PreTest_Expository Text

Which one is an argument/ opinion?

• Cats are animals

• I think cats are awesome

• In the United States, 84% of wildfires are started by humans

• Esperanza Spalding is a jazz bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. She has won four Grammy Awards.

Which one is a fact?

• Cuban culture is the heart and soul of Miami.

• People shouldn’t build in places with wildfire risk.

• The earth is flat.

• Green is the color between yellow and cyan on the visible spectrum of light.

The example of an opinion is ...

• Humans have been to space and landed on the moon.

• Many plants use sunlight to create nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.

• Humans will evolve into beings of pure energy.

• Your heart pumps blood through your body

Read the text.

Food waste is a big problem and it needs to be stopped. Food wasting is bad for the Earth and the environment, wastes money, and wastes resources. If we all work together, this problem of food wasting can be changed!

To start with, wasting food is bad, and destructive for the Earth’s environment. When food rots with other organics in landfill, it gives off methane gas, which is 25x more powerful than carbon pollution.

Food waste can also cause infestation of rodents, which can cause disease and sickness to spread to everyone. It is also unjust that we toss out perfectly good, excess food, while people in the world are dying every second.

Secondly, wasting food also wastes your money. Instead of throwing perfectly good food away to landfill, we should do something useful with it like giving it away to homeless people that don’t have money to buy food.

Lastly, wasting food wastes resources. When you toss out food, you’re also wasting everything that helped make it.

We need to stop buying food we don’t need and then waste. If we buy food, we must make sure we eat it! Wasting food is not sustainable for our earth, wastes our money and wastes many valuable resources.

Write down the arguments you found.

Food waste is a big problem and it needs to be stopped. Food wasting is bad for the Earth and the environment, wastes money, and wastes resources. If we all work together, this problem of food wasting can be changed!

To start with, wasting food is bad, and destructive for the Earth’s environment. When food rots with other organics in landfill, it gives off methane gas, which is 25x more powerful than carbon pollution.

Food waste can also cause infestation of rodents, which can cause disease and sickness to spread to everyone. It is also unjust that we toss out perfectly good, excess food, while people in the world are dying every second.

Secondly, wasting food also wastes your money. Instead of throwing perfectly good food away to landfill, we should do something useful with it like giving it away to homeless people that don’t have money to buy food.

Lastly, wasting food wastes resources. When you toss out food, you’re also wasting everything that helped make it.

We need to stop buying food we don’t need and then waste. If we buy food, we must make sure we eat it! Wasting food is not sustainable for our earth, wastes our money and wastes many valuable resources.

Why is wasting food destructive for the environment? Because ..

• The landfill is full of disease

• People in the world can die

• People don’t have money to buy food.

• The methane gas from food rots is dangerous

Food waste is a big problem and it needs to be stopped. Food wasting is bad for the Earth and the environment, wastes money, and wastes resources. If we all work together, this problem of food wasting can be changed!

To start with, wasting food is bad, and destructive for the Earth’s environment. When food rots with other organics in landfill, it gives off methane gas, which is 25x more powerful than carbon pollution.

Food waste can also cause infestation of rodents, which can cause disease and sickness to spread to everyone. It is also unjust that we toss out perfectly good, excess food, while people in the world are dying every second.

Secondly, wasting food also wastes your money. Instead of throwing perfectly good food away to landfill, we should do something useful with it like giving it away to homeless people that don’t have money to buy food.

Lastly, wasting food wastes resources. When you toss out food, you’re also wasting everything that helped make it.

We need to stop buying food we don’t need and then waste. If we buy food, we must make sure we eat it! Wasting food is not sustainable for our earth, wastes our money and wastes many valuable resources.

What should we do to minimize food waste?

• Buy what you need

• Go groceries shopping

• Toss out food

• Buy food in large quantities.

Food waste is a big problem and it needs to be stopped. Food wasting is bad for the Earth and the environment, wastes money, and wastes resources. If we all work together, this problem of food wasting can be changed!

To start with, wasting food is bad, and destructive for the Earth’s environment. When food rots with other organics in landfill, it gives off methane gas, which is 25x more powerful than carbon pollution.

Food waste can also cause infestation of rodents, which can cause disease and sickness to spread to everyone. It is also unjust that we toss out perfectly good, excess food, while people in the world are dying every second.

Secondly, wasting food also wastes your money. Instead of throwing perfectly good food away to landfill, we should do something useful with it like giving it away to homeless people that don’t have money to buy food.

Lastly, wasting food wastes resources. When you toss out food, you’re also wasting everything that helped make it.

We need to stop buying food we don’t need and then waste. If we buy food, we must make sure we eat it! Wasting food is not sustainable for our earth, wastes our money and wastes many valuable resources.

Write down your conclusion based on the above text.