Upper Colloquial English

Colloquial English

Talking about waste

Part 1. Exe 1a

Read the biographical information about Candida Brady (SB p.52)

Open Ended

Have you seen Trashed or any other documentary film about the environment? If yes, what do you think about it (them)?

Part 1. Exe 1b.

Watch Part 1 of an interview with her.

So now

let's work on some vocabulary from the video

Multiple Choice

to raise awareness means the same as to inform people

• Yes, definitely

• No, of course

Multiple Choice

meaningful conversation means the same as serious discussion

• Yes, definitely

• No, of course

Multiple Choice

What's the synonym to ingest

• consume

• purchase

• sleep

• fly

Let's watch the video once again

and then you will have to mark if the sentences are TRUE OR FALSE.

Multiple Choice

1. Candida made the film Trashed because she wanted people to know more about the problem of waste.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

2. Jeremy Irons is a person who loves buying new things.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

3. Candida was surprised that he immediately loved the film proposal.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

4. Vangelis is a good friend of Candida's.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

5. Vangelis had previous experience of projects related to the environment.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

6. She didn't need to do much research before making the film because she was already an expert on the subject.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Well

the false sentences are 2, 4 and 6.

Open Ended

Please, correct the false sentences. I remind you that they are sentences 2, 4 and 6. You have 2 minutes.

The correct answers:

2. Jeremy Irons keeps things a long time until the are worn out, e.g. jumpers, car. He doesn't like waste.

4. Vangelis is Jeremy's friend.

6. She spent a year talking to people - communities and experts.

Part 2. Exe 1a.

Now watch Part 2. Answer the questions.

Open Ended

1. Which was the bigger problem for Candida: making the film visually attractive or trying not to make it too depressing?

2. What kind of pollution does she think is the most worrying: air, land or sea?

We're about to watch again.

You'll have to write the correct missing word.

Fill in the Blanks

1. Candida had a

DOP (Director of Photography).

Fill in the Blanks

2. She wanted to film in beautiful places that had been

by man-made rubbish.

Fill in the Blanks

3. She would have preferred to make a more

documentary.

Fill in the Blanks

4. She thinks they were very much aware that they wanted to offer

at the end of the film.

Fill in the Blanks

5. She says you have to dig down over a foot deep on a beach to find sand that doesn't have any

in it.

Fill in the Blanks

6. She says the pieces of plastic in the water become so fragmented that they're the same size as the zooplankton, which is in the

chain.

Part 3. Exe 1a.

Watch Part 3. Answer the following questions...

Open Ended

1. Who does she blame for the problem of waste?

2. Why does San Francisco offer a positive note at the end of the film?

3. Has the film changed her own habits?

The correct answers:

1. She tries no to blame one person.

2. because San Francisco shows that zero waste can be achieved on a big scale.

3. No.

Part 3. Exe 1b.

Do we need to listen once more?

What does she say about..?

Open Ended

1. Hotels in San Francisco.

2. Her grandparents.

3. Her bicycle.