FRIDAY Oct. 14th "THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT"

11/04/2011 |

In our activity " The Natural and Cultural Environment" with Gemma and Fina, we had to support a cause and be the voices of the ones that can't defend themselves.

These were the instructions:

You can change the World, but what’s the best way to do it?

You have to organize a PLAN OF ACTION:

- What are the problems?

- Find solutions

- Look for supporters and sponsors

- You need publicity

- Organize a march

- Write banners

- Organize a sport event

- Volunteer to help to …

- start an email campaign

Vocabulary:

Publicize/publicity

Meet/meeting

Organize/organization

March

Donation

Collect

Protest

Sponsor

Campaign

Boycott those shops

Raise (money)

Sentences:

We need publicity

Invite journalists to a meeting

Organize a march in the street

Donate some money

Organize a protest

Volunteer to help to …

Look for supporters and sponsors

Key phrases:

Let’s organize a meeting

How about (starting an email campaign)?

Why don’t we (boycott the ….)?

Shall we (protest about the decision)?

Grammar needed:

Might – for possibility

Will - for sure

1^st conditional: If people stop ….…, we will ….. // We will …… if people stop …..
If they don't ............., we will.......// We will ......... if they don't .....

Headlines:

"We need your help" / "Save our ..." / "Save the sea creatures" / "We must respect them and help them" / "Help the animals" / "They are being hunted for their skin, ivory horns, etc" / "Protect the animals" / "They don't deserve to die" / "What is the health of our oceans?" / "What are the main causes of deforestation?"

We decided to support the "Elephants from illegal ivory markets".

We are working to keep ivory where it belongs and you can help!
"Ivory belongs on elephants"

This is our plan of action to help the Elephants:

THE ILLEGAL IVORY MARKET

Today we are going to talk about one of the problems in our planet: “THE ILLEGAL IVORY MARKETS”.

Nowadays there are some elephants which are born without a horn.

Our organisation wants to protect the elephants from the hunters. We ask you for collaboration to solve this problem.

PROBLEMS: We chose this "You Tube" film www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYQ3zbLoI4 to show the problem.

1. Many elephants die becouse of the illegal ivory market.

2. The coast of one horn is between 75-100 dolars.

3. Nowadays some elephants are born without horn.

ACTIONS:

1. Put into prison all elephant hunters.

2. Stop the sales of ivory.

3. Invent new methods to protect elephants.

SURVEY:

Hello, we are OSE, an “Organitzation to Save the Elephants” and we are doing a survey to see the opinion of the people.

· Are you in favour of the illegal ivory market?

Yes No

· Do you think we should do something about it?

Yes No

· Do you think we should look for the hunters and punish them?

Yes No

THE EVENT:

Citizens of Navarra, we let you know that next Thursday October 13th, 2011 we, the OSE organization is organizing a race because we need to collect a lot of money to contribute in an elephant protection campagne.

To take part in this event it is necessary to pay 5€.