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SCostantini - Reading Activities B2 - The Buy Nothing movement
by SCostantini - (2020-03-13)
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Preparation

1. To hit someone with a lot of something, without pausing: 
    to bombard;
2. Designed to be thrown away after use:
    disposable;
3. A place where rubbish is buried under the ground:
    a landfill site;
4. To appear:
    to spring up;
5. The practice of buying and owning lots of products:
    consumerism;
6. The act of spending more money than you should:
    overspending;
7. Using too much of something:
    overconsumption;
8. Someone who uses social media to advertise products to their followers:
    an influencer.
 
TOTAL SCORE is 8 out of 8 (100%)
 
 
 Task 1
 
1. People buy clothes because they want to throw them away:
2. The writer thinks it is worrying that people spend money on things they do not need:
3. The amount the average Briton owes on credit cards is one third of the amount they spend on clothes each year:
4. Only a very small proportion of unwanted clothes are thrown away:
5. Charities can find ways to use clothes even if they are not very good quality:
6. Buy Nothing Day is a protest against credit cards:
7. The two friends who did the 'buy nothing' experiment only bought food for 12 months:
8. If everyone followed the Buy Nothing idea, the environment would benefit:

TOTAL SCORE is 8 out of 8 (100%)

Task 2

1. Fast fashion is made quickly and cheaply. 
2. Some clothing is so cheap that people can afford to wear it a couple of times and throw it away
3. There is a worrying trend for more consumer spending on credit cards. 
4. Giving clothes to charity shops does not completely solve the problem. 
5. Make sure you only donate clothes that people will want to buy second-hand.
6. A lot of clothes donated to charity cannot be reused and end up in landfill sites.
 
TOTAL SCORE is 6 out of 6 (100%)