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e 1 Alternative living
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b) How could you
reduce this waste? Tell
your partner.
We could donate old clothes to charity,
we could try to buy only what we need.
Think!
2 a) Describe the picture. What
do you think the man is
looking for? Why?
Vocabulary & Reading
1 a) How often do you throw
away food/clothing/
electrical items? Why?
Choose ideas from the list
below and/or your own
ideas and tell the class.
• food is past its sell-by date
• food has gone off/doesn’t look
or smell as good as it did
• you don’t like it
• you bought or cooked/
prepared too much
• you’ve grown out of it
(clothes)
• It’s worn out/broken/
damaged/outdated
(clothes/other items)
I often throw away food from the
fridge because it’s past its sell-by date.
freegan / frI…gan/ (n) someone who
buys as little as possible and uses
recycled or discarded goods and
services in order to reduce waste
and environmental impact
3 Read again. Six sentences have been removed from the
article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which
fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence. Justify
your answers in pairs.
Listen and check.
A Armed with Ross and Ash’s freegan tips, my challenge was to
live as a freegan for three days in my home town of Brighton.
B We decided to visit a different supermarket bin and again
found lots of vegetables and fruit.
C Sometimes, disposal is the cheapest option available to the
food industry.
D People go through the rubbish and recycle everything.
E The men were looking through the frozen foods, crisps and
boxes of eggs.
F A couple of passers-by threw us pitying looks.
G The packaging was still intact and the sell-by date was that
day.
They're not homeless or unemployed,
but they scavenge in bins for discarded
food. Freegans, shocked at the extent of
consumer waste, are changing the way
they eat. Liz Scarff joins them for dinner.
b) Read the definition and
the first sentence of each
paragraph in the text.
Who/What is the text
about? How do the people
described hope to reduce
waste? Read to find out.