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Unit 6 Lesson 7
How to manage waste
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read a passage about waste management
• discussed the main ideas of the passage
• written a letter to the editor of a newspaper
A Think about how much waste your family produces every day. Make a list of the things you usually throw away. Where do you throw them?
B Now read the following passage about waste management and fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Waste or rubbish is what we throw away every day. It includes everything from unwanted old cars to cigarette packets. As the amount of waste has grown rapidly all over the world and has started polluting the environment, time has come to think about it very seriously.
We cannot altogether get rid of our Dash but a proper management of it can certainly reduce its quantity. If we think of burning, burying, recycling and thus
Dash our waste, we can to a large extent save our Dash. Our garbage consists of various kinds of things Dash some are burnable and some are Dash. In some countries, Dash waste is destroyed by incinerators. The non-burnable garbage is melted and prefabricated. Some rubbish is not rubbish at all. For example, most textiles, glass, metal, paper and cardboard can be Dash. Some kinds of waste can be used as fuel. We can use and have been using vegetable waste to make compost to improve our Dash.
The only problem then is to find authorities to make it easy to reuse what we throw
away. This is because Dash cannot recycle paper, or metal ourselves. It is a big
Dash. In many countries it is now quite normal to collect old bottles and Dash them. Again many Dash are now designing their containers and packaging in such a way that they are easy to recycle. Some companies are using biodegradable wrappers. More and more Dash should come forward to promote greater recycling and changes in consumption patterns to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce and help people Dash the environment.
Choose the best answer for the following questions from the options given under them.
1 What can we do with vegetable waste?
a burn it b recycle it
c use it as fuel d allow it to decay
2 Why should we use biodegradable wrappers?
a they are good to look at
b they arc cheap
c they are changed naturally into
d they decay fast harmless substances
3 Which pair of words is synonymous?
a waste, trash b reduce, rubbish
c recycle, destroy d conserve, consume
C Now discuss in small groups the following questions.
1 What is recycling? What kind of waste can be recycled?
2 What do we usually do with our waste in Bangladesh? What should we do with it?
3 Should we use polythene bags? If not, why not?
D Work in pairs and give as many suggestions as you can to another group about handling rubbish. You can use expressions like 'you should...' 'You ought to ...' etc.
E Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper to be published in its letters' column to raise public awareness about the problem of waste management in your locality.
Focus :
Skills.
Reading,
letter- writing, speaking.
Functions.
Listing, gap-filling, writing a letter to a newspaper, giving
suggestions.
Grammar/Structure.
Passive voice,
sub + ought to + ..., sub + had better + ...
Vocabulary.
recycle, incinerators, refabricate, compost, biodegradable, conserve, options.
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Unit 6 Lesson 7
How to manage waste
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read a passage about waste management
• discussed the main ideas of the passage
• written a letter to the editor of a newspaper
A Think about how much waste your family produces every day. Make a list of the things you usually throw away. Where do you throw them?
B Now read the following passage about waste management and fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Waste or rubbish is what we throw away every day. It includes everything from unwanted old cars to cigarette packets. As the amount of waste has grown rapidly all over the world and has started polluting the environment, time has come to think about it very seriously.
We cannot altogether get rid of our Dash but a proper management of it can certainly reduce its quantity. If we think of burning, burying, recycling and thus
Dash our waste, we can to a large extent save our Dash. Our garbage consists of various kinds of things Dash some are burnable and some are Dash. In some countries, Dash waste is destroyed by incinerators. The non-burnable garbage is melted and prefabricated. Some rubbish is not rubbish at all. For example, most textiles, glass, metal, paper and cardboard can be Dash. Some kinds of waste can be used as fuel. We can use and have been using vegetable waste to make compost to improve our Dash.
The only problem then is to find authorities to make it easy to reuse what we throw
away. This is because Dash cannot recycle paper, or metal ourselves. It is a big
Dash. In many countries it is now quite normal to collect old bottles and Dash them. Again many Dash are now designing their containers and packaging in such a way that they are easy to recycle. Some companies are using biodegradable wrappers. More and more Dash should come forward to promote greater recycling and changes in consumption patterns to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce and help people Dash the environment.
Choose the best answer for the following questions from the options given under them.
1 What can we do with vegetable waste?
a burn it b recycle it
c use it as fuel d allow it to decay
2 Why should we use biodegradable wrappers?
a they are good to look at
b they arc cheap
c they are changed naturally into
d they decay fast harmless substances
3 Which pair of words is synonymous?
a waste, trash b reduce, rubbish
c recycle, destroy d conserve, consume
C Now discuss in small groups the following questions.
1 What is recycling? What kind of waste can be recycled?
2 What do we usually do with our waste in Bangladesh? What should we do with it?
3 Should we use polythene bags? If not, why not?
D Work in pairs and give as many suggestions as you can to another group about handling rubbish. You can use expressions like 'you should...' 'You ought to ...' etc.
E Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper to be published in its letters' column to raise public awareness about the problem of waste management in your locality.
Focus :
Skills.
Reading,
letter- writing, speaking.
Functions.
Listing, gap-filling, writing a letter to a newspaper, giving
suggestions.
Grammar/Structure.
Passive voice,
sub + ought to + ..., sub + had better + ...
Vocabulary.
recycle, incinerators, refabricate, compost, biodegradable, conserve, options.