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Teacher guide & answers
In this lesson: Find the planned collaborators and distinguish a developing resource from a finished one.
Communities to Help Shape a Climate-Grief Guide
How to use these two pages
Give learners the student worksheet. It contains the story and questions, without the answers. Keep this guide for yourself. Use it to lead the activity and explain the answers afterwards.
Student worksheetA simple 15–20-minute lesson
- Before reading · 2 minutes
Show the title. Ask: “What do you think this story is about?”
- Read and answer · 8–10 minutes
Give out the student worksheet. Learners read for the main idea, then reread to answer the 2 questions. They can compare answers with a partner.
- Discuss and write · 5–8 minutes
Check the answers below together. Ask learners to point to the clue in the story, then finish with the open question.
Adjust the support: Let learners use word help or Level 1 if needed. For a challenge, compare the wording in another level. This activity is not a proficiency test.
Answers to the 2 questions
The question numbers match the student worksheet. Each answer includes a reason and the clue learners can find in the story.
Whose involvement was planned in shaping the toolkit?
Correct answer: B — Communities and mental-health representatives
Why: The planned collaboration included communities and mental-health representatives.
Clue in the story: Researchers planned to work with communities and mental-health groups on a practical toolkit. Their focus included loss of valued landscapes and cultural places.
Which meaning matches the sentence?
Correct answer: B — Work on the toolkit was continuing.
Why: The form describes work in progress, not completion.
Clue in the story: The researchers wanted the toolkit to reflect people’s experiences. WHO has also called for community-based mental-health support in climate responses. The proposed toolkit was still being developed.
The open question: accept different answers
Ask learners: Who would help the researchers design the guide? Why might their experience be useful?
One possible answer: Communities would help design it. Their experiences could show what kind of support people need.
This is an example, not the only correct answer. Look for a relevant idea, a reason and the learner’s own words. Learners can answer aloud or write one or two sentences.
Grammar to discuss
Was still being developed
The proposed toolkit was still being developed.
“Was being” plus a past participle describes an ongoing action in the past. Example: “The library was still being built.”