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Anticipation:

Show a picture of Mount Kilimanjaro:

Ask the pupils to react: 'React! Say anything you can about this document'
Write the words given by the pupils on the board.

Explain they are going to listen to an audio document taken from the BBC website.

The audio clip is taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/news/words/general/011107_witn.shtml

Ask them to imagine what this recording is about and note their hypotheses on the board

Listening:

First listening:Ask your students to listen and check their hypotheses

It is about animals which are endangered because of...
It deals with the rise in temperatures in Africa....
It is about glaciers melting ...
It can be about safaris as....
I know it doesn't deal with tourism because...

Second listening:Pick out the words you hear and write them in the first circle

The pupils go to the board and add a word they think they have heard to the spidergram on the board.The class can indicate if there is a spelling mistake, if the new word should be next to another one already found....

Have the pupils start reacting about what they have learnt in this document ( they should make sentences)

Third listening:

Give two different tasks according to the students' abiliity to understand:

For the students who have difficulties with understanding the audio clip: 'Listen and put a tick next to the words you hear now'.
For the other students:'Listen and add more words in the second bigger circle

Expression:

The students should make sentences using the words in the circles.

This report is about the situation on Mount Kilimanjaro which is in Africa
The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting because it is getting warmer/ Because the temperature is increasing, the ice at the top of the mountain is melting.
80% of the ice cap has melted since 1992.
In 2020, no snow will be left.

Go to the second part of the lesson