Student’s Book page 76 What happens to our old glass bottles? •
Point to the photograph and ask
What can you see? (
Bottles. )
What are they made of? (
Glass. )
What colors are they? (
Green, blue, red, and purple. )
•
Then ask the opening question
What happens to our old glass bottles? Accept any attempts to describe the
recycling process, then say
Let’s find out. Student’s Book page 77 1 Listen and repeat. •
Use the photographs to review
sand and present the
new words. Play the recording, pausing for students to
repeat.
CD2:44 : see Student’s Book page 77
2 Watch the video. •
Play the video.
•
If you don’t have the video, copy the diagram of the
glass recycling process from activity 6 and ask students
to help you label the different stages. Alternatively, write
simplified versions of the stages on the board, identify
the first stage, and ask students to work in pairs to
number the rest of the stages:
Make new bottles from the recycled glass (
5 )
Take the new bottles to stores (
6 )
Sort the bottles (
3 )
Take the old bottles to a recycling company (
2 )
Break the bottles into pieces (
4 )
Collect the bottles (
1
)
Video 06 : see page T
1
26
3 Read and listen. •
Play the recording while students read the text.
Explain any new words that are key to the process,
e.g.,
recycling center, become liquid, and
change shape .
•
Then ask
What happens to our old glass bottles? Play
the recording again, pausing after each stage of the
process and asking students to explain in their own
words.
