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8 EDIT. Read the article about garbology. Find and correct five more errors with past and
present participial adjectives.

Garbology: The Past through Trash
fascinated
Most people think garbage is not very interesting, but archaeologists are fascinating
by it. When archaeologists found 2000-year-old waste from Rome, they were excited about

it. The waste taught them about the diet and daily life of people in ancient Rome. You can
learn a lot about a culture by studying its trash.

Garbology can be described as the study of

garbage to learn about a culture. Professor William
Rathje and his students in Arizona invented the

term when they were studying waste in modern
America. Rathje and his students studied a number

of landfill sites . Sorting through garbage can be a
1
tired and sometimes disgusted activity, but when

the information from their research was collected,
they were not disappointing with the results.

The project led to some interested discoveries. It
was clear that some popular ideas about modern

American garbage were mistaken. For example,
the team discovered that almost half of the

garbage in the landfills is paper—a fact that many
people found surprised.

1 landfill site: a place where garbage is taken and buried

9 APPLY.
A Brainstorm all the things that you and people you know throw away. Then write short answers
to the questions.

1. Are you surprised by the amount of trash you or others throw away? Why, or why not?

2. Are you worried about the amount of plastic or electronics you throw away?

3. What might people find fascinating about our trash in 100 years?

4. What topic in this lesson (or unit) did you find the most interesting?

B Work in a group. Discuss your answers to the questions from exercise A.

A: I am surprised by the amount of trash my family throws away. We throw away a lot of plastic and food.

B: In my country, we reuse things a lot more. Everything is recycled.
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