Unit 2. Videos. How to be more water-wise

Watch the video and answer the following questions:

1. What´s a drought? Give at least two definitions

2. Why did they decide to reduce water consumption?

3. What did the kids and their families decide to do to be more water-wise?.

 

Watch the following video and try to understand different ways of saving water. Complete the following information with the main ideas of the listening:

1. You should always__________the water when you are not using it.

2. There is water everywhere in______and_____and__________.

3. We can save water by________the short________instead of a bath and by______________dirt outside instead of using a_________

4. I always tell my dad when I find a________that´s dripping so he can fix it.

5. Use a __________to wash your dad´s car instead of using a ______

6. Wash full_________instead of washing just a few things.

Unit 2. Water in the past. Documentary: ” Memòria líquida”

Now you are ready to write about “water in the past”.

After viewing the documentary “Memòria líquida” in the ethics class, you were asked to interview your grandparents, great-uncle, great-aunt, senior neighbors or friends about water in the past: drinking water? washing up? laundry? bathroom? water restrictions? water collection from fountains? shower everyday? etc.

You can create a web page with your findings by using Adobe Spark.

Remember to use the Past Simple tense.

Unit 2. Video. Nature is speaking.Penélope Cruz is Water & Harrison Ford is The Ocean

Watch this video:

Now do the following activities. Watch the video again to check your answers.

  1. Order the following sentences:
    a) I’m something they just take for granted
    b) and more and more of them every single day
    c) I am water
    d) To humans I am simply just there
    e) But there is only so much of me
  2. Complete the following sentences:
    I start as __________ in the __________ .
    Flow to the __________ and streams.
    And __________ up in the __________ .
    Then the __________ begins __________ .
    And it will take me __________  years to get back to the __________ I am in __________ .
  3. Does the narrator think humans will fight over water when there are billions more of humans around? Is that the only option?
  4. Does nature need humans?

At home you can watch this video on the ocean.