Climate Action Blog

Climate action in teaching English

Published on 25 September 2024

Language education is crucial to fighting climate change. It helps individuals understand environmental challenges, share ideas, and collaborate on solutions.

Useful vocabulary 

  1. Sanitation — cleaning and washing kitchens and bathrooms.
  2. Intention — a schedule.
  3. Hygiene prevents disease by keeping things clean.
  4. Infrastructure — the basics that run a community or nation.
  5. Cholera and COVID-19 are infectious diseases.
  6. Transmitted — spread.
  7. Fossil fuel — carbon-based fuels like oil, petrol, and petrol.
  8. Not eating enough causes starvation.
  9. Catastrophe — a dire condition.
  10. Sustainable development — development that meets today's requirements without harming tomorrow.
  11. Adequate — good enough to achieve an objective.

Climate classes can also be taken online in a one-on-one format with English teacher online, which is convenient for students who prefer to do constant error work.

Climate action in language education podcast

The Climate Connection (#TheClimateConnection) podcast from the British Council examines how the climate crisis affects language education. In the 10 episodes, you can hear from prominent tutors, teachers, researchers, publishers, and writers. The project goes from Colombia to China, Moldova to Mali, and Palestine to Poland to discuss climate action in language teaching innovations. Work with the Oxford English Dictionary will also reveal the roots of climate-related vocabulary in English and other languages.

Climate action in language education course

Free online teacher training from TeachingEnglish will be provided from 9 October 2024 to 31 March 2025. You will learn to incorporate environmental concerns into English language education and gain the skills to take and maintain meaningful and effective environmental action in your local setting.

This course makes up the self-study climate action in language education course. It includes:

  1. Facebook group of course participants with current information, resources, and new ideas.
  2. Facebook chats.
  3. Live events with your tutor and language teachers.
  4. A free learning workbook with materials.