Reading Test "An Earthship - The Perfect Green Home" (Access 3 Unit 8b)

In the 1960s

In the 1970s

In the 1980s

Mike Reynolds

Steve Jobs

John Earth

To build the tallest house in the world

To create a luxury home for celebrities

To create an environmentally friendly house that generates its own power

Concrete and steel

Car tyres filled with earth

Wood and mud

At local dumps

In supermarkets

At construction sites

Plastic bags and paper

Cans and bottles

Old clothes and shoes

By using a gas generator

From the sun

From the local city power grid

By burning wood in a fireplace

By using electric heaters

The sun heats the earth in the tyres and the heat is slowly released

In tanks under the house

In buckets on the roof

In the kitchen sink

It is thrown away outside

It is filtered and reused for the toilet

It is turned into drinking water immediately

Because it is painted green

Because it costs close to nothing and there are no bills to pay

Because it is built inside a forest

Places where rubbish is left

Modern shops

Large factories