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10 WAYS TO - Series Overview

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The 10 WAYS TO series provides advice, skills, andstrategies to the readers for successfully negotiating
different aspects of life. Each book suggests 10 clear,
useful ways to the reader. The reader is encouraged
to critically reflect on the reading material and theirown lives in order to make any changes that would
benefit them.The series includes the following.
10 ways to achieve work-life balance
10 ways to be more productive
10 ways to manage money
10 ways to be successful in love
10 ways to be assertive
10 ways to be smart online
10 ways to be environmentally friendly
10 ways to be healthy
10 ways to work in a team
10 ways to organize a trip

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Introduction.... 8

3. Reduce plastic trash...10

4. Save electricity... 12

5. Use less paper... 14

6. Clean friendly... 16

7. Buy locally grown food... 18

8. Repair things... 209. Make gifts... 22

10. Make better choices... 24

Summary... 26

Reflection Questions... 28

Vocabulary in Context... 29Vocabulary List... 36D

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Introduction

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What does ‘environmentally friendly’
mean? Why is this something weshould try to be? Being environmentally friendly means living in a waythat does not hurt our planet. It means
being friendly to the Earth. Environmentally friendly people make choices
about what they do. They do things
that keep the air and water clean. They
think about how their choices impact
other people.

DLook around our planet. We cansee that there is lots of trash. We
can see that the roads are full of carsand trucks. We know our water may
not be clean for drinking. We knowthat pollution and trash are changing
the weather. We buy things every day.

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We often buy more things than weneed. This means we throw away
many things. Making the things webuy causes air and water pollution.
And, we create more trash. Also, people in other countries may only get asmall amount of money to make thethings we want.

DBeing environmentally friendly means
making better choices. These choices
make life better for everyone. Now,
stop and think for a moment about
your life? Do you think about thechoices you make every day? Are
the choices you make friendly to theenvironment? Do you want to be moreenvironmentally friendly? Let’s look at
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Most of us have cars these days. We
like to drive them a lot. We can gowhere we want to. And, we can go
when we want to. But, cars cause a
lot of air pollution. When you arein your car, look around. How manycars do you see with only one personin them? In some countries, people
carpool. This means people go to thesame place together in one car. For
example, workers may go to workin the same car. If four people share
one car, that is three cars that are notbeing used. This helps to reduce airpollution. It also reduces the numberof cars on the road. This makes travel
by road faster and safer.

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For short trips, we should think
about walking. Walking is good forthe environment. And, it is good forour health. Everyone should walk
10,000 steps every day. You can use aspecial machine to count your steps.
Can you walk to school or work? If
it is a little far to walk, how about
cycling? Bicycles are also good for theenvironment. They do not cause airpollution.

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2. Save water

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People need water. Plants, birds, andanimals need water, too. We can live
for many days without food. We canonly live a few days without water. So,water is a very important resource.
Too many people use too much water.
And, we need energy to make waterclean. It takes energy to get water into
our homes. So, we should try to savewater. Or, in the future, we might nothave enough! What will happen inthe future if we do not have water?
In fact, many people in the world do
not have enough water now. They
think very carefully about how they
use water every day. And, we should,too. Think about the many ways you8

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use water every day. You drink it. You
wash your clothes and your disheswith it. You use it when you flush
the toilet. You use it when you takea bath or a shower. Do you know
we use about 40 liters of water for aten-minute shower? So, how can yousave water? Try taking a shower fora shorter time. Put the bath water
you use into your washing machine.
Use the short flush on your toilet.
Don’t leave water running. Wash
your dishes in a bowl of water. Saving
water is very important for all lives. It
can also save you money!

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Reflection Questions

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1. Can you remember the 10 ways to be
more environmentally friendly? Test
yourself. If you forget any, go back, andread them again.

2. Do you do any of the 10 ways to be
more environmentally friendly in yourlife? If so, which ones do you do?
3. How could you use any of the 10 ways
to be more environmentally friendly inyour life?

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4. What do you think you will do differently in your life after reading thisbook?

5. Can you think of other ways to be moreenvironmentally friendly?
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be Environmentally FriendlyVocabulary in Context

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1. Environmentally• Being environmentally friendly means living
in a way that does not hurt the planet.
• We need clean water and air to live. We musttake care of the environment.
• Hospitals have a lot of dangerous trash. They
must throw it away in an environmentallysafe way.

D2. Planet• Being environmentally friendly means living
in a way that does not hurt our planet.
• Do you think there is alien life on otherplanets?
• The planet we live on is called Earth.

3. Earth• It means being friendly to the Earth.
• Where we put trash on Earth is a problem.
• The Earth goes around the sun. It takes oneyear.

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Vocabulary List
(Adverb) about the natural world, the air, the sea
and the land. Relating to the things around us.
Environment (Noun) is the natural world, the air,the sea, and the land.

Planet:(Noun) A large, round , object in space. Mercury,Mars and Venus are all planets.

Earth:(Noun) The planet we live on.

Impact:(Noun) the influence or affect someone or something can have. The force or power of two things
hitting each other.

Trash:(Noun) things that have been thrown away.
Things that we do not want or that are not useful
anymore.

Pollution:(Noun) something that makes the air or waterdirty. Pollute (Verb) is the action of making theair or water dirty.

Carpool:(Verb) when a group of people going to the sameplace, go together in one person’s car. Every day
they use a different person’s car.

Reduce:(Verb) to make something smaller, or to makesomething less.

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Environmentally:

Resource/s:(Noun) something that can be used when it isneeded. Resources are useful things we can use.

Energy:(Noun) the power or strength we need to dosomething. There is the kind of energy that powers our cars and our machines. There is also theenergy a person has in their body, to do the things
they need to do.

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