miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011

This bulb

Self-study activity:
Watch this National Geographic ad where Natalie Portman, Kyra Sedgwick and Chloe Sevigny explain how simply changing a light bulb can help reverse the effects of greenhouse gases.

Fill in the gaps in the transcript with the missing information.

The activity is suitable for Básico 2 students, and even Básico 1 ones can give it a try.

This bulb alights your (1) ... .
This bulb will help reverse the effects of global warming, better the lives of people and animals (2) ... , not to mention reduce your electric (3) ... substantially over time.
Oh, yeah, and alight your your house too.
If everyone in America replaced just one (4) ... bulb in their house with this little guy, it’ll be like taking a million (5) ... off the road over the course of a year.
This bulb will prevent one thousand pounds of carbon dioxide greenhouse emissions from being put into the atmosphere.
How many light bulbs does it take to make a difference? One.
This bulb will help save (6) ..., cats, water buffalo, the red wood (7) ..., polar (8) ...  .
This bulb will help save (9) ... , my fish, my baby, the (10) ... , my grandmother, my children, and you.
This bulb can help save the planet.



Key:
1 house 2 everywhere 3 bill 4 light 5 cars 6 dogs 7 forests 8 bears 9 monkeys 10 country