Unit - 8
Unit - 8
Newla nguage
Grammar: Present simple passive: be + past
participle – positive, negative, questions
Vocabulary: Containers and materials
Culture notes
In the UK rubbish and recycling are collected
from bins that people leave outside their houses.
Pick-up frequency and arrangements vary from
area to area.
Warm-up Presentation
• Game! Divide the class into two teams. Play 1 3
15 Listen and read.
English today
the word association game described in Unit What does Tom say about recycling?
Dylan: Right, we have to put the rubbish in the correct
4 Magazine (Warm-up). Use words or short bins. Paper, cardboard, tins and glass are all
• Right, …
• … stuff like that
• Thanks for helping.
• No wonder (my fleece
expressions from Unit 7. recycled so they go in the blue bin. • By the way, … smells funny).
Tom: What about plastic?
Dylan: Plastic is recycled too but only bottles and pots.
Lead-in Tom: What are the green bins for? Comprehension
Dylan: Food waste. And the green bag is for garden
3 Read again and choose the correct answers.
• (Books closed) Write the Unit 8 title, Our waste. Food and garden waste is composted. And
anything that isn’t recycled goes in the black bin. 1 The Jones’ rubbish goes inside …
world , on the board. Students predict what Plastic carrier bags or crisp packets – stuff like that. a one bin. b several bins.
the unit’s about. Tom: Is the rubbish collected every week? 2 Plastic bottles go in the …
a blue bin. b green bin.
Dylan: Well, one week the blue and green bins are
• (Books open) Students quickly look through collected and the next week the black bin. By the 3 The green bins are for …
the unit to check their predictions. They way, thanks for helping. I hate sorting rubbish! a food waste. b paper.
4 Someone collects rubbish for recycling …
Tom: Yes but recycling is good for the environment. It
tell you which lesson they’re most looking saves energy and reduces pollution. a every week. b twice a month.
5 In Cambridge, they don’t recycle …
forward to and why. Dylan: Hey, did you know some fleece jumpers are
a plastic carrier bags. b plastic pots.
made from recycled plastic bottles?
• Use the photo to generate interest. Use it to Tom: Yuk! No wonder my fleece smells funny! 6 Dylan thinks sorting rubbish is …
a an OK job. b an awful job.
check bins, (sort) rubbish and fleece.T each 2 3
16 Listen and repeat the dialogue.
recycle and composted, e.g. ask for/give a 88
Answer
Tin and glass can be a container and a material.
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Unit 8, B
The Hoax Museum
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Grammar: Past simple passive: be + past
Smellovision
Here’s an amusing true story about the power of
participle – positive, negative; be + past TV. In 1965, a professor from London University
was invited by the BBC to appear on TV. He was
participle + by, wh-ques tions interviewed about his new invention. It was
called smellovision and it could send smells from
Vocabulary: Adjectives with - ed/-ingend ings the TV studio into people’s homes.
To show how this worked, the professor put some coffee The TV people were surprised. Why? Because the
beans and then some onions into the smellovision machine. programme was a hoax! The technology didn’t exist! The
Viewers were asked to stand about two metres from their viewers couldn’t really smell these things at all!
Culture notes TV sets, sniff and phone the studio if they smelled anything. We may find this funny and embarrassing now but fifty years
People from around the country phoned and said, ‘We can ago TV was a new and exciting technology. Most people
he ‘smellovision’ hoax was an April Fool’s Day
T really smell coffee and onions!’ They were very excited.
Some even said, ‘The onions made my eyes water!’
didn’t understand how it worked and they were ready to
believe anything!
joke played by the BBC on their viewers.
Presentation Vocabulary: Adjectives with -ed/-ing endings
Warm-up 1 3
19 Listen and read. Can you 3 3
20 Listen and repeat. Tick (✓) the adjectives with a
• (Books closed) Game! Play Whisper down the guess what hoax means? positive meaning and cross (✗) the ones with a negative
meaning. Which adjectives can have both meanings?
line with vocabulary from Unit 8A. (See Unit 2 Comprehension
Someone/ You are/ Someone/ You are/
Magazine, Warm-up.) 2 Read again and write True (T), something is … feel … something is … feel …
False (F) or Doesn’t say (DS). amusing amused ✓ exciting excited ✓
hoaxm eans? a TV. DS 5 Complete the sentences. Then tell the class.
1 I feel excited when I go on holiday with my family .
• Play the recording. Students listen and read. 2 I feel annoyed when … . 4 I feel bored when … .
5 I feel embarrassed when … .
• Check answer. 3 I feel surprised when … .
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Answer
A hoax is a kind of trick. The BBC wanted their
viewers to believe something that wasn’t true.
(See Culture notes.) Fast finishers: Write surprising and boring on
the board. They use them to write two more
questions. Then they ask the class.
2 Read again and write True (T), False( F)or
Doesn’t say( DS).
• Students silently read the questions. 5 Complete the sentences. Then tell the class.
• They read the text in Exercise 1 again, • Students read the sentences and complete.
underlining the relevant parts and answer. • Invite different students to tell the class.
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Answers
Some holes were made in an onion. The onion
was placed in the jug. It was left there for
Answers thirty minutes. Then it was taken out of the
2 Who was it invented by? jug. It was dried with a towel. The iPod charger
3 Where was the professor interviewed? was pushed into the onion. The charger was
4 Who was he invited by? connected to the iPod.
5 What was put into the smellovision machine?
6 What were the viewers asked to do?
• Students read the text again, underlining the Suggestion: Help a weak class by eliciting the
answers. past simple passive verbs for each instruction
• A confi dent pair reads the example. before they do the exercise.
• Pairs take it in turns to ask and answer.
7 Finish the story. Use the questions to help. Ending the lesson
• The same pairs continue telling the story Pairs imagine a hoax story. They make notes and
together. They take it in turns to make tell another pair or the class.
sentences, using the questions to help.
Learning difficulties
Sample answers Help students with learning diffi culties by
1 The TV people were surprised. adapting exercises to make them achievable.
2 Because it was a hoax. The technology didn’t Don’t insist they write complete sentences in
exist. Exercise 9. Have them write the past simple
3 Because they didn’t understand how TV passive of each verb in the instructions instead.
worked. If they do well, encourage them to use the
verbs to write some complete sentences.
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Functions: Speaking: Say goodbye; Writing: A I
thank you letter I
I
Englisht oday: Thank you (for everything). Give s
A
my regards to your mum and dad. Please come b
and see us again! I’d love to. I’m/We’re going t
M
to miss you. Have a good flight/journey. Keep d
in touch. O
B
Preparation: Warm-up: Make a set of seven Tom: Goodbye, Mrs Jones and thank Tom: Bye, Tara. Look after yourself. Dad: We should go. Have you got your T
adjective cards for each pair. Use the adjectives you for everything. Tara: You, too. We’re going to miss you. passport, Tom? P
y
Mum: Bye, Tom. We’ve enjoyed having Tom: Good luck with the singing. Tom: Yes, it’s in my rucksack with my
ending -ing from Unit 8B, Exercise 3. you here. Give my regards to your Tara: Thanks, Tom. Have a good journey ticket.
mum and dad. and don’t forget to keep in touch, Dylan: Have you got the medal you
Tom: I will. And I’ll tell them how well OK? were given by the rugby team?
said goodbye to someone who was visiting. Mrs Gordon: Don’t forget, 3 .
Lisa: I will. I’ll tell them what a brilliant
Invite different students to tell the class. time I’ve had. Your turn
• (Books open) Ask students about the photos, Mrs Gordon: Oh, that’s nice. 4
3 A: You’re saying goodbye to your host family.
Lisa: 5
Maybe next year.
e.g. (Photo 1) What’s happening? (Photo 2) Mrs Gordon: Yes, that’s a good idea. Now, 6 .
B: You’re the son or daughter in the host family.
Use Exercise 2 to help you write a dialogue.
What do you think they’re saying to each Lisa: There’ll be lots of films to watch on
Then act it out.
the plane so no problem.
other? (Photo 3) What’s Tom doing? (Students Mrs Gordon: Great. Bye, 7 .
A: Goodbye, … . Thank you for everything.
B: Bye, … . I’m going to miss you …
predict.) Use the photo to check rucksack. Lisa: Yes, I’ll email when I arrive.
ou Answers
s, it’s There are four paragraphs: 1) Tom thanks
the family. 2) He says what he enjoyed. 3) He
invites them to Chicago. 4) He thanks them
again.
Your turn
Polite language: ‘Dear’/‘thank you very much
6 Imagine you’ve spent three months
with a host family in London. Write for having me to stay’/‘please come to Chicago
a thank you letter. Mention some
of the things you enjoyed doing
and visit us’/‘Once again a big, big thank
y. Writing tip during your stay. Choose from the you’/‘Best wishes’
list below.
Writing a thank you letter
Paragraphing • go on a day trip to Brighton
Divide your letter into paragraphs. • visit the Tower of London Answers ➞ student page
Punctuation • go to the funfair at Chessington World of
Adventures
Check your spelling and punctuation. Use capital letters correctly.
Language • ride on the London Eye 5 Read the letter and correct it.
• take a river boat to Greenwich
Make sure you are polite.
• see a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre • Students guess the city in the photo. They
Look at Tom’s letter again and answer the questions. • see the lions at Woburn Safari Park
How many paragraphs are there? What does each paragraph do? quickly read the letter to fi nd out. ( Chicago)
Find one example of polite language.
There are four punctuation/spelling mistakes. Find and correct them.
• They read the questions. They read the letter
> Now turn to page 95 in the Activity Book.
again and answer.
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• Write four of the English today expressions 1 The printing press was invented in 1440 by Johannes 3 In 1969 one computer communicated with another
from Unit 8C on the board, omitting one Gutenberg, who was born in Mainz, Germany. Before it was
invented, there were very few books. Most books had to be
computer and the Internet was born. Early computers could
not communicate with each other. The World Wide Web
or two key words in each, e.g. Keep … . copied by hand so they were very expensive. Today, over
300,000 books are published every year in the USA alone.
(WWW) is an application of the Internet. It was created in
1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
The class suggests words to complete each 2 The telegraph was the first really fast method of 4 Plastics are used in a huge range of products today, like
communicating over long distances. Electricity made planes and phones. They are light, cheap, strong and flexible.
sentence. Pairs choose two expressions. They wireless telegraphy possible in the late 19th and early 20th Modern methods of communication were made possible by
write a two-line mini-dialogue for each and centuries. Before the telegraph was invented, people had to
send letters by post to get in touch.
the use of plastics. The English inventor Alexander Parkes
created the earliest form of manmade plastic in 1855.
practise them. My score: ........ 4 correct answers: Well done! 3 correct answers: Not bad! 0–2 correct answers: Try again!
Lead-in 94
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5 25 Listen to a science teacher talking about
electricity with her class. Match 1–5 with
a–g. There are two extra options.
• Use the photo to check lightning.
• Students read the sentence halves.
• Play the recording. They listen and match.
• Play the recording again, pausing to check
answers.
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participle; past simple passive – be + past In Japan, false teeth 1 aren’t thrown
away! A company recycles the metal
participle; be + past participle + by, inside them. The company sells the
metal and the money 2 to
Wh-ques tions 5 6 7 8
the charity UNICEF (United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund). D
Vocabulary: Containers and materials, Old trainers are never too old. T
Adjectives with - ed/-ingendings First, they 3
4
, then they
to people who don’t
have enough money to buy new
Functions: Speaking: Say goodbye; Writing: A 2 Complete the text with the present simple trainers or they 5 into
thank you letter passive form of the verbs.
building materials.
D
In some hair salons, the hair that your
Pronunciation: Pronunciation: /r/ hairdresser cuts off 6
company called Locks of Love. It
by a
T
Preparation: Warm-up: Note nine present and 7
past simple passive sentences from Unit 8D. Old mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices
are full of valuable materials like gold, steel and plastic. D
These materials 8 at a Reprocessing Centre and T
then each material 9 into something new.
Culture notes (Exercise 8)
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Rubbish trucks (or garbage trucks , USA) are also Every year, tons of old clothes 1 are thrown (throw) away 4 Write and ask questions about the inventions. T
with other waste from our homes. Up to 95 percent of these Use the information in the table to answer them.
called refuse trucks or dustbin lorries in the UK. clothes could be reused or recycled. The fashion company
1 A: When was the telephone invented?
H&M has begun a global recycling programme. Shoppers
B: It was invented in 1875 by Alexander Graham Bell.
2
(allow) to hand in their old clothes at any H&M
Warm-up store. Any pieces of clothing of any brand 3 (accept). 1 When / telephone / invent? T
2 When / first / incandescent light bulb / develop?
If they bring a carrier bag full of clothes, customers
• (Books closed) Divide the class into two teams 4
(give) a voucher for £5.
3 Who / first / mass-produced cars / build by? M
4 Who / World Wide Web / create by?
and play Noughts and Crosses (see Unit 3B, H&M say, ‘We want to do good for the environment.’ The
5 Who / iPhone / invent by?
company was started in Sweden in 1947. It now has over
Warm-up). Write a prompt for one of the 2,700 shops in forty-eight countries. What? Who? When?
T
sentences you’ve prepared on the board. 80 percent of old clothes that are collected are reused. They 1 telephone Alexander 1875
5
(send) to many countries in Europe, Africa and
Students say a passive sentence from Unit 8D Asia. They 6 (check) and sorted and the best
2 first incandescent
Graham Bell
Thomas Edison 1879
M
T
to win their O or X. (sell) in secondhand shops and markets.
7
light bulb M
The other 20 percent of old clothes are recycled. Recycled 3 mass-produced cars Henry Ford 1908
textiles 8 (use) to make new things such as
Lead-in blankets, mattresses and gardening products.
4 World Wide Web
5 iPhone
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
1989
2007 T
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m.
Tom: No, I wasn’t! 3
4
Rocky ran round the room three times.
Richard rode the wrong ride at the funfair.
Play the Pronunciation video for this
6 Tom is saying goodbye to his rugby coach. 5 Reduce, reuse, recycle. lesson. Play it again and have students say the
Complete the dialogue. Then act it out.
Tom: Well, bye Mr Patterson. 1 Thank you for 10 Read and tick (✓). rhyme along with the video.
everything . You’ve been a great coach.
I can: 3
Mr Patterson: It was a pleasure. The rugby team is going 9 27 Listen and repeat the tongue twisters
to 2 . We won a lot of matches identify materials and containers.
this year! Boxes are usually made of cardboard. again and again very fast.
describe processes.
Tom: Well, it’s a shame I can’t say goodbye
to everyone. Please give 3 to The bottles are collected in bottle banks. • Invite a student to say a tongue twister in
them all. express opinions and describe feelings. your language. Ask students if they know any
Mr Patterson: Yes, I will and please 4
again. The film is boring. She’s bored.
Tom: Well, I’d like to come back next summer. report past events.
in English.
Mr Patterson: Oh, the rugby season will be over. Never A forty-two-year-old was saved by a six-year-old. • Play the recording. Students listen, read and
mind, keep 5 with the other team
members. And have a 6 .
say goodbye.
Please come and see us again soon.
repeat.
Tom: Thanks, I will.
> Turn to Unit 8 Check in the Activity Book on page 96.
• Pairs practise saying the tongue twisters to
97 each other as fast as they can.
10 Read and tick (✓).
• (Books closed) Ask the class what they’ve
Answers learned in Unit 8. Ask them to remind you
2 When was the fi rst incandescent light bulb why it’s important to think about this (e.g. so
developed? (It was developed in 1879 by Thomas they know what they’re good at or need to
Edison.) work harder at).
3 Who were the fi rst mass-produced cars built by? • (Books open) Tell students the table will help
(They were built by Henry Ford in 1908.) them think. Give them time to look at the
4 Who was the World Wide Web created by? (It examples individually, reflect and tick.
was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.) • Ask the class about each point in turn. Ask
5 Who was the iPhone invented by? (It was them to give examples to you or a partner.
invented by Steve Jobs in 2007.)
Learning difficulties
5 Read the dialogue and choose the Work with the whole class on Exercise 4. Write
correct words. each prompt in turn on the board. Invite
different pairs to write a question on the
• Students read the dialogue and circle. board. Check as you go. Pair any students with
Answers ➞ student page dyslexia with strong readers/writers. Open pairs
ask and answer.
6 Tom is saying goodbye to his rugby coach.
Complete the dialogue. Then act it out. Tests on Teacher’s eText for IWB (see
Introduction page vi).
• Brainstorm with the class the English today You can now use:
expressions for saying goodbye (Unit 8C). Unit Test 8
• Students read the dialogue and complete. Achievement Test Units 7–8
• Check answers. Skills Test Units 7–8
• They act out the dialogue. Review Test Units 1–8 (Basic and Standard)
After grading the tests, you can allocate an
Extension Test or a remedial Revision worksheet
to stronger and weaker students.
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Newla nguage Game on! 1 2
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START Talk about your family.
Who’
what
Vocabulary: counter, roll (dice) Play the Today! big board game.
was e
?
Name five injuries or illnesses. My d
weekend.
• Play this game in groups of three or four.
of blank paper for groups of three or four • First, make your counter. Take a piece of
to make their set of counters. Bring a pair of paper and cut out a small circle. Write
your name on it. 11
scissors and two dice for each group. • Read the instructions below to find out What has Ella Vine wanted to
do for a long time? [U5B]
what you have to do.
Game on! Suggestion: Book a computer room. • Start the game. Roll the dice and go 14
forward as many squares as the dice
MUM:
indicate. Do what the square says. 12 13
?
• The winner is the person who finishes first! I was … when
?
Warm-up the bell rang
for class today.
Name five parts of a building.
DAUGH
?
What you have to do
• Game! Pairs put their letter cards in order Orange squares: Talk for thirty seconds.
to write as many verbs as they can in three Then go forward three squares. If you
can’t talk for the full thirty seconds, go
minutes. The pair with the most correctly back one square.
spelt verbs wins. You could have them play Green squares: Answer the question.
If you answer correctly using your 22 21 20
again, using the letters to write nouns or book, stay where you are. If you answer I’m allowed to … but I’m not What
Name five containers.
adjectives. correctly without looking at the book, allowed to … . some
?
go forward two squares. If you answer
incorrectly, go back two squares.
Game on! Purple squares: Complete the sentence
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Talk about what
within five seconds. Then go forward one
• Ask students if they ever play board games at square. If you take longer, stay where
you like doing in
your free time.
home. They tell you which games they play you are.
and how often. Ask Do you like board games? Yellow squares: Name five items in fifteen 24 25 26
seconds! If you can’t, go back three squares. Who paints the fastest? Who I’ve got lots of … but not What
Have them explain why/why not. paints the slowest? [U7A] many … . fleec
made
Blue squares: Complete the joke! Then
• Explain they will play against each other in go forward one square. If you can’t
groups of three or four. complete the joke, stay where you are.
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Instructions
• Teach/check counter by showing the class the
one you’ve made. Check they understand roll What you have to do
and dice (demonstrate). • Students silently read the What you have to do
• Draw six squares next to each other on the text.
board and write Start by the one on the • Check understanding. (Books closed) Have
left. Check go forward and go back by using different students explain to the class what
gesture. they have to do when they land on the
• Give each group a pair of dice, scissors and different coloured squares. You could ask short
paper for making counters. Make sure check questions, e.g. How long do you talk for
someone in each group has a watch that if you land on an orange square? (30 seconds.)
counts seconds. What do you have to do if you can’t? (Go back
one square.)
How to play • Remind students:
• Invite one or two confident readers to read – they can only have one attempt at each
the You’ll need and How to play instructions question
to the class. – they mustn’t ask anyone for help. It’s a
• They make their counters. game!
• Students take it in turns to roll a die. The – If they disagree if an answer is correct or
student with the highest number will go first. not, they ask you
The student on his/her left will go second and – They must be careful to time all group
so on. Quickly check by asking those going members correctly.
first to put up their hands. • Give students plenty of time to play the game,
• Ask each group to nominate a time-keeper. e.g. 25 minutes. Move round the class, helping
Again, quickly check by asking them to put up and clearing up doubts.
their hands. • Check answers to any questions students had
• Students place their counters on Start. The difficulty with/disagreed about.
game is now ready to begin.
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magazine
3
Fast finishers: They use their Students’ Book to
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2
TEACHER: Tell me a sentence
that starts with an ‘I’. 4
make up extra questions to try on each other.
Who’s Jamie Oliver and
what did he use to do when he
STUDENT: I is the …
TEACHER: Stop! We say
When I was
three years
Tell them to note possible answers, too!
‘is’ after ‘I’. The right
?
was eight years old? [U3A] old I couldn’t … .
form is ‘am’.
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STUDENT: OK. I am the
ninth letter of the
alphabet!
5
Name five outdoor activities. Suggestion: The same groups make their own
version of Game on! They use the Students’
8 7 Who’s Steve 6 Book to research questions. They use a
Backshall and how Talk about what life will be like computer to design their own board. They
?
esses. My dad has never … .
many countries in the year 2050.
write their questions in the same colour-coded
?
has he visited? [U4B]
?
art. They print their board on A3 paper, swap
14 with another group and play!
MUM: Did you enjoy
15 16
?
your first day at
school? What time does Tara have to be
?? ?
ding. Talk about your favourite actor. back home on weekdays? What
DAUGHTER: First day? Do you
?
mean I about at the weekend? [U6A]
to go back Tip: Use students’ performance in Game on!
tomorrow?
17 to help you decide which language your class
I like clothes which … . would benefit from further practice on, either
in the next class or at the beginning of the
20 19 18 next school year.
not What should you do if Talk about
your best Name five wild animals.
someone faints? [U6B]
?
holiday.
Learning difficulties
?
Help students with learning difficulties play
Game on! by having pairs play against each
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27
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28 other, not individuals. Pair them with a strong,
MUM: Would you your
What are some
fleece jumpers dinner now, dear?
What food items
were used to test
FINISH cooperative partner. Each pair has one counter.
SON: What are my choices?
made from? [U8A]
MUM: Yes or No.
smellovision? [U8B]
The strong partner reads each question. They
take it in turns to answer, helping each other if
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Answers
2 Jamie Oliver is a British chef who is famous for
his TV programmes and cookery books. When he
was eight he used to help in the kitchen of his
parents’ restaurant.
3 don’t
5 See Unit 1C and 4A Vocabulary.
7 Steve Backshall presents wildlife and nature
programmes on TV. He’s visited over 100
countries.
9 See Unit 6B Vocabulary.
11 Ella Vine has wanted to be an actor and to
visit Hollywood for a long time.
13 See Unit 7B Vocabulary.
14 have
16 Tara has to be home by 8 p.m. on weekdays
and by 10 p.m. at the weekend.
18 See Unit 7C Vocabulary.
20 You should raise their legs higher than their
head and keep them cool.
22 See Unit 8A Vocabulary.
24 Tom paints the fastest. Dylan paints the
slowest.
26 (recycled) plastic (bottles)
27 like
28 onions and coffee beans
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