Category: Activities and projects

World records

Follow the links to watch videos with world records … https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/world-records/videoplayer/worldrecordsmp4 http://photodentro.edu.gr/v/item/video/8522/872 What was the strangest thing you learnt in this video? Do all these records still hold?

How can we reduce the carbon footprint of our school transportation?

Here is the infographic on the results of your survey on the carbon footprint of our school transportation. Have a look at the results and think of specific suggestions you can make to deal with the problem of …

Narrative writing

When we write narratives, we often use words that make the time transitions clear. Here is a list with common words to make temporal transitions in your stories better. Do you want to make your descriptions of places …

Byzantine stories and legends

Following the links you will find Byzantine stories and legends … Read them and choose the one you liked the most. Don’t forget to say WHY! While reading or watching the stories, take notes of expressions and words …

Drafting the questionnaire for our survey

THINK! What information do we need to collect, and from whom, in order to calculate the carbon footprint of our school transportation? Compare your conclusions with the information we need to add to the following carbon footprint calculators! …

A greenhouse effect simulator

Click to find a greenhouse effect simulator. Change the parameters to see what happens … https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/greenhouse-effect/latest/greenhouse-effect_en.html  

Air pollution in Thessaloniki

Follow the link to read an article about air pollution in Thessaloniki https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1160120/greece-taken-to-court-over-thessaloniki-air-pollution/ and use the following application to check air quality in our city during the year https://www.iqair.com/greece/central-macedonia/thessaloniki Finally, have a look at the following graph showing …

A greenhouse effect experiment

An experiment to show that the higher the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, the higher the temperature will rise …  

Meet the greenhouse gasses

Here is the link to the Climate Kids of NASA. Follow the link to read about the greenhouse gasses. At the bottom of the page, you can find the gasses’ ID cards … https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-cards/  

Let’s practise verb tenses again

Here are some more quizzes to practise talking about the present. Remember! I usually do my homework in the afternoon … (to talk about a habit) I can’t play right now. I am doing homework … (to talk …