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Cardboard Box Solar Cooker Wins PrizeA solar-powered cooker made from a cardboard box has won an international environment award. The Kyoto Box, the brainchild of designer John Bohmer, beat 300 other inventions. Mr. Bohmer won the top prize of $75,000 in the Financial Times Climate Change Challlenge. The simple Kyoto Box costs just $5 to make. People can cook rice in it, bake bread and boil water. It is an extremely simple design. It is made from two boxes, one inside the other. The boxes are covered with black paint and silver foil, which trap the sun’s heat. The Kyoto Box beat another cool idea to protect the environment – a food additive that stops cows passing wind. Scientists estimate that gas from animals makes up 20% of all greenhouse gasses.
Mr. Bohmer was delighted with his prize. He told reporters: “This is the simplest idea I could find.” He added that his “straightforward solution” was actually “discovered 240 years ago.” Bohmer hopes his invention will help three billion of the world’s poorest people. He said: “We're saving lives and saving trees. I doubt if there is any other technology that can make so much impact for so little money.” His invention really should make a big impact in poor countries. Millions of children die every year from drinking dirty water. The Kyoto Box will mean they can now drink boiled water and so get fewer diseases. It should also halve the amount of firewood people need for cooking. This will save two tones of carbon per family per year.
WARM-UPS1. ENVIRONMENT: Walk around the class and talk to other students about the environment. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. BEING GREEN: How can we help the planet? Complete this table. Talk about what you wrote with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you found out.
4. GREENHOUSE GASSES: Students A strongly believe we will eventually stop creating greenhouse gasses; Students B strongly believe there is no way we can do this, not in a million years. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. INVENTIONS: With your partner(s), think of what new uses you could put these things to. Share your ideas with your partner(s).
6. DESIGN: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘design’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one. combination is possible):
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING: Listen and fill in the spaces.A solar-powered cooker made from a cardboard _________________ international environment award. The Kyoto Box, the brainchild of designer John Bohmer, beat 300 other inventions. Mr. Bohmer _________________ $75,000 in the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge. The simple Kyoto Box costs just $5 to make. People _________________, bake bread and boil water. It is _________________ design. It is made from two boxes, one inside the other. The boxes are covered with black paint and silver foil, which trap the sun’s heat. The Kyoto Box beat another _________________ the environment – a food additive that stops cows passing wind. Scientists _________________ from animals makes up 20% of all greenhouse gasses. Mr. Bohmer was delighted with his prize. He told reporters: “This is the __________________ find.” He added that his “straightforward solution” was actually “discovered 240 years ago.” Bohmer hopes _________________ help three billion of the world’s poorest people. He said: “We're saving lives and saving trees. _________________ is any other technology that can make so much impact for so little money.” His invention really should _________________ in poor countries. Millions of children die every year from drinking dirty water. The Kyoto Box will mean they can now drink boiled water and so _________________. It should also halve the amount of firewood people need for cooking. This will save two tones of carbon ___________________. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘solar’ and ‘power’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
STUDENT ENVIRONMENT SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about the environment in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
ENVIRONMENT DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGEA solar-powered cooker (1) ____ from a cardboard box has won an international environment award. The Kyoto Box, the brainchild of designer John Bohmer, (2) ____ 300 other inventions. Mr. Bohmer won the top prize of $75,000 in the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge. The simple Kyoto Box costs just $5 to make. People can cook rice in it, bake bread and boil water. It is an (3) ____ simple design. It is made from two boxes, one inside the (4) ____. The boxes are covered with black paint and silver foil, which trap the sun’s (5) ____. The Kyoto Box beat another cool idea to protect the environment – a food additive that stops cows passing wind. Scientists estimate that gas from animals makes (6) ____ 20% of all greenhouse gasses. Mr. Bohmer was delighted (7) ____ his prize. He told reporters: “This is the simplest idea I could find.” He added that his “straightforward solution” was actually “discovered 240 years ago.” Bohmer hopes his invention will help three billion (8) ____ the world’s poorest people. He said: “We're saving (9) ____ and saving trees. I doubt if there is any other technology that can make so (10) ____ impact for so little money.” His invention really should make a big impact in poor countries. Millions of children die every year (11) ____ drinking dirty water. The Kyoto Box will mean they can now drink boiled water and so get fewer diseases. It should also halve the amount of firewood people need for cooking. This will save two tones of carbon (12) ____ family per year. Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITING:Write about the environment for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about the Kyoto Box. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. ENVIRONMENT: Make a poster about different environmental problems. How are they caused? How can they be solved? Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. WATER: Write a magazine article about why in the 21st century, billions of people do not have access to clean drinking water. Include imaginary interviews with the leader of a very rich country, and someone who has no clean water to drink. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to designer John Bohmer. Ask him three questions about his invention. Give him three ideas on what he should invent next to save the environment. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Cardboard box solar cooker wins prizeA solar-powered cooker made from a cardboard box has won an international environment award. The Kyoto Box, the brainchild of designer John Bohmer, beat 300 other inventions. Mr. Bohmer won the top prize of $75,000 in the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge. The simple Kyoto Box costs just $5 to make. People can cook rice in it, bake bread and boil water. It is an extremely simple design. It is made from two boxes, one inside the other. The boxes are covered with black paint and silver foil, which trap the sun’s heat. The Kyoto Box beat another cool idea to protect the environment – a food additive that stops cows passing wind. Scientists estimate that gas from animals makes up 20% of all greenhouse gasses. Mr. Bohmer was delighted with his prize. He told reporters: “This is the simplest idea I could find.” He added that his “straightforward solution” was actually “discovered 240 years ago.” Bohmer hopes his invention will help three billion of the world’s poorest people. He said: “We're saving lives and saving trees. I doubt if there is any other technology that can make so much impact for so little money.” His invention really should make a big impact in poor countries. Millions of children die every year from drinking dirty water. The Kyoto Box will mean they can now drink boiled water and so get fewer diseases. It should also halve the amount of firewood people need for cooking. This will save two tones of carbon per family per year. LANGUAGE WORK
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