UNIT 12 USING RUBBISH

Reverse Garbage

Reverse Garbage

The biggest river (2 hours)

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Unit 12 Using

rubbish

Before you read (5 minutes)

Vocabulary (10 minutes)

Skim & Scan (5 minutes)

Questions (15 minutes)

Conclusion (10 minutes)

Free (5 minutes)

Before you read

•When your rubbish is collected, where is it taken? What happens to it?

Before you read

Do you think we throw away too many things?

Before you read

•Do you like art? •Do you like making things?

The Using rubbish

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Vocabulary 1. rubbish2. thrown away3. bury4. fabric5. condition6. useful 7. factory8. damage9. solutions10. replace

Paragraph 1 ?????

1. What happens to the rubbish after it is collected?

Paragraph 1 ?????

2. In what country one company is making a small difference to the amount of rubbish being buried?

Paragraph2 ?????

1. What is another word for rubbish?

2. Who started Reverse Garbage?

Paragraph2 ?????

•What did they get from the factories?

•What was their new idea?

Paragraph3 ?????

1. How many people are working for Reverse Garbage?

2. What do they sell?

Paragraph3 ?????

3. Why do people buy things from Reverse Garbage?

Paragraph4 ?????

1. Who shops at Reverse Garbage?

2. What does the garbage use for?

Paragraph4 ?????

3. What can Reverse Garbage help to protect the environment?

Main purpose of the passage

•To discuss to the solutions to the problem rubbish.

•To describe a small company using rubbish in an unusual way

•To explain how to make things out of rubbish

Confusing words: rubbish, trash, garbage and litter

rubbish

rubbish[uncountable noun]

This is British English (BrE).

British people throw away rubbish.

garbage, trash[uncountable nouns]

American English (AmE) – Americans throw away garbage and trash.

garbage vs. trash

garbage vs. trash

garbage vs. trash

Americans differentiate between type here:garbage is used for waste from the kitchen – ‘wet’ waste, you could say;trash is things like paper and packaging – ‘dry’ materials.