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  • Текст песни Talk about English - Recycling

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    Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English, I’m Callum Robertson.

    William: And I’m William Kremer.

    Callum: Coming up in the programme, we’re continuing our topic of the environment.

    William: We look at the subject of recycling

    Gareth Lloyd
    We’ve actually worked out that the current recycling in the UK is the same as taking 3.5
    million cars off the road so it is well worth doing.

    Callum: And we talk to a listener about the environment and his favourite English
    expression

    Anil Kumar
    Hello, my name is Anil, I’m from India. Best things in life are free. This is a saying which I
    like very much.

    William: All that and more in today’s Talk about English.


    Callum: So William, this is the first time we’ve done the programme together, are you
    feeling up to it? Ready to go?

    William: (Responds)

    Callum: We’ve been concentrating on the topic of the environment over the last few
    weeks;

    William: Yes, it’s one of those subjects that’s in the news a lot. Every week there seems
    to be new stories of the damage that humans seem to be doing to the planet.

    Callum: But what, as individuals can we do about it? We’ll find out in a little while.
    Before that though it’s time for the first of today’s Word Facts.

    WORD FACTS 1
    WORD FACTS
    Today’s word is green
    G – R – DOUBLE E - N
    Green has five letters but only four sounds and just one syllable - green.
    Green is a colour, the colour of grass and leaves on trees.
    It can be an adjective or a noun and it appears in a number of metaphorical, idiomatic and
    other expressions
    WORD FACTS / AND THAT’S A FACT

    William: So green is our word of the day and there’ll be more word facts throughout the
    programme.

    Callum: Our main topic today is recycling. It’s something that now in Britain most
    people do to a certain degree. But William, what do we mean by recycling?

    William: It’s to do with our rubbish. Our waste. If we throw it away it goes into a big
    hole in the ground, called a land-fill. But some things can be used again.
    Bottles for example can be washed and reused or made into new bottles. This is
    recycling, using something again, not throwing it away.

    Callum: I certainly remember as a child taking bottles back to the shop and getting
    money, but it seems only fairly recently that we’ve really started recycling
    seriously in this country, bottles metal, paper, plastics. Anyway, our guest
    today can tell us more about the subject. Unfortunately he isn’t able to join us
    in the studio but I was able to speak to him on the phone earlier this morning.
    His name’s Gareth Lloyd and he’s director of communications at the
    environmental organisation WRAP – the Waste Resources Action Programme.
    I asked him first what the purpose or WRAP is.

    Gareth Lloyd
    Well the purpose of the organisation is to develop campaigns to make us more resource
    efficient and what that really means is to boost the amount of recycling in the country but also
    to look at new ways of minimising our waste so we don’t even need to recycle it in the first
    place.

    I remember when I was a child taking bottles but I wonder, when did recycling really begin to
    take off and become a priority in this country?

    I think it probably goes back ten or fifteen years when we started to have a lot more bottle
    banks in the country but our rate of recycling was still six, eight percent and probably in the
    last ten years it’s really started to move along and what is very noticeable is there’s been a
    steep increase in the last three years, the rate of recycling has nearly doubled and it’s now up
    to 27% of household waste

    It may seem like a silly question or a basic question but why is it necessary to recycle?

    No, well, that’s a very good question. You do two good things or three good things for the
    environment. It reduces the amount of rubbish we send to landfill sites and certainly in the
    UK we’re certainly running out of space in landfill sites, that’s big holes in the ground, which
    we used to have lot of but we don’t have so many of now. It also helps conserve energy
    because if you reuse those materials, for example glass, you can save a lot of energy rather
    than using new raw materials and it’s actually a positive way that all of us can make a positive
    contribution to tackling climate change. We’ve actually worked out that the current recycling
    in the UK is the same as taking 3.5 million cars off the road so it is well worth doing.

    Comment from Callum and Will

    Callum: It’s Word Facts time

    WORD FACTS 2
    WORD FACTS
    As an adjective the word “green” is used to describe the environment in general such as areas
    which have a lot of green plants and trees
    “I like the English countryside, it’s very green”
    “London is a very green city, there are lots of parks”
    It’s also used to talk about things that help and protect the environment.
    “Amsterdam is a very green city, there are bicycles everywhere and the dutch are very keen
    on recycling”
    “These days many companies are looking to develop green forms of energy, such as solar
    power and wind power”
    As a noun, ‘a Green’ is someone who belongs to the political party, the Green party.
    It’s also a large area of grass at the centre of a village where people can walk, sit and play
    games.
    “When I was a child I remember playing on the village green outside my grandparents’ house,
    it’s a car park now.”

    And ‘greens’ are the vegetables you have to eat
    “My mum always told me that I couldn’t have any ice-cream until I had finished my greens!”
    WORD FACTS / AND THAT’S A FACT

    Callum: As we heard in the word facts ‘green’ is a word frequently associated with
    environmental issues. I suppose because it’s one the main colours in nature,
    particularly in countries with a lot of rain, like Britain. But is Britain a
    particularly green country, I asked Gareth Lloyd from WRAP about the habits
    of the British, how much waste do we produce and how much do we recycle

    Gareth Lloyd
    We think that is about roughly about a metric tonne of waste generated per average household

    And how much of that are we recycling at the moment?

    Well the good news is we’ve had a steep increase in the last three years. It used to be 14% of
    that would be recycled, it’s now 27% so it’s nearly doubled. So that’s 27% of that which is
    recycled so it goes back into something else, it’s transformed into another bottle another can
    and it all takes it away from landfill so there’s agood environmental benefit there.

    And what’s the, do you think, the biggest challenge for recycling?

    Well I actually think we need to boost the rate of recycling but also think much more about
    what we can do in terms of waste minimisation so we need to start looking hard, I know the
    supermarkets are starting to do this at how to actually reduce excess packaging, how to get
    those reusable bags used much more, how to use technology to actually help us get the
    products that we need in the minimum packaging. But it’s worth saying the actually we’re all
    asking questions in this country more and more about our waste. I mean it was one of those
    things that we probably didn’t want to think about. Somebody would take it away for us and
    get rid of it and we didn’t want to think of it. The reality is that we do need to think about it,

    it’s part of looking after our environment. Recycling makes a strong contribution to tackling
    climate change and I think that many of us as shoppers are asking questions about whether we
    should be taking all those plastic bags. Currently I think the estimate is in the UK we use 15
    billion plastic bags and so everyone is doing their bit when they take in a reusable bag and use
    it and use it and use it again because it’s taking all of that material away from landfill.

    Comment from Callum

    Callum: This is Talk about English from BBC Learning English dot com. Still to come
    our international caller and details of our latest competition.

    William: But now, here are some more word facts

    WORD FACTS 3
    WORD FACTS
    Green is used in a number of idiomatic expressions. Someone who is good at gardening is
    said to have ‘green-fingers’ and be ‘green-fingered’
    “I’m hopeless in the garden, everything I touch dies, but my mum’s very green-fingered, she
    grows all her own vegetables”
    Green is also the colour of envy:
    “When my brother got a new car I was green with envy”
    And jealousy is described as the ‘green-eyed monster.’
    Green is also the colour of inexperience.
    “He’s still a bit green, he needs some more experience before he can meet the really important
    clients.”
    Green is also the colour used to describe someone who is not looking very well, for example
    someone suffering from sea sickness.
    “You look green, is eve

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    СЛОВО ФАКТЫ 3
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    Зеленый используется в ряде идиоматических выражений. Тот, кто хорош в садоводстве
    говорят, что у него «зеленые пальцы» и «зеленые пальцы»
    «Я безнадежна в саду, все, к чему я прикасаюсь, умирает, но у моей мамы очень зеленые пальцы, она
    выращивает все свои овощи »
    Зеленый также цвет зависти:
    «Когда у моего брата появилась новая машина, я был зелен от зависти»
    А ревность описывается как «зеленоглазый монстр».
    Зеленый также цвет неопытности.
    «Он все еще немного зелен, ему нужно немного опыта, прежде чем он сможет встретить действительно важный
    клиенты «.
    Зеленый - это также цвет, используемый, например, для описания человека, который выглядит не очень хорошо.
    кто-то страдает от морской болезни.
    «Ты выглядишь зеленым, канун

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