All Things Topics
  • Home
  • Contact Me
  • Basic English Dialogs
  • Word Bank Videos
  • Word Games for Any Occasion
  • Gemma
  • Spelling Town: FREE SPELLING BOARD GAME
  • SPELLING 1
  • Airports and Air Travel
  • Aliens
  • Animals and Birds
  • Apartments and Houses
  • Art
  • Australia
  • Babies
  • Banks
  • Beach
  • Biology
  • Body
  • Brazil
  • Bugs and Insects
  • Business and Finance
  • Bus Travel
  • Camping
  • Canada
  • Cats
  • Cheating
  • Christmas
  • Clothing and Fashion
  • Coffee
  • Colds and the Flu
  • Colleges & Universities
  • Colors
  • Computers and Internet
  • Cooking
  • Countries
  • Crime
  • Daily Activities
  • Dating and Marriage
  • Dentist
  • Describing People
  • Deserts
  • Dinosaurs
  • Directions
  • Disasters
  • Driving
  • Emotions
  • English Exams
  • Environment
  • Exercise and Sports
  • Face
  • Family
  • Famous People
  • Fast Food
  • Food and Drinks
  • Fruits & Vegetables
  • Haircut
  • Halloween
  • Health and Medicine
  • Hospitals
  • Hotels
  • Household Chores
  • Iceland
  • Introductions
  • Jobs and Work
  • Kitchen
  • Learning English
  • Leisure Activities
  • McDonald's
  • Money
  • Moon
  • Mother's Day
  • Movies and Television
  • Music
  • Names
  • Oceans and Sea Life
  • Office
  • Olympics
  • Oman
  • Places Around Town
  • Planet Earth
  • Reading
  • Restaurants
  • School
  • Science & Technology
  • Shopping
  • Sleep and Dreams
  • Smoking
  • Space and Space Travel
  • Star Trek
  • Supermarket
  • Swimming
  • Taiwan
  • Taxis
  • Teenagers
  • Telephone
  • Thanksgiving
  • Time and Dates
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • United States
  • Valentine's Day
  • War
  • Weather
  • Writing
  • YouTube
  • Zoo
allthingstopics
Free printable PDF lesson plans, word banks, quizzes and games for EFL/ESL teachers
ENVIRONMENT

Picture
Reading Lessons
ENVIRONMENT
60-minute Reading Lesson (A2 Elementary Level): 'Climbing the Tallest Trees'
60-minute Reading Lesson (A2 Elementary Level): 'An Ocean of Garbage'
60-minute Reading Lesson (A2 Elementary Level): 'Village Wants to Move Away'
60-minute Reading Lesson (A2 Elementary Level): '6 Things to do on Earth Day'

Picture
The longer (7:50), more detailed video version below introduces new vocabulary and allows learners to test their listening comprehension. Use it as a "stand-alone", or in conjunction with the above handout!
Picture
Basic English Dialogs:
​Environment
​
​
Three short dialogs for vocabulary, listening, and speaking practice.

​Extension activity on attached Page 2

Answer Key attached on Page 3

Level: Elementary to Intermediate

​​Audio and Answer Key are also available in video format below (3:38) for your students!
 
​
Picture
FREE
​Download
DIALOG 1
Right Click Here to Download Audio - Save as MP3 File
DIALOG 2
Right Click Here to Download Audio - Save as MP3 File
DIALOG 3
Right Click Here to Download Audio - Save as MP3 File

Picture
Picture
Writing Practice
ENVIRONMENT


"Write a short paragraph to explain why it is important to protect the environment. Also, describe three things that people can do in their daily lives to help the environment."

Focus on present tense 
​
Level: Elementary to Intermediate
​

Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
An original video (5:23) created and uploaded to YouTube by All Things Topics

The 15 words and sentences in the video follow the same order of the answers in the above printable worksheet! Show it to your students as a fun way to check their work.

​Visit my YouTube channel to subscribe and watch more English language teaching and learning videos!
Word Bank (Gap-Fill)
ENVIRONMENT


15 vocabulary items about the environment (with a focus on environmental protection)

Gap-fill exercise; Answer Key attached

Level: Intermediate 
​
Approximate Time: 15 - 20 minutes
​
Picture
FREE      Download
Picture
Right Click Here to Download Audio - Save as MP3 File
Picture
Right Click Here to Download Audio - Save as MP3 File
climate change
deforestation
disposable
environmentalist
​extinct
fossil fuel
garbage
habitat
plastic
​pollution
protect
protest
recycle
sea level
​wildlife

Picture
Rank & Discuss Opinions
ENVIRONMENT

12 statements about the environment

Students read, rank their opinions, and then discuss in pairs or small groups

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Approximate Time: 20 minutes
​

Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
Board Game
ENVIRONMENT


30 questions about the environment

For groups of two to three players

Level: Elementary to Intermediate 

Approximate Time: 20 to 25 minutes

Dice required

​
Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
'Find Someone Who'
​Activity

ENVIRONMENT

​Classic 'Find Someone Who' activity

​Whole class activity

Activity Notes on Page 2 (with Activity
​Version 1 and Version 2)

Level: Elementary to Intermediate

Approximate Time:  15 - 20 minutes
​
Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
Pair Work Discussion
ENVIRONMENT


20 different questions about protecting our environment - evenly divided into 'A" and 'B' handouts

Pair work

Level: Intermediate

Approximate Time: 15 minutes
​

Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
Discussion Practice
ENVIRONMENT

​16 Question strips adapted from the above Pair Work activity.

These questions can be used with students seated in pairs or in small groups, or with students standing.

Activity Notes on Page 2

Level: Intermediate

​Approximate Time: 10 - 15 minutes
​

Picture
FREE
Download

Picture
Picture
Picture