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How To Use This Book And The Videos
This workbook and the videos can be used many ways by teachers. They are strong
listening and multimodal, text supported language learning materials.
Here is one very straight forward way to use thesematerials.

Focus on listening skills
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Play the video with audio only, hiding the screen.
Let the students listen once without any pen or paper. Ask a few questions to test
comprehension. Who/What/Where/When/Why/How…..
Next, give them the text sheet and ask them to try and fill in the words before they
listen a second time.
Play the audio only again, asking studentsto check / correct their answers.
Watch the video with subtitles again, checking their answers and stopping the
video to focus on key points.
Have students complete the 6 W Question sheet at the end of this book.

Focus on reading / writing skills
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Hand out the worksheet and ask students to read and fill in with possible answers.
Students turn over the worksheet andwatch the video.
Ask students to check their worksheet for the correct answers.
Play the video again, pausing the video at the correct answers.
In small groups, get students to retell the story. Once student starts with a
sentence and then the next student continues.
Have students rewrite the story in their own words using the story writing sheet
at the end of this book.
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ISBN: 0743357862
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Table Of Contents
Saving The Arctic’s Polar Bears

1

Picturing A Future For Kodak

2

Building Art Out Of Legos

3

A Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

5

Pet Brings Smiles To The Retirement Home

7

Kenyan Marathon Runners

8

Crushed Autos As Art

9

Young American Farmers At Work

10

AFountain Of Chocolate, A Rush Of Joy

11

A Stylist Makes Food Look Pretty

12

A New Generation Of Buddhism

14

New Hope For A Young Burn Victim

15

MLK Jr Memorial By A Chinese Artist

16

A Desert Museum

18

Visiting The National Arboretum

19

The World’s Oldest Barber Still Going Strong

20

Table Of Contents
Using Computer Games To Support Democracy

21New York Celebrates 400 Years

22

Levi Strauss Puts His Mark On The West

24

Restauranteur Now Serves The Homeless

26

Chinese American Youth Orchestra

27

Digital Libraries Find Room For Books

28

Horses Rule Houston For A Day

29

Teachers:
See the answer key/booklet that goes with this activity
book. It is a simple copy of the transcript with the
selectedanswers/vocabulary highlighted.

Saving the Arctic's 20,000 Polar Bears
Scientists say the world has only
20,000 polar bears. A movie called
"To the Arctic" is part of an effort to
save the animals and their _________.
MERYL STREEP: "Feasting on
rich seal meat has made these the
largest bears in the world. But now
the Arctic is warming, and the sea ice
is __________________ away."
The filmfollows a polar bear mother and her two cubs.
MERYL STREEP: "This is a cold stark world,
but to polar bear mothers and __________, it's
paradise."
Nature photographer Florian Schulz made a
book about the Arctic.
FLORIAN SCHULZ: "The polar bears won't
be able to ________________ without the ice,
and, right now, scientists are predicting that by
2040 or 2050, somewhere in between then, thesea ice in the summer will completely go
away."
The movie producers had difficulty working in
below zero temperatures, and with animals
afraid of __________________.
"Next year we're coming back with stronger
cases."

Humans
Melting
Preserve
Home
Survive
Protect
Cubs
northern

The movie and book are part of a larger project
to _______________ polar bears and the Arctic, says...