Pre-reading questions:
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- Does your town do enough recycling? Please elaborate on your answer.
- Do you think recycling is here to stay? Why?
Vocabulary:
I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me.
- household /HOUS-hohld/
- collector /kuh-LEK-ter/
- convert /kuhn-VURT/
- circumstance /SUR-kuhm-stans/
- transfer /trans-FUR/
[noun] – a group of people, often a family, who live together
By the 1960s, almost every household had a television.
[noun] – someone who collects certain things as a job or as a hobby
The debt collector continued to message her about the rent.
[verb] – to (cause something or someone to) change in form or character
I must convert sorrow into strength.
[noun] – a fact or event that makes a situation the way it is
We won’t be able to solve the problem until we have all of the circumstances.
[verb] – to move someone or something from one place, vehicle, person, or group to another
We were transferred from one car to another.
Article reading:
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Wales was the only UK country to keep its recycling rate constant throughout the pandemic, and it has now outpaced the rest of the UK for at least ten years. In 2020, 56.5 percent of household garbage in Wales was recycled, compared to 44.4 percent in the UK. It was also the only country in the United Kingdom to achieve the European Union’s minimum 50 percent target. According to Minister for Climate Change Julie James, Wales must keep raising its ambitions in order to achieve zero waste by 2050. Despite the pandemic and all of the challenges it brought, local governments prioritized recycling, collectors worked tirelessly throughout, and the good people of Wales continued to recycle. Wales aims to achieve a recycling rate of 70 percent by 2024-2025.
For the past decade, food trash has been collected separately from households across Wales in an effort to recycle it. According to the Welsh government, food waste is converted to methane gas in landfills in hot and compacted circumstances, which is 30 to 80 times more harmful to climate change than carbon dioxide emissions. Food waste is transferred to one of five anaerobic digestion plants in Wales, where it is converted into 7 MW of energy. The Welsh government says that this is enough to power around 12,000 homes.
For the past decade, food trash has been collected separately from households across Wales in an effort to recycle it. According to the Welsh government, food waste is converted to methane gas in landfills in hot and compacted circumstances, which is 30 to 80 times more harmful to climate change than carbon dioxide emissions. Food waste is transferred to one of five anaerobic digestion plants in Wales, where it is converted into 7 MW of energy. The Welsh government says that this is enough to power around 12,000 homes.
Comprehension questions
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- What is the only UK country to keep its recycling rate constant throughout the pandemic?
- Who is Julie James?
- What did Julie James say about Wales?
- According to the article, which is 30 to 80 times more harmful to climate change than carbon dioxide emissions?
- Based on the article, what is converted into 7 MW of power?
Discussion questions
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- What things do you recycle in your country? Could you please tell me more about them?
- What things at home can be used for a long time? Please elaborate on your answer.
- Would you also implement recycling the way Wales does it in your country? Why?
- Do you agree that recycling helps save energy?
- What do you think of converting trash to energy? Please elaborate on your answer.