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WORKSHEET 3. “Good bye plastic”.

2° AÑO DE ENSEÑANZA MEDIA

Name: _____________________________________________________________

Grade: ____________________________ Date: ________________________

I.- Match the following concepts with their corresponding synonym in English.

1) Launched stop

2) Encourage list

3) Reduce much

4) Prevent promote

5) Eyesore problematic

6) Difficult rot

7) Complained started

8) Far mess

9) Decompose moaned

10) Agenda lessen

II.- Choose five of the previous concepts and create sentences.

1) ______________________________________________________________
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2) ______________________________________________________________
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3) ______________________________________________________________
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4) ______________________________________________________________
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5) ______________________________________________________________
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III.- Fill in the gaps

Kenya disposes of disposable bags

Kenya has _______________ a new system to make shopping designed

eyesore
_______________ eco-friendly. The Environment Ministry has
more
launched a ________________ to encourage the use
pollution
________________ of biodegradable shopping bags across Kenya.
introduced
The East African Standard _________________ that the campaign
reported
Environment and Natural Resources minister launched the new
bags, which are ________________ to reduce litter and prevent
________________. A spokesperson said: “This will make our
landscape less of an _________________.”

It was _______________ to introduce the new bags in Kenya. cost

complained
Manufacturers _________________ that changing from the
green
traditional plastic bags would _________________ 20,000 jobs. reducing
agenda
Environmentalists argued that __________________ litter and
rates
pollution was __________________ more important. The new difficult
far
biodegradable bags will also help reduce Kenya’s high
________________ of malaria. The new “________________” bags
decompose and thus prevent breeding grounds for mosquitoes. A
nationwide ban on plastic bags is next on the _______________ in
Kenya.

IV.- Responde the following questions.

1) What do you do to recycle?

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2) What is your opinion about plastic shopping bags?

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3) What is more important: jobs or the environment? Why?

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4) What is the best way to deal with the problem of plastic

bags?
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5) What is happening in Chile about this topic?

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