Listen to speech the first time without looking at the written speech provided below .
Video: The girl that silenced the world for 5 minutes- Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0&feature=related
a. Listen to the speech one more time and fill in the blanks noted with a question mark (?). Stop and restart the video as needed.
“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O – the Environmental Children’s Organization. We are a group of ? and ? year-olds trying to make a ?, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We’ve ? all the money to come here ourselves, ? 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must ? your ways. ? here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am ? for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an ?, or a few points on the stock market.”
“I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak ? of the starving children around the world whose cries ? ?. I am here to speak for the countless animals ? across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now, because of the ? in our ?. I am afraid to ? the air, because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my Dad until, just a few years ago, we found a ? full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, ? forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of ? animals, jungles and ? full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children ?.”
“Did you have ? of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the ?, but I want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how ? the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the ? back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now ?. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop ? it.”
“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you’re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are ? ?. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 ? strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world ? one single goal.”
“In my anger, I am not blind and in my ? I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country we make so much ?, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries will not ? with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our ? In Canada , we live the privileged life. ? ? plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children ? on the streets. This is what one child told us, ‘I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, ?, shelter and love and affection’. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my ? ?, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ? poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, ? you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying ‘Everything is going to be all right, it’s not the end of the world, and we are doing the best we can’. But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of ? ? My dad always says, ‘You are what you do, not what you ?’. Well, what you do makes me ? at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”
b. What did you think of the speech?
c. If you had the opportunity, would you do the same but in another topic? Who would be your audience and what topic(s) you would address.
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B. Grammar
1. Prepositions
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2. Click on the following link and do the exercises in class: http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/elt/catalogue/9780194317184-c.pdf
3. More exercises on Prepositions
Choose the correct preposition from the word list below to fill in the blanks for each sentence.
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over into at behind beside under by from between up on
during outside of through without toward until onto near in
among before across after along for with opposite as around
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1. I ride my bicycle to work, all the way ______________ the mountain.
2. The sign says, "Please don't sit _____________ the grass."
3. He ran as fast as he could _____________ catch the bus.
4. Be careful you don't fall _____________ the stairs. They are very steep!
5. It began to rain, so we all ran _____________ the house.
6. He gave us directions and suggested we drive about 5 miles _____________ the sunset, then
turn left _____________ we reach the town _____________ Highlands.
7. We can't get _____________ the concert hall _____________ our tickets. Someone
_____________ our group will need to go back _____________ the hotel to get them.
8. The United States of America is located _____________ Canada and Mexico.
9. Let's have a picnic _____________ the lake. The water is so warm that we could jump
_____________ and go _____________ a swim. Let's wait _____________ _____________
we eat though.
10. If you go _____________ the bridge, you will be _____________ a different country!
11. Would you like to go _____________ a walk _____________ the river _____________ me?
12. The reference section is located _____________ the fiction section, _____________ the
second floor, directly _____________ the kids' section on the first floor of the library.
Review the following page in class and answer all questions with the correct preposition: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/learning/primary_worksheets/prepositions.pdf and
http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Prepositions_of_Place_2.pdf
4. Phrasal verbs
| Use the following verbs (believe, fill, get, look, put, switch, take, throw, turn, try) and the prepositions (away, down, for, in, off, on, out) an form meaningful sentences. Example: My parents are out. So I have to _________ my baby-brother. Answer: My parents are out. So I have to look after my baby-brother. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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C. Oral Expression
- Guess Who + Clues Game:
- Meeting of friends over skype.
- Topics: memorable times together in France, plans for summer vacation and information about one's job, etc.
- Teacher: Computer Engineer living in California and working for Google
- Student A: Actress living in Hollywood
- Student B: High fashion designer in Paris
