2021-2022学年度第2期总第840期
Living with zero waste (Page 4-5)
河北泊头市第一中学   李倩
Lead-in
Are you familiar with the following pictures?
Do you like to buy many things during this period?
Have you thought about the packages?

Fast reading
Read the text quickly and divide the text into 3 parts according to the main idea of each part.
Part 1: Chinese young generation’s attitude toward a zero-waste life.
Para.__1-3____
Part 2: What is a zero-waste life?
Para.___4-8____
Part 3: The significance of a zero-waste life.
Para.___9____

Careful reading
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What is Elsa Tang’s attitude toward online shopping?
2. Who first put forward the idea of a zero-waste life? What exactly does it refer to?
3. Why did Yu Yuan begin her zero-waste life? And how?

1. What is Elsa Tang’s attitude toward online shopping?
A. Supportive
B. Indifferent
C. Opposed           
D. Objective

2. Who first put forward the idea of a zero-waste life? What exactly does it refer to?
The idea of a zero-waste life was first put forward by French author Bea Johnson.
Her idea was: Live a life while hardly creating rubbish; spare no efforts to save the environment, such as avoiding single-use objects; instead of throwing away unwanted things into landfills, people can donate them to others or organizations like the Red Cross.

3. Why did Yu Yuan begin her zero-waste life? And how?
She felt “much lighter” with less stuff after throwing out 80 percent of her belongings and keeping only the essentials when she moved out of her rental house.
Nearly every object in her minimalist (极简的) apartment is selected with reusability and low environmental impact in mind. Yu also wears second-hand clothing and avoids restaurants that use disposable ( 一次性的) chopsticks.

Language points
Find the following expressions in the article.
1.双十一购物节     the Double Eleven shopping festival

2.网络购物     online shopping

3.零浪费生活        a zero-waste life

4.不遗余力做某事         spare no efforts to do sth

5一次性物品        single-used objects

6.贡献；有助于     contribute to

7.充分利用     take full advantage of

8.为......所熟知     be familiar to

9.有巨大影响；起大的作用         make a huge difference

In the report, 3,201 people aged from 20 to 34 shared their opinions and stories about the eco-friendly lifestyle.
在报告中，年龄在20到34岁之间的3201人分享了他们关于环保生活方式的看法和故事。
该句中，aged from 20 to 34 做后置定语修饰前面的people.
aged adj. 置于数词之前表示......岁的。
例句：
A girl aged fifteen 15岁的少女
Most of our volunteers are aged 17-24. 我们的大多数志愿者年龄在17岁到24岁之间。

For example, for years, China was in a planned economy where everyday goods were rationed (定量供应) and people would take full advantage of everyday objects.
例如，中国多年处于计划经济中，在计划经济中每日的商品都是定量的并且人们会充分利用日常物品。
该句中，where 引导的定语从句，在从句中做地点状语，译为“在.......中”。
例句：
1. I’d like to find a job where I can apply what I have learned.
2. It’s a great honor to be invited to an activity where I can talk to great scientists face-to-face.

Further thinking
Group discussion
Why should we live a zero-waste life?
What can we do in our daily life to reduce waste?

Homework
Design a poster in English that calls on people to live a zero-waste life.