Lab 3
English I
Group 2
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/huge-device-aims-to-capture-pacific-oceans-plastic-garbage/4570636.html
Part I Based on the podcast complete with the missing words:
1. Engineers have launched a huge _______________ collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.
2. The organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s _______________ is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands.
3. Slat was just 16 years old when he was moved to clean up the oceans. He had been on a __________ __________ in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. The problem has only grown since.
4. “The plastic is really __________________ and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said.
5. Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a ________________________ that hangs three meters down in the water.
6. Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be __________________.
7. “We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly _________________________but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”
8. Leonard also raised concerns that animals might be captured by the __________________ that will hang below the surface.
9. “I’m the first to _______________this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and __________ ___________ _____________ on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to _________________this problem,” Slat said.
Part II. Write the definition and an example for each term you used to complete the above activity.
Part III. Write a summary of the podcast you listened to.
1.Garbage
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3.Scuba dive
4.Persistent
5.Screening skirt
6.Recycled
7.Skeptical
8.net
9.Acknowledge, close the taps, tackle
2.
garbage: things that you don't need more, or things that don't have more utility.
example:Plastic bottles are a garbage problem.
founder:The creator of something.
example:Steve Jobs is the founder of Apple Company.
Scuba dive: Sport where a person swim under the water with special equipment.
example: Jaques Cousteau practice scuba dive.
persistent: When a person keep trying to do something dificult.
Example: He is a persistent person.
screening skirt:prevents the passage of something dangerous.
Example:screening skirt avoid the passage of plastic garbage.
recycle(d):create something new with used materials.
Example:People recicle the plastic bottles
skeptical: have doubt about something.
Example: Some people are skeptical depending on the occasion.
acknowledge:to say that you accept or do not deny the truth or existence of.
Example: people acknowledge their religion.
close the tap(s): to stop something from happening.
Example: close the tap in the house
tackle: deal with something difficult.
Example: the people tackle with learn a new lenguage
Summary:
Engineers have created a equipment that collect garbage, as plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.
A scuba diver said that he saw more plastic than fish. The plastic is really persistent.
It has been place a screening skirt to avoid the passage of garbage.
One way to elimited plastic from seas is by recycling.
The Ocean Cleanup has received large donations for the proyect (garbage pickup)
it was possible to remove 50% of the waste from the Pacific Ocean.
All this actions are done with the purpose f improving the most of the water of the planet.
Hi Allison.
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Group 2
ResponderEliminar2018161695 FALLAS VARGAS DANIELA ALEJANDRA
2018108065 FENG - HUIYI
2015027114 HERNANDEZ ARGUEDAS JEAN CARLO
2018092525 JIMENEZ MENDOZA RAQUEL VANESSA
Group 2
ResponderEliminar2018161695 FALLAS VARGAS DANIELA ALEJANDRA
2018108065 FENG - HUIYI
2015027114 HERNANDEZ ARGUEDAS JEAN CARLO
2018092525 JIMENEZ MENDOZA RAQUEL VANESSA
2014098783 MEJIA PRADO JOCELYN TATIANA
2018088800 MENDEZ PEÑARANDA ALLISON