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PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge University Press 2011
CLIL: Extreme environments
Level 3 Episode 5 17
Level 3Episode 5
Teaching notesThis programme is a short documentary about
Antarctica. Sophie, the presenter, tells us the
Antarctic as a ‘desert’ and gives us some
interesting facts about Antarctica. She also visits
the headquarters of the British Antarctic Survey,
where she interviews one of the scientists who
work there.
Background informationThe British Antarctic Survey is a research
centre based in Cambridge. For over 60 years it
has undertaken the majority of Britain’s scientifi c
research on and around the Antarctic continent. It
now shares that continent with scientists from over
30 countries.
BAS employs over 400 staff, and supports three
stations in the Antarctic, at Rothera, Halley and
Signy, and two stations on South Georgia, at
King Edward Point and Bird Island. The Antarctic
operations and science programmes are executed
and managed from Cambridge, and rely on a
wide-ranging team of professional staff.
Before you watch1a Warm up Ask the class to think of as many
weather words as they can in 2 minutes and
write them on the board. Add any from exercise
1a that the class hasn’t thought of and explain
their meaning. Explain that extreme can
describe very high or very low temperatures. Ask
students to give examples of animals that live in
hot, cold and wet climates. Ask students to do
exercise 1a.
1b Ask the class to answer the question in exercise
1b. They might suggest that both places have
extremes of temperature and both places are
windy. They may also say that both places are
cold (deserts get cold at night) and dry. Avoid
confi rming their answers at the moment, just
write down their ideas on the board.
While you watch2a Students watch the fi rst part of the video
(0:39:02-0:41:45) to check their answers to 1b.
2b Ask students to predict words which complete
the gaps in 2b. Play the fi rst part of the video
again, pausing for students to complete the gaps.
2c Play the second part of the video (0:39:59-
0:40:29) without sound and ask students to
guess the answers to exercise 2c. Then play the
clip with sound. Write The headquarters of the
British Antarctic Survey on the board.
3a Ask students to look at the pictures and read the
descriptions. Ask them to discuss questions 1–3
in exercise 3a.
3b Play the third part of the video (0:40:29-0:41:16)
and ask students to check their answers to
exercise 3a.
4 Ask students to read the two parts of the
sentences in exercise 4. Explain the meaning
of carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases and
atmosphere if necessary. Play the third part of
the video again, pausing after each sentence so
that students can match the sentence halves.
5 Play the third part of the video a fi nal time and
ask students to do exercise 5. Elicit the meaning
of melt after students have watched the video.
After you watch6a Revise what students know about global
warming before asking them to do exercise 6a.
You could do this by writing the three questions
in the exercise on the board and asking students
to discuss them in pairs. When you’re confi dent
they will be able to complete some of the
exercise, ask students to do exercise 6a.
Lo tech Ask students to make notes about the
information which they got from the video and
to plan a short presentation using their notes.
Select a few students to give a presentation to the
class using their notes. Ask students to write up
their presentation in a paragraph for homework.
Hi tech If you have access to a video camera,
fi lm the presentations. If students have access
to a camera phone or a digital camera they can
make their own short video to show in groups in
the next lesson.
6a Ask students to work in pairs interviewing
each other.
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Video script1 Headquarters of the British Antartic Survey
0:39:02-0:39:15
Here’s a quick question. What’s the largest
desert in the world? The Sahara Desert? No. The
answer’s surprising. It’s at the South Pole. And it’s
Antarctica.
2 Antartic footage 0:39:15-0:39:59
Antarctica is a place of extremes. It’s the coldest,
driest and windiest place on Earth. But although
ice covers over ninety nine percent of the land,
there’s only one to two centimetres of snowfall
every month. And that makes it a desert. Because
you don’t need sand for a desert. A desert gets
very little rain. In spite of the extreme conditions,
some land animals have learned to survive, such
as the Antarctic penguins. You won’t fi nd many
humans though. But international scientists come
here to study the wildlife and the ice.
3 The store room tent 0:39:59-0:40:29
Brrrr … I’ve never been so cold in all my life...OK,
OK. I’m not really in the Antarctic. I’m actually in
Cambridge inside the headquarters of the British
Antarctic Survey. This is an environmental research
centre which has three bases in Antarctica. Tamzin
is one of the scientists working here.
4 Scientist at the British Antartic Survey 0:40:29-0:41:16
Tamzin To fi nd out what happened in the past you
can drill down through the ice. I call the drill a time
machine because you are collecting snow that fell
millions of years ago. And when that snow falls,
it traps bubbles of gas. So, you can see in this
thousands-of-years-old snow, like, tiny bubbles.
And those bubbles are capturing the atmosphere:
the air as it was when the snow fell. So we can
fi nd out things like how much carbon dioxide and
other greenhouse gases there used to be in the
atmosphere and compare that to how much we’ve
got now. Some people think life in Antarctica could
be a bit boring because you can’t, you know…
Go out to the cinema, or anything like that. But
you can go skiing, you can go climbing, and … I
like snowboarding, personally. That’s my favourite.
There’s really plenty to do.
5 In the cold room 0:41:16-0:41:45
I’m now in the cold room – and it really is cold
in here. The ice in these tubes was taken from
Antarctica. And some of it is thousands of years
old. This ice can show scientists how the climate
has changed. If global warming causes this ice
to melt, it will affect all of our lives. So let’s hope
Antarctica stays as cold and as beautiful forever.
KeyBefore you watch1a Picture a (Sahara desert): 3, 5, 6, 10
Picture b (Antarctica): 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
1b Student’s own answers.
While you watch2a Both places are deserts because both get very
little rain.
2b 1 desert 2 coldest 3 99 4 year
5 sand 6 rain 7 penguins 8 ice
2c 1 Sophie’s at the headquarters of the British
Antarctic Survey, in Cambridge.
2 Tamsin is a scientist who works at the British
Antarctic Survey.
3a 1 ice 2 ice
3 It can tell them how many greenhouse
gases there used to be in the atmosphere
compared to the amount today.
4 1 d 2 a 3 c 4 b
5 1 causes 2 melt
After you watch6a 2 atmosphere 3 create 4 atmosphere
5 melts 6 rise 7 get 9 animals
6b Student’s own answers.
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Before you watch 1a Match the words to the pictures.
1 hot 2 cold 3 windy 4 snowfall 5 dry
6 sand 7 ice 8 penguins 9 seals 10 camels
1b How are the two places similar?
While you watch2a Watch the fi rst part of the video and check your answer to exercise 1b.
2b Watch the fi rst part of the video again and complete Sophie’s notes.
ANTARCTICA is the biggest 1 in the world 2 , driest and windiest place on earth
Icecovers 3 % of the land
Snow1–2cms every 4
DesertDon’t need 5 for a desert. A desert is a place that gets little 6 .
AnimalsSome land animals, for example Antarctic 7
People - not many!Scientists go there to study the wildlife and the 8 .
2c Watch the second part of the video and answer the questions.
1 Where is Sophie in the fi rst scene?
2 Who is Tamsin?
a b
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3a Look at the pictures and answer the
questions.
1 Picture a is of a drill. It makes holes in hard
materials. What material is it drilling?
2 Picture b is of tubes. What do scientists keep
in the tubes?
3 Picture c is of a block of ice. What does
Tamsin say it can tell scientists about the
environment?
3b Watch the third part of the video and check
your answers to exercise 3a.
a
b
c
4 Watch the third part of the video again and
match the beginnings of the sentences
(1–4) to the endings (a–d).
1 Scientists drill down through the ice
2 When snow falls
3 Scientists can fi nd out how much
carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases
4 Life in Antartica isn’t boring because
a it traps bubbles of gas.
b you can go skiing, climbing and
snowboarding.
c were in the atmosphere.
d to fi nd out what happened in the past.
5 Watch the third part of the video again and
complete Sophie’s warning.
Sophie If global warming 1 this
ice to 2 , it will affect all
of our lives.
After you watch6a Complete the answers to these questions
with these words.
animals atmosphere x2 get create
earth increase melts rise
What is global warming?
It is an 1 in the Earth’s temperature.
What is the greenhouse gas?
Gases like CO2 are released into the
2 (by cars, factories, animals, plants).
These gases 3 heat, making the
4 warmer.
What happens next?
Global warming 5 snow and ice
and this causes sea levels to 6 .
Countries 7 too hot; for people,
plants and 8 .
6b Work with a partner. Take turns to interview
each other using the questions and answers
in exercise 6a.
increase
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