Learning activity 3

Evidence: The story of bottled water

Fuente: SENA

Bottled water is one of the most dramatic problems in our consumerist society.
Every day millions of people around the world drink bottled water and then
throw away the empty bottle to the garbage. Consequently, the world is
becoming full of empty plastic bottles.

Watch the following video http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/

called “The story of bottled water”.

If necessary, click for subtitles.

 Fuente: The story of stuff project (2010)

Activate subtitles
here.

You can also download and read the transcription of the video in PDF format
from this link:

https://sena.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/institution/SENA/Idiomas/51250028/C
ontenido/DocArtic/Script_The_Story_of_Bottled_Water.pdf

After you watch the video answer the following questions. Use any voice
recording software to record your answers. Use will and first and second
conditional in the answers.

• What are the problems derived from drinking bottled water? Mention two
problems at least.
• What is the difference between bottled water and drinking water?  Describe
the process involved in manufacturing a plastic bottle.
• What happens with the plastic bottles after we throw them away?
• What solutions can be implemented to solve this problem?
• Is this problem common in your community? What does the community do to
deal with it?
• Will you drink bottled water again? Why, why not?
• What will you do in the future to reduce the number of plastic bottles used in
the world?

When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform
as follows:

1. Click the title of this evidence.

2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make sure
the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación

 Utiliza will para hablar de futuro teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y el

contexto requerido.

 Utiliza las cláusulas if y when teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical,

vocabulario y contexto requerido.
 Intercambia información relacionada con hechos de la naturaleza, teniendo
en cuenta la estructura gramatical, el vocabulario y el contexto requerido.
 Usa vocabulario relacionado con hechos de la naturaleza, teniendo en
cuenta el contexto requerido.
 Expresa el resultado de acciones en presente, utilizando oraciones
condicionales.

References

The story of stuff project. (2010). The story of bottled water. Consultado el 14 de
noviembre de 2014, en http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/

1.What are the problems derived from drinking bottled water? Mention two
problems at least.

One problem is when the extraction and the use of oil for the production of
bottles is done,
much energy is lost in the preparation and distribution of the same.
The planet accumulates many plastic bottle wastes if people drink a lot of
bottled water.
When plastic bottle waste is burned, toxic contamination is released into the
environment.

2. What is the difference between bottled water and drinking water?

If the water is treated, processed and sold by a company, the water is bottled
water.

If water can be drunk by people without any problem this water is drinking
water.

3. Describe the process involved in manufacturing a plastic bottle.

Companies obtain raw materials from nature to manufacture bottles, then
companies
manufacture them, when the companies have already manufactured the bottles,
they fill
the bottles with processed water.

When the water has already been bottled, the bottles will be distributed until
they reach the
people.

After the empty bottles are collected, if they are not thrown or incinerated, the
bottles will
be used to make new products of lower quality.

4. What happens with the plastic bottles after we throw them away?
If the plastic bottles do not end up dumping in landfills for many years, they end
up in
incinerators where toxic contaminants are expelled.

5. What solutions can be implemented to solve this problem?

If we work to prohibit the purchase of bottled water throughout the city, people
will drink
drinking water.
If we press the officials of our city in our city to bring sources of drinking water,
we will get
them to do so.

6. Is this problem common in your community? What does the community do to

deal with it?
It is very common. Many people in my community have water filters in their
homes and fill
a bottle with water every time they go out.
When people do this they do not need to buy bottled water.

7. Will you drink bottled water again? Why? Why not?

It's been a long time since I have drinked bottled water.
I have some reasons and one of them is that I spend less money if I do not
drink bottled
water, another is that I think it is not worth spending money on it if I can take
water from
the tap.

8. What will you do in the future to reduce the number of plastic bottles used in
the
world?
I will encourage my family and other people not to drink bottled water and I will
participate
in campaigns against the use of plastic bottles.