Precaution: Safety at workplace

English I Plastic Garbage Group 1

Lab 3
English I
Group 1

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.

"Curiosity killed the cat"

Lab 3
Basic English
Group 5

Click on
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/curiosity-killed-the-cat-/4567264.html
Here at this link listen to the audio in groups of five. Write the names of the members of the group. Choose one person th write the answers given by all the other members of the group.
Then, answer these questions and write a small summary of what you understood from the podcast.