ASHAQ HUSSAIN BHAT
GL TEACHER SCHOOL EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT JAMMU AND KASHMIR
REUSING THE WASTE
LESSON NO 7
TEXT-BASED EXERCISES
WORKING WITH THE TEXT
I. Answer these questions :
Q. 1. Why should we recycle things ?
Ans. We should recycle things to save our valuable resources.
Q. 2. What is easy to recycle, plastic or metal ?
Ans. Metal can be recycled easily.
Q. 3. Why is plastic dangerous for health?
Ans. Certain poisonous chemicals leak from plastic and get into water making it unfit for use. Careless throwing of plastics is also very harmful.
Q. 4. What are the benefits of recycling paper ?
Ans. By recycling paper, we can save our forests. Forests can bring environmental balance. Many countries import waste-paper and reuse it for newspapers and books.
Q. 5. Two ways of recycling glass are mentioned in the text. What are they?
Ans. People throw bottles in some containers. The bottle banks recover 50% of the glass that these countries need. The broken glass is re melted in furnaces and then shaped into new bottles or other things.
Q. 6. For what purposes can waste water be easily reused ?
Ans. Waste water is used in agriculture after purifying it.
Q. 7. Mention the efforts that India is making in recycling things.
Ans. Efforts are on in India to re-utilise and recycle the waste through treatment plants. NEERI (National Environmental Engineering Research Institute) is involved in developing suitable technologies for the treatment of waste. But this is not enough.
II. Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Put √ or x in the boxes:
1. Americans can save seventy-five thousand trees if they recycle
'New York Times' Sunday issue.
2. We cannot recycle plastic.
3. Cullet is another name for the broken glass.
4. Paper waste makes one-fourth of world's total waste.
5. The Swiss and Dutch recover 50% of their glass from re-cycling.
6. India needs to do more to recycle her waste.
Ans. 1. √ 2. x 3. √ 4. x 5. √ 6. √
LANGUAGE WORK
1. 'Recycle' means to do a thing again so that it becomes a new thing. It is made up of two parts: 're'-meaning 'again' and '-cycle' meaning a seies of repetitive actions'. You can use 're-' as a prefix with many words.
(a 'prefix' is a word or part of a word that is added before another word to change the meaning of that word). For example, re-write, re-shape, re- do, re-gain, re-employ, etc. (NOTE: You can use these words without a hyphen also). The following are some other prefixes (meaning is given in brackets):
post-(after) as in post-war non-(not) as in non-violence
anti-(against) as in anti-social
il-(not) as in illegal
bi-(twice) as in bi-annual
im-(not) as in impossible
Now guess the meaning of the underlined expressions in the following sentences. You can use a dictionary if necessary:
The school is celebrating its bicentenary next week.
(ii) He's been imprisoned for his anti-government views.
(iii) The President will address the post-lunch session of the
parliament
(iv) Many employees were arrested for non-payment of their taxes.
(v) This note from Grandpa is almost illegible.
(vi) I don't like that boy. He's very impolite.
(vii) We'll have to re-organise the groups to accommodate more girls.
Ans. (1) 200th anniversary
(ii) against the government
(iii) after lunch
(iv) not paying
(v) cannot be easily read
(vi) not polite.
(vii) organise again
II. Dictionaries do not only give you the meaning/usage of words. They also tell you how many sound-groups called 'syllables' a word has.
Most of the dictionaries show syllable division by putting a dot [.] between each syllable. For instance, 'cat is a single syllable word; therefore it will have no' dot shown; 'rub.bish' is a two-syllable word which contains a dot in the middle. You can have even more than two syllables in a word, as in 'com.put.er).
Guess how many syllables these words have ? Consult the dictionary only after you have finished. All the words are from the text.
burn
different
cullet
furnace
pulp
money
western
Consist
recover
Ans.
plastic (2)
cullet (2)
furnace (2)
consist (3)
import(2)
consist(2)
burn (2)
metal (2)
pulp (2)
western (2)
different(2)
import (2)
recover (2)
money (2)
GRAMMAR WORK
1. Glass, paper, and metal are nouns which cannot be counted. You cannot use 'one', 'two' etc., with them. You can say: 'some glass', 'a sheet/piece of paper', 'some metal' etc. They are called uncountable nouns. They are different from cat, boy and watch (you can say: a cat/two cats, one boy/two boys, and a watch/many watches') which can be counted and are therfore called countable nouns. You can use numerals before them and add -s to form plurals.
Now complete this list by putting a/an or some before the words:
an egg some cheese
-apple ......fly
-sweets .....orange
-bread ...... bananas
-meat ....... rice
-sugar ....... pen
Ans.
- a fly
- an orange
- some bananas
- some rice
- an apple
- some sweets
- some bread
- some meat
- some sugar
- a pen.
II. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in brackets. You will need to use is/am/are and add -ING to the main verb.
The President............(address) the nation on the eve of Independence Day. This speech is likely to interest everybody. He (call upon) people to fight narrow-mindedness, illiteracy and poverty. All the TV channels.... ........(telecast) the address live. If you wish, you can listen to the speech from any of the channels in your home. After his speech, the President................(leave) for Chennai where he.................(inaugurate) the newly-built hospital building.The Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues..................(accompany)him to Chennai. I...............(go) to listen to the address as soon as it is telecast. My friends, Hameed and Tashi..............come to my home. You know, they don't have a TV set in their hostel. If you like, you can come too.
Ans.
1.is addressing,
2. is calling upon,
3. are telecasting,
4. is leaving,
5. is inaugurating,
6. are accompanying,
7 .am going,
8. are coming.
LET'S TALK
pair.
Ans.
Ahmed: Can you name some of the things that you usually recycle at home?
Munir: Yes, we recycle many things. They are empty bottles. We use them as containers. We also use them for storing pickles. We also use old calendars and old newspapers for lining shelves and covering notebooks.
Ahmed: That is really very good.
LET'S WRITE
Read this notice and then write a similar notice requesting people to throw all vegetable refuse in a compost pit.
MUNICIPALITY AT YOUR SERVICE
DO NOT LITTER
USE DUSTBINS
KEEP YOUR CITY CLEAN
Ans.
CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS
KEEP YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND TOWN CLEAN
USE COMPOST PITS
FOR
VEGETABLE REFUSE
NO LITTERING
DO IT YOURSELF
Q. Differentiate Sewage, Sewerage, Sewar
Ans. Sewage. Used water and waste substances.
Sewerage. It is the system by which sewage is carried away from houses.
Sewer. Pipe that is used to carry sewage from houses.
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