1 Track 11 Listen to an interview and answer the questions.
1 What percentage of young people use green products?
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2 How many followers on Instagram does Greta Thunberg have?
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3 What should we learn to do in order to be green?
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4 Where could we buy our clothes from?
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5 What kind of containers could replace plastic ones?
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2 Match sentence halves 1–4 with a–e to make sentences. There is one extra ending.
1 Solar power __________
2 Renewable energy __________
3 Deforestation __________
4 Rubbish in landfill s __________
a means fewer trees for animals to live in.
b takes up a lot of space and produces greenhouse gases.
c is useful in places which get a lot of sunshine.
d might protect plants but may be bad for people.
e could come from the wind, the sea or the Sun.
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3 Choose the correct options.
1 Jeans are usually made of blue leather / denim.
2 Biodegradable toothbrushes are made of bamboo / steel.
3 Aluminium / Concrete is a kind of metal.
4 Children often like playing with brick / cardboard boxes.
5 Nylon / Foam is comfortable to sleep on because it adapts to the shape of your body.
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4 Complete the sentences with the correct passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
1 Most plastic can _____________________ (recycle).
2 Millions of trees will _____________________ (plant) next year.
3 CO 2 _____________________ (release) every time we burn fossil fuels.
4 The oceans have _____________________ (pollute) by our waste products.
5 The first cars _____________________ (make) at the beginning of the 20th century.
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5 Putthe words in orderto make sentences.
1 had / built / a / park / the / new / car / council / have
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2 my / possible / phone / fixed / soon / I / as / need / to / get / as
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3 a / having / tonight / pizza / we / delivered / are
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4 destroyed / being / now / rainforests / are / right
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7 Read the text and answer the questions.
The minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus were childhood friends who came from poor families. Before they
turned thirty, they were both earning a lot of money, but they reali sed that having a lot of money and possessions
wasn’t making them happy.
One day, Joshua accidentally discovered the idea of living with less on a blog and , after connecting with people who
called themselves ‘minimalists’, he started getting rid of things and living a minimalist lifestyle with very few
possessions. Then he convinced his friend Ryan to do the same.
In 2010, Joshua and Ryan started a blog to encourage their readers to follow a minimalist lifestyle, calling themselves
‘the Minimalists’. They had fifty-two visitors in the first month and since then they have helped over 20 million
people live meaningful lives with less, not just with their blog but with books, a podcast and a documentary.
To get started, Joshua and Ryan suggest you first decide why you want to become a minimalist. Ask yourself how
your life might be better with fewer things. This will increase your motivation. The second step is to start reducing
your possessions. They have invented the ‘thirty-day minimalism game’, which you can play with a friend or
colleague. Start by getting rid of one thing on the first day of the month, two on the second, three on the third and
so on. You can donate, sell or throw away your things, but they must be gone by midnight each day. The person who
keeps going for the longest is the winner.
What are the benefits of a minimalist lifestyle? Minimalists claim that they have more time to spend on the most
important things in their lives, such as relationships and pastimes, when they get rid of the majority of their
possessions. They believe that happiness isn’t found in things but in experiences.
So, how might your life be better with fewer things?
1 When did Joshua and Ryan become friends?
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2 How did Joshua come across the idea of minimalism?
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3 When did they start using the name ‘the Minimalists’?
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4 What do you have to do on day four of the ‘thirty-day minimalism game’?
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5 According to Joshua and Ryan, what brings happiness?
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8 Complete the dialogue with the phrases from the box.
as expensive as better for I’ llget more eco-friendly the better
Dan I want to create less waste! Do you know if there are any environmentally friendly trainers?
Aki Let me look online. I can see two pairs that are 1 ___________________________ than most trainers.
Dan Why’s that?
Aki They both contain recycled plastic from the ocean, so they’re 2 ___________________________
the environment.
Dan What’s the difference between the two?
Aki The cost. The blue pair is not 3 ___________________________ the green pair, and they’ve got a cool design.
Dan That’s good. 4 ___________________________ the blue ones, then. The more fashionable,
5 ___________________________.
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