Greta Thunberg became famous in 2018 when, at age 15, she started protesting outside the Swedish Parliament holding a sign that said, in Swedish, ‘School Strike for The Climate’. Due to extensive media coverage other students around the world joined her protest.
Greta Thunberg Calls for Climate Strike
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Environment
Level
Upper-Intermediate: B2Advanced: C1
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3 student pagesAudioTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
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DiscussionListeningMatchingMultiple-choiceReadingSentence completionTrue or false
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