STUDENT’S WORKSHEET

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Instruction:
A. Listen to the audio carefully and complete the following text based on what you have
heard!

Food Waste

Food waste is a big (1)_________ and it needs to be stopped. Food wasting is bad for the
Earth and the (2)___________, wastes money, and wastes (3)_________. If we all work together,
this problem of food wasting can be changed!

To start with, wasting food is bad, and destructive for the (4)_________’s environment.
When food rots with other organics in (5)_________, it gives off methane gas, which is 25 more
powerful than (6)_______ pollution. Food waste can also cause infestation of (7)_________,
which can cause disease and sickness to spread to everyone. It is also unjust that we toss out
perfectly good, excess (8)_______, while people in the world are dying every second.

Secondly, wasting food also wastes your (9)______. Instead of throwing perfectly good

food away to landfill, we should do something useful with it like giving it away to homeless
people
that do not have money to buy food.

Lastly, wasting food wastes resources. When you toss out food, you are also wasting

everything that helped make it.

In conclusion, Food waste is a major issue that should be addressed. Food waste costs
money, (10)____________ resources, and is terrible for the environment.
B. Read each statement below and choose the best answer for each statement! (Choose T
if a statement is true and F if the statement is false)

1. Food waste gives advantages to our environment ( T / F)

2. Food waste can cause sickness in people ( T / F)

3. When food rots with other organics, it gives more benefit to the soil ( T / F)

4. Wasting food is not sustainable for our earth ( T / F)

5. Wasting food means wasting money ( T / F)