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Googleclassroom Activity : GRETA THUNBERG
Googleclassroom Activity : GRETA THUNBERG
Do you know who is Greta Thunberg?
So, take a look to the following activity:
So, take a look to the following activity:
Activity 1. READING. Read the following text about Greta Thunberg:
(lee el texto una vez entero sin buscar el significado de las palabras, después léelo buscando las palabras que no entiendas)
Greta Thunberg is the Swedish teenager who skipped school and inspired an international movement to fight climate change.
She has become a leading voice, inspiring millions to join protests around the world.
But who is she and what does she want?
She is a 17-year-old who grew up in Stockholm, in Sweden. Greta's mother, Malena Ernman, is an opera singer and former Eurovision Song Contest participant.
Her father Svante Thunberg, is an actor, and is a descendant of Svante Arrhenius, a scientist who came up with a model of the greenhouse effect. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903.
The elder of two girls, she says she learned about climate change when she was eight, but that her parents were not climate activists.
Greta has Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder, and has described it as a gift and said being different is a "superpower".
She held a sign that read "School Strike for Climate" and began regularly missing lessons to go on strike on Fridays, urging students around the world to join her.
Her protests went viral on social media and as support for her cause grew, other strikes started around the world, spreading with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.
By December 2018, more than 20,000 students around the world had joined her in countries including Australia, the UK, Belgium, the US and Japan. She joined strikes around Europe, choosing to travel by train to limit her impact on the environment.
What has she done since then?
The teenager took the whole of 2019 off school to continue campaigning, to attend key climate conferences, and to join student protests around the world.
In September 2019, she travelled to New York to address a UN climate conference. Greta refuses to fly because of its environmental impact, so she made her way there on a racing yacht, in a journey that lasted two weeks.
When she arrived, millions of people around the world took part in a climate strike, underlining the scale of her influence. Addressing the conference, she blasted politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change.
She said: "How dare you? I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?"
(Text from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49918719)
Activity 2. LISTENING. Now watch these videos, first in English with English subtitles:
Now watch the video with Spanish subtitles:
Activity 3. Answer the following question:
1. Greta has Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder, How did she describe it?
Activity 4. Are these sentences true or false?
1. Greta Thunberg skipped school and inspired an international movement to fight climate change.
2. she travelled to New York by plane in spite of its environmental impact.
3. The journey to New York lasted two weeks.
4.She began regularly missing lessons to go on strike on Fridays, urging students around the world to join her.
5. Her protests didn't go viral on social media and nobody support her cause.
Activity 5. VOCABULARY. Translate the following expressions from the text:
1. Skip classes:
2. Go on strikes:
Activity 6. Greta had the opportunity to say something to all world leaders and she said/ Greta tuvo la oportunidad de hablar con los líderes mundiales y les dijo:
"How dare you? I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?"
Translate into Spanish what she said.
Activity 7. WRITING. Imagine you can say something to all world leaders, What would you say to them? five lines minimum./( Imagina que tienes la oportunidad, como Greta, de poder hablar con todos los líderes mundiales, ¿Qué les dirías? 5 líneas mínimo)
