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GREEN LIVING

LESSON 6

WRITING

A problem-solving report on
green solutions

LESSON 3

WARM-UP

READING
Situation

PRE-WRITING

WHILE-WRITING
POST-WRITING
CONSOLIDATION

• Task 1: Complete the notes.
• Task 2: Match the sections with
the headings.
Task 3: Write a problem-solving
report.
Cross-check
• Wrap-up
• Homework

WARM-UP
What should you do when you see people
throwing rubbish improperly?

PRE-WRITING
1

Complete the notes using the words in
the box.

Problems &
consequences

Many single-use
plastic products
are thrown in
rubbish bins. They
take many years
to decompose in
landfills.
People leave the
lights on and the
water running in
restrooms. This is
a waste of

Green solutions

Use them in arts
and crafts
projects (e.g.
making plant
recycle
pots)
or (1)
________ them

automatic
Install (2) ________
lights and sensor
taps that turn off
when no one is

Dry leaves are
sometimes burnt
in the
schoolyard. This
can cause air
pollution and
fires.
Many parents
drive their
children to school
and pick them up
from school
every day. This
causes traffic
jams, noise, and

Create (3)
compost piles
_______________

Encourage more
students to cycle
transport
orpublic
walk to
school,
or use (4)
______________ to
go to school (e.g.
free bus tickets,
cycle-to-school

PRE-WRITING
2 Match the sections with the correct

headings.
A. Introduction
_____________
This report describes the problem of single-use plastics
in our school and suggests three main solutions to the
problem.
Problems
B. _____________
Many students at our school buy bottled water or
takeaway food. As a result, hundreds of water bottles
and single-use plastic containers are thrown away every
day. Besides, students often put containers with leftovers
in them into the recycling bin, which can lead to
contaminating the recyclable waste. This means our

PRE-WRITING
2 Match the sections with the correct
headings.

C. ___________
Solutions
To solve this problem, we propose the following solutions.
First, we suggest that the school should provide more
recycling bins. Second, the Youth Union should hold regular
sessions to teach students how to recycle properly. Third,
we recommend that we make use of plastic waste in arts
andConclusion
crafts projects, for example, for making plant pots or
bird feeders.
D. ___________
Reusing and recycling single-use plastics will lead to a
greener school environment and help promote a green

WHILEWRITING
3 Choose one of the problems in Task 1, and write a
problem-solving report.

POSTWRITING
Cross-check

Writing rubric
1. Organization: …/10
2. Legibility: …/10
3. Ideas: …/10
4. Word choice: …/10
5. Grammar usage and
mechanics: …/10
             TOTAL: …/50

CONSOLIDATI
ON
1 Wrap-up

What have you learnt today?
• Practising to write a problem-solving
report

CONSOLIDATI
ON
2 Homework

• Do exercises in the workbook.
• Rewrite the paragraph in the notebooks.

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