Recycle your rubbish
Language level: B1 – B2
Age of the students: 13 - 19
1) Recycling vocabulary
Match the words and definitions, then match the words with pictures
a recycling bin
a) ________________
a recycling box
a large container in the street where you can recycle
blottles, cans, etc.
b) _______________
a small container in your house in which you put things
that can be reccled
2) Sorting the waste
Write one sort of rubbish to each recycling bin, e.g. paper – a blue recycling bin
blue: _________________________
green: _________________________
yellow: _________________________
red: ___________________________
3) Write four good things and four bad things about the city you are in now. Use the
ideas and your own.
recycling bins
rubbish
pollution
For example: There aren´t enaugh recycling bins.
4) Discuss these questions:
a) Are there any recycling laws in your coutry?
b) What do you recycle?
c) What do you throw away that you could recycle?
RESULTS:
Recycling vocabulary
a) recycling bin
b) recycling box
blue: magazines
green: peel
yellow: a carton of juice
red: a battery
Zdroje:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gia-rise-recyclebin.jpg?uselang=cs
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recycle_bin_in_Spiez,_Switzerland.jpg