LISTENING. Severn Suzuki speaking to the U.N. Earth Summit
(summit or summit meeting =a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngboj54GT8I www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8JjZyV2UA
BEFORE LISTENING:
Match the words in column A with a word or phrase that means the same in column B
A B
| 1.agenda | a) invite (someone) to engage in a contest or fight. |
| 2.on behalf of | b) to have an important effect on something, especially a good effect |
| 3.vanishing | c) strong feeling of displeasure |
| 4.make a difference | d) someone who is very poor and lives by asking people for money or food. |
| 5.ozone layer | e) a list of items to be discussed at a meeting. |
| 6. anger | f) in the interests of a person, group |
| 7. wealth | g) something important that must be done first or needs more attention than anything else |
| 8. shelter | h) disappearing |
| 9. greedy | i) wanting more money, things, or power than you need |
| 10. beggar | j) large amount of money and valuable things |
| 11. priority | k) adults |
| 12. grown ups | l) a place giving protection from bad weather or danger |
| 13. challenge | m) a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 10 km containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun |
How do you say those words in your language?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
WHILE LISTENING
MISCELLANEA. Choose the correct option a) b) or c), tick я the phrases or words you hear (more than one), and complete the blanks.
1. Severn Suzuki collaborates with…
a) Save the Children b) Green Peace c) Environmental Children’s Organization
2. The money for the journey was raised by…
a) the children’s parents b) the children themselves c) their organization
3. She travelled there to tell adults:
a) they must change their ways b) they must change their cars c) they must change their jobs
4. She’s there…
a) to fight for her future b) to fight for extinct animals c) to replant trees in the forests
5. She’s also there to speak…
a) and be part of b) on behalf of c) on be have of
…the starving children from around the world whose cries go unheard.
6. She’s afraid …
я to go out in the sun
я of darkness
я to breath the air because of the chemicals
я of wild animals
я that rainforests may disappear
7. Severn question the people at the summit:
“Did you _________worry of ________ ___________ when you ________ my _______?”
8. She also tells them…
a) she has all the solutions b) the people at earth the summit have the solutions
c) neither she nor the people at the earth summit have the solutions.
9. She tells the U.N. representatives they …
я don’t know how to fix the holes in the ozone layer
я they don’t know how to plant trees
я they don’t know how to fish salmons
я they don’t know how to bring back animals now extinct
я they can’t bring back the forests that once grew when there’s now a desert
PLEASE, ________ ____________ IT!
10. Severn Suzuki wants to raise awareness of the fact that…
a) they are mothers and fathers b) they all have a child c) they are all people belonging to a family
11. Northern countries…
a) will share with the needy b) won’t share with the needy c) don’t have anything to share
* (not in the version without subtitles) 12. People in Canada are privileged because they have…
я food, water and shelter
я watches
я cars
я computers
я TV sets
я motorbikes
13. Two days before, a child living in the street told Severn: “I wish I was rich…and if I were, I will give all the street children…
a) food, clothes, bicycles and computers b) food, clothes, medicine and shelter and love and affection
c) food, clothes and a laptop and love and affection
14. Severn thinks that what makes a tremendous difference among children is…
a) living in the Favellas of Rio b) where you are born c) fighting in the Middle East
15. She would like all the money spent on war was spent on…
a) finding environmental answers for the holes in the ozone layer
b) clothes and shelter for beggars
c) finding environmental answers and ending poverty
16. At school adults teach children…
я to not to fight with others
я to work things out
я to make a mess of everything
я not to hurt other creatures
я to share
я not to be greedy
17. Severn’s dad says…
a) you are what you study b) you are what you own c) you are what you do
WHAT YOU ______ ________ ME ______ AT NIGHT
Are the following sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1. Children in Severn’s Suzuki’s organisation are between 12 and 13.
2. Severn Suzuki travelled four thousand miles to make her speech.
3. She’s worried about what we are doing with the earth.
4. She travelled there to provide solutions.
5. Severn’s addressing to important people representing several countries.
6. The summit took place in Colombia.
7. She would like children to be one of the summit priorities.
8. She doesn’t believe those people are truthful.
Make the false ones true.
Answer the following questions according to Severn’s speech.
1.How old are the members of ECO?
2. What is she fighting for?
3. What did she use to dream on?
4. What is she reproaching the people there?
5. Who are the people in the summit?
6. According to Severn, how big is the family we belong to?
7. Why does she say in Canada they live the privileged life?
8. What can make a big difference among children in the world?
9. What is she trying to get when she says “Don’t forget why you are attending these conferences”?
10. How should parents be able to comfort their children?
11. What makes her cry at night?
12. What does she challenge them?
SPEAKING activity
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. 
Proverb, Native American