TEMS HAN OF am: Ak 0 Gayle Miasm lndag Adbyeel hin MOEA: THE CONSUMER SOCIETY Task 1 inthe class discuss the following topics: What is reeyeling? How important da you think recycling is? Why? Why not? Make a list of things and materials that ean be recycled. Lesson 2 Task2 These words are from the text below. Match them with their Spanish definitions: A waste (1) Aa escape de liquido o gas a través de agujeros 0 fisuras. Z caw material.) Bb cambiar o susttuir una cosa por otea; mover, trasladae. 3 steam (n.) Bc lo que se desecha o descarta en un proceso de fabiicacion. JS leak (0,) “ALA desperdicios, basura o desechos. 5 dump (v. 9.) 9 € corromper, echar a perder, destruir. w shift (v) +40. F considerando que, mienteas que. 7 make up (¥) “3g vaporde agua que se genera mediante la ebullicsén. B® rubbish (0) 2b conformar 0 constituir. F spoil (v) “Bi: depositaro botar matecial de desecho. Vertedero. 30 whereas (conj) 2. material bisico usado en el proceso de fabricacién, materia prima Task 3 —Asyouread this tex, find answers to these questions. 1 What percentage of the wold population livesin 3 How does rubbish affect our towns an developing countries? ‘countryside? 2 What percentage of resources is consumed in 4 What are the two main sources of waste? ‘developing countries? 5, Name the three main steps in recycling? 1 every year swaste increases, both in volume and com ns that pcople discard huge amounts of things s il usable. Industrialised countries use $0 many resources tha do they have created “throw away socicics", which m ‘lothes, vehicles, machines, furniture, food, books and magazines, some of them s The developed countcics, which gake_up one-thiel of the wodd's population, w , the emaining 20% of the world’s resources is use by the rest of the world What is Waste? ‘The wont! ‘waste is discarded afiee use oF not wanted), something supe which does not serve a purpose any mare. Every day j dispose of newspapers, wrappers, tin cans, bottles containers, tyres, batteries, ce without thinkin about ‘This mass of gubbish, which is known as domestic ws disfiguees one towns and spoils the countryside However, all these products have been made foo valuable row materials whose processing or manufacture used up costly forms of energy. When they are thrown away, the matenals anc eneqgy that were used to make them are simply wasted industrial processes generate toxic wastes, In tl fifth comes from the extraction anal put over 80% of its re the USA alone, almost ‘of metals and a0 Uae And what about industeal waste? Most fual£of it comes from the chemical industry: “eighth from petroleum and coal produets Just Rubbish? We talk of the dupa or ch _ disappear it can only be shifted from one place 10 another, or: hes 12 mination of waste, but this is really the wrong wont Waste anno’ converted inf different form.are a number of ways 10 geal with waste: may be the Lwuened, bt 1 cannot just disappeae waste is invisible, bur it muy bes souge of 8, for example, the Leaking, of porsonous anto the soil and the contaminanon of n finerated waste turns into that pollutes the air we patathe. § waste cannot disappear, it must be controlled and fficiently. And the best possible solution is 10 4s, t0 collect, and re-use it in a different form. ‘The idea behind recycling is that material to the mass of rubbish and waste that incrvases every day Here are at least three stages after materials are first used: they must be eecovered, then proces into new products that people will buy. 1¢ Or False? Mark these statements T if they are correct or F if they are wrong. then cove: the false ones. waste of burning it does not solve the pollution problem, unless it 1 recycled nto this article carefully and decide which answer A, B or C best fts each space. 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