Unit 4: Sustainable Development – 2nd Year Baccalaureate
Textbook: Ticket to English 2 | Level: 2nd Year Baccalaureate (All streams)
- 1. Vocabulary: Sustainable development
- 2. Reading: Sustainable development text
- 3. Grammar: Future perfect
- 4. Functions: Expressing cause and effect
- 5. Writing: Formal application letter
1. Vocabulary: Sustainable development
This part helps students learn and use key sustainable development terms such as environment, poverty, unemployment, renewable energy, literacy, awareness‑raising campaigns, and typical collocations like fight poverty, reduce pollution, protect the environment, create jobs, raise awareness.
- Objectives: Recognise and use sustainable development vocabulary in sentences and short texts.
- Suggested tasks: matching words with definitions, gap‑fill sentences, classifying words into environmental / social / economic problems and solutions, and completing mind maps about environment, education and social development.
2. Reading: Sustainable development text
Students read a text about a sustainable development project or cooperative (for example, a rural women’s cooperative or a recycling project) and answer comprehension questions, then discuss the benefits and challenges of such projects.
- Skills: Skimming for the general idea, scanning for details, answering WH‑questions, identifying causes and effects, and justifying opinions.
- Follow‑up: In pairs or groups, students talk about local projects in Morocco that fight poverty, protect the environment or promote literacy, and share examples from their own towns.
3. Grammar: The future perfect
The grammar focus is the future perfect, used to talk about actions that will be completed before a specific point in the future, often linked to sustainable development goals.
- Form: will + have + past participle
Example: By 2030, Morocco will have increased the use of renewable energy. - Use: Talking about future achievements and long‑term projects, such as ending illiteracy, reducing pollution, or improving living conditions.
- Practice ideas: complete sentences about 2030 goals, rewrite present sentences in the future perfect, and ask students to predict what their town will have done to protect the environment.
4. Functions: Expressing cause and effect
Students practise expressing cause and effect using conjunctions and prepositional phrases in sustainable development situations (pollution, poverty, unemployment, rural exodus, lack of infrastructure, etc.).
- Cause linkers: because, since, as, because of, due to
Example: Many students drop out of school because they live far from school.
Example: Many people suffer from diseases because of air pollution. - Effect linkers: so, therefore, as a result, consequently
Example: People throw rubbish in the streets, so the city looks dirty.
Example: There are no hospitals in some rural areas; therefore, many people die at home. - Activities: joining pairs of sentences with the correct linker, rewriting sentences (because → because of / due to, so → therefore / as a result / consequently), and writing personal sentences related to real SD problems in Morocco.
5. Writing: Formal application letter
The writing task is a formal letter to apply for a grant for a sustainable development project (environment, literacy, social development), following the model in the textbook.
- Input: A communiqué from the municipality or an organisation offering grants for SD projects, and a model application letter from an association.
- Content of the letter: introduce the association, state the purpose (apply for a grant), describe the project (field, goals, main activities), mention the target group and expected results, list requirements and estimated budget, and close politely (Yours faithfully…).
- Product: A 120–150‑word formal application letter with correct layout (addresses, date, greeting, subject, closing, signature) and formal language.
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