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Environment. Renewable Energy. Energy Efficiency ||
 *  Module I - Didactic Units / Goals
 * [[image:http://eldeverde.com/images/fotounidad1modulo1.jpg width="334" height="122" align="right"]]Unit 1.  Climate change. What are we talking about?

What are we going to do in this Unit? * Think about Kyoto Protocol predictions. * Know some expert opinions about the climate change. * Hear about Greenpeace´s conclusions of the Cancun Climate Change Summit. * Describe: which are the main green houses?

What are we going to practice? - Expressing opinions with courtesy. - Expressing approval or disapproval. - Uses of the preposition: “según”

What are we going to create? Final Task:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Make a presentation of a real case that use one of the follow renewable energies: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Solar Power / Wind Power / Thermosolar Power / Bioenergy Power. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the presentation using <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Screenr <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> tool. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">In addition... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit 2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">When and how did start this serious problem? Reflecting in the past.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to do in this Unit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Reflecting in the past. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Analyze some climatic consequences in the past provoked by the human being behavior. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Know the opinion of the Spanish Greenpeace ex-manager. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Remember the facts of the Doha Climate Change Summit (Qatar) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Revise the environment acronym and abbreviations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to practice? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Different ways to express the past. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Expressing duty and need. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Some kind of speech pauses.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to create? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">Final Task:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Make a presentation about a disaster provoked by the action of human being. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the presentation using Screenr tool. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">In addition... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit 3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;"> Future of the climate change. Reflecting in the future.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to do in this Unit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Reflecting about the future of the climate change. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Define: “Sostenibilidad y Sustentabilidad” concepts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Analyze the consequences in the future on the climate change caused for the human being behaviour. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Classify: The positive and negative feedback climate change? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Predict: Europe on 2050. IPCC predictions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to practice? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Uses and conjugation of the “Futuro Simple” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Uses and conjugation of the “Futuro hipotético” (Condicional simple) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Asking for the causes of something. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Expressing the consequences of something.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to create? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">Final Task:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Search for an press report about a meteorological event supposed caused for the global warming and their future consequences on the planet. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Make a summary of the report. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the summary using the AudioBoo tool. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">In addition... <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.5;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit 4. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Energy Efficiency .Energy saving. Sustainable development

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to do in this Unit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Analyze the advice, warning and wishes from the Spanish Diversification and Energy Saving Institute Ahorro de la Energía (IDAE) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Know about some interesting data of white goods. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Find out how the Energy label is? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">* Think about some ideas to save the planet

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to practice? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Expressing purpose to get something <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Expressing schemes, goals, intents <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Expressing advice, warning, and plea for a social benefit <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Some uses of the Imperative tense <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- Uses of the prepositions: POR & PARA

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to create? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">Final Task: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Write ten easy ideas to save the Planet <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the ideas on the AudioBoo tool. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">In addition... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit 5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;"> Renewable Energy. Energy mixed.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to do in this Unit? <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Analyze the Spanish Energy sources. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Listen and discuss about the Energy resources available. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Follow the “Life cycle of the Energy” <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Know about the 0.3 Energy report. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Break down a Spanish electrical bill.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What are we going to practice? <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Expressing doubt, probability. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Uses of the preposition <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Expressions: Estar a favor de... / Estar en contra de...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What we are going to create? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">Final Task:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Make a presentation of an electrical bill of your country breaking down the main data. **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the presentation on Screenr tool **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">In addition... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit 6. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black','avant garde'; font-size: 10pt;"> Corporate Social Responsibility culture (CSR) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to do in this Unit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Analyze the importance of the brand company. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Know about the “Entorno Foundation” CO2 project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Discuss about the Spaniard opinions related of what they would change to mitigate the Climate Change or Global. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Think about the advantages and disadvantages that the “Carbon Footprint” products have. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* Calculate your “Carbon Footprint” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Carbon Footprint Calculator)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are we going to practice? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Expressing the condition and concession <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Uses and conjugation of “Imperfecto del Subjuntivo” tense. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Uses and conjugation of “Condicional” tense.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What we are going to create? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Final Task:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Make an average electrical calculation of your home using the “Carbon Footprint Calculator” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Record the findings on <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Screenr <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">tool. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Publish the task in the Classroom-Blog. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">In addition... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Assess your knowledge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Fill up the general and technical storage memory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Participate in the video chat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ Interact with: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a7886; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|@comunidadelde]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Skills: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listening & Reading Comprehension / Speaking & Writing Expression / Speaking & Writing Interaction. ||