4. Make a difference

📚 practice reading skills for gist and specific information as well as reading for detailed comprehension and inference to understand the article about top world issues in more depth.

👄 Also, we are going to have freer oral practice to react to the article.

🍓We'll definitely work on a good piece of language, referring to the article on the topic of "wide world issues."

🍎 Last but not least, we'll get acquainted with grammar MFP - "comparatives with the....the" - its form as for written and spoken usage along with further controlled practice.

🍒 And the icing on the cake, 👄 speaking practice in speculation of different ways of raising money for donation/charity to put language from the lesson together and express personal ideas/opinions.

​We are going to:

👄 ​Do you think the future of the world is ...

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Poll

👄 Do you think the following are global problems ?

You are going to read the article-

​Jefferey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to the UN secretary general .

​Check if your opinion is similar.

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​Read the article again . Take notes :

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​Discuss the questions using your notes:

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Multiple Choice

Match the sentence to the one of the two graphs below. 

1. The higher the child mortality rate is, the higher the birth rate

Multiple Choice

Match the sentence to the one of the two graphs below. 

2. The more secure parents feel, the fewer children they have.

Multiple Choice

Match the sentence to the one of the two graphs below. 

3. The longer we wait, the larger the long-term costs.

​Look at the examples. Complete the rule:

​Look at the examples. Complete the rule:

​the + comparative adj.+ subject (+verb), the + comparative ad.+ subject (+verb) .

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​Check your answers, discuss if you have questions:

Poll

Read the statements once more, decide if you agree with them .

​Complete sentences with your own ideas :

​Choose one of your sentences. Make a chain of effects.

👉 ​The more I work, 👉the less free time I have.

👉The less free time I have,👉 the less exercise I do.

👉The less exercise I do,👉 ...

​EXAMPLE :

​Carol, do you mind if I bring a couple of friends to your party?

​the bigger,the better

​The sooner, the better​

​The simplier, the better

​The more, the merrier

​The fewer, the better

​The faster, the better

​The more sophisticated, the better

​Carol, do you mind if I bring a couple of friends to your party?

​Not at all,- the more the merrier!

​We often use short patterns, especially in conversations.

​Spin the spinner and answer the question using short patterns :

​1) Read the ideas for ways to raise money for aid .

​​2) ​Work in pairs to discuss questions 1 and 2.