Oil-Eating Bacteria

B2 – Upper Intermediate

An oil spill is a form of pollution. The term is usually applied to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the waters, but spills may also occur on land.

Listen to this audio and read the transcript on oil-eating bacteria.

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201509/oil-eating-bacteria/

Discussion Questions:

  1. What happened in the Gulf of Mexico?
  2. What can break down the carbon molecules present in oil?
  3. Did the oil-devouring property of marine microorganisms come about by chance? Or was it designed?
  4. How might oil-eating bacteria be helpful to humans and our environment?
  5. Was there ever an oil spill recorded in Spain? How was the incident resolved?
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