HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT - MEETING 2

You ___ plastic bags when you go shopping, but what happens to them afterward?

• Using

• Used

• Uses

• Use

"Plastic bags are so bad for the environment and therefore there are good reasons why we should ban plastic bags."

According to the sentence above, please determine which ones are the abstract noun!

• environment - ban

• reason - environment

• plastic - reason

• bags - reason

The action verbs in the sentence "In an Environmental Health Perspectives report, when 450 plastic items, including flexible bags, were studied, it was found that over 70 percent of the plastic products released chemicals that mimicked estrogen." are:

• Environmental, products, Studied, Flexible

• Studied, Found, Released, Mimicked

• Mimicked, items, Found, Estrogen

• Released, Studied, Health, Chemicals

"You use plastic bags when you go shopping, but what happens to them afterward? You might not think it is a big deal to use plastic bags, but just think of how many people around the world are also using them."

In the sentences above, there is one word called "thinking verb", what it is?

• Happen

• Are

• Using

• Think

Take a look to this sentence and determine which one is called modal adverb, "We should stop purchasing plastic bags and start using any environmentally friendly options instead. Your health and the planet will thank you easily."

• environmentally

• friendly

• easily

• thank

"...Firstly, Plastic bags are contributing to global warming. Most plastic bags are made out of a substance called polyethylene. It is not just that plastic bags are contributing to climate change. Subsequently, they are also filled with toxic, harmful chemicals that include estrogen-like substances..."

Find the temporal connectives in the senteces above!

• Firstly, Just

• Include, Subsequently

• Firstly, Subsequently

• out of, Include

Please determine the evaluative words of this sentence "This is dangerous because it means that the plastic has hormone-mimicking qualities."

• Dangerous

• Mimicking

• Means

• Qualities

It is not just that plastic bags are contributing to climate change. They are ___ with toxic, harmful chemicals that include estrogen-like substances.

• also filled

• also filling

• also have been filling

• also fill

Plastic bags ___ so bad for the environment and therefore there ___ good reasons why we should ban plastic bags.

• is - are

• am - are

• are - are

• was - were

"They are also filled with toxic, harmful chemicals that include estrogen-like substances."

Which ones are called evaluative words? Determine it!

• Toxic, Harmful

• estrogen-like, Harmful

• Toxic, Chemicals

• Substances, Harmful