TRASHED: A documentary on the environment

 

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-Watch 4 & 5 colloquial English.

Do the following activities ( taken from "English File" Upper Intermediate. Oxford University Press)

PART 1- TRUE OR FALSE:

1- Candida made the film "Trashed" because she wanted people to know more about the problem of waste.

2-Jeremy Irons is a person who loves buying new things.

3-Candida was surpised that the immediately loved the film proposal

4-Vangelis had previous experience of projects related to the environment.

5- Vangelis is a good friend of Candida's

6-She didn't need to do much research before making the film because she was already an expert on the subject.

PART 2: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1- Which was the biggest problem for Candida: making the film visually attractive or trying not to make it too depressing?

2-What kind of pollution does she think is the most worrying: air, land , or sea?

LISTEN AGAIN. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH ONE WORD:

1- Candida had a _______________ DOP (Director of Photograpy)

2-She wanted to film in beautiful places that had been ______________ by man-made rubbish.

3- Whe would have preferred to make a more ________________ documentary.

4- She thinks they were very much aware that they wanted to offer ______________ at the end of the film.

5- She says you have to dig down over a foot deep on a beach to find sand that doesn't have any _______ in it

6- She says the pieces of plastic in the water become so fragmented that they're the same size as the zooplankton, which is  in  the __________ chain.

PART 3: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- Who does she blame for the problem of waste?

2-Why does San Francisco offer a positive note at the end of the film?

3- Has the film changed her own habits?

b- LISTEN AGAIN: What does she say about...?

1- hotels in San Francisco

2-her grandparents

3-her bicycle.

LOOKING AT LANGUAGE:

Listen to some extracts from the interview and write in the missing adverbs.

1- We ended up _______________ filming in 11 countries

2-"... but the stories that I've chosen are universal and,_______________ I spoke to people in communities, um, in more countries, um, than we actually fimed in..."

3-"...and so I sent him the treatment and ______________ he, um he loved it".

4-"but ______________ , again, he was very shocked, um, by the film and really wanted to get involved".

5- "...yes and no, um, _____________ enough. Obviously I had a wonderful, DOP, Director of Photography, so um, he can pretty much make anything look beautiful..."

6-" I did a lot of research and so, ____________ these things were repeatable and, and in every country around the world..."

7- "________________ what's happened with the way that soft plastic degrades in water is that ,um, the pieces become so fragmented..."

IN THE STREET

- WATCH THE FOUR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT RECYCLING.  

a)WHICH PERSON SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT RECYCLING?

Sally- Jo, Jill Pranjal

b) WHO...

1- ...thinks the government should offer money for recycling and producing less rubbish

_______ and _________

2-...thinks it's up to people themselves to realize that it's s worth recycling

_____________

3-...thinks the government should provide more containers for recycling

____________

4-...thinks the government should do more to show people why recycling is good for the environment

____________

COMPLETE:

1- ".... people haven't really got an _______________ not to recycle any more".

2- ".... well maybe they could offer a ___________ incentive for, for recycling"

3-"... I think we still have a ___________________ to go"

4-"... filling it up with cans and bottles, newspapers and all ___________ of _______________"

5- "... and so if everyone couid just get in that ____________ that the smallest change they can make in their lives makes a big difference"