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What a Berlin Cafe is Doing with Coffee Grounds (B1-B2)

Work with a partner or group. Do the activities together.

PART I Discuss the topics below about coffee.

1 Do you drink coffee in the morning? What about in the evening?

2 If you make coffee at home, explain how you make it.
3 What type of coffee do you enjoy the most?
4 Describe your favorite cafe or coffee shop if you have one.

What makes a cafe a nice cafe? Write some conditions / qualities of a nice cafe.
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Below is the topic of a video that you will watch. Which words from the word bank fit
PART III
the blank spaces below? Check each word after you use it.

WORD
BANK:

COFFEE CUPS CAFE COFFEE GROUNDS BERLIN

VIDEO TOPIC: A in is
making made from

PART IV Match the nouns below with their definitions on the right.

1 logistics a. something happening by chance

2 coincidence b. a delivery service of goods or products

3 waste c. a seller of goods or products

4 vendor d. the transportation of supplies or goods to a location

5 courier e. garbage / material which is thrown away

Do you ever use any food courier services? If so, which ones?
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PART I Match the words from the box with the images below.

a. coffee beans b. coffee grounds c. disposable cup d. mug e. lid f. saucer

1 2 3

4 5 6

Fill in the verb for the noun below.

NOUN: I make my own coffee grounds. VERB: I my own coffee.

verb

PART II Choose the definitions of the verbs / phrasal verbs below the context examples.

1 Plastic is bad to use because it doesn’t decompose.

2 Bob was picked up by a taxi at the airport and dropped off in the city center.
3 It took a long time to gather all of our materials and supplies in our garage.
4 It’s really important that we tackle the problem of plastic waste in the ocean.
5 It will take us about a week to go through all of the groceries we bought.

1 decompose a. to solve
2 drop off b. to consume
3 gather c. to collect or bring together
4 tackle d. to break down chemically
5 go through e. to take something/someone to a location
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with Coffee Grounds What a Berlin Cafe is Doing with Coffee Grounds (B1-B2)

Preview Discussion Questions

1 How do you react to caffeine?

2 Do you have a favorite coffee mug?
3 How often do you get coffee to go?

Viewing Activity

PART I Write short answers according to the information in the video.

0:10 1 How many disposable coffee cups do American go through per year?

0:26 2 What is a company in Berlin doing? How did this idea come?

0:50 3 How many pounds of beans does the average person go through in Germany per year?

0:59 4 What percentage of used cups end up as waste? How long can it take to decompose?

3:09 5 What other things do they want to make with coffee grounds in the future?

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PART List the process in order for creating the coffee cups.

The grounds are then sorted and cleaned at the workshop.

They are dropped off at a workshop.

They’re transported to a facility where they’re dried and mixed with different
things.
1 The courier picks up and gathers the grounds.

They shape the grounds into cups and saucers using heat and pressure.

PART III The company founder spoke about “waste streams” coming from coffee production
and consumption. What are some other examples of waste streams in society?
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PART I Put the terms in the box in the context below. Three terms aren’t used!

dropped off coincidence decompose lids gather

goes through beans tackle courier logistics

Coffee grounds, cups, and plastic (1) are creating waste with
coffee consumption.

Germany is one of the largest coffee-consuming countries in the world. The average
person (2) 14 pounds of (3) per year.

When coffee cups are in the trash, they can take over 20 years to (4)
without any air.

Recycling coffee grounds also helps (5) the problem of dispos-

able coffee cups.

The courier can (6) about 110 pounds of grounds in one day.

It takes about 90 minutes after the grounds are picked up until they are (7)
at the workshop.

PART II Study the compound adjective used in the video.

There are several different ways to form compound adjectives in English and one of them is...

NOUN + PRESENT PARTICIPLE ADJECTIVE (-ING VERB)

Germany is one the largest coffee-consuming countries in Europe.

“
Put a hyphen ( - ) between the noun and the present participle to make it a compound adjective.

Write two sentences using a compound adjective (noun + present participle) about the
country where you live.

Write two sentences using a compound adjective (noun + present participle) about two
other countries.

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What a Berlin Cafe is Doing with Coffee Grounds (B1-B2)

Study the two examples of the relative pronouns used in the video:

“ It’s more than just the cups and the lids that are creating waste.

“ For a courier service, this is something that is unique.

We use relative pronouns (that, which, who, where) in defining clauses to give important in-
formation about the noun before it. We need the information after the relative pronoun to un-
derstand what or who is being referred to.

EXAMPLES: I drank some coffee this morning that / which had a lot of caffeine.
We visited a coffee shop that sells biodegradable coffee mugs.
I spoke with the man who created this idea for biodegradable coffee mugs.
We use relative pronouns (that, which, who, where) in non-defining clauses to add informa-
tion to our idea but can be taken away and we still understand who or what is being referred to.

EXAMPLES: The Cuban coffee, which was delivered yesterday, was quite expensive.
This coffee mug, which you can get in Berlin, is biodegradable.
The company owner, who is about 31 years old, wants to expand his business.

PART I The sentences below are missing the relative pronoun. Rewrite each sentence
with a relative pronoun in the correct location.

1 I want to show you a coffee mug is made from coffee grounds!

2 I use a courier service picks up and delivers coffee grounds.

3 She only drinks coffee doesn’t have caffeine.

4 There’s a cafe in the city center serves you coffee in a biodegradable cup.

5 Berlin is a multicultural city is known for great coffee.

PART II Fill in the blanks below with a relative pronoun + a non-defining clause to give
extra information.

1 Julian, who lives in Berlin , is a coffee expert.

2 Our espresso, , is our highest selling type of coffee here.
3 The cyclist, , is a courier of coffee grounds.
4 My coffee machine, , is broken.
5 Coffee, , is my favorite drink.
6 The coffee beans, , tasted amazing.
7 The coffee shop, , closed very recently.
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What a Berlin Cafe is Doing with Coffee Grounds (B1-B2)

Work with a partner. Complete the quiz and review activities below.

PART I Summary. Give a summary of the video.

PART II Questions. Discuss the answers to the questions below.

1. What kind of impact does coffee have on the environment?

2. What is the solution discussed in the video?
3. How did the idea for the solution come about?
4. Who does the startup company cooperate with?
5. What are some steps of the process for creating the product?
6. What does the company plan to do in the future?

PART III Vocabulary: Discuss what each term means. Write how it was used in the video.

1. decompose

2. gather

3. go through

4. lid

5. dropped off

PART IV Vocabulary: Explain what a compound adjective is. Write the example from the video.

Grammar: Explain what defining and non-defining relative clauses are. Write two sen-
PART V
tences using defining relative clauses and two using non-defining relative clauses.

DEFINING 1.

DEFINING 2.

NON-DEFINING 1.

NON-DEFINING 2.

PART VI Bonus: Imagine you go to a cafe and use the biodegradable coffee mugs from the
video. Write a review about the product and experience. Write at least 3 sentences.