Pre-reading questions
- What plastic products do you use?
- Do you recycle plastic?
Vocabulary
- single-use /SING-guhl-YOOS/
- waste /weyst/
- national /NASH-uh-nl/
- prevent /pri-VENT/
- pollution /puh-LOO-shuhn/
[adjective] – used to refer to a product that can be used once and is then thrown away
Many single-use containers end up being recycled.
[noun] – unwanted matter or material of any type, especially what is left after useful substances or parts have been removed
The city produces about 15 million tons of household waste per year.
[adjective] – relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to other countries
How many national holidays does Japan have?
[verb] – to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
Vaccination will prevent the disease from spreading.
[noun] – damage caused to water, air, etc. by harmful substances or waste
Air pollution is the main problem in this country.
Article reading
True or False
- New South Wales (NSW), Australia, will ban all types of plastic.
- Victoria will take action and ban “problematic single-use plastics from sale or supply” on January 1, 2023.
- Australia’s national target for recycling plastic packaging is 70%.
- James Griffi is the environment minister of New South Wales.
- There has been a 29% increase in coastal plastic pollution since 2013.
Fill in the blanks
single-use | waste | national | prevent | pollution |
- Always be prepared to _______ disasters.
- The use of _______ plastics must decrease.
- It’s difficult to decrease water _______, but not impossible.
- This area was declared a _______ park years ago.
- More than half of paper _______ is recycled in Japan.