Grade 8 Unit 10: Recycling

Period 60 – Lesson 1: Getting started +

Listen & Read (P89,90)
I. Getting started: “What should and shouldn’t we do to
reduce the amount of garbage we produce in our life?”
should shouldn’t
- reuse plastic bags. - buy things
- use cloth bags instead of plastic overpackaged.
bags. - use products that never
- use tree leaves to wrap things such rot.
as : banana leaves, lotus leaves ... - buy “throw-away”
- use the garbage to make fertilizer or products.
compost.
- use vegetable matter to make animal
food.
- reuse used paper to make toys for
children.
 II. Listen and Read (P89-90)
A. New words
1. (to) reduce: giảm
2. (to) reuse: sử dụng lại, tái sử dụng

3. (to) recycle: tái (chế, sinh)

4. (to) throw away: (ném, vứt, quẳng) đi

5. plastic bag (n): túi ni lông

6. representative (n): người đại diện

7. (to) protect: bảo vệ

8. natural resources (plu.n): nguồn tài nguyên thiên

nhiên
 B. Excersises
Ex. 1: True/ False Prediction
1. Friends of the Earth is an organization to help people
make friends with each other.
 False: to make friends with each other -> to protect the
environment and save natural resourcess.
2. Miss Blake asks the students to remember 3 things:
reduce, reuse, recycle.  True
3. Reduce means buying the products which are
overpackaged.  False: buying -> not buying
4. We can’t reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic
bottles, old plastic bags.
 False: cannot reuse -> can reuse
5. Miss Blake says that we should use cloth bags and shouldn’t
use cloth bags at all.  True
6. Recycling means not just throwing things away but trying and
finding another use for them.  True
 Ex. 2: Answer the questions (P90)
a. Reduce means not buying products wich are
overpackaged.
b. We can reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic bottles
and old plastic bags.

c. Recycle means not just throwing things away. Try and

find another use for them.

d. We can look for information on recycling things by

having a contact with an organization like Friends of the
Earth, going to the local library or asking your family and
friends.

e. We shouldn’t use plastic bags because when we throw

them away, they could stay very long and could not be
self destroyed.
Ex. 3: Discuss “ How to protect our
environment?”

- To protect our environment and save natural

resources we should remember: reduce, reuse and
recycle.
 III. Homework

• Reanswer the questions on page 90.

• Prepare “Speak – P90-91”