CLIL LESSON PLAN

Topic: Board game: Act Sustainably

Age: >10 English Level: A2

Location: Classroom Duration: 50 min.

Related subjects: Geography, Biology, English language, Science

Material needed:

A3 paper, 7 bottle caps (4 colors), paper cup.

Aims:

To foster students’ awareness of environmental topics.

To encourage children recycle.

To teach students how long it takes various types of

garbage to decompose.

To help students understand that learning can be

achieved in a foreign language.

Develop and intensify skills like explaining and describing

pictures in a foreign language.

To help students cooperate, accept loss and compromise

Working procedure:

Download the attached “Act sustainably” board game.

Print it in A3 paper. One game per team (4 players)

Divide your class into teams of 4 players.

Teach the appropriate vocabulary.

Read and explain the attached instructions.

Play and enjoy the game!

Recycling

Batteries

Garbage track Waste sorting

Plastic bottle

Garbage bin

Or

Dustbin

Bottle caps

Recycle Appliances

Aluminum cans

Used clothing

Appropriate Vocabulary

Age range: >10

Numbers of players: 2-4

You will need:

• 2-4 plastic or metal bottle caps for the players. 1 piece per player (different color).

• 3 plastic or metal bottle caps to shake.

• A paper cup.(Optional)

How to Play

• Put the player caps in the starting space.

• Put the 3 caps into the paper cup. Shake it and drop

the three caps. Count the ones that land face up, then

move that number of spaces. For instance, in the picture

on the right, you must move 1 space.

• Follow the symbols and the written instructions.

• The winner is the one to arrive first in the last space.

• Please note: He must cast the exact number of spaces

needed to get to the end!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Cliparts were taken from: http://cliparts.co/

Painted by the Greek student: Kostas Doskas

Important! Plastic bottle takes over 450 years to decompose.

You donated used Clothing.

Play again

Plastic bottle in the River.

LOSE 1 TURN

Trash in the school yard!

You used glass bottles

MOVE AHEAD 2 Spaces

MOVE AHEAD 2 spaces

You threw Aluminum Cans

in the forest You

use

d recycled

bag

You threw plastic at the beach!

MOVE BACK 2 spaces

You bought used clothing MOVE AHEAD

3 spaces

Re

use

d b

ottle

s

Sorted waste MOVE AHEAD

3 spaces

You threw trash outside

the bin

Move back 5 spaces

“Glass takes over 500 years to decompose!

“Aluminum cans take 80-500

years to decompose”

No Cigarettes to the sea!

“Paper takes 2-4 weeks to decompose”

You didn’t sort your waste! MOVE BACK

5 spaces

You recycled appliances

PLAY AGAIN!

LOSE 1 TURN

WINNER