76 Unit 05 | Caring for our world Would you participate in a clean-up project of this kind? Why?/Why not? Design a flyer motivating young people to take part in a clean-up project in your area. Expand your vocabulary: Avoiding plastic pollution The best way to solve the plastic problem is not to use plastic at all. Read the tips on how you can reduce your plastic footprint and unscramble the highlighted expressions. (The first letter is always correct.) SPEAKING 24 WRITING 25 LANGUAGE 26 a Fix your caffeine fix Carry a (1) rbleusae cup or flask. Around 2.5 billion are thrown away every year in the UK– that’s 7 million a day! Less than 1% of these are (2) reclecyd, meaning most spend up to 50 years in (3) lfilandls, after lasting just minutes in your hand. Bring your own bottle (4) Nno-grabldaede plastic bottles are one of the most frequently found items in (5) baehc clanes globally. If you have to buy one, at least put it into the (6) recgyncli bni. Don’t use plastic cutlery (7) Rusee or go for a (8) cabelpsotmo alternative. You use plastic cutlery for just 3 minutes before throwing it away, so go for the (9) eoc-enrfidly option! Don’t suck on straws Straws are sucking the life out of our rivers and oceans. So if you don’t need one, don’t use one – it can take up to 200 years to (10) depmoscoe. Try the age-old sipping technique instead. Give up gum Britons chew an estimated 130 sticks of gum per person each year. It CAN be swapped for (11) pcialst-refe alternatives! Avoid glitter The one member of the party that NEVER leaves, it is made from (12) mcripolstiac especially lethal to our rivers and oceans, and can eventually end up in our (13) fodo cahni. You can still sparkle guilt-free – just use a (14) bagableiroded alternative! Copy the highlighted expressions in your notebook. Group related words together (e.g. reuse – reusable). Which of the tips do you follow already? Which do you think make hardly any sense? Do some research on the internet, then write your own tip about synthetic clothes. Swap your tips in small groups. Which one is the most original? Work in pairs. One of you does language in use task 1 below, the other one task 2 on p. 78. Summarise your text in writing (about 120 words) and share the summary with your partner. Then check your summaries against the key on p. 80. Finally, go back and complete whichever language in use task you haven’t done yet. Task 1 Read the text about plastic bottles vs glass bottles. Some words are missing. Change the word in brackets to form the missing word for each gap (1–11). Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. b SPEAKING 27 WRITING 28 LANGUAGE IN USE + WRITING 29 a b Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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