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2. You will hear Shelley Schlender’s report “More US Schools ‘Greening’ Their Curriculum”. For questions 1-15, complete the sentences with a word or a phrase.

Head-Royce School, in Oakland, California, (1) ………. on strong academic performance as well as leadership skills.

Tyler Finney says that they meet every day to discuss how to lower emissions, adding that they also plan events to get other students excited about (2) ………. .

Green Team member Mike Eidlin, also a senior, says they’re (3) ………. a letter to parents about why they should carpool and how to buy greener products for their kids.

When students first requested the project, Paul Chapman made sure they would have a major say in (4) ………. ideas and taking action.

Headmaster Chapman wanted to make it (5) ………. that the kids should have some power.

Thanks to the students’ (6) ………., the school now gets much of its electric power from solar panels and has a garden for healthy classroom snacks.

Senior Lydia Glenn-Murray says the committee members are trying to reduce the amount of trash the school generates even more through (7) ………. .

Green schools are (8) ………. in all shapes and sizes across the United States, according to Lisa Bennett of the Center for Ecoliteracy.

According to Lisa Bennett, when kids are out in nature and they’re met with a challenge, they are willing to work a lot harder and (9) ………. go up.

One Green Team member says that it’s really cool to be able to build material out of passions and (10) ………. because that’s something that’s not always emphasized enough.

Headmaster Chapman says the green mission helps students build leadership skills and points out the connection between that and real world (11) ………. .

It’s highly motivational to pitch a problem to kids and let them understand that they could come up with a solution to a problem that has (12) ………. other people.

Future goals at Head-Royce include reducing the school's carbon footprint, in hopes of becoming one of the first (13) ………. schools in the nation.

Headmaster Chapman says they’ve discussed ideas such as running educational or (14) ………. campaigns as well as encouraging carpooling and other alternative transportation.

A new book from the Center for (15) ………., called Smart by Nature, profiles U.S. schools that are greening their curriculum.

Some lexical units:

to green – to become or make smth more concerned with the issues related to the environment;

carpool – n. an arrangement between people to make a regular journey in a single vehicle, typically with each person taking turns to drive the others; v. form or participate in a carpool;

sustainable – capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage;

landfill – a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, esp. as a method of filling in or extending usable land;

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