[OPIc Script] House & Recycling (집 & 재활용)

Vocabulary

• Wardrobe: 옷장
• Sideboard / cabinet
• Appliance / electronics
• Blender / rice cooker / heater / washing machine / clothes dryer / water dispenser
• Recycling / upcycling
• Food waste
• Recycling bin / Recycling area
• Be on the 3th floor
• Be next to 강남 station
• Next to A is B
• Take up a lot of space: 공간을 많이 차지하다.
• Tidy up: 깔끔하게 정리하다
• Organize: 준비하다 정리하다
• Vacuum
• Do the laundry
• Do/wash the dishes
• Rest/relax/chill in bed
• Recycle / reuse
• Throw away / discard
• Put/Keep [물건] in [장소]
• Take 물건 to 장소
• Separate
• Donate 물건 to charity
• Rot/break down: 고장나다
• Spotless / tidy / clean: 깨끗한
• Cluttered / messy / chaotic: 더러운
• Well-organized: 잘 정돈된
• Cramped <-> roomy: 비좁은 <-> 넓은
• Foldable
• Portable
• Labor-saving / time-saving
• Bulky: 부피가 큰
• Defective / faulty: 결함이 있는
• Disposable: 일회용
• Resuable: 재사용

Q1) Tell me about where you live. Do you like your place? Please give me reasons for that.

[Ans] I live in an apartment. I like my home because my house is not big but not that small. There are one bedroom, one living room and one computer room. It just fits with me.

 

Q2) What is the thing you must do at home even if you don't want to? What is the thing you really like to do?

[Ans] I have to house chores such as doing the dishes, cleaning my room with vacuum, and doing the laundry. It annoys me. but I have to this kinds of chores. I like to drink coffee on the sofa after doing this kinds of house chores.

 

Q3) What are some things you do for the environment? It can be something very simple such as using your bag instead of getting plastic bag or using a tumbler.

[Ans] I don't like unnecessary packaging. I think it ruins the environment. so I usually don't use plastic bags. And I always separate the garbage. but I got a culture-shock when I visited U.S. because there were rarely recycling cans.

 

Q4) Tell me what recycling was like when you were a child. How is it different today?

Give me all the details about what has changed about recycling.

[Ans] when I was young, we rarely separate garbages. so we put all garbages in one plastic bag, and threw it outside. then the garbage truck periodically picked up those trash bags.

but since 1995, the government made the official trash plastic bag, and declared the law that all people have to use this official plastic bag to throw garbage. the people have been able to buy this plastic bag from convenience store. So, people tried to reduce their garbage because they didn't want to use money to buy the garbage bag.

I think this way opens to debate, but it worked good.