Professional Responses to Environmental Challenges

Essential Question

Can economic and technological progress continue without compromising the planet we depend on?

Environmental problems are no longer exclusively the responsibility of environmental scientists.

Climate change affects:

public health • infrastructure • agriculture • business • migration • national security • mental health • technology • public administration • local communities

This means that future:

IT specialists • engineers • psychologists • public administrators • social workers • economists • managers

will all need to understand how their professional decisions affect environmental sustainability and how their expertise can contribute to crisis response.

The original module therefore rightly positions students as members of an interdisciplinary environmental-response team and connects professional expertise with real environmental challenges.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the unit, students should be able to:

• understand extended B1+/B2 texts on environmental issues;

• identify main ideas, arguments, supporting evidence and implied meaning;

• recognize paraphrases typical of ЄВІ tasks;

• discuss pollution, climate change, biodiversity and natural disasters;

• explain causes and consequences;

• propose realistic professional interventions;

• distinguish environmental vocabulary with similar meanings;

• use environmental collocations naturally;

• use First and Second Conditionals;

• understand and produce Passive Voice structures;

• use modals of possibility and deduction;

• use cause-and-effect connectors accurately;

• complete ЄВІ-style lexical and grammatical gaps;

• evaluate environmental policies critically;

• communicate professional recommendations.