Exploring Ecosystems
ESL Lesson PlansExploring Ecosystems

Exploring Ecosystems

This ESL lesson plan delves into ecosystems and biodiversity, ideal for B1-B2 level teens in a 60-minute group setting. Through listening activities, discussions, and vocabulary matching, students explore how plants, animals, and non-living elements interact within various ecosystems. By watching videos and engaging in fill-in-the-blank exercises, learners will gain insights into the importance of biodiversity and develop their speaking and comprehension skills while discussing the essential role of ecosystems in maintaining environmental balance.

Skills

  • Can understand the main points made in clear standard language or a familiar variety on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure, etc., including short narratives.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Fill in the blanks to discover interesting facts about ecosystems.

plants
non-living things
fish
rain
animals
The desert
water and rocks
1
In an ecosystem,
work together with
and non-living things like water.
2
Water and rocks are examples of
.
3
has very little
and is home to unique plants, like cactus and animals like camels, that have adapted to survive with very little water.
4
The ocean is a huge ecosystem where many living things, like
, interact with non-living things, like
.
2

Discuss the following questions in pairs.

3

Glossary

4

Watch the video about forest ecosystems and decide if the sentences about the video are True or False.

5

Watch the video again and answer the following questions.

6

Match these halves to form sentences about ecosystems.

7

Share your opinion on the following questions.