What really happens to the plastic you throw away

 

My proposal for a CLIL class is an initial activity. An introductory speaking activity to the 4th ESO unit HUMAN ACTIVITY AND ENVIRONMENT. This activity consists of three parts:

·   Task1: Watching the video “What really happens to the plastic you throw away”

https://ed.ted.com/on/kp7N2n1D

In the first part of the video, student learn the processes involved in the making of the plastic bottles we daily use. Second part tells the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, two of them become waste in two different ways, but for both are shown the dangers produced to our world, such as the problem for marine life and the plastic gyres we have created in the oceans with our plastic rubbish. It includes too the reflection about how these plastics ending in our human food chain. Third bottle story is a glance of hope because this one is recycled into other goods after being properly disposed.

·   Task 2: Video questionnaire.

This is a speaking task about the video they have seen. By clicking on “think” section students have access to a questionnaire about the video. The idea for the CLIL class is making the questionnaire together, as a whole group, taking turns or asking for volunteers.

· Task 3: Reflection about our actions and their effects in the environment.

Using the video as the initial point, student must reflect about this issue. This encourages student to introduce in their speeches the concepts they have just discover with the video and other they could know. In this part, we asked the student who weren’t participated in the previous speaking activity.

Finally, the teacher would make a recapitulation about all the interesting ideas exposed by students, finishing with the important reflection that students are and will be the future for our planet, so their actions do counts definitively for giving the environment the chance to be preserved.