vocabulary household items + listening a radie phone-in show * grammar quantifiers + reading e-rubbish + speaking your opinions on recycling Vocabulary household items 4. How much do you recycle or reuse items in the house or at work? How casy is it to recycle where you live? 2 You can recycle all these objects. Match each object with the correct, recycling bin above, aluminium toll carton cereal box coffee aggthell yoghurt pot jar tincan envelope newspaper bottle pPlestictag vegetable pee! 3 Look at the grammar box. Which of the nouns in Exercise 2 are countable (C)and which ere uncountable (U)? Renate acs ferns Countabje nouns have sinavlar anc plural forms: bottle, two bottles Uncountable nouns are singular and hhave no plural forms. You cannot use them with numbers nh For further information and practice see page 88. Listening 4 1.29 Listen to two callers on a cadio phone-in show about recycling, Answer the questions. 1 Which caller (Reg or Senda) thinks more people need to recycle? 2 Which caller doesn’t think recycling helps the environment? 5a Recycling oe) eer) me ry Cees Grammar quantifiers 5 61.29 Lston tothe radio show again, Mateh the two parts of the sentences. There aren't any— people on my street recy 1 a 2 Are there any R bags. 3 Thereare some recycling bins, 4 They don’t recycle much | a recyeling bins thers? 5 Nocmany |. & mise weak 6 They throw away alotot | f minutes every day, 7 Some people recycle a little —g, 8 Youonly need a few h 6 Find these quantifiers in the sontences in Ey quantifiers do we useto talk about small quantities? atew alittle alotof ary ot many not much Eta ‘Countable nouns We we some, lot oFend o few in affirmative sentences, We use any oF many in negative sentences oF questions. Uncourtable nouns We use some, lot oFand a litle in affirmative sentences, We use any ce ‘much in negative sentences or questions. Note: lor af lots af (there fen citference in meaning or use) Forfurther Information and aracice ea page 8 7 Work in pairs. Look at the grammar box. Then make sentences about what you recycle and throw away using the table. | metal ewspapars plastic ‘less alotof many much recycle 1 We ) throw away ae einai cen ceaages \ food \ \ haUnit 5 The environment Reading 8 Read the article about e-rubbish. Answer the questions using quantifiers 1 How many of us know where our e-rubbish goes? 2 Did Peter Essick follow the rubbish te lots of countries? 3 How many of the computers do sellers resell? 4 How much metal co the parts of the computers contain? 5. Whyis the process of recycling these parts so dangerous? 6 Bow much e-rubk ‘owadays, every household produces electronic rubbish (or ‘e-rubbish) ~ an old TV or computer printer, of an out-of-date mobile phone we no longer need, But when vre throw these reryday Items away, not many of us know where these objects go. Journalist and photographer, Peter Essick, decided to follow this rubbish to several different countries around the world. jpartiovtay, Essick found e ‘ot of e-ubbish goes to Ghana. There, he saw luntains of old computers in the local markets, Tne sellos reeell somo ‘them but not much equipment works. insted, they racycla the broken omputers &y melting the nerts inside, These parts contain « litle metal oh as copper of aven gold sometimes. Homever, this process of recycling :dangerous for the workers because it produces & lot of toxic chemicals, 4 result of his journey. Pater Escick thinke ite important to stop exporting fbbish_ I'S bac (or the envrenmment anc it's bed for people's health. (ead, he belleves manulacturers nead to produce mare eco-friendly ectronics inthe future; In other viords, electronic products which you can. icle cheaply, eafoly anc in tno court’y where they were made. 3 Compete these sontences about the article, ‘Then compare your sentences with the class, knew a little /a Jot about this topic before reading this, This article is /isn’t surprising for me because. sate agree / partly agree / don't agree with Essick because Speaking 10. Workin pairs. Imagine you are talking on a radio phone-in programme. fae ine tc We often join wards or parts of ‘other words with a hyphen 0 make new words: erubbish, outoFsate, eco lend. For further infarmation ane bractice, se Workbook page 135, does Poter Essick think-we should export? Why? smelt (0) melt! to heat an object until turn ce lquic twxic (ad) thsi” posoncus ‘ow are the radio presenter. Tarn to page 81 and follow the instructions, Student B: You are a caller. Turn to page 82 and follow the instructions. EUCUNONN > MMESIEING © 4 reewoixsunvey » an wrenview ‘AN ONLINE ORDER ‘AN EMAIL 50reading and speaking how green are you? * vocsbulary results and figures * gremmar definite article (the) oF no Pronunciation /da ors © writing and speaking a ‘Greendex survey 5b The Greendex Reading and speaking 2 Workin groups, Rend the ist paragraph in the article about "4 endex’. Then. 11 We describe people and their hehaviour as ‘green’ when discuss the questions. they help the enviconment. Hlow green are you? Answer 1 Whotis the purpoos ofthe ‘Greendexl 2 Is your country in the survey? 1 3. What kinds of cost do you think each of the four categories includes (eg ever buy second-hand goods? ‘housing = electricity, gas)? switch computers and TVs off before you go to bed? ‘use public transport or share car journeys? 3 Read the latest results fram the ‘Groene Label the pie charts (1-5) with the corvect Can you think of more ways to be green in your eanintey daily life? The ‘Greendox’ is a survey of 17,000 countries. it finds cout how these people reguisrly spend their money, The four categories for spending are: housing, foCd, transportation and ‘other good (such 35 electronic items and househols appliances), LATEST RESULTS FROM THE ‘GREENDEX’: About ninety per cent of people in Argentina eat beef nearly every dy. Exactly haif of all Russians use public transport every day or most days, Just over hwo thirds of people in Germany drink a bottle of water delly and most of them also recycle the bortle Consumers in the Unites States have the most TVs at home. Well over two thirds have four or more ‘Neary half of all Canadians reqularly recycle electronic items.Unit 5 The environment cabulary results and figures § oo atthe grammarbox Than match te ies {a-f) withthe gaps (1-6) in Exercise 7. "ook at these words from the results in Exercise 3. ‘Choose the correct percentage (a~c). Use the definite article (th): E -sboutniinety por.csnt with semething or someone you mentioned befare. 2 80% = b mmc 9% B when itisporeot the mare of something (5 The exactly half Untied Kingdom) Boy. yam, Je Bin «wit superlative pases fe. the herd, jest over two thirds : ee ooo counties seall over two thirds = 6% — b 6% 75% carly half 2 48% bd 50% «52% iment caurses practice, see page 89 secccmately, what percentage of your money ag ‘sou spend on housing, food, transport and otis? Divide the pie chart toshow the tages. 1. FheBuropean houses do not have air , conditioning, housing 2 Countries such as the Brazil are using the 3s electric cars more and more, 3. Many people around the world are trying to tase less energy at the home \ 4. The fish and sesfood is the most common dish in the Japan. 5. Thepeople in the United Kingdom are sharing Look at these sentences from the ‘Greendex’ survey. Delete the where it isn’t necessary. (food the cars more and more to save costs. ber goods’ 10 Pronunciation /8a/ or /0i:! - a % 1.30 Listen to the difference in the ‘Work in pairs Present your pie chart using words pronunciation of ike before @ consonant scuncl and Bens Hvercin A a vowel sound. (Sol Bish theTV theintemet b 1.31 Listen and write /00/ 07 /Oi:/. Then listen again and repeat. ammar definite article (the) 1 thebottle 5. the electricity 2 the phone 6 the gas no article 3) the fuel 7 the insurance ‘Complete the text with the or @ (no article), Then 4 theapple 8 thewater check your answers in the ‘Greendex’ results in eset: Writing and speaking , 41. Workin groups. You are going to prepare + lutovertwo thr of people in’ 2 Greantesrepor about the cas Follow Germany drink a bottle of water dally and most these steps acorn eT 1. Write eight to ten questions to find out how +? consumersin* _____ United States ‘green’ everybody is. have mostTVs at*____home, 2 Each group member meets stucents from the: other groups and interviews them using the questions, 3. Work with your first group again. Colic the information from your questions and summarise the results. 4. Present your conclusions to the class, =e ppie charts to help your presentations, S ANINTERVIEW ~ AN ONLINE ORCER — EIEEES © eanreading the Plastiki « critical thinking close reading * word focus take * speaking an interview with an environmentalist 5c A boat made of bottles Reading 1 Look at these words from the article on page 63. What do you think itis about? Read the article. Were your predictions correct? boat plsticbottles recycle sail San Francisco Sydney the Pacific Ocean, 2. Rend the article again. Complete the fact file about the Plastik. Write the information as figures. The Plastiki in factsxfigures Number of crews! Number of bottles: Length:? ___m Width:! sm Weight? kg Average speed:* knots Distance of journey:? km Number of days at sea:? ‘Cost to build: not known Critical thinking close reading 3 Read sentences 1-8. Write answers A, B or €. The sentence is true, The information is in the text. B= The sentence is false. The information is in the text. C= We don’t know if t's true or false. The information, isn't in the text, The Plastic is made of the same material as other beats Nowadays, humans recycle most of their plastic bottles The boat doesn’t use renewable energy. The crew only ate vegetables for the whole journey. Plastic in the sea is kiling animals, The size of the ‘Great Garbage Patch’ is growing, Some people criticised De Rothschild and his journey, De Rothschild wants to sal the Plastiki agai one day. 4 Do you think the Plastiti made a difference to people's attitude to rubbish? Will De Rothschilds journey make ‘people change their behaviour? Why? / Why nat? Word focus take 5 Find five expressions with tate in the aiticle on page 63. Then match them vit the correct calegory (1-4). take (teik! 1 taspont take want 2 daily routines: abe a walk 3 lengtis oF ane rake afew days 4 idioms: take tine (to cr tonethine) 6 Complete the sentence with take and thes phrases. regular breaks eplene time many days care 1. Most people take 2 plane_ from San Francisco to Syciney so they don’t kno about the pollution in the ccean. 2. The journey across the Great Garbage Paich ‘ 3. The journey was tiring and the erew needed to 4 For this kind of project it’s important to to plan everything. 5 The Pacific Ocean can be dangerous 0 everyone on the ship had to Speaking 7 Work in pairs. Imagine you are going to interview David De Rothschild about the Plastik, Prepare six to eight questions using the information in the artiele and any other questions you would ike to askhim, B Change partners with another pair Take turns fo roleplay the inteview and ask each other your questions. Whan you a De Rothschild, use information from the article or ereate new answers with your leas and opinionsUnit 5 The environment A boat with a difference “The Plast looks similar to many other boats or yachts In Sydney harbour. I's elghteen metres long, six setres wide and ic weighs about owelve thousand Mlogrammes. it caries a crew cf six people and hasan average speed of five knots. However, once you gee near to the Plstki you realise there's 2 big difference ’s made of twelve thousand fe hundred reclaimed plastic botees How did the Plastiki begin? ‘One day, che environmentalist David De Rothschild was reading some information about all the plastic in ‘he seas and oceans. He coulis believe what he was reading. For example, humans throw away four out ‘of every five plastic bottles they use and plastic rubbish causes about eighty per cent of the pollution in the sea. Soon afterwards, Rothschild decided he wanted to help the ight against pollution in the sea. To ‘raate publicity for the problems, he started building a boa: made of plastic bottles. Designing the Plastiki ‘As wellas building the boat with recycled plastic. ie was important for him to make the boat -nvironmentaly-friendly and user-friendly. The boat uses renewable energy sources including wind power and solar energy. The crew can male men's with vegetables from the small garden at che back of the boat. “They can cake a broai from work and get some exerci by Using the spacial exercise bicycle. The enorgy fom tha bike provider power for the boat's computers, And Ifaryone needs to take a shower, the boat's shower uses saltwater from the sea The journey ‘De Rothschild sed the Pati across the Pace Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Tha’ teen ‘housand three hundred and seventy two noua! Kfometres, On the way, De Rethechié took the speci “soat through the "Great Garbage Patch’, tis a huge area in the Pacific with 3.5 billion kilogrammes of ‘bith. You can seo every lind of harman rabbit here: shoes, toys, bags, toothbrushes, but the worse problem isthe plas Ics birds and sea if. jow well did the Plastiki survive the journey? stay vy ar sew Roach ad acco ft owls ar dart Sor Siero were ganeocecn wares and winds of over one hundred hemetes per hour. Thewhole _/ Boe ea brad cerry rie ey: Gr fall, De Rectal tole sea a cal ie ae oves bec rvvacisovall datos parekigio ali aan ia, a knot (7) Jane measurement of speed at soa (1 knot = 1.8 kr) ‘garbage (n) “4a buds’ (US Eng) rubbish (UK Eng) patch (9) Jue areareading a company website + real life phoning about an order * pronunciation sounding friendly Reading 1 Do you normally go shopping or do you prefer shopping online? 2 Read the website and email order. What did the customer order? What is the problem? WWW.TECOART.COM iY ACCOUNT | SHOP Uncstel clocks, Office clocks, Unique Clocks, Computer clocks, Computer art and Vintage clacks all from recycled computers! ING ca Computer Hard Drive Apple Pod Hard Drive Clock on a Circuit Board £35.00 Clock with Circult Board, £38.00 Order number: 805324 Order Date:20 March ‘Thank you for your otder Unfortunately, the model you ordered \scurrently notavaiable. We expect delivery in seven days. We apologise for the delay. For further formation 2bout this cde, speak to acustomer service assistant on 355:01754, Jane Powell, 90 North tane Iter Number aan Deseriation| Quantity warderiveddoce 1 Price #35 Real life phoning about an order 3 1.32 Jane Powell telophones customer services about her order. Listen tothe conversation. Answer the questions. 1. What information does the customer service assistant ask for and check? Why does Jane want the clock quickly? How much does the other clock cost? What does Jane decide to do? What will the customer service assistant email her? um an 5d Online shopping 4, 1.32 Look at the expressions for phoning: about an order. Then listen to the conversats again. Tick the sentences the customer se: assistant uses. Emenee! Telephone expressions Good morning. Can I help you? im calling about an order fora clock. ‘Gan | put you on hold for a moment? Is there anything ele I car help you with? Talking about an order Do you hava the order numer? Would you like to order a different product? Would you like to cancel the order? ‘Would you lite arefund? Would you like confiemetion by email? ‘checking and carifying that atin Alpha? Let ine check So that’s F for Freddie, That's tight. 5 Pronunciation sounding friendly @ 41.33 Listen to the sentences from a telephone conversation. Does the customer services assistant sound friendly (#) or unfriendly (U)? Good morning. Can I help you? Can Tput you on hold? Isthat Aas in Alpha? Ym calling about an order, Is there anything else I can help you wit Do you have an order number? b 4% 1.34 Listen to che sentences again but n hey are all friendly. Listen and repeat with « similar iiendly intonation. 6 Workin pairs, Practise two phone conversations similar to the one in Exercise ‘Student A: Tum to page 8! and follow the instructions. ‘Student B: Turn to page 2 and follow the instructions. RECYCUNG > ALGREENDEX SURVEY © ANINTERVIEW @ TALK ABC BS rs orien] weasng amails * writing skill formal language Unit 5 The environment ‘ing emails 7 Read the cortespondence between a customer and a ‘customer service assistant, Put the emails in order (1-5). Boca cowtres ‘would tke to inform you that the e-book reader you srcered is now in stock. | would be delighted to deliver this => immediately. Please reply to contin you stil require this item. Charlotte Lazarra Bhoea: si or eda | |recertlyordered an “book reace’ However, reakvec eral wich si this was rat cutentyaveliable, Pease sn my money bac to ta crost card You's sincerely Mr 4 Cotte TB tranis, but! bought te same product ata shop yesterday Therefore, please cancel the order ard, as requested, send me my refund M Cottret Bhs requested here is the onder number: 805348 ) Bioear mcottren Thank you for your email. | apologise forthe ditficulties with your order. In orcer to provide you with the necessary assistance, coulé you please send the order number? est regards Charlotte Lazaro Customer Seruce Assistant Send the emails in Fxercise 1 again. Underline any phrases and expressions thal request something or give structions to do something, Problem with an order 3 Writing skill formal language @ The language in the emails in Exercise 1 is feirly formal. Match the formal verbs in the emails to these less formal verbs and phrases (1-9) get receive _ be happy = asked for give five back (money) help say sorry tell want ‘Work in pairs. Make these sentences more formal. 1 Twant my money back 2 I'm writing to tell you that didn’t get the delivery. Do you want eny help? Please give us your creditcard details. Sorry, but I can't give you your money back. You ordered a printer but it doesn’t work Write an email to the supplier and request a refund, Work in pairs, Exchange emails with your partner, Write a formal reply from the supplier to your partner's email, Use these questions to check the emails in Exercise 5, + Did the writer make polite requests and give clear instructions? * Did the writer use formal language? © RECYCLING © AGREENDEX SURVEY © ANINTERVIEW > AN ONLINE ORDER > anCoastal clean-up ‘The aim of this clean-up isto make the coastlines beautiful again,Unit 5 The environment Before you watch ‘Work in groups. Lock at the photo ard the title of this video. Discuss the questions. 1 Where are the people? 2 What do you think they are doing? Why? 3. Whatare they thinking? hile you watch Walch the video and check your ideas from Exercise 1. Watch the video again ancl number the actions in, the onder you see them. writing information on a form getting off a bus swimming underwater picking up tin cans putting bags of rubbish on a boat 4 Watch the video again. Are these sentences true (I) or false (FY? 1 The government pays the people who collect the rubbish, 2. They collect lot of the rubbish along the coast 3 The Ocean Conservancy makes a note of every piece of rubbish it collect. 4. Most ofthe rubbish comes from boats at sea. 5. They cleaned everything up along the river, 30 there isn’t any more to do there ‘Watch the video again. What do these numbers and dates refer to? 1 halfa million 1,000 kilos “amazing (ad) ocizy! very surprising ‘garette end (n)s1yoet ent the part of the digarstte people ‘throw avy after they finish smoking F- coast (n}/haust! the place where the sea meets the land Clean-up (n) lin ap! the process af making comethng cloan collect v)hallekt lek up lsgusting (cj) ts castin very unpleasant litter () ita! Feave things like gape and plastic bags in publ places after youfinish using them 6 Complote what the people say with these words, disgusting litter shocked trash __all this stuff that’s out here. Iwas ‘when I came out here. I thought ‘oh, you know people don’t* that much’ You sce stuff on the sice of the road, but when you come here it's ust everywhere Yeah itis preity * actually, We ean pick a lot of it up one day and the next day we come back and thero's®___as much as the day belore. So it seems like there is no end to the 7 According to the narrator, what two reasons are there for doing the clean-up? After you watch 8 Roleplay a conversation between a coastal clean-up volunteer and a member of the publ Work in pairs ‘Student A: You are a coastal clean-up volunteer. You want to get more volunteers. Make a list of reasons for helping with the coastal clean-up. Saudent B: You live near the coast but you enjoy ‘your free time and don’t want to help with the ‘coastal clean-up. Make a list of reasons why you are busy and can’t volunteer, Act out the interview. Student A must convince ‘Student B to volunteer. Then change roles and repeat the conversation. 9 Jay says ‘we are getting there,’ What does he mean? 10. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. 1. Are there places in your country where there is a lol of rubbish? 2 Would you do voluntary work like this? 3. How can you stop people littering? rubbish (o) sabi things people throw away when they don ‘peed them (British Enalish) seareh (y) 611) look for shocked (ac) eit! surprised in @ necative way ‘ash (n) 22) things pesple throw avay when they don't ‘ees them (American English) ‘ice (adv) twats two times ‘Yolun'teer(n /vnlanita’ a person wh does something without bbcing paleUNIT 5 REVIEW Grammar 1. Choose the corzeet options to complete the article about recycling, (Q = no article) Recycling grou theWWorld New statins ave a vew eyeing curd ttowordl nese thee the cuintesie there in Switzerland 1A The score wll teeing ith 20 any cient ype oryling in, aa peopleoriyhonet throw aay ite) of Houser Forename (ny recy 20% ‘ther pastiche: Tate mech higher than ‘ter coutas in he uope mith paste tecyelng levels only betwen 24-408. United States of America Overall te USA does reyes? ony / ‘much rabbsh asa county ike Sizefene but einen bea any new project in recon yar and so tec realy peng ‘vice Th yer reejced 43% of paper, ‘ossofs plasicbatlesend 554 oF seas Seneval Senegl nly recy afi ato rewacte ivkstaly.owerer seole donttwow aay iy] mcs hey can us for ‘mating ee Fr excrpl yo cab) 995 race fom ok pasibags ar drrking cups {fom nears Here everthing has enothe purpose 2 Work in pairs, Discuss these questions about the ‘countrics in the article. 1. Which country recycles the most? 2 Which country reuses items the most? 3. Which country do you think your country is mest similar to? 3 Complete the questions with many. ruck or any. Then ask your partner the questions. 1 How of your rubbish do you recycle? 70% or more? Between 30 to 69942 29% or less? 2 How ____ newspapers and magazines do you buya week? 3. Do you reuse for something ek to put other item of your household items 2 For example, glass jars or vegetable peel for 4 Can you name three different countries in each of these regions? South America The Middle East “tale “oo SE ie yuntties and different ragions in a Si Europe Asia Atrica Vocabulary 5 Match the percentages from the article in Exercise 1 with the definitions (1-5). two fifths 5 nearly hal 1 justover half 4 2. four fifths 3. about a quarter 6 ‘Work in pairs, Make two sentences about your weekly life using peccentages. Talk about: + theamount of time you spend at work a weel * the percentage of your money you spend on food. “Then say the same sontences using descriptions (eg a quarter, over ahall) Real life 7 Work in pairs. Practise making a telephone call Student A: You want to speak to the Customer Service Manager at an online shop. You bought ‘TV but it doesn’t work. You want the compeny: to collect and replace it. Telephone the customer helpline and explain your problem. Student B: You work on the customer helpline fa ‘an online company. Your manager is nat availab 0 take the caller's name, number and write do the details of the complaint, make a telephone answer e telephone : Speaking B Write threo sentences about your country or another in the world, Two sentences are true fac and one sentence is false Example: 1 The United Kingdom hes a population of wel sixly rill people, 2 The average person in the UK works about forty hours a week 3. 70% of the population in the UK is below the age of 30. (Sentence 3 is false) 9 Work in pairs. Take turns to say your three sentences end guess which of your partner's sentences is false. i] ©