Sustainable Gifts Wrapping

Christmas

Christmas

Why do we give gifts on Christmas?

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Task: Tell your group mates about the most memorable present from the last Christmas. How was it wrapped?

Christmas gifts

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Gifts Wrapping Challenge

In groups you will have to wrap the gift in a creative way Then you will have to describe to your class-mates what you have done and what materials you've used without showing the gift. Your classmates will choose the gift without seeing it Then we will put all the gifts together and you will have to find your gift. We will vote for the most attractive and original gift wrapping and we will unwrap the gifts.

Gift's wrapping

Look at the fotos. What do you see in the pictures? Describe each picture. If you had to choose, which type of gifts' wrapping do you think is the best? Why?

Please watch the video and write down materials named in the video and verbs used to describe actiones done with this material

Christmas wrapping paper waste facts

• Most Christmas packaging waste ends up in landfill. In fact, 114,000 tonnes of recyclable packaging waste is wrongly put into the general waste bin during the festive period

• The around of plastic waste discarded by Brits at Christmas equals the weight of 76,000 Giraffes!
• UK citizens eat about 1 million mince pies which cause an entire tonne of aluminium waste
• Nearly half (48%) of Britons say that they plan on reusing the gift bags they receive this year
• 100 million black bin bags filled with packaging waste from Christmas presents are chucked away each year

• If you take all the Xmas wrapping paper that ends up in the bin and laid it out flat end to end it would stretch to 238,855 miles – that’s the average distance of the Earth to the Moon!
• 1 million rolls of sellotape are used to wrap up presents each year in the UK
• In Britain, we send over 5 million tonnes of wrapping paper to landfill every year – 75% of this is during Christmas
• Around 50,000 trees are cut down to make the wrapping paper used to wrap Christmas presents

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