Infinitives

RECYCLING

READ THE CONVERSATION BELOW

JESSICA: John, what are you going to do with all that junk?

JOHN: I will go to the nearby junk shop. I have decided to go green.JESSICA: I’m interested, can you teach me how?

JOHN: Certainly. First, you have to segregate biodegradable stuff from the non- biodegradable ones.JESSICA: Then what?

JOHN: Just remember to REDUCE, TO REUSE and TO REYCLE.JESSICA: I don’t think I follow you John.

WHAT IS RECYCLING?

To recycle is to collect, to process and to reuse materials that would otherwise be thrown away.

WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED?

RECYCLING ALUMINUM CANS

RECYCLING NEWSPAPERS

COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE

For some people what we throw away might be

treasure for them…

Return to a land called ________A place where a dying river ends.No _____there fly over paraiso,

No space allows them to endure.The smoke that screens the air,The ______ that's never there.

 And if i could see a single bird, what a joy.I try to write some words and create

A simple song to be heardBy the rest of the_______.

PARAISO

I live in this land called paraiso,In a house made of _______ floors and walls.

I learned to be free in paraiso,Free to claim anything i see.

Matching rags for my _______,Plastic bags for the _______.

paraiso

birds

grass

world

cardboard

clothes

cold

And if empty _______were all I have, what a joy.I never fight to take ________Else's coins and live with fear

Like the rest of the boys.

Paraiso, help me make a ______.Paraiso, take me by the _______

Paraiso, make the world _________That if i could see a single bird, what a joy.

This tired and hungry land could expectSome truth and hope and ________

From the rest of the __________

canssomeon

e

standhand

understand

respectworld

INFINITIVES

READ THE FOLLOWINGto go

to REDUCE

to REUSE to REYCLE

to collect

to process

to reuse

WHAT HAVE YOU NOTICED WITH THE PHRASES?

THE PHRASES IN THE PREVIOUS

SLIDE ARE CALLED

INFINITIVES

HOW ARE INFINITIVES FORMED?to + verb

INFINITIVES ACT AS NOUN, ADJECTIVES

OR ADVERBS

ANSWER THE EXERCISES

1. To fantasize was her way out of a stressful life.

WRITE THE INFINITIVES IN YOUR NB

2. We were reluctant to leave.

3. Worried by my decision, I decided to reconsider.

4. Beth had only one alternative, to flee.

5. The teacher assigned us too many pages to read.

USING INFINITIVES, WRITE 3 SENTENCES TO CONVINCE PEOPLE

IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO START RECYCLING.

WITH A PARTNER, LIST DOWN ALL THE

THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP

SAVE MOTHER EARTH

AS A YOUNG PERPETUALITE, HOW CAN YOU CONVINCE THE MEMBERS OF

PERPETUALITE COMMUNITY TO

RECYCLE?