Questões de Concurso

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”