PLASTIC, THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR OUR SEAS (Updated)

Whenever you are eating something or have a plastic bag in your hands, please drop it into a litter bin and make people realise how important this is as PLASTIC IS THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR OUR MEDITERRANEAN SEA.

 

Articles to read:

• The Guardian: Plastic now pollutes every corner of Earth  

• Mediterranean Sea considered as an 'Accumulating zone of plastic debris' (BBC News) By the way, whar does 'debris' mean? Which language does it come from?

 And remember these previous posts in this blog:

• Tsunami in Japan and four years later... debris found in US coasts, JUST AMAZING!!!  

• PLASTIC, the menace!!!!

 

 

ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION  >>>  A Massive Let’s Do It! Cleaning up the Mediterranean Coast  

 

However, this striking paradox can also happen:

• How plastic became a victim of its own success (BBC News)  Selectivity exam to do  

• Is it possible to live without plastic? (The Guardian)

 

Listening exercise to do: Is the Great Barrier Reef under threat? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) Where is it?

Common mistakes with comparatives and superlatives adjectives and adverbs: interesting Anglo-Link lesson.

Solutions to the exercises in the previous post:

GRAMMAR  >>>>  1. have been working, have never been   2. went out, broke up   3. has gone, bought, has never broken down   4. have lived    5. was, died   6. have you had   7. did you have   8. began, lasted   9. began, ended, has been going on   10. Have you ever been, went, did you like, did, liked

VOCABULARY  >>>>   1. salary  2. money   3. salary    4. wages   5. cash

LINGOHACK  >>>

Episode 160727 / 27 July 2016   >>>  Expressions presented: breaking through, elluded, blazes & prematurely.

Try to compile the most interesting words you have come across in all the articles read in this post.