Prompts for
Discussion:
- If we had known about the environmental effects of e-waste earlier, how do you think things would be different today?Possible answer: "If people had known how dangerous e-waste is, we wouldn’t have so many toxic landfills today."
- If more people recycled their old phones and computers, how would that affect the environment in the future?Possible answer: "If people recycled more, we would have less pollution and fewer resources wasted."
- If countries had passed stricter e-waste laws 20 years ago, would the situation be different today?Possible answer: "If countries had done that, there wouldn’t be as much e-waste in developing countries now."
- If you had the power to change one thing about how we dispose of electronics, what would it be? Use a mixed conditional to explain.Possible answer: "If I could change one thing, I would introduce more recycling programs, so that we would have less e-waste in the future."
- What could we have done in the past to prevent the current e-waste crisis?Possible answer: "If we had designed electronics to be easier to recycle, we wouldn’t be facing this crisis now."
Video about how e-waste is harming our world
Collaborative Reading of the text: The problem of electronic waste
Collaborative Exercise 6 on page 59 on Wordwall
Individual Reading Exam Task on page 59
Collaborative Exercise 7 on page 59
How do you think e-waste is harming our world?
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