Lesson 5

Speaking

1. Work in pairs. Talk about how to use less water and complete the diagram.

Take showers, not baths.

Turn off taps carefully.

Water plants in the morning or late at night.

Recycle water if it is not very dirty.

2. Put the dialogue into the correct order.

a. Aya: Well, why don’t we try recycling water? 3

b. Reem: That’s an interesting idea! The plants would like that! 6

c. Aya: For example, we could use the water from washing to water the plants. 5

d. Aya: The problem is that we all use too much water. 1

e. Reem: That’s true. So, how can we use less water? 2

f. Reem: How could we do that? 4

4. Ask and answer the questions below in pairs.

1. Which of the phrases in red in Exercise 2 make suggestions?

why don’t we, we could.

2. Which of the phrases ask for or respond to a suggestions?

That’s an interesting idea, how can we ...? How could we ...?