Patrizia Calanchini Monti – Gabriella Orlando
MODULO CLIL INGLESE – SCIENZA DELLA MATERIA
Perché CLIL inglese - fisica?
 Affrontare l’argomento del riscaldamento globale in
modo approfondito – to deal thoroughly with global
warming
 Capire quale può essere il nostro contributo a
migliorare la situazione – to understand how we can
personally contribute to change and improve the
situation
 Usare l’inglese in nuovi contesti scientifici, in quanto è
la lingua della scienza – to use English in scientific
contexts, as English is the international language
of Science
Perché usare un film?
 Miglioramento della abilità di comprensione orale –
improving listening comprehension
 Documento autentico – authentic material
 Motivazione intrinseca fornita dal testo film –
watching a film is intrinsically motivating
 Aspetti legati alla attualità e alla civiltà anglosassone –
dealing with current events and the Anglo-saxon
world
Patrizia Calanchini Monti – Gabriella Orlando
MODULO CLIL INGLESE – SCIENZA DELLA MATERIA
Film di Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
Visione di una sequenza per volta seguita da:

discussione degli argomenti affrontati nel film

approfondimento delle strutture linguistiche

introduzione e ampliamento del lessico specifico

studio degli argomenti di Fisica collegati
An Inconvenient Truth
Key Vocabulary
 Verbs:
 to melt
 to freeze
 to flow
 to fall
 to drop down
 to go up / to increase /to rise
 to go down / to decrease / to fall
 to measure
 to dig up
 to thicken
 to trap
 to trigger
 to retreat
 to feed
An Inconvenient Truth
Key Vocabulary
Nouns:
atmosphere
hemisphere
equator
polar caps
tilt of the earth
rain
storm
hurricane
tornado
typhoon
flood
drought
ice
water
soil
fresh water
salty water
river
sea
ocean
glacier
stream
heat
evaporation
cold
moisture
famine
infrared rays
greenhouse effect
greenhouse gases
sunbeams /radiation
carbon dioxide
oxygen
pollution
deforestation
desertification
An Inconvenient Truth
Key Vocabulary
Adjectives:
thin
thick
harmful
harmless
relentless
renewable
An Inconvenient Truth
Structures
 Present continuous
 Present perfect
 Simple present and simple past passive forms
 Comparatives/Superlatives
 Zero / First and Second conditional
From the film
 The temperature increases are taking place all over
the world including the oceans
 In the last 650,000 years CO2 has never gone up
more than 300 parts per million
 Climate patterns on Earth have not changed much
since the last ice Age 1,000 years ago.
From the film
 When there is more carbon dioxide the temperature
gets warmer because it traps more heat in the
atmosphere
 Ice reflects the sunrays while ocean absorbs it. So if
there is less ice and more water, the water
temperature gets higher and this speeds up the melting
of the ice.
 Today the annual average temperature is 58 F.
If it increases of 5 degrees, it will be 1 degree at the
Equator and 12 degrees at the Pole
From the film
 As the ice melts, the oceans receive the Sun energy
instead and more than 90% is absorbed . That’s why
there is a faster build up of heat at the North Pole
than everywhere else in the world, with planetary
effects.
 Ice on Greenland and Antarctica are retreating. If half
of Greenland and of Antarctica broke up and melted
the maps of the world would have to be redrawn
because many coastal areas worldwide would be under
water
From the film: Physics
 Solar system
1.
2.
3.
sun, planets and satellites
objects in orbit
the cycle of seasons
 Forces and Energy
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
work and energy
energy transformation
calculating PE and Ke
friction and braking
efficiency and power
energy for electricity
From the film: Physics
 Thermal Effects
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Moving particles
Temperature
Thermal conduction
Convection
Thermal radiation
Liquids and vapours
 Rays and Waves
1.
Electromagnetic waves
Achievement Test English -Physics
1. What is the greenhouse effect and why is it called so?
2. What are the most important greenhouse gases?
3. In the film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ we are shown the graphs
of temperature in the last 50 years. What can we see? Why is
there a cyclical increase and decrease of temperature every
year?
4. What were scientists able to measure by examining the ice
cores dug in Antarctica?
Achievement Test English -Physics
5. Describe what will happen to our cities if the
temperature increases by 10 C°.
6. Why should we buy fruit and vegetables produced in
the area where we live?
7. The temperature in Chicago today is 80 F. How many
degrees Celsius is that? Calculate.
LEND Bologna 25 marzo 2009