News lessons how creating wildlife crossings can help reindeer, bears – and even crabs Level

4. Key language
a. Students first read the definitions, then combine 
words on the left with ones on the right to make 
multi-word verbal phrases from the article that match 
these meanings. They should find them in the article 
to check their answers and then write the answers 
on the lines provided. 
Key:
1. compared with 
2. speak out 
3. get involved
4. take something for granted 
5. hardly even
6. leave behind
1. Warmer 
a. Students share their answers to the questions with 
a partner or in small groups to introduce the topic of 
climate change and its effects on the weather and 
people’s lives, livelihoods and living conditions. 
2. Key words 
a. Students find words in the article that match the 
definitions and write them on the lines provided. 
Then they should find and highlight them in the 
article to read them in context.
Key:
1. activist
2. awareness
3. convinced
4. limit
5. attitudes
6. baby boomer
7. strikes
8. divide
9. responsibility
10. denies
b. Before reading the article carefully, students 
use some of the key words to fill the gaps in the 
sentences to ensure that they understand and know 
how the words are used in other contexts.
Key:
1. limit 
2. strikes
3. awareness
4. denies
5. convinced
Article summary:
Taking action against 
climate change is no longer just something 
that young people do. The results of a
10-year study show that older people are 
getting involved, too.
Time:
90 minutes, plus extra time for 
presentations