MAN (MARÍA CELESTE GARCÍA)

 

I have used this video many times with 4ºESO and 1º Bachillerato, as It is great video to work on the topics of ecology, environment and recycling, which are always in our textbooks.

I play the first scene, when the man appears on Earth and the the very end, when everything is full of trash and I ask them whet they think it has happened in the meanwhile. I try to elicit their answers by asking them how does the opening scene make them feel and how does the last one (This is also a good way to review adjectives of feeling and to practice them in context).

Then I play the video and tell them they will have to be very focused on everything they see for those 3 minutes, as they will be asked some questions afterwards.

Then I ask them questions such as What does he throw into the sea? What does he turn the forest into? How does he treat nature and animals?

Finally I organize them in little groups and tell them to decide if the videoclip is realistic or not and why, what we should we expect as human beings, and what would be the possible solutions and course of action.

After ten minutes we have a discussion all together.