The Reading / Listening - Climate Crisis - Level 1

A 20,000-km walk from Africa to the Arctic Circle has started. It is called The Herds. It will raise awareness of the climate crisis. Hundreds of life-sized puppets of lions, zebras, monkeys, and other animals are on the walk. The Herds organizers want to show how climate change is affecting animals. A spokesperson said: "The Herds is public art and climate action.…It's an ambitious coming together of culture and climate."

The animal puppets will visit more than 20 cities across Africa and Europe. Each city will have street performances. These will focus on how we can help Earth. An environmentalist said: "The Herds is going to reach millions of people and bring the…beauty of nature right onto the streets and into people's lives." Another environmentalist said The Herds will teach people about climate change and biodiversity loss.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Climate Crisis - Level 0 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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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

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Answers

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