The Reading / Listening - Climate Crisis - Level 0

A 20,000-km walk from Congo to Norway has started. It is called The Herds. It will teach people about the climate crisis. Hundreds of life-sized puppets of animals are on the walk. The Herds will show how climate change is a danger to animals. A spokesperson said The Herds is a "coming together of culture and climate".

The animal puppets will visit 20 cities in Africa and Europe. Each city will have street performances. These will focus on how we can help Earth. The Herds will teach millions of people about nature. An environmentalist says The Herds will teach people about climate change and biodiversity loss.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Climate Crisis - Level 1 Climate Crisis - Level 2   or  Climate Crisis - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.theherds.org/about
  • https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/25/puppet-herd-animals-climate-crisis-africa-arctic-circle-little-amal
  • https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/07/16/the-herds-the-animal-puppets-art-project-set-to-travel-20000km-across-the-world


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

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Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

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Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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