Watching video britain inside recycling prosperity

While watching the film make notes of the sentences, in which the following words and word combinations are used.

• a consumer society

• to produce more efficiently and cheaply

• a throw-away society

• sustainable growth

• a land-fill site

• green-house gases

• incinerator

• to generate energy

• non-renewable raw materials

• valuable resources of oil

• oil shock

• drought

• a growing public awareness on environmental issues

• to alert the world to the dangers

• legislation

• enforcement measures

• significant fines

• environmentally friendly ingredients

• ferrous metals, copper, lead

• CFC

• to dismantle complex items of equipment

• constituent materials

• to maximize income

• crate

• the materials reclamation facility

• scarce resources

• to combat global warming

• motif-harness

2. After watching the film present the following problems in the report form based on the film information.

• A throw-away society of today.

• Recycling as a part of daily life.

• Green-house gases.

• The oil shock of 1976.

• Green parties in Europe.

• Public environmental awareness.

• Car recycling.

• Plastic recycling.

3. Which of the initiatives presented in the film could be introduced in Russia? Justify your choice.

Time for fun eco test

Are you eco friendly? Here is a test for you to find it out. Tick out the answer you think is the best option for each question.

1. What saves energy more effectively?

1. A TV turned off.

2. A TV with the sound turned down.

3. A TV on standby.

2. Why should a fridge door always be kept closed?

1. To avoid banging your head on it. Ouch!

2. To keep the food cold.

3. The kitchen would get really chilly.

3. Why should you use a shower rather than a bath?

1. Baths take too long to fill up.

2. Bath water goes cold quicker.

3. Showers use less water.

4. You have a big stack of magazines that you’ve already read. You need to get rid of them. What should you do to be eco friendly?

1. Find another use for them. Trade them with friends for magazines you haven’t read.

2. Leave them where they are - they’re not taking up that much space.

3. Give them to a charity shop.

5. Your old paper bucket has been taking up space for too long. You really need to get rid of it. choose an eco friendly way of getting rid of it.

1. Hide in the wardrobe where mum can’t see it!

2. Find another use for it. use it as a plant pot!

3. Use it to store things in.

6. You need to get rid of your old pile of clothes. What would be the most eco friendly way of getting rid of them?

1. Throw them in the bin!

2. Reuse them! Give them to your kid cousin to wear.

3. Cut them up to use as rags.

Lesson 3

DISCUSSION.

Read the following quotations and proverbs. Do you agree with each of them? Why? Why not? What do they mean to you personally? How do they relate to your own experience?

1. Modern technology

owes ecology

an apology.

Alan M. Eddison

2) The solution

to pollution

is hold your breath

until your death.

Anon

3) In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. (Robert C. Ingersoll, Some Reasons Why)

Because of concern for, and interest in, the world in which we live ecological issues attract media attention. So terms which were previously used only by environmental scientists have become texts of everyday speech and the public debate over environmental issues is becoming increasingly technical. Here are some of them:

• greenhouse effect

• global warming

• acid rain

• deforestation

• desertification

• river pollution

• urbanization

• dumping

• biodegradability

• depletion of the ozone layer

• fossil fuel

• endangered species

• El Nino

Find definitions for each of the terms. Make up presentations of each of the points.

Read the text, define its main idea.