5TSO Unit 3, Step 4: A tiny problem

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Step 4: A tiny problem

Selecting the most important information from a text

1 / Microwhat?

Microplastics:
what do you know about them?

p. 135 video

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Some companies make microplastics on purpose.

The USA is playing a leading role in banishing the microplastics

Plastic often contains dangerous chemicals.

Bigger bits of plastic break down into smaller bits.

There are natural, biodegradable solutions for microplastics.

Microplastics are becoming a really big issue for marine animals.

Plastics gets stuck inside the animal's stomach.

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Microplastics can be formed from clothes in the washing machine.

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An average bottle of face scrub contains about half a million microplastics.

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2. false

Microplastics make up for 75% of the total amount of plastic in our environment.

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2. false

Dangerous chemicals from plastic are also a threat to humans.

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Most of the microplastics are filtered out in water treatment plants.

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In Australia supermarkets don't sell products containing microplastics from 1 January 2018 onwards.

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p. 136 - read the text

What are microplastics, according to the text? Describe in 1 sentence.

Why are microplastics dangerous? (How dangerous are microplastics?)

There are 2 kinds of microplastics, which ones?

How do e.g. plastic pellets end up in oceans and rivers?

How are larger plastic objects turned into microplastics?

There are two kinds of microplastics:

• microplastics produced for specific purposes (e.g. plastic pellets in scrubs)

--> through waste water

• fragments from larger plastic objects 

--> abraded by weather and mechanical influences

Read the text again.

• Underline topical sentences (usually in the beginning of each paragraph)
• Fill in the outline of the text on p. 137.
• Take a picture of your outline and post it on the next slide!

Post the picture of your outline here!

Ex . 9, p. 138

Word formation.

Which of the following words are: 

• nouns
• adjectives
• verbs

Do the matching exercise next!

NOUN

ADJECTIVE

VERB

abrasion

abrade

solubility

solution

degradable

soluble

abrasive

degradation

degrade

dissolve

Ex. 9

Word formation: go to Smartschool > Engels 5TSO > Oefeningen

Practice

Work in teams.

Your team will get a whiteboard and marker.

Write down the correct word within the set time limit.

Pass the whiteboard to the left when you are done.

What is the noun of 'to degrade'?

What is the adjective of 'to dispose'?

What is the verb of 'abrasive'?

What is the noun of 'to pollute'?

What is the noun of 'to renew'?

What is the verb of 'soluble'?

What is the noun of 'soluble'?

What is the adjective of 'to waste'?

What is the adjective of 'extinction'?

What is the noun of 'to reuse'?

What is the noun of 'to dispose'?

What is the noun of 'to deforest'?

What is the adjective of 'production'?

What is the adjective of 'environment'?

What is the adjective of 'to dissolve'?

What is the noun of 'to abrade'?

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