Australia and Climate Change

                  Australia and Climate Change

Group work in class 22 October 2024

• Pre-reading: Climate change in Australia
  Group work : Prepare a power point presentation. You have 30 min. (product to be uploaded in Lectio - Documents - Australia)
  
  

• 1. The Great Barrier Reef

• 2. The Blue Mountains

• 3. The eucalyptus trees and the koala

• 4. Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil and their song: "Beds Are Burning" (show the music video + lyrics)

• 5. The Adani coal mine and fossil fuels

• 6. The environmental policies of the Australian government

• 7.The UN Climate Change Conference and planetary warming

• 8. Climate damage in Australia

• Michael E Mann: Australia, your country is burning (2020)

• Post-reading: Re-write Ian Mudie's "This Land"
  Pair work: Rewrite the poem and reflect the present climate change land.  (product) 

Two Virtuel Classes Monday 28 October 2024

 2022 in review: is this the year Australia faced its climate reckoning?

What to do

Homework for Monday 28 October 2024: 2022 in review: is this the year Australia faced its climate reckoning?

Source: 2022 in review is this the year Austalia faced its climate reckoning? 22 Dec. 2022, BBC

Module 5: Vocabulary – individual work 

Write an English definition of the word or translate into Danish   (product: To be uploaded in ElevFeedBack 5th module, 25 Oct) 

Emphatic
seaboard
La Nina
load the dice
climate adaptation
grid
curtail
showdown
in the pipeline

Module 6: Comprehension questions – individual work.    (product: To be uploaded in ElevFeedBack 6th module, 25 Oct)  

1.  Which extreme weather events changed votes at the election in 2022?
   
   

2. The new Labor government made immediate new climate change legislation after the election. Which?
   
   

3. The climate change minister began work on …?
   
   

4. Are the new climate initiatives going to be sufficient, according to experts?
   
   

5. Account for the damage in Lismore and central Brisbane?
   
   

6. What did they experience in Australia’s eastern seaboard?
   
   

7. What are the consequences of 1C global heating?
   
   

8. How do insurance companies and banks react to floods?
   
   

9. What dire information can be found in the government report from 2021 about the state of the environment? Make a list.
   
   

10. Who is to blame for this?
    
    

11.  What does the environment minister plan to do about the state of the environment?
    
    

12.  Account for the state of the reef system
    
    

13. Why is it so difficult to change the state of the reef system to the better? Furthermore, comment on the sarcastic tone in the paragraph “The response was familiar”.
    
    

14.  Which list are the reefs on?
    
    

15.  Account for the bright news.
    
    

16.  Which renewable type of energy has grown most rapidly in Australia last year?

Let's ask a chatbot for information on climate change in Australia.

Ask a few questions about climate change in Australia.

1. Find information about the coal industry in Australia and how it affects climate change in Australia.

2. Ask about Woodside's role.
   
   Prepare notes and prepare to share in class.   (product) 

Ted Talks on the state of Coral Reefs (we watched it 1 Nov. 2024)

Yes, we can save the world’s coral reefs | Terry Hughes | TEDxJCUCairns 

Cop28 in Dubai 30 Nov. 2023 (IKKE GENNEMGÅET) 

Super-Corals And The Future Of Coral Reefs | Verena Schoepf | TEDxUWA 

Cop 28 UN site 

The article Australia backs Cop28 promise to triple renewables but not nuclear capacity pledge from the Guardian, 3 Dec. 2023 accounts for the Australian Government commitments made during COP28 2023.