Dates: April 02- 06
Magazine Lessons: Too Much Garbage?/ Recycle It!/ Grant’s Speech
Activity Focus: Reading Comprehension, Read The Article, Talk About It!
Clean Up The Earth!
Part 1: Multiple Choice. Choose the correct answer for each question. Use the information from
the conversations in your magazine.
April 2
1. Josie is reading an article about ____.
(A) rivers
(B) garbage
(C) the earth
(D) lakes
2. Josie says, “Thousands of people are
dying! We’re all ____!”
(A) in danger
(B) in trouble
(C) worried
(D) terrible
3. What can we do about garbage?
(A) We can read magazines.
(B) We can recycle.
(C) We can buy fewer things.
(D) We can fill up rivers and lakes.
4. Stories in tabloids aren’t ____.
(A) good
(B) bad
(C) true
(D) false
April 3,4
5. What will Zack and Pete put in front of
the community center?
(A) recycling bins (B) cans
(C) a campaign sign (D) money
6. Tess says, “Everyone can help
improve the ____.”
(A) world
(B) neighborhood
(C) center
(D) environment
7. What will all the community centers
collect for the contest?
(A) money
(B) trash
(C) recycling
(D) bins
8. Tess says, “If everyone recycled cans,
we would have a lot less ____.”
(A) trash
(B) pollution
(C) trouble
(D) garbage
9. Who will sort the trash at school?
(A) Zack
(B) Cindy
(C) Pete
(D) Tess
April 5, 6
10. What is Grant practicing?
(A) a speech
(B) a rally
(C) a song
(D) the piano
11. Who needs to help stop pollution?
(A) no one
(B) everyone
(C) Tess
(D) Zack
12. Grant says, “We must recycle or ____
will soon cover the earth.”
(A) tons
(B) cans
(C) energy
(D) trash
13. Our children and grandchildren may
not have any ____.
(A) clean air or water
(B) plastic
(C) energy
(D) pollution
14. Who wants Grant’s hat?
(A) Eve
(B) Josie
(C) Zack
(D) Tess
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Part 2: Read The Article. Read the newspaper article and then answer the questions.
RIVERSIDE TIMES
Riverside Senior High’s School Newspaper
A Big Problem
by Ruby Newsie
Do you recycle? If not, you should. Pollution is a big problem. People dump their garbage
everywhere. We are polluting our lakes and rivers. What can you do to help clean up the earth?
At Riverside Senior High, we want to improve the environment. Our principal and teachers
want us to recycle more. In fact, they have planned a recycling contest. The class that collects the
most recycling will win a trip to the Riverside Water Park. The contest will begin on Earth Day –
April 22nd. We will recycle paper, aluminum and glass. You can put them in the bins near your
classrooms.
So, stop throwing away things that you can recycle! Let’s take care of the pollution problem –
together!
1. What does the writer want you to do?
(A) pollute
(B) save energy
(C) recycle
(D) dump garbage
2. What is the big problem?
(A) environment (B) aluminum
(D) pollution
(C) recycling
3. Riverside Senior High will have a recycling ____________.
(A) dump
(B) contest
(C) collect
(D) day
4. What will the winning class get?
(A) paper and aluminum
(C) an Earth Day party
(B) a trip to a water park
(D) a trip to lakes and rivers
5. Where should students put the recycling?
(A) next to the principal’s office
(B) in the bins
(C) in the classrooms
(D) in the trash cans
Part 3: Talk About It! Discuss the following questions with a classmate.
1. Do you usually recycle things? Why or why not?
2. What is something scary? What makes it scary?
3. Do you like to clean up your house? Why or why not?
4. Have you ever given a speech? If so, talk about it.
5. Which is better: swimming in a lake or a river? Why?
6. Do you collect anything? If so, what? If not, would you like to?
7. Have you ever won a contest? Talk about it.
8. What is something you think is a big problem?
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