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A climate change lesson plan for GCSE

 This is a 5-part lesson I created with help from ChatGPT which provided the multi-choice questions, translation of the video transcript, ranking exercise and gap-fill task. I think it would work well with Higher Tier GCSE students, even though the video used as the source material is aimed at younger French children. The video is an introduction to climate and climate change. Captions are available but they are not very accurate. The transcript is available on the YouTube page, but I have copied it in below. I like the the fact that the lesson begins with listening comprehension with a short, clear video (I'd recommend two listenings, or some pauses chosen by the teacher). The MCQs could be done individually or guided one-by-one by the teacher. The gap-fill should be done individually or in pairs. The good /bad for the environment task can also be done individually or in pairs. The pair work vocab test gives a chance to recap vocab words and chunks before the final pair work quest...