Project Green

Course 7

Autumn 2024
Helsinki School of Natural Sciences

Krista Kindt-Sarojärvi

Welcome section

Join key: SPK39ECU

On Tuesdays, we always start at 9am.

At the end of the week, you'll receive half an hour's worth of work to make up for this.

To prepare for the first class, please do the following:
- Welcome section, ex. 5 (listening comprehension)
- Section 2, ex. 2 & 4 (Glossary sustainable living)
- practice the glossary vocabulary with these Gimkits:

Gimkit private practice
EN-FIN

FIN-EN

RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT

BOARD GAME

https://freeonlinedice.com/

Making sustainable choices - boardgame dice

Discussion in groups

What is your relationship with the environment?

1. How long have you been in possession of your current phone ?

2. How many showers do you take per week?
How long are your showers?

3. Are you a vegan, a vegetarian, a meat-eater, a meatatarian*, or a flexitarian?

*a person who exclusively or predominantly eats meat

4. Do you buy services or products as gifts?

5. Do you get to school on foot or by bike,
or by bus, car or moped?

6. How many times have you have flown in the last 3 years?

7. Do you use your own bag for carrying items when shopping, or do you buy one?

8. Do you drink water or takeaway coffees from a refillable container?

9. How many second-hand clothes or accessories are you wearing?

10. How concerned are you about the environment?

Do you suffer from
eco-anxiety?

1. Calculate your Carbon Footprint by doing this quiz: the WWF quiz.* Everybody calculates their own carbon footprint, but go through the quiz together in your team, helping each other out with the vocabulary!

Look up the words and add them to your notebook! (JOIN MOT - see below)

2. When you're done, discuss the results.
Were you surprised or not?

Extra: How can you reduce your carbon footprint?

* Adapt the questions to Finland:

FOOD Q4: … imported to Finland

TRAVEL Q6: Domestic = Finland
HOME Q7: ‘on a green tariff’ = your electricity comes from renewable energy (uusiutuva energia)

HOME Q8: double glazing = triple/quadruple glazing

3. Finally, write a summary of your team's discussion in the Padlet in the welcome section (1 box per team.)
ADD YOUR NAMES