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Would You Swap Your Phone for the Wild?Humans and Nature
Première (general) · CEFR B1 → B2 · Threads: Planet, Power, Identity
“Would you swap your phone for a week in the wild?”
The big question
Do we protect nature for its own sake, or for ours, and who gets to decide which places are saved?
The journey
- Phone or wild?: Give opinions on what nature gives us.
- Ansel Adams and John Muir: See how a photographer and a writer made America protect its wild places.
- Wangari Maathai: planting trees, planting peace: Discover that protecting nature can be a political act.
- When nature fights back: Los Angeles, 2025: Understand how people adapt to extreme weather.
- Create your own game: Park Ranger: Invent an escape game where teams save a park.
- Final task: a new national park: Design and defend a protected area.
Sentence starters
- Nature gives us…
- Ansel Adams’s photo shows…
- Wangari Maathai believed…
- The fires spread because…
- Before you start, …
- Our park will protect…
Game: Park Ranger
An escape game: 5 locked clues (map, photo, quote, weather report, animal track). Each clue opens only when the team gives a correct English sentence.
Final task
Group presentation (B1–B2): propose a new protected area, with a map, a photo in Adams’s style and three rules.
My effort badges
☐ Word Hunter☐ Team Player☐ Game Designer☐ Brave Speaker☐ Comeback Badge
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