Task 2: Enhance your vocabulary.
Find the boldtyped words in the text, then match them with the correct meanings below.
Use the context of the sentences in the text to decide which word matches which meaning.
1. A decrease in the size, price, or amount of something or the act of decreasing something
Answer: Reduction
2. Related to or belonging to the government of a town or city
Answer: Municipal
3. All the people who live in one house
Answer: Household
4. Places to make plants, leaves etc. into compost
Answer: Composting center
5. The knowledge or understanding of a particular subject or situation
Answer: Wareness
6. A place where waste is buried under the ground
Answer: Landfill
7. Things that you throw away, such as empty bottles, used papers, food that has gone bad
Answer: Trash
Task 3: Let’s answer the questions.
Answer the following questions briefly based on the news item in Task 1.
1. What was the main agenda of the conference?
Answer: The main agenda was to increase the awareness of the waste management for economic and environmental beneits.
2. What was probably the main reason for holding the conference?
Answer: The main reason was probably because there were waste management problems in the participants’ countries and the participants wanted to learn how to solve that from Surabaya.
3. Why was Surabaya selected to be the conference venue?
Answer: Surabaya was selected to be the conference venue because it has successful waste management.
4. How important was the conference for Indonesia?
Answer: It was important because the conference can inspire other cities in Indonesia to learn how to manage their municipal waste from Surabaya.
5. Has Indonesia implemented the three Rs so far?
Answer: At least Surabaya has implemented the three Rs so far.
6. What did Rismaharini believe to be the best municipal waste management?
Answer: Rismaharini believed that the best way to solve the waste management problem was to involve household in recycling activities.
7. What made the mayor very convinced about her waste management?
Answer: There was a reduction in the volume of trash that ended up in the landills.
8. How did the mayor educate students to live a zero waste life style?
Answer:
The mayor told the schools to tell their students to bring their own plates and cups, and not to use drinking straws to reduce plastic waste.
9. What do you think about the mayor’s concept on municipal waste management?
Answer: Mayor’s concept on municipal waste management is good.
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