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22 April - Earth Day

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Healthy Lifestyle

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The Healthy Eating Week

Is the world Genetically-modified-organism (GMO) policy right? Is this policy based on reasoned and provable theories or it is the most cruel experiment carried out with the mankind? Campaigns about food additives and GMOs are put into effect in the whole country of Bulgaria. This made students from Joan Ekzarh Language School in Vratsa willing to become part of the national campaign of food safety. They decided to devote a week to the healthy eating. The Healthy Eating Week was organized in the period between March 15th – 19th. During this week they spread over 200 brochures in the school as well as in the whole city.


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The culmination of the week was the seminar of healthy eating, organized by the students and carried out in the school assembly hall

Trees are not just wood

The youngest students from Joan Ekzarh Language School in Vratsa – the 5th graders, started worrying about forests which are becoming extinct. They do not hesitate that trees are not just wood. Here is their point of view.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our Comenius partners! We wish you a lot of health and happiness. We hope our future activities will continue to be successful and rewarding! See you soon again!

Making Christmas Decorations

The youngest students in our school (5th graders) are making Christmas decorations using waste materials and recycled paper. The kids are very enthusiastic being involved in the project. They are eager to use their imagination in creating beautiful things bringing joy to the people they love. Moreover, they are happy as this way they are giving their modest contribution to saving the environment.

My Thoughts About the Environment and the Planet We Live On

Students from 9th G class are expressing their thoughts about keeping the environment clean and our contribution to saving the planet we live on.



My thoughts about saving the planet
Have you ever thought what’d happen to Earth, our home planet, if keep polluting and destroying it? Do you think that we’ll survive in this condition in the future? Well I don’t think.

On one hand, Earth was a clean, peaceful place in the past so why don’t we keep it that way? Take for example the “green people”. In their everyday lives they do everything they can so that they can protect out planet from other people who destroy it and I do think that we should help them with it.

On the other hand, even the “green people” are not strong enough against big factories which pollute our air, water and food. They just waste the planet’s resources instead of using them for good. Moreover the fumes from the cars destroy the Ozone layer so and perfumes do so I think we can avoid this.

In my opinion, our planet is being destroyed with any minute passing but can stop this, can’t we? I really hope that we can change to saving our planet not destroying it.

Nikolay Atanasov, 9th G

GLOBAL WARMING
ESSAY

The enviroment is the world around us-people, plants, nature, all living creatures on the planet. A world in which there are so many beautiful sceneries, which can be destroyed. Colourful nature, which everyone admires and enjoys-flowers and animals, rivers and lakes, seas and oceans, white sparkling ice-caps on the poles. This is our home-the only one. But if we ponder over the data from recent studies we’ll see the rapid climate change caused by global warming. Very soon we won’t be able to enjoy the Alps with their snow-white peaks, and polar bears on the North pole, and the walrus on the South pole-everything will disappear and become a distant memory.
Global warming is progressing with an unexpected pace. Average temperatures are increasing much faster than expected. Deserts expand and glaciers melt. This is not a mirage, but it is a horrifying truth that threatens all humanity. Very soon there will be no winter with fluffy white snowflakes. There will be no snowmen in the yards. Everything will become dry and sandy and our earth will turn into one big desert. Sun will not pleasantly warm, but it will burns. How much time is needed for this to happen? Maybe five, ten or twenty years. Depends on us if it will happen, but even more – it will not happen ever.
Climate change will affect us humankind. When the sea level rises due to melting ice many exotic places around the world will disappear with a lot of living species. Yes, it is likely to happen if we do not change our lifestyle.
What can we do? The most important is not to destroy nature,but to preserve and maintain it, as we stop logging forests. Christmas is coming. Rather than cut one tree, let's leave it planted. It will purify the air we breathe. And we will help nature although with one small gesture. If everyone does it, how many trees will be saved- hundreds, maybe even thousands. This is one of the brightest Christian holidays. Let us be good, let us make a gesture to nature, and she will thank us. How? By cleaning the air we breathe, cleansing it from carbon dioxide released from cars. Yes, convenient, fast and easy it is to go to work with your car, but what happens in nature? And why not walk on foot or ride a bicycle? We ourselves can help save our planet.
This is our world in which we all want to live. It has room for us and for plants and animals, and for every living creature. Only we, the people, can protect it.
Global warming is here, but we must not allow this to happen. We must fight to overcome it, to do everything in our power, not to destroy the nature - to keep it beautiful and natural. Everything depends on us. We can and must help nature. Nature is our future and it is in our hands.
Let us all do something together, even just a little bit, about our nature.
Let us to save the world around us! All together! Because only together we will succeed!

Lorita Mladenova, 9th G

My Thoughts About the Environment and the Planet We Live On

Students from 9th A class are expressing their thoughts about keeping the environment clean and our contribution to saving the planet we live on.


Environmental Protection
Environmental protection is a priority for every country. Air, water, forests, soils are priceless treasure. Pollution even if only one element of the environment as part of a chain-reaction leads to distortion of balance in nature and environmental disaster. The forests are our lungs! Their logging leads to extinction of animal and planet species, reducing the flow of water sources and landslides. Rivers and watersheds must be disposed of this waste because this is the water we drink. Large producers who pollute the water, pay fines but it doesn’t help. Nobody likes to breathe polluted air, soil- poisoned by toxic where grow fruits and vegetables.
Nature is what we get and will give the next generation!
“I want to be clean”- these words of the famous TV advertisement should become a way of life for everyone.
Let’s do something until it’s too late!
Keep our Planet!

Nadya Hristova, 9th A

A Walk To Remember

Victoria Vasileva, 9th A

Water pollution-a really worrying problem
Water has a really important significance.Life on the Earth is due to it and without water it could disappear.To prevent this happen utterly important is to keep the water pure.
But unfortunately,attitude of lots of people is neglecting.They throw their rubbish into the nearest river or lake instead of doing it into the places which are designed for this.
Nowadays pollution has increased and this is really worrying.Most of the people don’t understand that as they do harm to the nature and more especially to the water,they most do harm to themselves.Of course,there are sensible people who think of this ecological problem and stive for not punish the water.But they are not many.People who pollute the water are more and because of this fact solving this problem gets more and more difficult.
We mustn’t forget that we are part of the nature and water pollution is bad for us because out existence depends on it.So,don’t you think it is time to think of and stop polluting the water ?

Desislava Atanasova, 9th A

Don't save the cheerleader, save the Earth
One of the biggest problems of our time is global warming. Most people avoid this problem and try not to think of it - there is nothing I can do about it, we usually think. Wrong.
There are simple rules we can easily follow and still help a lot.
1. Recycle. Did you know that if all the newspapers in the USA were recycled, we could save about 250 000 000 trees just for one year?
2. Use only the water you need. Singing in the shower sure's a lot of fun but it wastes gallons and gallons of water. Turn the faucet off when you don't need water to run.
3. Save energy. Unplug your unused appliances (your mobile phone charger, for example). Change your light bulbs to fluorescent light bulbs. They last longer and they use about 25 percent of the power other light bulbs use.
4. Plant a tree. It sounds strange but they say you haven't lived until you planted a tree. One single tree can produce about 120 kilos of oxygen per year and absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over the course of its life.
Simple, isn't it? We all know we should live for the moment but still, we can't ignore environmental problems. We should be responsible and preserve Planet Earth for the next generations.

Irina Stoilova, 9th A

The Ugly truth

By Denitsa Ljubenova

Nowadays people don't realise that they destroy the nature every day.There are thousands of species thet are extinct or endangered.The climate has changed,thousands of trees are being cut every day and there's so much polution from the factories. Yesterday,I read an article that said that by 2030,the sources of life on Earth will have vanished.There's a really good chance,that article says the truth.There's only one thing we could do-take care of the environment.Instead of cutting trees,we should plant them.After all,they're called "the lungs of the Earth".Instead of polluting the seas,we should keep them clean,because water is the most important source of life.It's really sad that people take it for granted.there's another theory,that water will vanish in about 50 years.The factories polute many sources of water like rivers and seas.Sad but true.So if the water really does vanish,we will die in a couple of days. People are also horrible killers.They hunt for animals for pleasure and kill them,to make expensive shoes,clothes and coats for the rich people.And the worst thing is that they don't realise how awful that is-animals suffer to please "humans".That really makes you wonder who the animal is. However,one of the biggest problems is the global warming.Over the last 10 years,the climate has changed so much,that the ice in Arctica and Antarctika began to melt.That's a serious problem,because if the ice really melt,it could overflow the earth.And this is caused by people's carelessness. I really hope,that people will change and start to take care of the environment,because we are part of it and we depend on it.If there's no environment,there will be no people.

THE GREEN REVOLUTION
AND
THE NUTRITIOUS CRISIS

Every day a lot of young people like me have lunch in fast food restaurants – cheeseburger, coca-cola and french fries. While we are eating this tempting food, we don’t suspect that the meal goes in side-dish with double portion global consequences.
In the last 4 years price of wheat and corn got treble and price of rise raised five times, which provoked hungry riots in over 20 countries and pushed aside more 75 million people under the borderline of the poverty. Said with simple words – in the bigger part of the last decade the world consumes more food than it produces.
And this is only one part of the plenty unsolved ecological problems. Scientists try to solve the nutritious crisis by new artificial fertilizers, pesticides and “miraculous” sorts of corn. This remind us for the green revolution.
In 1943 during the mass hunger in Bengal 4 million people died. During the next 20 years India was carrying in million tones of corn to feed its people. Then came the green revolution. In 1970 farmers managed to increase the production nearly three times, without more efforts than the usual. “We had a big problem with store of the overstock – says 83-year-old Gurcharan Sinh Kalkat, an eyewitness of the green revolution. – School years finished a month earlier to succeed in storing the overstock in schools.”
However, today the miracle of the green revolution is over : from the middle of the 90s until now the crop practical have stopped raising. Too much irrigation on places have led to vastly reduction of the level of underground water, sucked out of 1,3 million wells, and salt and ground turned into swamp have ruined thousand hectares fat land.
Four decades intensity irrigating, fertilizing and cultivate with pesticides didn’t have a good effect on clay grey soil in Penjab – and in some other cases it influences on people. “The water is not good. It’s poisoned, it’s infected. In spite of this people drink it.” – says Djansir Sinh, an elder of farming village Bhutivala where live about 6000 people.
It’s expected that the world population will reach 9 milliard people by the middle of the century and experts say that we will need a new miracle which should redouble the production of food till 2030. In other words – we need a new green revolution. In a double shorter term.

Velislava Sybeva, 9th A

Snowy, Icy and... Sunny Winter in Vratsa

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Role Play "Let's Save the Nature"

Visit the National park Vrachanski Blkan

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Bilateral /English and Spanish/ presentation of the ten green tips

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Welcome to Joan Ekzrah Language School

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Songs, dances, poems and music of each Partner country.
Work in international groups (teambuilding, project work-making things from wasting and natural materials…)

"Let’s Clean the Town of Vratsa"

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On April 16th 2009, the students from the Language School took part in the initiative of Vratsa Municipality “Let’s Clean the Town of Vratsa”.

Visit to Spain

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Promoting the strategy – a joint class with 3rd grade students from Ivan Vazov Primary School

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A group of teachers and students from Joan Ekzarh Language School are visiting the 3rd grade students from the nearby primary school
Ina and Tony’s presentation about pollution in front of the younger students. The kids are eager to answer challenging questions about keeping the earth clean. How much they know!
Group work and a poster-drawing contest. It’s easy when there is somebody to help with ideas. Especially, if these people are the older students from the Language School.
The quiz! Everybody is a winner! Certificates, prizes… We are the champions!
Now all the kids from 3rd “V” grade know how to make the world a better place. We’ll do the same! Let’s keep the earth green!

Visit to the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water (RIEW)

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The connection between man and nature

Survey - Environment & Pollution

Interviewed 100 students from 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 grades.