Start your own  
School Environmental Group! 
Everyone wants to do something to protect the environment. Your school is an excellent place to start. It probably wastes lots of things, including electricity, water, and paper. For example, I found that my school pollutes the local area with dirty water. 
1. Do your homework! 
There are a few questions to answer before you get started.  
Do at least five of your classmates want to start an environmental group?  
Is one of your teachers interested in helping you? If not, it will be very difficult to get your school to help you with a room for meetings, for example, and other things, like letting you make photocopies. 
Are there any environmental groups in other classes? If there are, would they like to join your group? Remember: You are stronger together. 
2. Have a team meeting! 
Start by asking two questions:  
Why are we here?  
What do we want to do? 
People will have different answers to the first question, but unless you have the same answer to the second question, your group will not be successful. Is it the most important thing to you to 
reduce paper waste in the school?  
save electricity? 
find ways to save water? 
do something else? 
Good luck!
23. What does the writer say about her school?
A. It wastes a lot of things.​B. It uses too much electricity.​
C. It pollutes local water.​D. It should use less paper.
24. Alison calls Section 1 Do your homework! because she thinks ______________.
A. students should start a group as a homework project​
B. people should learn about environmental problems first​
C. school environmental groups are like homework​
D. people should find out some basic information first
25. Why do you need a teacher to help you?
A. Because you will need help with the photocopier​
B. Because every school group needs help from the school​
C. Because teachers understand about environmental groups​
D. Because students cannot run an environmental group on their own
26. What does they mean in Section 1?
A. Other classes​B. Other students​C. Other environmental groups​D. Other teachers
27. You should start with a team meeting ______________.
A. to decide on the most important project to work on​
B. because you all must have the same reason for joining the group​
C. to choose a number of projects to work on​