Lead-in
Can plastic bottles be recycled?
What can they be made into?

Pre-reading: Prediction 
Could you predict what the passage is mainly about, according to the title?

While-reading
1. Who made clothes out of plastic?
   Alia Juma, JUMA’s design director  
2. What types of clothing did they design from plastic?
   jumpsuits, jackets, shirts, dresses (para 2)
   a shirt, a dress, a short coat (para 6)

While-reading
What is the structure of the passage?
 

While-reading
Part One (para 1-2)
How many items of clothing did JUMA show in its new collection made out of plastic bottles?  ——18

Part Two (para 3)   
Why did Alia Juma use plastic bottles to create clothes?
Because plastic bottles are being thrown into landfills and oceans every year and they take hundreds of years to decompose.

Part Three (para 4)
What are the four steps in the recycling process from plastic to clothing?
 

Part Four (para 5-8) 
 

Post-reading: Role play
Interview：
▪ Role play with your partner.
▪ A is the journalist while B is Alia Juma. 
▪ Interview Juma about making clothing out of plastic bottles,  
including reasons, process and benefits.
▪ You can also ask her about the newest collection that was 
shown in Shanghai. 

Sentence pattern 1
Eighteen clothing items from the collection, including jumpsuits (连体裤), jackets, shirts and dresses, were made from recycled plastic bottles.
横线部分是动词-ing短语作后置定语修饰collection。

Sentence pattern 2
This reduces carbon emissions (碳排放) by 4.2 tons and water use by 6.2 tons compared with the normal way of making thread.
横线部分是过去分词短语作条件状语, 表示被动，翻译为 “如果与通常的纺线方式比较”。

Sentence pattern 3
You can get a heavier cotton feeling or a silky feeling by weaving (编织) the yarns (线) into different textures and using different wash methods. 
横线部分是非谓语的现在分词形式作by的宾语 翻译为“通过不同的编织方式和使用不同的洗涤方法”。

Sentence pattern 4
However, Juma is optimistic that prices will fall when more companies follow the sustainability path taken by her business.
横线部分是过去分词短语作后置定语，修饰path。

Post-reading
Voice your opinion 
▪What other daily waste items can be recycled in your opinion? 
▪ What would be the process and the benefits? 

Evaluation