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This is a vocabulary worksheet you can use as a diving board to talk about environmental concerns. There is a vocabulary exercise followed by two categorisation tasks and a discussion task.



Tips



For exercise 2, remind students that some groceries will go into two categories.



As a follow up task, you could ask students to think of more groceries and research whether a) they are eco friendly and b) have possible replacements.



Answer Key

1) box of eggs, magazines, bottle of milk, carton of juice, tropical fruit, lightbulb, batteries, clingfilm, can of beans, packet of rice, jar of honey, soap, tea bags, beef, tissues, bouquet of flowers



2) plastic - magazines, carton of juice, clingfilm, packet of rice, soap, tea bags, bouquet of flowers

paper - box of eggs, tissues

bio - box of eggs, tropical fruit, can of beans, packet of rice, tea bags, beef, bouquet of flowers

metal - lightbulb, batteries, can of beans

glass - bottle of milk, lightbulb, jar of honey



3) The eggs, tropical fruit, beans, rice, tea, beef and flowers are compostable.

The magazines, the milk bottle, the can, the jar and the soap bottle are reusable.

The box, the magazines, the carton, the bottle, the lightbulb, the batteries, the clingfilm, the can, the rice packet, the jar, the soap bottle and the tissues are recyclable.



Suggested Answer Key

4) The baked beans, the box of eggs, the bottle of milk and the honey are the most eco friendly. However, you can swap canned beans for dried beans and the products should all be local.



Magazines contain plastic. They could be replaced with magazines made of recycled paper or e-zines.



Cartons contain plastic. They could be replaced with fruit which the student juices themselves.



Tropical fruit has to be imported. They could be eaten very occasionally and replaced with local, seasonal produce.



Lightbulbs could be replaced with long lasting bulbs or LEDs.



Batteries should be rechargeable.



Clingfilm could be replaced with Tupperware, or even better, metal containers.



Rice could be bought in paper or fabric based packaging. 



Soap could be bought in bars in card or paper packaging (or even made by the students).



Most tea bags contain plastic. They could be replaced with loose tea leaves.



Beef is very bad for the environment. It could be eaten very occasionally, if ever, and only from local sources. 



Tissues could be replaced with handkerchiefs.



The flowers themselves are bad for the environment as they need to be farmed in a way which uses a lot of water then imported. To replace them, students could grow their own from seeds in the garden and re-use water from the house to grow them.



NB: This is in British English. If you would like an US English version, it wouldn't take long to make. Please just message or comment with the words you need to replace.

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Eco Friendly Groceries

eco-friendly-groceries

Let's do English ESL discussion starters, speaking cards. This is a vocabulary worksheet you can use as a diving board to talk about environmental concerns. The…