Environment: Plastic cycle

Last week we watched this video to continue dealing with the issue of environmentally friendly way of living. Follow the link

Answer the following questions in your notebook and we'll debate in class after that:

1. How are these bottles made? 

2. What are monomers, polymers and pellets? 

3. What can they remember?                  4. Where does bottle number 1 end up?

5. What’s leachate?                                 6. What are its harmful effects? 

7. How long could it take bottle number 1 to decompose?

8. What are the effects of plastic on animals that live near the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? 

9. How does this also affect humans? 

10. What are microplastics?                   

For the last bottle we can practise the passive form by explaining where it is taken and how it is transformed.

Now follow the link from the British Council website for teenagers to watch the trailer of the documentary A Plastic Ocean. We'll practise the exercises in class.