Listening. Environment

Our Environment

The following set of exercises will be about our environment and how to take care of it

Listening Exercises

You will hear a woman talking about the process of recycling plastic bottles. Take notes about the process and prepare to answer questions after the listening. You can listen to the recording as much as you want before going to the questions.

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Recycling plastic bottles

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Complete the summary of the listening with the past participles provided. This exercise will be separated into two parts.
Part 1.



Plastic bottles are …collected… from homes. Then, they are ​

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to a recycling centre. Upon arrival, the bottles are ​

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.

After that, the clean bottles are ​

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into small pieces. The pieces are ​

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into a large tank of water, where they are ​

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into different kinds of plastic.

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taken

washed

cut up

put

separated

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Part 2

The pieces of plastic are ​

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and ​

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into a liquid. The liquid is then ​

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down into long solid strings. The string are dried and then they are ​

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into small pellets. The pellets are ​

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to factories, were they will be used to make new products.

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heated

melted

cooled

chopped

sold

​Listen to an awards ceremony. Take notes and then choose the correct answers for the following exercises.

You can listen to the audio as many times as you want before moving on to the questions.

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Eco-friendly awards ceremony

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Multiple Choice

The name of the award given in this ceremony is

• The Friends of the Environment Awards

• The Eco-Awards

• The Green Awards

Multiple Choice

The first award was won by

• Picardy School

• East York School

• Graham School

Multiple Choice

It was for helping to save

• an African rainforest

•  a thousand-year-old tree

• A American Reservation

Multiple Choice

The award was collected by

• the head teacher

• four students

• the entire class

Multiple Choice

The winners of the second award were

•  Tom and Ellie Mason

• Maddie and Bill West

• Kathy and Will Babson

Multiple Choice

It was for helping to protect

• frogs

• bats

• birds

Multiple Choice

The last award was presented to

• Professor Jane Briggs

• Doctor Marcus Teal

• Master Mike Keats

Multiple Choice

It was for work on protecting

• sharks

• dolphins

• whales

Categorize

Options (14)

Recycling

electricity  

transport  

packaging

Recycle cans

Turn light off

Don’t leave things on standby

walk everywhere

Never travel by plane

Use the train

Use paper bags

Shop locally

Recycle paper

Use own bags

Listen to three teenagers talking about the environment. What does each person talk about? Match the options to each person.

Jun

Delia

Henry

Olivia

Listen and take notes.
You will have to choose the best word to complete sentences about the listening.

You can listen to the recording as much as you want before moving on to the questions.

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Listen to a news bulletin

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The ​

Select answer

coast was hit by a big storm.

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A call was received by the emergency services at

Select answer

this evening.

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It was from ​

Select answer

.

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 A

Select answer

was sent to help.

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​

Select answer

people have been taken off the boat.

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​

Select answer

more people have been rescued from the water.

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 They will be taken to the local

Select answer

.

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 Here they will be ​

Select answer

.

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The whole story will be shown in the​

Select answer

news.