Environment refers to the place where living and non-living things exist on the earths’ surface. But the unscrupulous greed of Homo Sapiens put the entire globe in danger. So environmental protection become the need of the hour. Protection of environment is the duty of Homo Sapiens. But who else can protect environment than children can? Unlike grownups, kids’ minds are like white sheets of paper, whatever is imprinted on it will last for long. Environmental awareness should be in the conscious mind of a child from a very young age onwards. The present paper is an attempt to study the role of society, school and English classrooms in inculcating the need to protect environment for a healthy future. The paper delves deep into the salient role played by the English classrooms in imparting environmental awareness in learners. The paper analyses whether the pedagogic activities in English classrooms are capable of instilling environmental consciousness in the young learners. By highlighting the activities of various school organizations as well as governmental organizations and school textbooks, with special reference to English readers of Kerala State, the paper delineates the pivotal position of the state school curriculum of Kerala in imparting the environmental consciousness in young children. The study was conducted in three ways: by analysing the different Readers prescribed for English at High School level, by observing the institutional practices in and around, and on the basis of the classroom practices that can be brought about through the English classrooms. The long-term experience that the first author has in devising and designing the classroom practices for English and the wishes of the second author, who is a prospective teacher, to bring forth the practices which can instil environmental consciousness in children through English classrooms made us prepare the paper. The authors hope that these types of awareness instilling programmes, in and outside the classrooms, will help the learners to sensitize themselves and delve into actions in the future to protect the environment.

Keywords: Environmental Awareness, Pedagogic Activities, Environmental Consciousness.