SCostantini - Reading Activities B2 - The Buy Nothing movement
by SCostantini - (2020-03-13)
Up to 3LSU B - Online Study for Prolonged School Closure. Listening and Reading Comprehension. WEEK I
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