تساعدكم على التحدث والفهم والتواصل في أستراليا عبر حلقاتها المتعددة والتي يمكن متابعتها عبر هذا
هذا الدرس مفيد للمتعلمين من المستوى فوق المتوسط إلى المتقدم. بعد الاستماع للحلقة، جربوا معلوماتكم في هذا السريع.
هدف الدرس:
التحدث عن إعادة التدوير
عبارات مفيدة عند فرز القمامة لحاويات المنزل:
Can you please chuck the rubbish in the bin?
This pizza box can’t be recycled; it has pizza scraps in it.
Juice boxes aren’t recyclable.
I’ll take out the bins for the garbo.
I’ll sort through the rubbish for recyclables and
general waste.
عبارات مفيدة عند الحديث عن النفايات المنزلية الأخرى:
I’d like to arrange a hard waste pickup please.
I need to get rid of some old furniture.
The council doesn’t collect white goods.
I’ll place the hard waste on the nature strip.
You can drop off your E-waste at a nearby recycling centre.
تعبيرات عامية:
wasting away
أن يصبح الشخص أو الشيء أضعف أو أصغر أو أقل أهمية
Garbo
الكلمة العامية الأسترالية التي تستخدم للإشارة لجامع القمامة
Chuck
تعني التخلص من شيء
مصطلحات:
Sustainable living
خيارات تتعلق بنمط الحياة اليومية يكون لها تأثير إيجابي على مستقبل الكوكب
Biodegradable products
المنتجات المصنوعة من مواد تتحلل بسرعة وتعود إلى الطبيعة مثل الخشب أو الورق
Hard waste
الأشياء الكبيرة التي لا يمكن وضعها في سلة المهملات العادية مثل الأرائك وطاولات القهوة
White goods
الأجهزة المنزلية مثل الثلاجات والغسالات
E-waste
اختصار لـ "النفايات الإلكترونية" ويشير إلى أي عنصر به قابس أو بطارية أو سلك طاقة مثل أجهزة الكمبيوتر والهواتف وما إلى ذلك
Nature strip
شريط العشب بين الرصيف والطريق
معلومات ثقافية:
في أستراليا تلعب المجالس المحلية دورًا مهمًا في إدارة النفايات وإعادة التدوير لأنها توفر صناديق لكل منزل وتنظم عملية جمع النفايات.
تقدم المجالس المحلية أيضًا معلومات حول كيفية التخلص من أنواع مختلفة من النفايات بشكل صحيح.
كأفراد يمكننا أن نعيش حياة أكثر استدامة من خلال ممارسة الـ5R's لحياة مستدامة وهي التقليل وإعادة الاستخدام وإعادة التدوير وإعادة التفكير والإصلاح.
- التقليل يعني محاولة امتلاك أشياء أقل حتى نقلل من النفايات.
- إعادة الاستخدام تعني تجنب شراء أشياء جديدة واستخدام ما لديك لغرض آخر.
- إعادة التدوير تعني استخدام الأشياء القديمة بطريقة جديدة أو تحويل النفايات إلى شيء يمكن للناس استخدامه.
- إعادة التفكير تعني أن تسأل نفسك ما إذا كانت اختياراتك جيدة والإصلاح يعني إصلاح الأشياء بدلاً من التخلص منها.
النص الكامل للمحادثة:
Hi! This is the SBS Learn English podcast, where we help Australians to speak, understand and connect.
My name is Josipa, and because each new topic brings a new set of everyday phrases, like you, I’m still learning English.
Today we are talking about recycling and reducing waste.
To reduce means to have less of something, and to recycle means to change one thing into something else, so people can use it again.
Recently, I’ve been trying to live a more sustainable life.
Living a sustainable life means choosing to live in a way that makes less waste, and which does not make too many problems for our planet.
One way to live a more sustainable life is to make an informed decision about reducing and recycling our waste at home.
Let’s hear how Maryanne and her daughter Charlotte talk about recycling their waste after Charlotte’s birthday party.
Maryanne:
Charlotte, please, can you put the juice boxes in the recycling bin?
Charlotte:
Juice boxes aren’t recyclable, mum. They need to go with the general waste, along with these plastic forks and spoons. I’ll have to chuck them all into the rubbish bin.
Maryanne:
Alright, smarty-pants – after you finish sorting the rubbish, you might as well take out the bins for the garbo.
Why on earth are we talking about garbage? Oh yes, we have the whole episode on recycling.
By the way, you can use ‘Why on earth’ at the beginning of a question when you want to show that you are shocked or angry about something. For example, ‘Why on earth are we still producing so much plastic?’
Let’s look at the words and phrases we’ve just heard.
Maryanne said,
Charlotte, please, can you put the juice boxes in the recycling bin?
In Australia, a bin is where you chuck rubbish. In America and other English-speaking countries, they say ‘garbage can’ or ‘trash can’.
And to chuck something means to throw it. But to chuck out something means to throw it away.
Charlotte replied,
Juice boxes aren’t recyclable, mum. They need to go with the general waste, along with these plastic forks and spoons. I’ll have to chuck them all into the rubbish bin.
Juice boxes and plastic forks and spoons can’t be recycled, meaning we can’t send them to be made into something else, so we need to chuck them in the bin with the general waste.
General waste is waste that cannot be recycled. It is usually buried in the ground in places called landfills. A landfill is a space where waste is thrown and buried.
Maryanne said,
Alright, smarty-pants – after you finish sorting the rubbish, you might as well take out the bins for the
garbo.
We call someone a ‘smarty-pants’ when we think someone wants to appear to be very clever. We can use it with a smile as a compliment, but it is usually used as a playful insult.
Sorting the rubbish means dividing it into what can and what cannot be recycled.
Then Maryanne tells Charlotte to:
Take out the bins for the garbo.
Garbo is short for garbage or garbage collector. When we take the bins out for the garbo, we put our garbage bins outside our home for the garbage collectors to pick up.
Living sustainably also means throwing away waste properly, knowing what kind of waste goes where. Local councils make rules and decisions about the waste collection.
In this conversation Maryanne, who has some old furniture that she doesn’t need, is on the phone with Allan - who today, is working at Maryanne’s local council.
Maryanne:
Hi, I’d like to arrange a hard waste pickup, please.
Allan:
I can do that for you. I need to inform you that we don’t pick up white goods. We don’t collect e-waste either, but you can drop them off at a nearby recycling centre. May I please ask what kind of hard waste you have?
Maryanne:
I want to chuck out some old furniture that got eaten by termites. They’ve just been wasting away in the shed.
Allan:
Sure. I’ll arrange a pickup on Wednesday morning. Please make sure that the hard waste is on your nature strip by then.
Ok, so now we are talking about hard waste, which in general are things that take too much space and don’t fit in a regular bin, such as couches and coffee tables.
So, if you have big items that you do not need and want to throw them away, you could call your council and say,
I’d like to arrange a hard waste pickup please.
I’d like to arrange a hard waste pickup please.
Allan from the local council replied,
I need to inform you that we don’t collect white goods. We don’t collect e-waste either, but you can drop it off at a nearby recycling centre.
Allan says that the council doesn’t collect ‘white goods’ and ‘e-waste’.
‘White goods’ are appliances such as fridges, washing machines and dishwashers.
‘E-waste’ are electronic items such as old mobile phones, computers, and televisions.
Allan also said,
We don’t collect e-waste either, but you can drop it off at a nearby recycling centre.
Local councils can probably direct you to recycling centres that accept e-waste and white goods.
To drop off something means to take it and leave it somewhere. In this case, Allan said Maryanne can drop off, or take her e-waste to a nearby recycling centre.
She then said,
I want to chuck out some old furniture that got eaten by termites. They’ve just been wasting away in the shed.
The furniture has been eaten by termites. These are insects that eat wood and they can be quite a problem in parts of Australia.
Now Maryanne’s furniture is wasting away. Wasting away means to become weaker or more rotten, become more like waste.
We can also use this phrase if something is just not being used. For example 'I have been a bit lazy and that exercise equipment I bought has just been wasting away in my garage'.
And lastly Allan said,
Sure. I’ll arrange a pickup on Wednesday morning.Please make sure that the hard waste is on your nature strip by then.
The local council usually picks up any hard waste from the street, from the nature strip.
The nature strip is the strip of grass between the pavement and the road which doesn’t include the sidewalk.
My guest today is Cristina Lazo from SBS Filipino, who believes that the 5Rs - reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink and repair can help us live a more sustainable life.
Hi Cristina,
Cristina:
Hi Josipa, thanks for inviting me on the SBS Learn English podcast.
Josipa:
Before we start talking about what 5Rs actually mean, I want to ask you a very practical question. Do you know how often or when local councils collect waste?
Cristina:
A big mystery. I don’t know, nobody does. It is different in different council areas. Usually, councils pick up hard waste from nature strips few times a year. For me, the best indicator is when I see people leaving furniture out for other people to take for free. I’ve got myself a couple of good pieces like that.
Josipa:
Oh, I think we all been there. So, tell me, what exactly do the 5Rs stand for?
Cristina:
They stand for reduce, reuse, recycle, rethink and repair. That’s 5Rs in short. It’s a set of easy to remember rules for trying to live a more sustainable life. For example, if you decide to buy less, you are reducing your waste because you don’t have to throw away your old things. And if you take your own bag to the shops instead of getting a new plastic bag, you are reusing something. That’s already two out of five Rs,
Josipa:
Ok, so we are left with recycle, rethink and repair. We’ve heard a lot about recycling a moment ago, and repair is pretty simple. It means to fix and save something instead of throwing it. But what do you mean by rethink?
Cristina:
In this case, rethink means to ask yourself if the choices you are making in your life are good for the environment. For example, people should know that waste such as glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, tyres, electronics, batteries, construction materials, food and garden waste all have value and can be used again in the form of energy and resources.
Josipa:
Thank you, Cristina.
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