Learning activity 3

Evidence: The story of bottled water

Fuente: SENA

Bottled water is one of the most dramatic problems in our consumerist society.
Every day millions of people around the world drink bottled water and then
throw away the empty bottle to the garbage. Consequently, the world is
becoming full of empty plastic bottles.

Watch the following video http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/

called “The story of bottled water”.

If necessary, click for subtitles.

 Fuente: The story of stuff project (2010)

Activate subtitles
here.

You can also download and read the transcription of the video in PDF format
from this link:

https://sena.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/institution/SENA/Idiomas/51250028/C
ontenido/DocArtic/Script_The_Story_of_Bottled_Water.pdf

After you watch the video answer the following questions. Use any voice
recording software to record your answers. Use will and first and second
conditional in the answers.

• What are the problems derived from drinking bottled water?

Mention two problems at least.

When the production and extraction of oil is used to make the water bottles and
when the waste of plastic bottles appears on the streets
• What is the difference between bottled water and drinking water?

That the bottled water is processed and contaminated by companies that

manufacture the bottles, instead the tap water is simply transferred to the
people without being processed

• Describe the process involved in manufacturing a plastic bottle.

When companies obtain raw materials from nature to make bottles, they fill
bottles with processed water, transport bottles to people, pick up empty bottles,
and if they do not vote for incinerators, they use them to rebuild new bottles.

• What happens with the plastic bottles after we throw them away?

If they do not end up dumping in landfills for many years, they end up in
incinerators where toxic contaminants are expelled

• What solutions can be implemented to solve this problem?

If we promote political campaigns that reduce the sale of water bottles and if we
give schools, houses and families the consequences of buying bottled water,
people will drink tap water without any worries and will not have any kind of
disease.

• Is this problem common in your community? What does the

community do to deal with it?

If it is very common, people buy bottled water believing that it comes from
clean areas but they are wrong, if we do not hold meetings and talks with the
community about each family having in their house a special trash can only
for plastic bottles. We will have many environmental problems in the future.

• Will you drink bottled water again? Why, why not?

Not because the difference between the taste of bottled water and tap water is
not much and because when you buy those bottled waters, we are only causing
companies to make more and more unnecessary plastic bottles.

• What will you do in the future to reduce the number of plastic

bottles used in the world?
 If my work area and my family support me, I will make campaigns for rules,
penalties or fines for people who do not recycle the plastic bottles they buy in
their stores.

When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform
as follows:

1. Click the title of this evidence.

2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make
sure the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación

 Utiliza will para hablar de futuro teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y el

contexto requerido.

 Utiliza las cláusulas if y when teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical,

vocabulario y contexto requerido.
 Intercambia información relacionada con hechos de la naturaleza, teniendo
en cuenta la estructura gramatical, el vocabulario y el contexto requerido.
 Usa vocabulario relacionado con hechos de la naturaleza, teniendo en
cuenta el contexto requerido.
 Expresa el resultado de acciones en presente, utilizando oraciones
condicionales.

References

The story of stuff project. (2010). The story of bottled water. Consultado el 14 de
noviembre de 2014, en http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/