Let's Finish the Term Recyling!

Thursday 20^th

Hello!

Well, this is the end of the term! Again!

We started the class talking about school and exams. About the subjects you like and the ones you don’t. You told me you are looking forward to Easter hols. (holidays) and so am I!

Then, we played different games, splitting into two groups. It seems you have taken to (you like the idea of) competing boys vs. girls.

Our first game was a quiz on “Festivals”

·         Name two festivals in which people wear costumes.

·         In which Asian country is celebrated the bloom (when flowers appear) of the cherry trees?

·         In which country there’s a festival that consists of running in front of the bulls?

·         What is ‘Remembrance Day’?

·         When is Christmas Eve?

·         Who celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day?

·         Which country celebrates its national day on 14^th July?

·         What’s Boxing Day?

Our second game consisted of a board game related to the environment and recycling.

There was a board with different skips (big containers like the one which  is usually used in construction works to throw away bricks, doors etc.) in the corners: a carton bank, a bottle bank, and two more of them. One for special items and the other one for plastic and metal.

We had a set of cards with different pictures of containers on them. We moved along the board and picked out (select, choose) a picture. We had to say where that container should go so as to be properly (correctly, appropriately) recycled.

If you were right, you stayed on the square you had landed. If you were wrong, you moved back.

By the way, I know the skip where you throw away (discard, dispose of) bottles is called a “bottle bank”. The one for paper is a “paper bank” but what about the others?

This is what a native British said:

So, perhaps we can call them plastic, can, etc BANK colloquially, and the official term is -or at least one of them- is CARTON BANK.
By the way, in Spain we have ORGANIC WASTE BINS/BANKS in the street. I think they should be called BINS because they are small compared to the banks.I've seen that some people have COMPOST BINS at home to recycle organic waste themselves. This is the bin we have in the streets:http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/recycling/how.htm
Does anyone have ORGANIC WASTE BINS/BANKS in the street in their cities? If you do, what do you call them?

To sum up, the name isn’t important, just recycle your rubbish!

The Environment

Last games of the term!

Player 1	4
Player 2	5
Player 3	5
Player 4	3
Player 5	5
Player 6	4

See you.

And don’t forget to bring something you cooked for our end of term activity!