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Recycling
STAGE 3
Before Reading
CHAPTER 3 WHI L E R EA DI NG
Answers may vary but should be in correct English.
The correct answers are:
1 Because people buy new things more often and so
they throw away their old things more often too.
2 Because they want to make people buy the new
things and throw away the old ones.
3 It makes ordinary things look better andmore
expensive.
4 80 per cent.
5 Now people in China want the same things as
people in other parts of the world.
6 Because there is nowhere for new landfill sites to go.
7 Making roads and parks.
8 People are recycling because they want to save the
Earth.
ACTIVITY 1 B EF O RE R EA DI NG
Encourage students to speculate and make guesses.
They will discover as theyread that the answers
are:
1 d 2 e 3 a 4 c 5 b
ACTIVITY 2 B EF O RE R EA DI NG
Encourage students to discuss their ideas and
defend their opinions.
Open answers.
ACTIVITY 3 B EF O RE R EA DI NG
Encourage students to discuss their ideas.
Open answers.
CHAPTERS 4 AND 5 WHI L E R EA DI NG
1 g
2 h
3 f
4 a
5 c
6 b
7 e
8 d
While Reading
CHAPTER 1 WHI L E REA DI NG
1 T
2 F There are not enough landfill sites for us to use
in the future.
3 F In the UK each person throws away more than a
hundred plastic bags every year.
4 F The smoke from burning rubbish can make
people ill.
5 T
6 F These days, poor countries are not happy to take
toxic waste from rich countries.
7 T
8 F There is no rubbish insome parts of Mexico.
CHAPTER 6 WHI L E R EA DI NG
1 Mobile phones are useful in countries where there
aren’t many telephone lines.
2 Old computers can be mended and sent to poorer
countries.
3 Fridges must be recycled in European countries in
future.
4 Some radios and lights can work without batteries.
5 Cars can burn vegetable oil in their engines.
CHAPTER 2WHI L E RE A DI NG
1 Where . . .? In Knossos, Crete.
2 What . . .? To help young plants grow.
3 Why . . .? To keep their feet clean on the dirty
streets.
4 Why . . .? Because he threw rubbish into the street.
5 Which . . .? The Zabbaleen.
6 What . . .? It is dirty, difficult, dangerous, and
unhealthy.
7 Where . . .? At Payatas, near Manila.
8 Why . . .?Because without the rubbish they would
have no jobs and no money.
CHAPTER 7 WHI L E R EA DI NG
USED . . . TO MAKE . . .
Shigeru Ban paper tubes buildings
Hirohiko
Fukushima newspaper pots for plants
Andy leaves, sticks,
pictures and
and flowers
other art
Yoshiyuki
Yamahatsu telephone cards big pictures
Jeff Clapp metal bottles bells
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After Reading
CHAPTER 8 WHI L E R EA DI N G colours for different
kinds of rubbish.
2 Throwing away rubbish in Switzerland is expensive.
3 People in the Netherlands leave their shoes out on
the street for recycling.
4 InFinland you get money when you recycle a lot of
rubbish.
5 There are very few recycling bins in Athens.
6 Japanese children learn about recycling at school.
7 California is the best recycling state in the USA.
ACTIVITY 1 A F T ER R EA DI NG
1 P A C K A I N
2 A L U M I N I U M
3 E A R T H
4 L A S T
5 S T E E L
6 T O X I C
CHAPTER 9 WHI L E R EA DI N G
1 It’s best to take cottonbags to the supermarket.
2 Buy things that last a long time.
3 Fruit doesn’t need a lot of packaging.
4 If you have clothes you don’t want any more, you
can give them away.
5 Plastic bags can be used for many things.
6 When you use plastic bottles again, you must wash
them well.
7 Schools can use old boxes and cards to make
interesting things.
8 You can’t save the...