Recycling

Grade 8 ELA worksheet on recycling! Boost comprehension & vocabulary.

Read the text and choose the right option to fill in the gap.The population of the world is growing very fast. In the last 40 years, it has doubled. By the year 2200, it will be about 10,000 million. Our cities will be bigger. We’ll need more factories and roads. We’ll need more water and more natural resources. If we don’t change the way we use energy and natural resources, we’ll have serious problems in the future.Every day we throw away millions of tons of rubbish. Half of this paper that we can use again, we can recycle it. A lot of rubbish we throw away, like plastic, metals and chemicals will not disappear for hundreds of years. We also produce a lot of unnecessary things, such as packaging. All of this pollutes the natural environment. So, not to have big ecological problems in the future, we must avoid using non-biodegradable material. Besides, we must reduce many unnecessary things that we produce and use.Many natural resources are not renewable. Gas, oil and coal will come to an end one day. Other resources, such as trees, take a long time to grow. We have to reduce the amount of resources and energy we use. We also try to use such alternative ways as the wind and the sun to make energy.1. The population of the world is growing _. fast slowly very fast 2. We’ll need more and more natural _ in the future. resources environment problems 3. People throw away millions of tons of _ every day. food natural resources rubbish 4. Gas, oil and coal aren’t _. recycled necessary renewable 5. People must use different kinds of alternative resources, such as _. oil and coal the sun and the wind the sun and gas Fill in the gaps with: break up, manufacturing, ends up, threw away, reduce. The boy threw away a piece of paper.It takes plastic a long time to break up.The rubbish ends up in a landfill site.People must reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away.Manufacturing of fabric bags uses minimal energy. Read the text.Recycling is a technology that helps protect the environment and cut down on usage of raw materials. The steel, paper and glass industries recycle a lot. The largest recycler is the steel industry. It recovers more than 70 per cent of its original materials. For example, since 1988 they have produced the majority of new metal cans from old ones. Metal parts for cars and planes are other examples of recycling steel. Fragments of waste glass are widely used in construction. For producing writing paper and pens, used packing boxes are an ideal material. They are cheap and easy to recycle. Nowadays more and more recycling centres are appearing in our towns and cities. Answer the questions in an oral form and upload an audio file.1. What technology helps protect the environment?2. What industry is the largest recycler?3. What things can be recycled by the steel industry?4. What an ideal material for producing writing paper? Why?5. Are there any recycling centres in your town?6. What do you do to reduce litter pollution in the place where you live? Use the words in capitals to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space. (Образуйте однокоренные слова, подходящие по смыслу в предложения с пропусками) Every year the world goes dark for one hour, the Earth Hour. The event is organised by the national NATION World Wildlife Fund. At tourist destinations, in offices and private homes, lights are switched off for one hour at exactly EXACT8:00 pm. The idea is to show that our planet is in danger and it needs care and protection PROTECT. It's impossible POSSIBLE to remain indifferent to changes in the climate which go on and on. The Earth Hour is not about saving an hour’s electricity. It’s about realising that we live on a wonderful WONDER planet and need to look after it – not just for an hour a year but every day. The Earth Hour is a part of an ecological ECOLOGY education whose aim is to make people understand their responsibility to the planet.