Introduction

 

I would like to introduce our English Corner. This space is designed for practising your language skill and to entertain you at the same time. So you can do something for your knowledge (yes, I know, how boring it sounds, but I believe, it won’t be so bad). To avoid mistakes in this topic, we let teachers or other people check our text and correct it. If you found a mistake, you would be a Superman, genius, or just better than we are (…the corrector is). In this case it would be our pleasure, if you corrected us. It’s enough for an introduction, I think. Enjoy your reading!

 

 

A few words about panda

In this age we prefer to care about everyday-problems: important things are disappearing and this isn‘t good. These things are for example global problems.

I had a cup of tea with my friend and I wanted to talk about something useful. Something original, important and good to know. And then I got the idea: dying out of pandas. It’s the famous problem – if you ask somebody about his opinion of this, he, or she will tell you, that he likes pandas, that pandas are such cute animals and that he/she doesn’t agree with their sad ending. This counts for most cases. After these few sentences, it seems to be the end of this conversation but I don’t like the conclusion, "We can’t do anything, it seems that they are definitely dead", so I decided to find out something more. What do we know about pandas? How big are they? I thought that panda was a little bear (thought it was a koala) and then I saw this picture:

Kind of scary isn’t it? After a little searching I realized that there are two kinds of pandas in the world: LESSER PANDA and GREATER PANDA.

The Lesser Panda lives in cold, wet forests in Nepal, Barma and China. It’s good at climbing and not very often on the ground. It has red colour, long hairy tail and looks like a cat. The herbivore weighs about 4 kg.

 

The Greater Panda (the animal in the picture) is the panda we all know. It’s a meter and a half tall and it weighs about 160 kg and eats bamboo roots. They are really in danger because of their skin. And by the way they have 6 fingers! It’s a well-known problem that they are dying, but what can we do? And it may be a bigger problem, that we don’t know much about them. Maybe they will die sooner than we start to do something! I tried to find some organization, which helps pandas to survive and all I ound was this site: www.redpandaproject.org. There are 3 ways of helping:

 

1st: Let’s adopt a panda!

 

2nd: Let’s send money to people who help them in the nature – I would like to know what they do, it sounds kind of scary. The main problem of panda is that they don’t want to reproduce. So how can people help?

 

3rd: Let’s help in some other way! – They say that if you call them, they will find you another kind of help.

 

Finally, I would like to say this: Homō sum et inter hominēs vīvō. (I am a man and among men I live.) But it doesn’t mean that I don’t have to be interested in the life around me. It’s important to understand global problems. So: who wants to adopt a panda?