Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
1) Questions open to interpretation:
a) Discuss with your friends about recycling. How good is your country in recycling? Talk about recycling old equipment in the area you work (all companies have different types of machines and equipment that age and must be replaced)
b) New technologies force us to replace the old for the new. Does your company follow the trend or do you follow this trend?
c) Imagine big structures such as ships, airplanes and locomotives. How do you think they are recycled? Are they replaced like cell phones, laptops or TVs?
d) What is their lifetime period? What forces these big mega structures to retire and be scrapped?
e) Have you heard about the graveyard of airplanes in the desert of Arizona?
2) Answer the questions after listening to the video:
a) What’s the reason for not repairing an old airplane?
b) What do they do with the parts?
c) What’s the positive thing about recycling the Boeing 747?
d) What do the workers have to rely on to dismantle this type of plane?
e) What are the step process for break it down?
f) What is the company’s aim toward the recycling plane?
3) Match the following words below:
a) Scrap ( ) To become liquid and dissolve
b) Hazardous ( ) To press or squeeze something in many fragments
c) Melt ( ) To recycle for something you used and paid
d) Handful ( ) To make repairs and adjustments
e) Crush ( ) To discharge as useless or worthless, get rid of
f) Pull apart ( ) A small number or portion of something.
g) Resalable ( ) To disassemble, strip
h) Reclaim ( ) The selling again for something already purchased
i) Overhaul ( ) Full of risk, dangerous
1) Questions open to interpretation:
a) Discuss with your friends about recycling. How good is your country in recycling? Talk about recycling old equipment in the area you work (all companies have different types of machines and equipment that age and must be replaced)
b) New technologies force us to replace the old for the new. Does your company follow the trend or do you follow this trend?
c) Imagine big structures such as ships, airplanes and locomotives. How do you think they are recycled? Are they replaced like cell phones, laptops or TVs?
d) What is their lifetime period? What forces these big mega structures to retire and be scrapped?
e) Have you heard about the graveyard of airplanes in the desert of Arizona?
2) Answer the questions after listening to the video:
a) What’s the reason for not repairing an old airplane?
b) What do they do with the parts?
c) What’s the positive thing about recycling the Boeing 747?
d) What do the workers have to rely on to dismantle this type of plane?
e) What are the step process for break it down?
f) What is the company’s aim toward the recycling plane?
3) Match the following words below:
a) Scrap ( ) To become liquid and dissolve
b) Hazardous ( ) To press or squeeze something in many fragments
c) Melt ( ) To recycle for something you used and paid
d) Handful ( ) To make repairs and adjustments
e) Crush ( ) To discharge as useless or worthless, get rid of
f) Pull apart ( ) A small number or portion of something.
g) Resalable ( ) To disassemble, strip
h) Reclaim ( ) The selling again for something already purchased
i) Overhaul ( ) Full of risk, dangerous
