If you read or heard “Plastic pollution affects our health and the health of the planet.”, what would come to your mind?

Would you stop to think about all the plastic items you possess or threw away just yesterday? You might already know how plastic impacts the environment. However, could you reduce this material from your household? Could you also remove it from your shopping trolley? This is easier said than done! I know. Achieving a zero net in terms of plastic is almost impossible. This is true even when we carry a reusable shopping bag around or when we prefer to queue up at the fishmonger instead of just grabbing the same product sealed in plastic, with the aim of making environmentally friendly choices.

In this video, the speaker discusses the effects of plastic in the oceans. They also explain what happens to all the litter that ends up in the sea. The level is of a B2 but there are also a number of words that I will pre-teach and you can look at before you watch the video.

Pre-teaching difficult words

• beverage = drinks
• abundant = existing in large quantities
• floating = if something is floating it is moving on a liquid surface, like for example a boat
• slash = if you slash something it means you reduce something by a large amount
• brace yourself = prepare yourself for a difficult situation
• campaigning = to take part in an action for something you want to change
• food chain = a series of living creatures in which each type of creature feeds on the one below it in the series

Pre-teaching vocabulary

Here are many words and expressions that you will hear on the video. Match the words to their meanings.

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Right! I bet you feel like a little challenge. Watch the video and after, answer the questions on the listening activity that you will find under the video. I’ll leave the video out of the box, but you also have it in the quiz box.

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B2 True or False Listening Why We Need to Stop Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans FOR GOOD

You are going to watch a video related to plastic in seas and oceans.

Listen twice and say if the statements are true or false according to what you hear.

Activity by Serena

The ocean has the potential to provide nutritious meals for a significant part of the global population.

False

True

Plastic invades almost all parts of the ocean except for the seabed.

True

False

The plastic that enters the sea breaks down after a hundred years.

True

False

Plastics move up in the food chain and eventually end up in food that humans eat.

False

True

By the middle of the century, there will be four times more plastic than now.

False

True

If we recycle all our plastic, we can easily solve the problem.

False

True

Some companies are already producing and pushing plastic-free policies.

False

True

The European Union has asked countries like Peru to reduce the use of plastic.

False

True

The author of the video believes that by stopping the use of throw-away plastic, we can stop the destruction of beaches and oceans.

False

True

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Speaking activity

Flip the slides and answer the questions.