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Water Bottles
Water Bottles

Learn English with this water bottles English lesson

Date: Jan 28 2020

Themes: Food, Health

Grammar: Future in the Past

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In some countries, you cannot find clean drinking water easily. But in the US, it’s everywhere! It’s easy to buy a water bottle wherever you are: at the store, at the gas station, or even at school. There’s no reason to be thirsty!

However, buying water bottles isn’t always the best choice. If you buy one water bottle every day, that’s seven bottles in a week, thirty in a month, and over 500 in a year! And all of that plastic gets thrown into landfills. What a waste!

Instead, many people choose to get a reusable water bottle. It’s easy to fill up, and you won’t be throwing away so much plastic. It’s a little thing, but it makes a big difference for the environment.

Learn who doesn’t like buying water bottles (and who does) in this English lesson about drinking water.

Dialog

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Lily

Lily

Rafael

Rafael

Lily:  Rafa, can you hold on for a second? I need to fill up my water bottle really quickly.

Rafael:  I was actually going to get my own water. I’m going to buy it at that vending machine.

Lily:  What? You actually buy plastic water bottles? That’s really bad for the environment.

Rafael:  Well, why? I mean, isn’t yours plastic?

Lily:  Yeah, but mine is reusable. Because you’re not constantly buying new plastic bottles, they don’t get thrown into landfills and then end up choking whales to death. So it’s more environmentally friendly.

Rafael:  I guess so, but it’s also a huge pain in the neck.

Lily:  Why? It’s not that bad.

Rafael:  I don’t know. You just have to haul it with you all over the place. You have to tote it around. I’d rather just buy it when I’m thirsty and not worry about it when I’m not.

Lily:  You’re everything that’s wrong with the world today.

 

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Discussion

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Lily asks Rafael to wait for her while she fills up her water bottle. Rafael says he’s thirsty, too, but he wants to buy a water bottle from the vending machine.

Lily is surprised that Rafael actually buys plastic water bottles. She thinks that it’s bad for the environment and says that it’s better to have a reusable water bottle. Lily points out that old plastic water bottles get thrown into landfills. And all that trash can even hurt animals.

Rafael agrees with Lily, but for him, it’s just too much work to carry a reusable water bottle with him everywhere. He doesn’t want to tote around a bottle. If he’s thirsty, he’ll buy a water bottle. Otherwise, he doesn’t want to worry about it.

Do you have a reusable water bottle? Is it a pain in the neck to carry a water bottle with you?

 

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bethelhem

bethelhem

Ethiopia

I think reusable water bottle is more enviromentally friendly,not only this  we have not buying constantly so its so ecomomical.But to speak frankly it may apain in the nack to tote a plastic bottle.and also we have a treat it may not clean & safe.







07:39 AM Feb 07 2014 |

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Odyssee

Odyssee

China

i dont drink too much water every day . maybe cos of eating too much fruits .


on the other hand , i prefer plain boiled water to mineral water . so i barely buy a water bottle from vending machine or store ..


when i’m at home or in the office , i use a reusable water bottle . but i dont carry them with me everywhere . honestly it’s a little pain in the neck sometimes. but when u used to do that , it willnt get annoying .


however, no matter u buy water bottles or use reusable bottles , i think it’s necessary to put the plastic bottles into recyclable dustbin not to throw them everywhere .


actually my dad makes a good impression on me . cos every time he sees a bottle on the ground , he will always pick it up .

03:10 AM Feb 07 2014 |

S&W

S&W

China

I have a reusable water bottle and i will take it to everywhere i go.I think that was a habit ,I was used to take it and feel very convenient.I put it into backpack or hand bag never think it was a pain in neck.I would like to be an environmentalist.


02:46 AM Feb 07 2014 |

david yun

South Korea

I think it’s not that comfortable to tote it all the time. Aa a matter of fact, it seems a pain in the neck to me. It occupies a lot of space in my bag, and sometimes the end is open so my bag is wet. That’s one of the hassles.

02:19 AM Feb 07 2014 |

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sandra1989

sandra1989

Liberia


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12:29 AM Feb 07 2014 |

Michele1

Michele1

Italy

I don’t agree with Lily . What she said about the environment is right and all of us have to remember that every day,but in the case she found an inaccurate solution. Nowadays, the plastic garbage is reusable, it is melted and re-used in different forms,too.To tote a plastic bottle (one,two?’) around per some days  is often unhygienic and to clean it, before to fill up another,we must consume precious water…The best thing is to use drinking water at home from public distribution companies, when it is possible.

06:30 PM Feb 06 2014 |

AryelLanes

AryelLanes

Brazil

It’s also SUPER easy to find water bottles wherever you are in Brazil! At school, at work, on the streets, etc, etc ,etc…


I know reusable bottles are better for the enviroment, but I’m just like Rafael… I hate to carry them around! For this reason, I usually buy (dischargeable) water bottles when I’m thirsty.

02:59 PM Feb 06 2014 |

Lankiks

Denmark

I always carry my reusable waterbottle with me – specially when I travel. I like to take good care of the environment. 

12:15 PM Feb 06 2014 |

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