a) What we particularly like about Zurich is that it has a lake. The end of it lies almost in the centre of the city. In summer, you can go swimming or go on a boat trip. When the weather's nice, the border's often very crowded. But nevertheless, we like the place very much because one can relax very well there.

b) A famous person wer admire is Roger Federer. We are very impressed by him because he managed to keep the number 1 position as a tennis player like nobody else. And even now, although he's number 2, he's still one of the best players in the world.

a) We can't name a certain moment but it happens every day in our lives. It is important that you know that you have friends or other people you can rely on.

b) Changing the climate has to be a group effort. Everybody has to get involved and not only some individuals.

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If I see how people are suffering around the world, it makes me wonder. Later in my life I would like to help those people and give them what they deserve. Here in Switzerland life is so easy and poverty isn't a big issue. I can't really imagine how it would be to live under such circumstances so I would like to give back what I recieved when I was a child and increase the standard of living. I know that as a single person this isn't manageable but if we work together as one every goal can be achieved.

Joey

I think the increase of CO2 is a big problem in our society. Nobody wants to obstain from vehicles that produce CO2, because they are too comfortable. The factors are for sure all the transport vehicles as aeroplanes and cars. Another important factor is the industry that produces about 20% of the CO2 emission. Not to undervalue are the households that emit almost as much CO2 as the vehicles.

To reduce the CO2 emission the big countries should make a pact to produce half the amount of CO2 they produce today, or even better, decide how much CO2 per capita would be acceptable, so that everyone has the same amount of CO2 he is "allowed" to produce. Everybody would have to accept this and I'm sure that would urge the search for alternative energies.

Lara

I've been to the United States lots of times already since my grandparents live there and the thing that shocks me the most is the use of cars. It is as if they didn't even know there was something called CO2 and global warming? It seams like they never have heard that expression before. Now back to the cars. All streets are like highways and this is only the beginning. The worst thing is actually that there's almost always only one person per car. Not only are there more cars but the cars are also much, much larger. My solution o the problem is to maximize the efficiency of cars. So in every car there should be at least two or three people. Like this the use of cars would be decreased by a huge margin.

Joey

We all emit too much CO2. We emit it even if it isn't really necessary. That's because there are people that drive big cars although they don't need them. In winter, we use much more heating oil than we would need if we caulked our houses better.

There are some things we can do about that:

-First, the parliament should increase the CO2 emission taxes so that people start thinking about if they really need this big car when they would have to pay more for using it.

-Those big cars ought to be forbidden for users that don't need them for their work, this means for private users.

-In the major part of the houses, the walls should be caulked, so that the warmth stays inside of the house and therefore, less new energy is needed for heating the house.

Mattia

Here in Switzerland we consume a lot of energy/electricity. That's why we need to try to cut down our energy consumption. We could do little things, which would have a big impact nevertheless; for example:

-recycling

-waste separation

-shut down our electronical devices

-use less water

-put off the light when we leave a room

-use public transport instead of cars