Part E
Interpreting
1
Read the text about Growing Underground and answer the questions in German. You need not write complete sentences.
Growing Underground – an urban farming project
Only the tube trains of London's Northern line rumbling through tunnels overhead
provide any clue that Growing Underground is not a standard farm.
Richard Ballard, the founder of the underground farm, has been using an old tunnel
100 feet below Clapham High Street tube station for more than five years to grow
different kinds of vegetables, herbs, lettuce and other salad greens.
Growing Underground supplies herb and salad mixes to supermarkets as well
as to restaurants. Ballard proudly explains, "The United Kingdom is the hardest
market for growing salad. And, despite the very low prices in the supermarkets,
we've succeeded here." According to Ballard, farming in London creates lots of advantages as he can
harvest and deliver in lass than an hour as well as keep transportation costs at a
very low level. In addition, being underground means temperatures never go below
15° C, whereas surface greenhouses need to be heated. This way more harvests
are possible: 60 crops a year, compared with about seven on a traditional farm or
about 25 in a greenhouse. But as electricity to power the lights is still a big expense,
Ballard hopes renewable energy will become cheaper soon, which would make his
farm even more profitable. Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
2019/feb/10/urban-farming-feeding-cities-of-the-future (09.01 .2021)
| a) | Worauf ist Richard Ballard stolz? | (1) |
| b) | Welche Vorteile bietet der Gemüseanbau vor Ort in London? (2 Angaben) | (2) |
| c) | Weshalb ist der Gemüseanbau unter der Erde besser als in traditionellen Gewächshäusern? (2 Angaben) | (2) |
| d) | Worauf hofft Ballard, um seine Gewinnspanne zu erhöhen? | (1) |
Only the tube trains of London's Northern line rumbling through tunnels overhead
provide any clue that Growing Underground is not a standard farm.
Richard Ballard, the founder of the underground farm, has been using an old tunnel
100 feet below Clapham High Street tube station for more than five years to grow
different kinds of vegetables, herbs, lettuce and other salad greens.
Growing Underground supplies herb and salad mixes to supermarkets as well
as to restaurants. Ballard proudly explains, "The United Kingdom is the hardest
market for growing salad. And, despite the very low prices in the supermarkets,
we've succeeded here." According to Ballard, farming in London creates lots of advantages as he can
harvest and deliver in lass than an hour as well as keep transportation costs at a
very low level. In addition, being underground means temperatures never go below
15° C, whereas surface greenhouses need to be heated. This way more harvests
are possible: 60 crops a year, compared with about seven on a traditional farm or
about 25 in a greenhouse. But as electricity to power the lights is still a big expense,
Ballard hopes renewable energy will become cheaper soon, which would make his
farm even more profitable. Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
2019/feb/10/urban-farming-feeding-cities-of-the-future (09.01 .2021)
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2
Your class is planning an environmental internet project together with your English partner school. You and your classmates collect ideas.
lnform the English students about your ideas.
You need not write complete sentences.
| a) | Tanja: "Zuerst sollten wir eine gemeinsame Homepage für unser Projekt gestalten. Wir müssen fragen, ob sich jemand aus der englischen Gruppe damit auskennt." |
(1) |
| b) | Angela: "Lasst uns etwas zum Thema Ernährung machen, zum Beispiel gemeinsam eine Umfrage über das Essverhalten von Jugendlichen durchführen und vergleichen, was Jugendliche in England und hier bei uns so essen." |
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| c) | Selim: "Wir könnten auch darüber informieren, wie sich der ökologische Fußabdruck verändert, wenn man mehr Obst und Gemüse kauft, das vor Ort angebaut wird." |
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| d) | Luka: "Was haltet ihr davon, ein digitales Kochbuch mit Rezepten aus beiden Ländern zu erstellen? Das Ergebnis veröffentlichen wir dann auf unserer gemeinsamen Homepage." |
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You need not write complete sentences.
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1
Read the text about Growing Underground and answer the questions in German. You need not write complete sentences.
| a) | Richard Ballard ist stolz darauf, dass er trotz der niedrigen Preise in Supermärkten im Vereinten Königreich erfolgreich ist. |
| b) | -Ernte und Lieferung in weniger als einer Stunde. -niedrige Transportkosten. |
| c) | -Temperaturen sinken nie unter 15°C. -Keine Heizung nötig und mehr Ernte pro Jahr. |
| d) | Er hofft, dass erneuerbare Energien günstiger werden, wodurch seine Farm noch profitabler wäre. |
2
Your class is planning an environmental internet project together with your English partner school. You and your classmates collect ideas.
lnform the English students about your ideas.
You need not write complete sentences.
You need not write complete sentences.
| a) | Do you know how to create a website for our project? |
| b) | We could make a survey about nutrition to find out about eating habits of teenagers in England and Germany. |
| c) | We should provide information on how buying locally grown fruit and vegetables change the ecological footprint. |
| d) | How about creating a digital cookery book with recipes from both country? We can publish the result on our website. |