angol Érettségi tétel - Környezetünk

Téma: Környezetünk

Kérdések:

1. Where do you live and how can you introduce your town? (egyéni fordításban)

2. Could you mention please some entertaining facilities?

   I live in a smaller town near Ajka, so if I want to go to a party, I often go to there. Ajka has a lot of parks and cozy places, where I can chat with my friends and we often go to the Ajka Lake as well. In spring this is a very balances place with a lot of energy and hundrends of blossoms. I regularly feed the ducks as well and sometimes a couples of swam also swim in the lake. Talking about night life, unfortunately the social places are not so qualified. We have some pubs where we can chat and drink a beer or ale. But nowadays young people cannot go to dance or karaoke. But on the other hand Ajka and nearby is famous for the traditional balls and festivals where forigners can meet with our culture and where people can eat, drink and dance a lot.

   Ajka is a very pleasant and cosy pleace for me to life. People are kind and talkative and there are some interesting things in it. For example the most famous thing – I think – is the glassfactory at the heart of the town. This very exclusive and expensive glasses and plates and jewelries are very wanted all over the word so I think we can be proud of it. Secondly we have many famous people as well, for example the well-known writer of Vuk also lived here and for his memory we put statues of his caracters to the island of our lake. At the southern end of the town we have two forest as well, what is fortunatelly very clean and balanced. People can come here for a long walk, or also can hire a house for a big party. In springs and summer you can use the handmade fireplaces to cook or fry something delicious and in autumn you can collect walnuts and chestnuts.

3. So you don't live in a town, rather in a bigger village. What is your personal opinion about living in a village? Is it better than a town? Please mention some advantages and disadvantages as well.

   To tell the truth live in a village has also advantages and disadvantages: I think that the atmosphere is much better than a town, because people know each other and walking through the streets everybody welcome you. You can feel yourself in a safe, and you don't need to afraid of any emberassing thing. Another positive thing – I think – that the utility servies, like shops, markets, post office or the bank is more friendlier and smaller so you don't have to wait in an endless queu. The nature is closer you, and if you want to have a trip or just want to walk with your dog, you just walk acrass the street until the first field or forest. Of course, it is a disadvantage as well, because if you want to buy some special you have to travel by car to another place what takes a lot of time. To mention the traffic it is impossible to find yourself in a traffic jam, because smaller town brings a smaller traffic. Children can play on streets without danger, because there is no rush here.

   But every coins have two sides. However living in a village can be good and satisfied, young people often complain about the entertainment. For a teenager or younger adult life in a village can be boring sometimes, because they miss the crowd, the groups of people who make the towns and cities alive. They like hurry, they like noise and they want to live in a place where there is never a silent moment. In this case teens have to travel to another town to go to a party or just meet up. But of course, parents don't always let them to go and the problem is made.

   To sum up, live in a village or a town often have pros and contras as well, and every person has to make a decision on your own, to decide what does she or he want.

4. In Hungary many species and plants live in the nature. But what about „wildlife in the town”? I would like to ask you to interprete me the life what sorrounds you.

   I think that the bigger town, the less wildlife. But watching our town, Ajka, I think we can live in a place where we can keep closer with the nature. For some years our town has been decorated with flowers by the utility services and it is a very good way to make our town more lively. People can get geraniums in springs to put it in a balcony, and dozens of pansies are planted in many places of the town. So flowers make the town more colorful, but fortunately not just the „planted flowers” are in the town. In the heart of the center we have a tiny hill with wild-chestnut trees, which blossoms are so spectacular and in autumn children and toddlers love looking for the chestnuts between the colorful leaves. The another place what is worth to see in our town is the Ajka Lake, which is sorrounded by willows and lived by ducks and frogs. If you throw some pieces of bread into the water, you can see also the fish as well.

   So the town – I think – is not so concrete jungle here. But on the other hand, wild animals also live in our town and it is not so good for us and for the animals either. For example because of the smell of food, many weasels live around us. We cannot see them during the day, but if you march to home at night you can often see them running across the streets. I think it is not so good, because some people are afraid of them because of the illnesses, and unfortunately they often make demages in the parts of car.

   But all in all they aren't so harmfull and there is a place to them as well.

5. How can you introduce the climate and the weather in your country and town?

   Hungary is located in the eastern board of Europe so our climate is continental. It means that we have four seasons, and the weather is quite changeable. Our winters are snowy, frosty and icy as well, however our last winters were rather rainy. The summer is the opposite of the winter, because the temperature can reach the 40 Celsius degree as well and it is often dry and hot here. Because of the climate change nowadays spring and autumn often are the same as their neighbour season, but I obviously think, that this climate is much better than in countries where tornadoes, and cunamies can come.

   Talking about the weather or my town and the sorrounding area, Ajka is a quite predictible place. It is near the western board, where the mountains create cold wind and often rain and snow as well. So if we can hear, that in Wein or Sopron it is raining, we have known, that some hours later the rain reach our area as well.

6. Do you think that the citizens of Ajka think green? In what way can you keep your nature clean?

   Keep the place where we live is always important in my opinion. Fortunately the situation is getting better and better as I see. There are selective wastebins all over the town where you can collect the waste in a selectiv way. And if you do this, you can avoid that the steet dustbins get fulled in every Sunday, before it will be taken. On the other hand it would be good for the environmetn as well because from the used plastic or glass people can be create another thing in a cheaper and better method.

   But talking about the cleanness of the town, the utility service, called here Avar Ajka is always go to a place of the town and make that erea clean. They plant the flowers and collect the leaves, they water the flowers on the streetlamps and they wash and clean the streets as well. And of course in winters this utility service take the snow away and put salt on the pavements.