Questions from Hokkaido University of Education

Friday 10th of February 2012

01. Interview

Asked by: Hokkaido University of Education | Bahari Beach

a) Ask ten people what they think about:

1.The climate change

2.The possible consequences for your country – and take note of the answers.

b) What do yout think about these answers?

In our school we have asked our teachers and school officials about their understanding on climate change. This is what they said

Climate change is the situation whereby weather or climate of one area changes as result of different factors,these factors may be environmental pollution or human activities.

The possible consequnces to our country that have been mentioned are air pollution,deforestation, increase of temperature, drought,land degradation and earth movements.

We think the answers are correct but it will be of importamce to teach more people about climate change.

02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

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a) What kind of direct problems have been mentioned?

b) What solutions have been proposed?

c) What priority have these reports about climate change been given in the newspapers in your country?

d) Which headline caught your eye and impressed you the most? Explain the reason why.

e) Which headline would you give an article about climat change?

We have managed tp get the Daily News paper of June 2009 that has an article about climate change.The article states "Climate change does not wait for recessions"

The possible consequnces that have been mentioned are lack of money for poor farmers to partcipate in Carbon trading that is reflected in Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997 by industrilized countries. There is also a problem African farmers being not able to capture these carbon markets because of lack of technical support and knowledge on how the carbon market works.

The priority to articles about climate change is high as they are published almost weekly giving chance for readers to read about climate change.

The headline that has impressed us is "Climate change does not wait for recessions" as it talks about educating African farmers about opportunities in climate change.

An article I will give about climate change will be "Teaching African farmers about climate change"

03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

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a) Write down your emotional feelings for the words “anger, responsibility, hope and indifference” in connection with the topic of climate change.

b) Which kind of emotion do you feel most strongly in connection with the topic of climate change? (This does not have to be one of the four mentioned above). Explain the reasons why.

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04. Imagine the whole world would be listening to your comments about the topic of climate change. What would you have to say?

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What would you have to say?

We would like to tell the world to know that climate change is OUR problem not European,American,Chinese or African problem and then people should be educated and cooperate on how to mitigate this problem in their countries.

Now it is your turn to compile the questions 5 until 8. Carefully consider the best way of posing the questions in order to gain the best possible insight into the everyday views of your partner class.

05. Our question:

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you are right it is OUR problem. How can we solve it together?

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06. Our question:

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What do you know about Japan?

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07. Our question:

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What would you tell someone who doesn't care at all about climate change?

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08. Our question:

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What do you think is the most easiest way to do something against climate change?

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09. Looking back and thinking ahead

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a) Imagine it would be possible to turn back the clock a hundred years. What do you think we would do differently?

b) We are naturally not able to turn the clock back, but we can learn from the past. What kind of information does the past reveal?

I thinks we would plant more trees and stop cutting the ones we did and we would protect the environment.

The past reveals that many people were living in good health environment and now because of industrial development and cutting down of trees many environmental problems have occured.

10. In order to get to know you a little better, a few questions now follow that at first glance have nothing to do with the topic of climate change.

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a) If you were able to freely choose, which kind of life you woul like to lead – what would this involve?

b) Do you have the feeling you are free to choose what the real prospects of your future life will be?

c) If you answer no, what do you think is lacking and therefore negatively influencing your personal decisions for the future?

We would like to live a normal good life in a good house,good car with our parents

I think as young people we are free to choose the prospect of our future life.

11. Things you enjoy doing

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a) What kind of things do you really enjoy doing?

b) How often can you do the things you really enjoy? (And, why are you not able to do them all the time?)

Things we enjoy doing are playing footbal,riding bike,listerning to music,talking to my friends

The only time we can do the things we enjoy is during the weekends because during the week days we have to do homeworks.

Now it’s your turn to compile the questions 12 until 16. Carefully consider the best way of posing questions in order to gain the best possible insight into the everyday views and lifestyle of society around you, and what is changing.

12. Our question:

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Do you have many cars in Dar es Salaam? Do people use their bicycles?

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13. Our question:

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Have you always lived in Dar es Salaam?

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14. Our question:

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What do you expect from Copenhagen?

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15. Our question:

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What do you expect from the future?

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16. Our question:

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Do you know any climate heros in your country? what do they do?

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17. A place you like

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a)Think about a place close to you that you particularly like. In order to get to know one another better, and understand different lifestyles, I would really appreciate you describing this place (or sending a photograph)

b)Describe a famous person from your country, and explain what in particular impresses you about this person.

The place we particcularly lie is Mlimani City this is a new shopping Mall in Dar es Salaam,the mall has lot of shops with different kind of things such playing games,clothes,shoes.This place is baeutiful!

The most famous person in our country is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete,he has managed to lead our country very well like now we have free primary education and paying less in secondary school.

18. Solidarity

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a)Think about a situation in your life, in which people in your surroundings have helped one another. Tell us about what happened.

b)Solidarity and climate protection have a lot in common. In your opinion, what does a comment like this mean?

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Once again, it’s your turn to present the questions 19 until 23: Compile 5 additional questions, suitable for people in your partner class to use, for example, in an interview with people on the street or people they know. Questions you really want to learn more about in order to get a good overall picture of the situation in your partner class.