Arbeitsblatt: Reading Englisch

Teens project helping to clean the ocean September 23, 2018 9:45 pm by Monique Conrod Beach garbage from the Great Pacific garbage patch. Image: Justin Dolske teenagers dream of cleaning up the worlds oceans may soon come true. Boyan Slat lives in Holland, in Europe. Seven years ago, when he was teenager, he was swimming in the ocean. He saw more trash in the water than fish. So for school project, he made plan to clean up the ocean. In 2013, Slat formed group called The Ocean Cleanup. It raised money to put Slats water clean-up plan into action. On September 8, Slats plan began. In the ocean between California and Hawaii there is lot of floating garbage. It is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Slats group will clean it up using floating plastic tube. The tube will go around the garbage and trap it. The plastic tube is hollow. It is 600 metres long. big screen hangs down from it, about three metres into the water. Wind, waves and ocean currents will push the trash toward the tube. (Fish can swim under the screen.) ship will pick up the trash and take it back to the shore to sort and recycle it. The GPGP contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of trash. Most of it is plastic, like bottles, bags and packaging. Plastic trash is very bad for birds and fish. They try to eat it and may become sick. They may also get tangled up in it. The Ocean Cleanup says it will be able to clean up half of the trash in the GPGP within five years. If this first project works well, The Ocean Cleanup hopes to launch as many as 60 more. About 8 million tonnes of plastic end up the ocean every year. Thats like having garbage truck full of plastic dumped in every minute. Questions name: When decided Slat to clean up the ocean? And why? (2P) How was Slat able to implement (umsetzen) his plan? (1P) Describe how the trash/garbage should be collected and brought back to land. (3P) Why is plastic trash bad for birds and fish? (2P) How much garbage is found in the ocean every year? (1P) Write the analogy (Vergleich) that is made at the end of the text down in German. (2P) Vocabulary: Total./ 11P mark: tube: the shore: to tangle: eine Röhre das Ufer sich verwickeln Questions name: When decided Slat to clean up the ocean? And why? (2P) Seven years ago. Because he saw huge amount of trash in the water while swimming. (more trash than fish) How was Slat able to implement (umsetzen) his plan? (1P) He founded an organization to raise money. Describe how the trash/garbage should be collected and brought back to land. (3P) With plastic tube, wind and waves should push the trash in the tube, with ship it should be brought back to land Why is plastic trash bad for birds and fish? (2P) Because they try to eat it or they might get tangled up in it. How much garbage is found in the ocean every year? (1P) 8 million tonnes. Write the analogy (Vergleich) that is made at the end of the text down in German. (2P) Gleich viel wie wenn man jede Minute einen Lastwagen voll mit Plastik in den Ozean schütten würde. Total./ 11P mark: