This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at level B1 explores the theme of cycling. Students will have a discussion about reducing carbon emissions.

Introduction

In this lesson students think about and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cycling and consider what else they could do personally to reduce their carbon emissions.

Topic

Cycling

Level 

B1

Timing 

90 mins

Aims:

  • Language: to help students talk about the pros and cons.
  • Skills: to develop students’ reading skills 
  • Content: Learners look at cycling as a way to reduce personal transport carbon emissions

Materials

Lesson plan: download guide for teacher on procedure

Worksheets: download for use in class

By Owain Llewellyn 

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment below and save it on your computer.

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Comments

Submitted by Liberio Gomez Juarez on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 15:10

Greetings, thank you for sharing inspiring ideas. 

Submitted by joekernow on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 14:50

Thank you for a really good lesson plan. I've used this for my teenager and adult class but also added a forth category of family members. I then, in groups, let them chose a member of the family and they described this member to the class. Another group then decides on the job and free time activity of this person and so forth til all the gropus were done, just for fun. The students really enjoyed this part. I also got them to find synonoms for Tall, Short, Fat and Thin, as I found these four descriptive adjectives kept on coming up time and time again so I banned them. That was really good fun as well.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 15:06

In reply to by joekernow

Thanks for the feedback - the ideas you used in class sound great. We are glad that your class enjoyed the lesson too! Cath

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