In this post, EFL Collective shares a new economical worksheet you can use to teach vocabulary related to sustainable development challenges and goals. It is mainly devised for pre-intermediate classes.
You can kick off the lesson by brainstorming what your students already know about the topic, then have them read the website entry above to do tasks (a-c)
The tasks a-c key:
a. Sustainable development (SD) refers to living in a way that meets the needs of the present without risking the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
b. economic growth; environmental stewardship; social inclusion; poverty reduction; peace and justice; health care; innovation; climate change
c. deplete
Later on, the students use words and collocations from task b in exercise 1 to name pictures, and then guess the remaining ones.
Exercise 2 Key:
- economic growth;
- environmental stewardship;
- social inclusion;
- poverty reduction;
- peace and justice;
- health care;
- innovation;
- climate change;
- life below water;
- quality education;
- hunger;
- sustainable city.
Here, you can ask students to categorize challenges and goals from the pictures above.
For more related vocabulary, the students are asked to do a gap-filling exercise (Exercise 3).
Exercise 3 Key:
a. natural .........renewable
b. empower.....developing.....education
c. policy....sustainable
d. innovation
e. hunger
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