Lesson 6

Reading

1. Read, underline and correct the five mistakes in the article.

1. Global Recycling Day is an event in March. It aims to remind people of the importance of recycling things including paper, plastic, metal, water

and even gas and oil. It is was started in 2018 and there are now recycling events in many different countries.

2. In 2018, people producing produced about 11 billion tonnes of rubbish around the world. At the moment, a lot of our rubbish is being burnt burned

and this can lead to climate change.

3. No country recycles as much rubbish than as Germany: it recycles more than 56% of it. In 1991, it recycled just 3%.

South Korea recycles more than 53% of its rubbish. Coloured plastic bottles and some plastic cups

are not using used any more, because you cannot recycle them.

Most countries hope to recycle more in the future.

2. Read the article again and match the paragraphs 1-3 with the headings a-c.

a. What are countries doing about the problem? 3

b. What is Global Recycling Day? 1

c. So why is recycling so important? 2