ENGLISH CLASS
TOPIC: OCEAN POLLUTION
TEACHER: JAYNE GÓMEZ
FICHA: 1960944 MANEJO AMBIENTAL
INSTRUCCIONES: Lea cuidadosamente la guia y desarrolle los puntos propuestos en esta.
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No modificar ni agregar nada que no se haya pedido
La fecha limite de entrega de esta actividad es Marzo 27. 17:00 pm.
Preparation
Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.
1 a crisis a an area where waste is buried under the ground
(c) .
2 to degrade b a small part of something
(h) .
3 a landfill site c a difficult or dangerous situation that needs urgent
(a) . attention
4 to dump d a diver who holds their breath under water
(f) .
5 to endure e in perfect condition
(g) .
6 a free diver f to get rid of something quickly without worrying about it
(d) .
7 a fraction of g to suffer
(b) something .
8 pristine h to break down into smaller substances
(e) .
Observe el siguiente video y responda las preguntas de la 1 a la 8 (la transcripción está al final de la copia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zrn4-FfbXw
1. Check your understanding: multiple choice
Circle the best answer to these questions.
1. When did the first narrator start following blue whales?
a. When he was a teenager
b. When he was a child
c. When he was an adult
2. How many tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans every
year?
a. 8 million
b. 5 million
c. 9 million
3. What does the narrator do for a living?
a. He’s a TV presenter.
b. He’s a diver.
c. He’s a journalist.
Video zone: A Plastic Ocean – exercises
4. How does the free diver feel about her work helping to clean the oceans?
a. That more people should do it
b. That it’s her way to pay back the ocean for all the pleasure it has given
her
c. That it’s an impossible job
5. Why is the plastic in the ocean never going to degrade?
a. Because it has nowhere to go
b. Because there is too much of it
c. Because more and more is being dumped daily
6. How many pieces of plastic were found in a ninety-day-old chick?
a. 256
b. 266
c. 276
7. What has been built on the landfill sites?
a. Beaches – including resorts for tourists
b. Factories – including plastic bottle factories
c. Communities – including their food production
8. What does the main narrator believe is possible?
a. He believes change is possible and it starts with us.
b. He believes change is possible if we stop buying plastic bottles.
c. He believes change is possible if we stop throwing bottles in the ocean.
WRITING. Responda a los siguientes interrogantes.
Do you use a lot of plastic? Little bit
What do you think we can do, as individuals, to help improve the problem of having too much plastic
in our oceans?
Try to recycle plastic as much as possible, reuse it, decrease the frequent use of plastic products.
Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learned in this lesson.
Word on: Printine
ANEXO
Transcripción del video
Transcript:
Narrator: I remember the first time I saw a blue whale.
Man on boat: Look, look! (… Wow!)
Narrator: I’d followed them since childhood.
Diver: Where do you think it’s from? Is it from a ship?
Narrator: I could see plastic everywhere.
Every year 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans
Presenter: We were in what we thought was a relatively pristine environment. I started to wonder what was
happening in oceans elsewhere on the planet.
A journalist who loves the ocean
Narrator: Growing up, my world was the ocean. It’s where I feel the most spiritual.
And a champion who dives below
Diver: As a free diver, it was a place where I proved myself to myself. Finally have the opportunity to pay the
sea back.
A crisis with global stakes
Narrator: Only a fraction of the plastic that we produce is recycled.
Man 2 on boat: This is never going to degrade. It’s got nowhere to go.
Narrator: It’s something that these animals are forced to endure because it was man-made and we put it into
their environment.
Diver: The record is two hundred and seventy-six pieces of plastic inside one ninety-day-old chick. If the
plastics are in the food chain for the dolphin then they're also in our food chain.
Lady on boat: Exactly!
Narrator: Communities are built on these landfill sites … So sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane, all growing on
forty years of garbage.
Do you have anything not wrapped in plastic?
… No!
… No!
To save our future
Narrator: We have to make our life better for our kids' children.
We need a wave of change
Narrator: Change is possible! It starts with us!
A Plastic Ocean
