Garbage

WARM – UP:

1. Why do some people throw garbage on the street?

2. What do you do with garbage when you are on the street?

3. How do you feel when you see people throw garbage on the street?

Vocabulary

Resident: Dân cư

Bury down: Chôn xuống

Landfills: Bãi chôn lấp

Urban areas: Khu đô thị

Solid: Rắn

Dump: Đống rác

Disposal: Sự vứt bỏ

Reading
The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. It has been observed that cities have no controlled structure for garbage disposal. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled

Answer the questions

1. What is the passage about?

2. How much garbage are produced everyday?

3. Why people have to save the environment?

DISCUSSION

1. Do you think your city is clean or not? Why? Why not?

2. What should we do to reduce the garbage?

3. What we should do to protect environment?