Karolina Sk. and Diana, class 2g, Poland

Famine in the world....

Famine is one of the biggest problem. Mostly, this problem concerns Africa. More than half people are hungry there (10.000 people). They haven't got money for food and medicines.


People who are 15 years old, for this problem, they can organize collection; money, clothes and food.

We must HELP them, because we can be hungry in the future too.

Justyna F. and Magda W., class 2g, Poland

Hi, we are going to write about important ecological problem indetailacid rain. *Acid rain* is rain or any other form of precipation that isunusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants,aquaticanimals,and infastructure. Acid rainis mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur andnitrogencompounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. Acid rain is bad for our planet. We must do something with it because it is destroing Earth. We know a way to help a little bit to solve our problem - you can write an article about solutions of a problem in school newspaper.

Karolina Sa. and Olivka, class 2g, Poland

Hi!

We have got very big ecological problem...

Cutting down trees!

The world has a very very big problem. We think that cutting forests are very bad and silly. When people cut trees they destroy environment and they kill animals. Forests are animal's home. When people cut down forests they contribute to soil world. They kill ourselfs because, in forest there are a lot of CO2 and CO2 is very necessary to live. . In a report by the Harvard Forest, a research unit of Harvard University, Brian Donahue of Brandeis University and his coauthors argue that cutting trees for wood products improves forest health and boosts regeneration of new trees, while economically increasing the value of the land.But that isn't all problems. We think that students should organise protests for cutting trees. We think that cutting trees is very bad and we shouldn't do this.

Iga and Gabrysia, class 2g, Poland

Today we are going to describe the problem of
KILLING ANIMALS.
Nobody realises that when he or she pollutes our environment he or she pollutes animals' environment!!
By these activities all of animals died out. For example:
- Blue Antelope (died out in 1800)
- Dront Dodo (died out in 1685)
- Madagaskar Ostrich (died out in 1600)
- Labradorian Duck (died out in 1873)
- Sea Cow ( died out in 1768)

Sergio Molina 3ºB Spain

My greatest fear is the destruction of the planet, and this is what we are doing little by little. they tell us about it on the media and in school but we do not do anything to prevent it such as:

-recycle

-consume less

-Bring the sandwich from home instead of shopping in the cafe

Marta 3ºA Spain

Crisis. everybody is talking about the same thing because it affectsus all. People are unemployed. If people don't work, there is no money to live. Banks don't give credits, they are afraid too. Shops don't sell their products. This crisis is not anly in Spain. It's all over the world.

Vanesa 3ºA Spain

Crisis is the most important news these days. The crisis worries a lot of people because things are more expensive, as a result the families don't have a lot of money. People lose their jobs and people cannot pay their mortgages and they lose their houses. Building companies close and workers lose their jobs.

to improve the situation of crisis, teenagers shouldn't go out too much. They should bring a snack from home instead of buying a sandwich at school and they should buy in cheap supermarkets. Teenagers shouldn't use the mobile so much.

Marcos 3ºC Spain

Crisis Management

Crisis is a very important problem. this affects all the people in the world. This can be stopped with a good crisis management.

María Morán 3ºC Spain

Pollution

The pollution is caused by humans. They throw garbage on the floor, burn forests, factories. To prevent pollution we have to use public transport.

Claudia 3ºC Spain

Pollution

Pollution is a very serious problem. It happens because there are a lot of factories that pollute a lot. People don't recycle and throw away the rubbish.

Montse 3ºC Spain

Crisis Management
The burse crashed. The banks don't give credits so people can't have a mortgage and they cannot buy houses. If people don't buy houses or cars, then the building companies, the car factories close down and workers become unemployed.
To save money:
Don't go out so much
Don't buy designer clothes
Go to a cheap supermarket

Miriam 3ºC Spain

The crisis is everywhere on the TV, in the newspapers, on the radio and on the net. It all began because the burse crashed and now the banks don't give credits or mortgages, so people can't buy houses or cars. Lots of people lost their jobs and the families don't have much money to spend on unimportant things like designer clothes or going out to restaurants. But there are solutions to this crisis. We can buy in cheap supermarkets and buy second-hand cars. We can save money if we bring a snack from home instead of buying something to eat at school.

María Llerandi 3ºC Spain

All the World is in crisis, so Spain too. The people are unemployed, the banks don’t give mortgages and we can’t build houses or buy cars, the companies close. The people are worried because they think that they can become unemployed.

Tips
Don’t go out very much
Don't buy a lot of silly things

Sergio Alvarez 3ºC Spain

Pollution is affecting seriously the planet Earth .The ozone cap is deteriorating fast .This phenomenon is producing the greenhouse effect and it damages the planet. The ice of the poles is melting and the level of the sea is increasing. The planet is destroyed by the people of the world.

Manuel Aladro 3ºC Spain

This crisis is concerning the whole country.
Because of the crisis companies are closing and their workers become unemployed and they don't have money to buy things.

Manuel Perdiz 3ºC Spain

Crisis management
The burse crashes.The people can't buy a car or a house because
The bank don't give them credit.Shops and car factories close and workers become unemployed.

People are not going shopping

Don't buy designer clothes (they are expensive).
Don't go out so much.

Lucía 3ºC Spain

I saw a documentary on tv the other day. It was about the climate change. They said that pollution from our cars and factories are making a hole in the ozone cayer. This layer protects us from the heat of the sun. If the sun heats the ice caps and they melt then the sea level will rise and there will be draughts and fires. This climate change can bring hunger, illnesses, poverty, tsunamis, etc.
We can help to reduce pollution if we use public transport and if we recycle material and the factories don't have to work so much and pollute the planet.

Jose 3ºC Spain

The world crisis means that because people lose their jobs, they don't have money to spend on houses, cars, food and clothes. If the people don't have a job, the banks won't lend them any credit or mortgage. The factories produce less so they don't need workers. The shops sell less too. I think that there are a few things we can do to suffer less the consequences of the crisis. We can buy second-hand cars and rent a house instead of buying it. We can buy supermarket clothes instead of designer clothes. We can buy in small shops instead of big supermarkets. We can stop smoking or having dinner in restaurants.
Now I have less pocket money!

Isabel 3ºC Spain

Crisis Management

The Burse crashes.The banks lose the money of the people and the people finished in poverty. The people aren't shopping so much. Some tips for the crisis:

Don't go out so much
Don't buy besigner clothes
Go to a cheap supermarkets
Buy second – hand cars
Bring the snack from home instead of buying a sandwich at school

Esther 3ºC Spain

Pollution is a very seriuous problem. The atmospheric pollution is caused by smoke from chimneys, traffic.... and the pollution in the water happens because the toxic residue of the industry and the rubbish made by people.

Alba 3ºC Spain

Crisis is affecting all the World in economy.
It affects:
The burse crashes, then the banks don't give us credits. Also , people can't buy houses or cars and we are not going shopping so much.
As a consequence young people can't go out so much and we also have to bring the snacks from home instead of buying a sandwich at school.

Anastasia, class a1, Greece

Our planet is dying.
Many species of marine life are under threat. Blue whales are in danger of extinction. Bears are endangered. Global warming is one of the biggest problems in the world today!
Save the planet as soon as posible!
Don’t throw away the rubbish, RECYCLE IT!
Don’t use cars, use bicycles or use the bus.
Don’t burn the forests, forests are the natural habitat for many animals, they provide oxygen...
If we all plant a tree and stop polluting the environment I think the planet won’t die!

Ola Z., class 1b, Poland

The big problem is a destruction of rainforests and killing animals for their skin, horns, fins and tusks. People destroy natural habitats of many species and it often causes the extinction of some animals. There are charity organizations like WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) in which people protect endangered species. WWF started in Britain in 1961 but now it is active in many another countries for example in Poland. Polish WWF protect bears from the Tatra Mountains and everyone who wants to help can give money for this aim.

SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS:

* In some countries, people use rhino horn for medicine.

* There are only 1500 Asian horses left in the world.

* There are 3000 wild rhinos in the world, and 200 in zoos.

Oscar 3b Spain

DEFORESTATION
This is a bad action that harms nature, and is done by man.
The trees are necessary because they absorb the carbon dioxide and change it for oxygen, they make the climate more humid and serve for water containment.
When we burn or cut trees down, the carbon dioxide that they contain and part of the carbon dioxide of the soil, oxidizes and returns to the atmosphere, adding more pollution to the atmosphere.
You must keep the rubbish and don’t throw it away in the forest. You will do it later in a recycling container.

Rodrigo Toraño 3ºB Spain

Pollution

The pollution is produced by the humans: the humans contaminate working in factories, driving their own cars, throwing waste away and doing many other bad things.

The pollution consists of the contamination of the atmosphere and it’s very bad to our lives. It also consists of the accumulation of waste in the Earth.

Nowadays it is impossible to stop the pollution, but we can do good things to make the world a better place. For example I can use a solar calculator; I can also contribute walking instead of travelling by car for short distances.

Sergio 3ºB Spain

FLOOD
This is produced by underflow of rivers, by rising tides over the habitual level, or by avalanches caused by tsunamis.

It produced losses in agriculture, thousand of hectares flooded, damages in road infrastructure, earth lands lides and death of people and animals.

Only we can try to save energy and contaminate less by turning off the lights at home.

Noelia 3ºB Spain

Rubbish



This is one of the most important environment problems in the world . The humans produce around 10000 millions of tons of rubbish .
The humans are the responsible of this problem because most people don’t recycle and they usually throw away all of their scraps or other things. It is very contaminating to the place where it is thrown , and to the living beings .
So, I recommend recycling because it is a good thing that we can do to save our planet from the environment problems , and it is easy too.
Five years ago , I started to recycle and I will continue recycling for many years . It is good for me and for the planet .

Irene 3B Spain

Contamination
I’m going to talk about the pollution.
The pollution is a very serious problem. It happens because there are a lot of factories that pollution a lot, the people don’t recycle and throw away the rubbish. This produces the reduction of the ozone layer, destruction the poles of the Earth and is bad for ourselves.
Finally I will recycle paper, plastic and glass and I’ll tell the people about the serious problems of contamination.

Covi 3ºB Spain

Floods

The flood is an important problem in the environment. The most important origin of the flood is the rise of tides over the habitual level of the sea.

They can produce a lot of tsunamis, and can destroy villages and cities near the sea.

I think that If we recycle or use less products that contaminate the environment, maybe we can stop the floods. But I don’t know…

Romina Criado 3ºB Spain

THE FOREST FIRES

A forest fire is a type of fire that occurs occurs in areas with natural vegetation. The more common causes are that in periods of drought, the plants are more flammable, the irresponsibility of people and the thunderstorms. It runs destroying forests and zones of vegetation. Nowadays we can see this happening in California.
We can avoid this disaster by putting more global laws to prevent fires in wooden areas, creating more firewalls and putting more rangers in forests. Each person can stop it by taking more responsibility when we are in areas of vegetation, not leaving bonfires, not doing barbecues in places with much wind… I think fires are a big problem in all the world and we must have a lot of care with it.

Lucia Espina 3ºB Spain

POLLUTION


I am worried about pollution, because there is a lot of dirt in the environment, and the air is contaminated with bad gasses.

We breathe this dangerous gasses all days, and it’s very bad for our health.

This problems are caused by the chimeneys, traffic…
To prevent it we can use the public transport, in the city, and if it is not necessary, we musn’t use our own cars.

Lucía M. 3º B Spain

FLOODS

I am going to talk about floods.

The floods produce big problems;the water takes all the things that it finds on the way.
It can drag cars, destroy bridges and also kill people, when the water enters in the houses.

It is possible to solve this problem by arranging the sewerage and not building in zones near the rivers

Gracia 3ºB Spain

Rubbish

In the World the humans can produce 10,000 millions of tons of rubbish.

The people produce the rubbish when they eat food, when they buy something, when they construct a building… The people are always producing rubbish.

This rubbish is so contaminating. When the people don’t recycle they throw the rubbish in a dump it contaminates a lot because it destroys the natural things of the place.

The things that the teenagers can do are this:

· Recycling.

· We can buy things without bundle.

Rodrigo Gonzalez 3ºB Spain

Pollution

Pollution happens when humans and factories produce subtances that are poisonous.

It makes life on our planet unhealthy.

We can reduce pollution if we don’t use the car if it is not necessary and if the factories are 00 cleaner.

We can also stop the pollution using solar calculators in the school.

Valentin 3b Spain

Floods
Floods happen when it rains very heavily in a very short time and the rivers suddenly grow and spreade without control flooding houses, shops and everyting they find in their way.
This can be stopped if we keep our rivers banks clean of rubbish and if we keep our sewers clean too.

Aitana Spain

I'm going to talk about the crisis management and the problems that causede in my family.I think that the crisis was very serious becouse this affects the world.In my family we do some things to salve the crisis, we use less water and we recicle more than in the past.In my country the crisis doesn't affect much now but if the thing continue, the crisis will affect us all.

Tamara 4ºA Spain

POLLUTION

The pollution is bad for the world and for people. The people throw rubbish on the floor. It is bad for your health.

People mustn’t throw out the rubbish away because it is bad for everyone.

Recycling is good for the environment. So that I recycle everything and use the blue, yellow and green containers.

Do you?

Paula Criado 4a Spain

Fires are one of the most important problems in the world. Fires start when someone leave something made of glass in the forest. The fire can destroy everything and the plants and animals that live in the forest die. Every year thousands of hectareas burn in fires. To solve the situation you must never throw out anything of the car nothing of rubbish or when you go on a picnic. you never forget the scraps in the forest. Together we can keep the world green!

Alba Andrade 4ºA Spain

I’m going to write about the hunger in the world, because it is a very important problem for many people.
In many places there are people with hunger, because they haven’t got enough food. The consequences are very sad: for example the death of innocent people. In my opinion there isn’t a guilty for this problem. For me it is a matter of luck.
It is very sad to see hungry childrens on the TV. You can help them with a little money. This way you can get a better word.

Alba Alvarez 4a Spain

Deforestation

I’m going to write about the deforestation , because I think this problem is very
interesting.
The deforestation is a problem nowadays. The deforestation started in
underdeveloped countries, for example in Africa …

The people have been cutting trees down, and destroying the landscape,
without realising the animal rights.

The consequences of this problem is the disappearance of different animal
and a world without vegetation. Also, a world without colour…

The solution for the deforestation is that the government stop the deforestation and make it illegal.

Cristina Avila 4ºA Spain

THE WAR
The origins of this problem are the conflicts among people. They fights among themselves to get more territories or think they are better than others.

The consequences are the death of innocent people, who even don’t want the war to go on, like children, elderly people, etc.

I think this problem can be solved if everybody collaborates and just try to use arms, not for killing people, because if you kill somebody, you harms the family.
But one day or another maybe somebody will kill someone of your family and the one who will suffer it is you.

Lucía 4ºA Spain

The temperature of the Earth's surface has risen more than 0.6oC since the last years of the nineteenth century.It is expected to increase again between 1.4 and 5.8 oC by 2100, representing a change. The main reason for the rise in temperature is a process of industrialization that began century and a half ago, and in particular the burning of increasing amounts of oil, gasoline and coal, logging and farming methods. These activities have increased the volume of "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.The 1990s appear to have been the warmest of the last millennium,and 1998 the hottest year.

In my opinion, we can help the world with some actions:
Turn off lights not in use. Using solar heaters. Using sprays, mousses, etc.., Which do not harm the ozone layer. Prevent forest fires not throwing garbage, glass mainly in the fields and forests.

Kolja 4ºA Spain

Floods

Floods are caused by a significant and unexpected event or a result of a natural hazard (earthquake, volcano…)


A flood is an overflow of water that submerges the land.


It’s an important problem because it usually destroys lots of buildings, cars, harvests… lots of people lose all their proprieties.


What can teenagers do for helping? Can they save the world?

They could, if they help to make sea walls, beach nourishment’s… but if rich people don’t help then they can’t do anything, because they don’t have enough money and they’re not used to organizing themselves.

Iván 3ºA Spain

Global Warming

The global warming in the world means that we have higher temperatures. The scientists think that the Artic and the Antarctic are going to defrost. The water level goes up in the world. Maybe many islands and other lands will disappear under the water. Pollution causes the greenhouse effect. It makes the temperatures go up. All the people will live with these natural disasters.

Alvaro 3ºA Spain

Global Warming

With the global warming temperatures are higher. This can cause disasters like hurricanes, draughts, floods. Pollution causes the green house effect. It is more difficult to live on this planet if there isn't clean air. the trees in the forest produce oxygen so we mustn't cut them down.

To reduce the global warming we can reduce paper and plastics, use public transport and use natural energies. If we do this, the factories work less and they pollute less.

Alejandro 3ºA Spain

Crisis Management

The news that you can read in all newspapers is about crisis. People worry a lot because a lot of them lost their jobs and people can't pay the mortgage. As a result of crisis, things are more expensive and the families don't have a lot of money.

Tips:

• Teenagers should think of the future.


• They shouldn't go out much.


• Parents should go to cheap supermarkets to do the shopping.

Wanda 3ºA Spain

Crisis Management

With the crisis things are more expensive, families don't have a lot of money and people don't buy expensive things or they wait for the sale. People cannot get mortgages so they lose their houses. Building companies close because they don't sell and workers lose their jobs.

Tips:

• don't go out too much to party


• don't buy so many magazines and newspapers


• don't use the mobile phone so much

Patricia 3ºB Spain

Crisis in the World's Economy

Everywhere people are talking about terrible crisis in the world's economy. In general, things are more expensive and people are unemployed because factories can't sell their products. For example lots of famous car factories are closing. If you don't have a job, you don't have money and if you don't have money, you can't spend it. The problem is that banks have problems too and they don't lend their money. Another problem is that when people get married you need a house, but the banks now don't give you a mortgage.

Laura 3º B Spain

Crisis Management

Crisis is a very popular word these days. It is affecting our economies.
Things are more expensive and the car companies are not selling a lot of cars. The banks are not giving mortgages so people cannot buy houses. At the moment, it isn't affecting my town very much.

Tips to save money:

• Bring a snack from home instead of buying a sandwich at school


• Use public transport


• Stop buying magazines and don't buy designer clothes

NOVEMBER TASK

Meeting Point Blog

TASK FOR NOVEMBER 2008
HEY YOU!
Things you can do to make the world a better place

• CRISIS MANAGEMENT
• Crisis is a very popular word these days. It is affecting our ecomomies (high prices, unemployment...).You can hear about it everywhere.
  

Please, write about :
· What do you know about the international crisis ?

· How is it affecting your country, your town and your personal life ?

· How are you and your family coping with the economic crisis ?
Share your tips to save money, energy, water....
Be original !

• ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

• Watch Madonna's clip - the official video for the Live Earth song. Madonna performed “Hey You” live at the Wembley Stadium Live Earth concert in London

1. Try to recognize at least some of the famous people who appear in the clip - write their names in Comments.
2. Name the ecological/environmental problems shown in the clip.

Leave your answers in the Comments section.

Choose at least one of the environmental problems presented in the clip and write a post about it, including some tips to solve the problem, not only in global perspective, but also what could be done by teenagers in everyday life.

Attach a photo, a picture or a video.
Good luck!

Megan, the USA

Megan McClellan
Born on July 24th 1994
Resident of Marion
Funny, laughable and cute
Friend of Lots of people
Who loves to have a good time, being with, friends,and myself
Who is afraid of Snakes
Who worries about family, friends,and school
Who wants to see Eiffel Tower and Rome
And who dreams of living in Pairs