[Business ★★]
(P1) Around 200,000 tons of used coffee end up in London’s landfills a year. A young man named Arthur Key, however, knows how to make use of the coffee grounds.
(P2) First, his factory takes out the oils from the used coffee grounds. The oils are basically biodiesel, which smells of coffee. The coffee grounds without the oils are then turned into little logs.
(P3) You can use these logs instead of wood in your fireplace. 25 cups of coffee make one log. The coffee logs burn hotter and longer than wood.
(P4) Key’s factory produces 50,000 tons of the logs a year. That is enough to heat hundreds of thousands of homes.
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VOCABULARY: tons, landfills, oils, biodiesel, logs, fireplace, factory
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
If you found the passage difficult to read or had problems understanding specific words or idiomatic expressions, please discuss them with your tutor. The following discussion questions should be answered in your own words and with your own arguments.
- Briefly, summarize the content of the article in your own words.
- Would you use these coffee logs to heat your home? Why or why not?
- What are some other things that can be used again (recycled)? (I.E. newspapers)
- How do you heat and cool your home?
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
- Annually, approximately _________________ of used coffee grounds end up in landfills in London.
- What’s the name of the businessman that reuses the coffee grounds?
- The coffee grounds without the oils are _____________ logs.
- How many cups of coffee does it take to make one log?
- How many houses can be heated with Key’s logs per year?
EXPRESSIONS or PHRASES:
What do the following expressions or phrases mean?
- used coffee (P1)
- end up (P1)
- takes out the oil (P2)
- turned into (P2)
- make one log (P3)
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