Comprehension check

1. Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.

1. What environmental dangers has computer revolution brought about?

2. Why should old electronic equipment be carefully recycled?

3. What practical steps do the environmentalists take to reduce electronic wastes?

4. What is the European Industrial Council for Electronic Equipment

Recycling responsible for?

5. What is the other side of incinerating old computers?

6. What possible ways to cope with the e-waste problem do environmentalists suggest?

2. Using the line references given, refer back to the text and find words or phrases that have a similar meaning to:

1. making better (lines 1-5)

2. concern about (lines 10-15)

3. use more than necessary (lines 20-25)

4. producers (lines 35-40)

5. reduce (lines 35-40)

6. recommend/encourage (40-45)

3. Read the sentences and match the words in italics with their meanings from the list below.

   1. It is cheaper and easier to dump them in landfill sites to compromise the air and land quality.

   2. Researchers have found that computers are becoming one of the world’s biggest environmental hazards.

   3. He is trying to convince producers that they should be responsible for reducing their waste without the need for legislation.

   4. Why can’t they be adapted for use in schools and colleges, which are

desperately short of computer equipment?

5. She criticized the industry for suggesting incineration as an alternative.

6. The Council favours incineration for energy production and insists that landfill remains valid in some cases.

7. The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling has been formed to draw up a set of principles for the disposal of computers.

1) discard 3) dangers 5) throw out 7) burning

2) supports 4) lack for 6) persuade

Focus on Language

1. Complete the table. Make nouns from the verbs given in the table by adding

suffixes –tion, -ment or –ing. Use a dictionary if necessary.

VERB	NOUN
to recycle
to generate
to pollute
to encourage
to combine
to introduce
to develop
to require
to produce
to equip

2. Work in teams of 3. Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-, en-, up- . Compare as a class.

-cover	-load	-connect	-assemblies	-large	-source	-grade	-play
-cycle	-able	-courage	-furbish	-night	-mantle	-scribe	-come

3. Study the sentences in the box and make rules.

• Highly toxic chemicals are used for etching silicon chips in some microelectronic companies.

• Why can’t they be adapted for use in schools and colleges?

• Manufacturers redesign their products so that they can be more easily recycled.

• The ICEER has been formed to draw up a set of principles for the disposal of computers.

• A lot of companies throw out computers when they are still working in order to get a more efficient or faster model.

Expressing purpose with to, in order (not) to, so that and for To express purpose We use to and in order (not) to plus an infinitive when the subject of the main clause and the clause of purpose are the same. In order (not) to is more formal than to . We can use so that both when the subject of the main clause and the clause of purpose are the same and they are different. We often use so that with can, could or other modal verbs and the main verb. We use for with a noun or a gerund.