ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCHOOL

FOREING LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT

ENGLISH AREA
PROJECT: GOOD NEWS FROM BOGOTA
SECOND TERM
NINTH GRADE
NAME: Pablo Guaidía GRADE:9°A DATE:18/10/10

1. Find 4 positive news about Bogota and write down a short description of them.

1. Recycle in
Bogota Within the framework of the master plan for the integrated
management of solid waste in Bogota, the city must implement a
program of utilization of recyclable material. As a first step began
to build the first recycling park and enters the second tender.
When these are ready will implement the selective collection
phase, in which all the citizens have to separate our waste
collection truck and deliver the material to be recovered once a
week. It is undeniable that the city is a bit behind with regard to
recycling, which we Doña Juana Landfill is little time and we can
not continue burying the trash. A city that produced nearly 6,000
tons of garbage daily must have a comprehensive recycling
program, which brings benefits not only to recyclers of office but to
our environment that need it.

2. Bogota will The Mayor of Bogota, Samuel Moreno Rojas, announced that next
count with 250 December will arrive in Bogotá 250 traffic policemen in the city.
more traffic
policeman
"We hope that between now and last month of the year in the
capital of the country has 250 soldiers, because this is an
agreement between the Transit Police and the Secretary of
Transportation, because obviously we will not only improve
mobility, but we also will ensure the supervision, operation and the
enforcement of traffic regulations in Bogotá”

3. “Mono Jojoy” 30 Aircraft and 27 helicopter air force, army and police, who between
is death Monday and Wednesday attacked the basis of the revolutionary armed
forces of Colombia (FARC) in a rural area of La Macarena population
participated in the so-called "Sodom operation". And after the attack there
was found the bodies of “ El Mono Jojoy” and his body guard
4. Robot Last Saturday was carried out by the national final of the Vex Robotics
Convention in Competition, a world chess Olympiad Robotics involving more than 45
Bogota countries worldwide, the Mall Grand station in Bogotá. The day brought
together 17 teams of young people between 15 and 18 years throughout
the country who eagerly sought two quotas to world final to be held in
Dallas, United States in May.

Competition aimed to bring young people to science and technology, giving

them a friendly and practical look of knowledge, in the words of Héctor
 Hugo Tabares, an industrial engineer responsible for evaluating the
performance of computers.

2. Choose two of the news from the previous exercise and get as much information as you can

1. Bogota will count with 250 more traffic 2. Recycle in Bogota

policeman

The Mayor of Bogota, Samuel Moreno Within the framework of the master plan for
Rojas, announced that next December the integrated management of solid waste in
will arrive in Bogotá 250 traffic Bogota, the city must implement a program
policemen in the city. of utilization of recyclable material. As a first
step began to build the first recycling park
"We hope that between now and last and enters the second tender. When these
month of the year in the capital of the are ready will implement the selective
country has 250 soldiers, because this is collection phase, in which all the citizens
an agreement between the Transit have to separate our waste collection truck
Police and the Secretary of and deliver the material to be recovered
Transportation, because obviously we once a week. It is undeniable that the city is
will not only improve mobility, but we a bit behind with regard to recycling, which
also will ensure the supervision, we Doña Juana Landfill is little time and we
operation and the enforcement of traffic can not continue burying the trash. A city
regulations in Bogotá” that produced nearly 6,000 tons of garbage
daily must have a comprehensive recycling
program, which brings benefits not only to
recyclers of office but to our environment
that need it.

3. Using the previous information prepare the script for the TV news program.

Good morning everyone at home !

Today on our emission of 7:00 pm, were going to talk about some good things
that had happen few time ago here on Bogotá, and well it’s time to get started:

The first notice well talk about is about security on here on the city, the major of
bogota, Samuel Moreno talked us about the plan that is going to be
implemented to improve the mobility and the security on bogota, and here it is
the interview,

“The plan is based on adding to the city a quantity of 250 traffic policemen, but
there are going to be distributed all around the city not just to play a role on the
traffic but helping with the security on strategically places that had already been
selected, by the studies of the more insecure places on the city and for
decreasing the rate of danger and make bagota a safer and better place to life
were going to implrement this and other plans for the improvement and of our
country”
This were the words of our major, Samuel Moreno Rojas and we will keep
interest on this reformance that are going to be aplaid all around the city, keep
on sincronize here on …. At the same time and on the same place all days

Have a nice night and enjoy the continuation of “The return to Halloween town”

Thanks to everyone for watching us the number one news program of bogota,

Good night to everyone

Don’t lose our emission of 9 o’clock

Good night ones more, we hope you had enjoy the final part of “The return to
Halloween town”

Then the presenters are introduced ones more and they smile to the cam

Presenter one, On our emission of 9 o’clock there is a new news that we just
got, and it is about recycling in Bogota, this is quite fresh information so there
are not to much details, but here it goes for your our televises to know about
this theme.

Then the presenter will make an intro to the news, there for the second
presenter to introduce the hole new to the audience and also to the people at
the studio

Presenter two “ this news is quite interesting, because it is important to

awareness people of all what means taking care of the planet, so here there is
the hole news”

The news is presented, with all this info “Within the framework of the master
plan for the integrated management of solid waste in Bogota, the city must
implement a program of utilization of recyclable material. As a first step began
to build the first recycling park and enters the second tender. When these are
ready will implement the selective collection phase, in which all the citizens
have to separate our waste collection truck and deliver the material to be
recovered once a week. It is undeniable that the city is a bit behind with regard
to recycling, which we Doña Juana Landfill is little time and we can not continue
burying the trash. A city that produced nearly 6,000 tons of garbage daily must
have a comprehensive recycling program, which brings benefits not only to
recyclers of office but to our environment that need it”

Then there are presented other news also with a brief intervention of presenter
one and there will be pass a video of each news with time and place were it
happened, after this there is going to be a background of the studio while
everyone is saying good bye to the audience and at the end the principal of the
show will thanks to everyone for watching and he will ask to everyone to see the
show ones more at the same time all the days ;)