and concepts of rainforest with PPT, song by JP Taylor, The Rain Forest Song.) Causes and consequences of deforestation.

• The students will become familiar with the vocabulary related to deforestation.
• The students will become familiar with the concepts and problems related to deforestation.

• Students review the use of the simple present tense in a summary of a video about rainforests.
• Students' listening skills are involved in listening to a video in English having reviewed a summary beforehand.
• Student's reading and listening comprehension skills are utilized by answering questions about the video summary.

• Warm-up Activity: Use Less Oil Activity
• Present vocabulary with Vocabulary handout and power point presentation.
• Have the students complete vocabulary matching and/or sentence crossword puzzle.
• Read aloud: Forest Family Forever Summary noting pictures. Depending on level of English, students can read this aloud together or individual students can each read a paragraph.
• Watch video: Forest Family Forever found at Ran.org.
• Answer questions on summary page.
• Power Point presentation on Deforestation causes and consequences.
• Jeopardy.

 

• Use Less Oil Activity Sheet (Know the Alphabet) (Warm-up Exercise)
• Vocabulary handout (English and Korean)
• Sentence Crossword Puzzle and/or Vocabulary Matching Worksheet
• Video: Forest Family Forever (at http://www.ran.org/) (Transcript attached.)
• Power Point Presentation: Vocabulary and Concepts
• Power Point Presentation: Jeopardy

Jeopardy was used as a formative assessment along with www.edhelper.com sentence completion and vocabulary matching worksheets. Also reading comprehension questions were used.