1.6 What do you think about wind farms?

✓ Evaluation ✓ Communication

1 Discuss the picture. What technology does it show?

a 2 3 What do wind farms make? Do you think wind farms are a good idea? Do you think everybody thinks the same as you? What do you know about wind farms? Take the quiz to fi nd out! Sample Pages b What type of this thing do they make? c How do they make it? d What are the structures on a wind farm called? e What do the blades do?

4 Read the text on the worksheet and check your answers. 5 Read the text again. Does it give facts or opinions? 6 Play ‘Go fi sh!’. Your teacher will give you some sentences. Are they facts or opinions?

Key terms

fact: something that can be proved to be true opinion: a thought or belief about something, which cannot be proved to be true or false

Key term

debate: a long discussion where one set of people argue in favour of something and the other set of people argue against it

7 I’m confused. I don’t know whether wind farms are good or bad. Can you help me decide? You could have a Read the message from Adriana. What could you do to help her? Then read Himari’s reply. What does she suggest? Sample Pages fi shbowl debate!

8 Have a fi shbowl debate about whether wind farms are good or bad. Debate the question: Should we build a new wind farm where we live?

Read the message from Adriana. What words or phrases could she use?

Okay, I know what I think about wind farms now, but how do I give my opinion? 10 a b c d e f Adriana has asked her friends about wind farms. Read what they said. Answer the questions. What words or phrases do Adriana’s friends use to show opinions? What words or phrases do they use to give their reasons? Who uses personal experience in their reason? Who uses a fact or facts in their reason? Who uses a personal view in their reason? Who is in favour of wind farms and who isn’t? I think wind farms are good because they make electricity and we need electricity to power our homes and schools, but I wouldn’t like a wind farm I think wind farms are really important because they supply clean energy, and this will help us fi ght climate change. Victoria Sample Pages where I live because they are ugly and noisy. Sofi a

I live near a wind farm and I think it looks quite pretty, especially when the turbines are moving round in the wind. You can’t really hear the wind farm from the town, only if you are close to it. Catalina

11 Read Alba’s reply to Adriana’s question. Is she for or against wind farms? Why?

In my opinion, we should use other forms of renewable energy rather than wind farms because wind farms can 12 Choose a colour. I am for wind farms. I am against wind farms. 13 In your group, complete the paragraph on the worksheet. Talking point be dangerous for birds and bats. Alba Sample Pages

Is someone’s view a fact or an opinion? Did any of today’s activities make you change your view of wind farms? Why?