English Reading Comprehension 2

Unidad 1 ECOLOGY

Tema C ENDANGERED HABITAT

Acción Elabora un mapa conceptual que represente los hechos más

importantes encontrados en un artículo de divulgación sobre
los hábitats en peligro de extinción. Elabora un mapa
conceptual que represente los hechos más importantes
encontrados en un artículo de divulgación sobre los hábitats
en peligro de extinción.

Objetivo Aplicar estrategias de lectura globalizada (skimming) y

focalizada (scanning) para seleccionar información fáctica
presente en un texto.

Recurso 1 Garbage

Fuente 1 https://courses.lumenlearning.com/intro-to-sociology/chapter/reading-
the-environment-and-society/

Recurso 2 Water Pollution

Fuente 1 http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water

PRE-reading 1
1. What do you know about garbage?
2. What are the consequences of garbage misuse?
3. What is the adequate way to handle garbage?

Pre-reading 2
Read and use the dictionary to find the meaning of the following words. Then read the text and
find factual information about the topic. Finally, create a mind map with the facts in the text.
a. Garbage.
b. Run out of.
c. Pressing.
d. Sheepish.
e. Shrug.
f. Stewardship.
g. Peritem fee.
h. Fund.
i. Demise.
j. Upgrade.
k. Issues.
 l. Trash can.
m. Landfill.
n. Innocuous.
o. Dump.
p. Groundwater.
GARBAGE

Where is your last cell phone? What about the one before that? Or the huge old television set
your family had before flat screens became popular? For most of us, the answer is a sheepish
shrug. In several provinces, there are product stewardship programs that oblige manufacturers
and retailers to pay a per-item fee to fund electronic recycling (Fishlock 2011), but it is not
always clear what happens to the items after they are recycled. As individuals, we do not pay
attention to the demise of old items, and since electronics drop in price and increase in
innovation at an incredible clip, we have been trained by their manufacturers to upgrade
frequently.
Garbage creation and control are major issues for most core and industrializing nations, quickly
becoming one of the most critical environmental issues faced in North America. North
Americans buy products, use them, and then throw them away. When you put your garbage
out in the trash can where does it go after that?
There are two primary means of waste disposal in Canada: landfill and incineration. When it
comes to dangerous toxins, neither is a good choice. In the case of more innocuous trash, the
synthetic Styrofoam and plastics that many of us use every day do not dissolve in a natural
way. Burn them, and they release carcinogens into the air. Their improper (intentional or not)
incineration adds to air pollution and increases smog. Dump them in landfills, and they do not
decompose. As landfill sites fill up, we risk an increase in groundwater contamination.

Title: GARBAGE
Link: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/intro-to-sociology/chapter/reading-the-environment-
and-society/