Let’s talk about Nature in English, and boost your vocabulary, fluency, and confidence.
1.) How do you define Nature?
2.) What makes something natural, rather than artificial?
3.) Talk about a natural cycle, like the food chain, life and death, or the water cycle.
4.) Nature or nurture? How much of our personality and behaviour is determined by our environment or our genetics?
Warm Up
ALL LEVELS
Around the World
Take turns thinking of objects and adjectives related to Nature that start with each letter of the alphabet.
BEGINNER
Nature Idiom Out of Order Game – Put the letters in order to discover the Nature idioms
INTERMEDIATE
Play What’s the difference?
Take turns asking each other what the difference is between things in nature.
For example, what’s the difference between…
a forest and bunch of trees?
a sea and an ocean?
earth and dirt?
a tree and a flower?
a root and a branch?
ADVANCED
Double-Speak Proverbs – Can you figure out what these expressions are?
Vocabulary
BEGINNER
Nature Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn or review words related to nature.
Animal Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn or review the names of animals.
New Beginner basic animal body parts – Drag the words to match the image.
INTERMEDIATE
Nature Vocabulary – Drag and Drop Game, and intermediate vocabulary
Advanced animal body parts – A drag and drop memory game
ADVANCED
Geography Vocabulary – Click on the image to learn new words.
Reading, Grammar and Writing Activities
INTERMEDIATE
Adverbs of Frequency Foraging Quiz
HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Lost in the Forest! – Reading and activities about Nature and survival
Lost in the Forest (part 2) How to Make Survival Bannock – A phrasal verb drag and drop game
Lost in the forest (part 3) – Tag Questions Game
What happened next? (part 4) – Have or had? – A game to practice Present or Past Perfect
Listening and Conversation
ALL LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE
Finding the Mother Tree – Watch the video and discuss it, using the questions
Nature RX – Watch the video. What is the underlying message? If you wanted to convey the same idea, what would your version be?
Survivorman – Watch Les Strouds survival show.
Reading
BEGINNER
Exhibit A blog post – General Reading
INTERMEDIATE
Nature Gap-fill Reading – Improve your fluency!
National Geographic Magazine – Nature and travel
Nature Magazine – Science and Nature
BBC Earth – Nature in the news
Interactive Experiences – Select a place to visit.
ADVANCED
The Importance of Fungi – Britannica
Extra Activities
ALL LEVELS
Nature Planet with Adam Sandler
1.) Watch the video and pay attention to the narration.
2.) Watch it again with the sound off, and write your own voice over to go with the video.
3.) Present your narration with the video.
Writing
Describe a cycle found in Nature. (example: the water cycle or the food chain)
INTERMEDIATE
Listening
US Natural Beauty – Liveworksheets activity
ADVANCED
The Difference between Natural and Unnatural – Read and listen to the audio
Narrated virtual Tours – Smithsonian Natural History Museum (You can also take self-guided tours!)
