BEING A TEACHER....

BEING A TEACHER IS A DIFFICULT TASK NOWADAYS, SO I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THIS PIECE OF ADVICE BY BRUCE LEE:

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

by Bruce Lee

jueves, 10 de diciembre de 2015

Paris: World Climate Summit 2015


RED ALERT!!!!! 

Beijing smog (listening exercise)   >>> Do you still think that pollution isn't a most prominent issue nowadays in our planet? (Air pollution in China)

What does 'smog' mean? 

Related articles to read: "Smog in China closes schools..."  (CNN) & "Beijing issues first pollution red alert..." (The Guardian)

The United Nations is organizing a conference on climate change to come to certain minimum agreements about what we can do about it.

PARIS 2015


What do you think we should do as nations and as individuals?

Articles to read:

  Listening exercise: Global waste: Food for thought (6 Minute English)  and related article to read: One third of world's food is wasted (BBC)

Debating climate change: here's a link to a series of podcasts on BBC World Service Radio.

Related Selectivity exams to do: 2018   >>         Licence to drive & American leaders should read their official climate science report

 


17 comentarios:

  1. The problem of the climate changes it's caused by the gases released from industry and agriculture that are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2).
    The future problems will be higher temperatures and more extreme weather that will cause problems as production conditions with the food for the heat waves and droughts.

    I think we sould do as nations send a strong signal that the world is moving away from a fossil fuel economy, and won't turn back. As individuals, we can’t do much, but if many people show they care about climate change, then they have the power to make the leaders act.

    JOSÉ JULIÁN RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ 4º B

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  2. For two weeks, from 30th November to 11th December, representatives of 195 countries will meet in París for the COP21, and what is the COP21? The COP21 is the 21st Conference of the Parties, the annual meeting of all countries which want to take action for the climate. And the most important matter, what are the main goal? Their main goal is that they want to reduce their emissions of CO2 so that Earth doesn’t get more than 2ºC warmer.
    One of the problems that they are having, it’s that the attacks of Paris were so recent that they can’t do conferences in public and they have to be at every moment with a lot of security. As a result of the attacks all the presidents are giving their condolences to the victims. Other big problem in relation with this conference, it’s that emerging countries don’t want to take part in this meeting, because most of them still use non-renewable energy too much, and that can be determinant in the end, because they are the most pollutant countries.
    In addition, this conference is more important than others, because now rich countries like the USA or China that before didn’t want to respect the limits of pollution, have now realize that renewable energies are more economic in a long-term, so they are now in favour to reduce their pollution in their countries. Moreover, they want to promote this to poor countries, setting their renewable factories there (and for nor paying taxes).
    In my view, it’s good that we have these types of conferences, but we need to take practical measures, because if we don’t do something fast, we will finish with our planet. In Spain, we have had two alerts because of pollution and in two cities (Madrid and Oviedo) people couldn’t use their cars for a couple of days. I don’t know you, but I want to breath fresh air.

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  3. For two weeks, from 30th November to 11th December, representatives of 195 countries will meet in París for the COP21, and what is the COP21? The COP21 is the 21st Conference of the Parties, the annual meeting of all countries which want to take action for the climate. And the most important matter, what are the main goals? Their main goal is that they want to reduce their emissions of CO2 so that Earth doesn’t get warmer than 2ºC.

    One of the problems that they are having is that the attacks of Paris were so recent that they can't give lectures in public and they have to be at every moment with a lot of security. As a result of the attacks all the presidents are giving their condolences to the victims. Another big problem in relation with this conference is that emerging countries don’t want to take part in this meeting, because most of them still use too much non-renewable energy, and that can be determinant in the end, because they are the most polluting countries.

    In addition, this conference is more important than others, because now rich countries like the USA or China, which haven't wanted to respect the limits of pollution in the past, have now realized that renewable energies are more economic in the long term, so they are now in favour to reduce their pollution in their countries. Moreover, they want to promote this to poor countries, setting their renewable factories there (and for not paying taxes).

    From my point of view, it’s good that we have this type of conferences, but we need to take practical measures, because if we don’t do something fast, we will finish with our planet. In Spain, we have had two alerts because of pollution and in two cities (Madrid and Oviedo) people couldn’t use their cars for a couple of days. I don’t know you, but I want to breathe fresh air.

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  6. Smog is a type of air pollutant. Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog.

    Smog is a serious problem in many cities and continues to harm human health.
    It can cause eye and nose irritation and it dries out the protective membranes of the nose and throat and interferes with the body's ability to fight infection, increasing susceptibility to illness.

    Alberto Pineda Montoro 4ºB

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  7. I think pollution is the most prominent issue in our planet. The pollution in the presence of pollutants in quantities superior to the limits tolerated by the human, they cause an ecological imbalance and damage the health and the well being of the persons.

    One of the big problems of the pollution is to increase the temperature of the earth, it is called the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect can defrost the poles and it raises the level of the sea and because of that, some of the cities in the coast can be floated.

    Smog is a mixture of smoke, fog, and chemical fumes.

    As individuals we should use the public transport or the means of transport that don't polluce, for example bicycle or bus.
    As nations I think the town hall should monitor the waste water or the rubbish and it should create green areas.

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  8. In my opinion pollution is a very importan problem for our planet. The pollution cause damage at whe well being of the persons and of all the living beings.

    The pollution increase the temerature of the earth, it is called greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be in the absence of its atmosphere. If a planet's atmosphere contains radiatively active gases, the atmosphere radiates energy in all directions. Part of this radiation is directed towards the surface, warming it.

    For stop this pollution we can:
    - Don't use plastic bags.
    - Use low-energy bulbs.
    - Not abusing heating.
    - Avoid standby appliances
    - Use public transport.
    - Use the bike or walk.

    We need stop pollute!

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  9. In my opinion pollution is a very importan problem for our planet. The pollution cause damage at whe well being of the persons and of all the living beings.

    The pollution increase the temerature of the earth, it is called greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be in the absence of its atmosphere. If a planet's atmosphere contains radiatively active gases, the atmosphere radiates energy in all directions. Part of this radiation is directed towards the surface, warming it.

    For stop this pollution we can:
    - Don't use plastic bags.
    - Use low-energy bulbs.
    - Not abusing heating.
    - Avoid standby appliances
    - Use public transport.
    - Use the bike or walk.

    We need stop pollute!

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  10. Pollution is a serious problem of our society. We are polluting our oceans, air, earth, plants, ... and this has a lot of bad efects for our health, and for animals and plants.
    I have read that there is a lot of pollution in some countries, especially in China. People can breathe normally and they have got a lot of respiratory problems. This is because there are a lot of factories, polluting the air every day without control. China is becoming a very rich country, but people are dying because of the pollution.
    In Spain, we have a lot of polluted cities, for example, Madrid and Barcelona. Also, we have now this problem, and some city councils are trying to control the traffic in the cities.
    If we don´t do anything quickly, we or our children will die very soon.

    MARGARITA LLANES VENEGAS 4ºA

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  11. Pollution is a serious problem in our society. We are polluting our oceans, air, earth, plants, ... and this has a lot of bad effects for our health, and for animals and plants.
    I have read that there is a lot of pollution in some countries, especially in China. People can't breathe normally and they have got a lot of respiratory problems. This is because there are a lot of factories polluting the air every day without control. China is becoming a very rich country, but people are dying because of the pollution.
    In Spain, we have a lot of polluted cities, for example, Madrid and Barcelona. Also, we have now this problem, and some city councils are trying to control the traffic in the cities.
    If we don´t do anything quickly, we or our children will die very soon.

    MARGARITA LLANES VENEGAS 4ºA

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  12. The problem of the climate changes it's caused by the gases released from industry and agriculture that are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2).
    If we don´t do anything now the future problems will be really serious problems, yesterday I road in the news that in this century will be tsunamis, bigs earthquackes and more problems that I´m sure that many people will die if we don´t do anything now for stop the pollution and the climate change.

    A few months ago we road another notice in this blog which talked about the air pollution in China where people couldn´t breath well

    Eduardo Pérez Muelas

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  13. Climate change exists. Who is guilty?
    Some people think that it is the man, others defend that is the nature.
    It is evident that the gases emitted by industries, transport... pollute the atmosphere so it costs us nothing to reduce some pollution, if we don't do it, when a catastrophe occurs it may already be too late.

    Francisco José Prados Espinosa 1º A

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  14. planet earth suffers a lot of pollution, we must stop this, since we are damaging our planet a lot like the oceans, plants, areas of animals ....
    One of the main pollutants is people, we should start recycling and avoid using plastic ...
    We should use public transport more, many factories come together a lot ...
    One of the main countries that suffer a lot of pollution is China, also Spain ...
    I have seen on TV news that because of all the pollution in summer there has been a lot of fires due to climate change.
    I think that if we do not stop this problem, people will die soon as the air we breathe is contaminated and will affect our health

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  15. Today we have a big problem with pollution since we are giving rise to a very bad change of weather, not being able to breathe well, many people are dying, and this cannot continue.

    One of the most polluted countries is China and this is due to all the factories there.

    This is leading to polluting the sky, the sea, the forests, it also causes many animals to die. Although we are not realizing it, we cannot continue like this because for example we see that it hardly rains, it is not cold, and all this is caused by all the pollution in this world.

    Salvador Pretel.

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  16. Nowadays, our planet is suffering the effects of global warming due in large part to pollution. A recent study has shown that if we do not reduce pollution, the problem of climate change will be irremediable in a few years. Do you still think that pollution isn't a most prominent issue nowadays for our planet?

    On the one hand, I believe that pollution is one of the most serious problems that we have at the moment . As a result, the average temperature of the Earth's surface has increased by about 0.85 ° C in the last 100 years. Besides, among the effects of climate change include the melting of Arctic sea ice and the disappearance of many species of animals.


    On the other hand, most humans are unaware of the seriousness of the situation. However, in the last few years more and more people are carrying out actions like recycling, saving water, using less plastic, using public transport...Actually unfortunately this isn’t enough because the situation is more serious. For example, by the end of October 2015, 146 countries had adopted some national climate plans to reduce gas emissions into the atmosphere.

    Taking all into account, not only do I believe that if we do not take care of the planet, it will die slowly, but I also think that China, which is the country that produces the most gas emissions, should take measures to reduce pollution.

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