【推荐2】Have you ever heard of e-waste, which can be produced every day? How do you deal with your computers, CD players and mobile phones when they’re broken or you want a new one? Most people just throw them away. With the development of electric industry, e-waste pollution has become a serious problem and affected (影响) the environment.

According to the United Nations, in 2020, people around the world produced 53.6 million tons of e-waste and only 17.4% of e-waste was collected and recycled. According to the report, in 2020, Asia generated the largest amount of e-waste, about 24.9 million tons, followed by the Americas (13.1 million tons) and Europe (12 million tons), while Africa and Oceania produced 2.9 million tons and 0.7 million tons.

It’s important to pay attention to e-waste. It can either be valuable or harmful, depending on how we deal with it. E-waste is a valuable urban mine (城市矿藏). The value of the metals, like gold and silver in the waste around the world, is amazing. And the metals can be reused. But if people throw them away, the toxic chemicals (有毒化学物质) can get into the earth or air. They will do harm to environment and affect people’s health.

To help reduce (减少) e-waste, we can buy longer lasting e-products. If you have unwanted e-products, find a new home for them. You can also take computers and phones to see if companies offer recycling programs. For example, Xiaomi company now recycles people’s used products in China when they are buying new ones.

【推荐3】“Green” is more than just a colour. It means that you should live to protect the environment — the water, the land and the air. You can be a green kid by following these steps:

Reduce (减少) it.

When you use less of something, you do a good thing for the Earth. For example, a shorter shower means you use less water. (5) Turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

Reuse it.

Many times, even if you don’t need something, someone else might just need it. For example, if your younger sister doesn’t play with her bear toy, you can give (4) it to your neighbour. Try to change books, toys, even clothes with friends.

Enjoy it.

It’s true that pollution is a great problem now, (2) _______ the Earth is still a beautiful and interesting place to explore (探索). Go for a hike (远足), visit nature centres, and gardens , climb mountains and take a boat in the rivers …Outdoor activities are good for you. You can also plant trees ,collect reusable (可重复使用的) things … Being a green kid is so easy .

【推荐1】Do you ever feel no one really understands you? Well, “Pepper”, a robot could change all that. Pepper is the first robot to read human’s feelings. Using its emotional recognition, Pepper can react to people when it is close to them — making jokes, dancing and even singing in Japanese.

The man-like robot looks a small girl. It is four-feet tall with a table computer set to its chest. It has human-like hands, a girl-like body and baby-like voice. It was shown to curious people in Tokyo stores on Friday by Softbank, a Japanese robotics company.

Pepper can examine face expressions, human voice and signs, then make an answer. Pepper is designed to be a family robot, but it isn’t like Rosie, the household robot on the cartoon. Pepper is used at home or in the store, where we provide fun and entertainment.

Pepper gets power from love inside a family. Not only is he making jokes, making them laugh, also it helps people when they are in trouble. In a natural accident, it can help make those people who are sad or lonely feel relaxed, encourage them or make them laugh.

Pepper was on sale in Japan for around $2,000 in February, 2015. For now, several Peppers are at Softbank stores in Tokyo for people to visit. The creators say before selling “Pepper” they want the robots to store more knowledge, so it can get along better with humans.

English is always changing. The English that people used 500 years ago is very different from the English we use now. Even in the last fifty years, English has changed. New words are entering our language all the time. The words internet, email and mobile phone are only twenty years old. The word website is even younger. We only started using it fifteen years ago. But what causes languages to change? And is language change a positive or a negative thing?

There are many reasons that languages change. One reason is that technology changes. We use new words for new types of technology. Thirty years ago, we only used the word mouse in English to describe an animal. Today, the word mouse also means the object you use to control a computer. Another important reason for language change is communication between different countries and cultures. For instance, English uses words like sugar from Arabic, shampoo from Hindi and yoghurt from Turkish. Languages also change because young people create their own way of talking that is different from their parents. Teenagers often use new slang—informal words and phrases—to talk to their friends. Some slang gets forgotten, but other slang words become part of normal, everyday language. Words like bus and rock music started as slang, but now they are in the dictionary and everyone uses them.

But is language change a good thing or a bad thing? Some people think that we should stop languages from changing. They think that they need to protect their language or it will die or become worse. In France, there is an organization called L’Academie Francaise that decides what is correct and what is incorrect in French. They look at the new words that people are using and decide whether they are good French or not. There are also organizations like this in other countries, such as Indonesia and Spain. However, other people believe that language change is a natural thing and shouldn’t be stopped. They think that it is normal that languages change over time. They think that languages need to change to stay modern and interesting.