Hi, I'm Leon. I live in a big city in Europe. There are lots of people who smoke cigarettes here. They pollute the air with their smoke. I get a headache when I have to sit in a smoky room.

Do you have lot of tobacco smoke around you?
Do you know how tobacco smoke can harm you?

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My papa smokes but I dont know how it harms me. [Egon - Hungary]

 

Hi, I'm Leon. I live in a big city in Europe. I just have to turn on a tap in my house to get clean cold water to drink or hot water to take a bath.

Do you have running cold and hot water in your house?
Do you have pipes running to your house to bring you water?
What are they made of?
Do you know how your water gets cleaned?

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As far as I know our water is cleaned by some kind of a chemical, like chlorine.That's why my mother prefers bottled mineral water. [Kori - Hungary]

 

Hi, I'm Leon. I live in a big city in Europe. We have six bins at home for trash, because we recycle as many things as we can. We also try to make less trash by using recycled products and less packaging.

How many trashbins do you have?
What do you recycle in your house?
How do you try to make less trash?

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We don't reuse too much, just the plastic bags from supermarkets. [Egon - Hungary]

We have four trashbins. We recycle bottles, paper, cardboard and plastic. We can also put old cloth things into recycling containers. We try to buy everything in recyclable packaging. [Katharina - Germany]

 

Hi, I'm Leon. I live in a big city in Europe. We have to pay a lot for electricity, so my family tries to use it carefully at home.

How do you save energy in your home?

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We turn off the lights when we leave the room. [Egon - Hungary]

We just exchanged all our windows to double pane windows to save on heating. [Katharina - Germany]

 

Hi, I'm Leon. I live in a big city in Europe. We have many buildings here from the old days. We learn about our history in school. We have lots of celebrations that we've kept for hundreds of years. On special days we dress in the folk wear that our ancestors wore and sing songs that they used to sing.

Do you have things that remind you of the past where you live?

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There are huge fortresses from the old days. [Kori - Hungary]

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