Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Environment – SS2 English Lesson Note (Second Term)

Environment is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. Words associated with environment are used to talk about the air, water, land and living things around us, and about issues that affect them.

Behavioural objectives

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

• define the term environment;
• list words associated with the environment;
• state the meanings of green, nature reserve, pollution and recycle;
• use the words in sentences of their own;
• spell and recognise the words for the week.

What words are associated with the environment?

Common environment words

1. Dirt
2. Climate
3. Change
4. Atmosphere
5. Refuse
6. Contaminate
7. Earth
8. Waste
9. Sanitation
10. Coal
11. Clean up
12. Wastage
13. Disease

Environment words and their meanings

• Green: Issues that affect the environment.
• Nature reserve: An area of land that is protected so that people cannot harm animals or plants that live there.
• Pollution: The process of damaging the air, water or land with chemicals or other substances.
• Recycle: To change waste materials so that they can be used again.

Words for the week

• Paucity
• Ostracism
• Acclaim
• Acerbic
• Bereft
• Nomadic
• Beguile
• Munificence
• Palate
• Phlegmic

Evaluation

1. What is the environment?
2. What is a nature reserve?
3. Explain the word pollution.
4. What does it mean to recycle?
5. Use the word sanitation in a sentence of your own.

Assignment

Choose five words from the list of common environment words. Write one sentence of your own for each word.