Question

una lectura sobre la ecología en inglés

Answer 1

The child of no and water
Once upon a time there was a very, very disobedient boy whom his family called "the boy of the No", because every time he was ordered to do something, he did the opposite. If they told him to get up, he would stay in bed. If they told him to get dressed, he would stay in his pajamas. So one thing after another and that's why his family ended up forgetting his real name and always referred to him as "the child of No". He spent hours watching TV or in front of his computer and did not respect anyone or anything. For example, if he went to the bathroom, he left the light on, and when he was told to turn it off, he would answer, "now, now," but he would not move. If he opened the refrigerator, he would leave it open, and when they told him to close it, he would reply, "now, now," but he did not move from his seat. I always did the opposite.One of those days when you have the feeling that something magical is going to happen, "the boy from the No" opened the lavatory faucet to wash his hands, because he had them choked with chocolate and went to the living room to watch TV, leaving The tap is open. His mother, hearing the water fall from the kitchen, said: "Turn off the tap!" And "No-child" answered "now, now" and kept watching TV. His father, when he heard the water falling from his office, said: "Turn off the tap!" And "the boy from the No" answered: "now, now" and continued watching TV. His grandfather, when he heard the water falling from his room, said: "Turn off the tap!" And "the boy from the No" answered: "now, now" and kept watching TV.After a while, "the boy from the No" felt thirsty and shouted from the couch: "Mom, bring me a glass of water," but no one answered. Then he shouted, "Dad, bring me a glass of water," but no one answered. Then he shouted, "Grandpa, bring me a glass of water," but no one answered. Grumbling, he got up to drink a glass of water, but what was his surprise when, when he opened the tap, not a drop dropped."Where is the water?" He asked himself, and began to look for her everywhere. He searched her in the drawers and in the closets, in the rooms and under the beds, looked in the storage room and even looked out of the window in case the water had gone out for a walk. Then he thought, "Silly faucet, he's probably stuck," and put one of his fingers on the tap to check. And at that moment, from the finger inside the tap to the toes, "the child of the No" turned into a drop of water and slipped down the drain.As he slid down the pipes as if he were coming down a huge slide, "the boy from the No" shouted "I do not know how to swim!" And he was falling and falling until he reached an underground river, where he found other drops that looked strange "Glub, glub." Without knowing how far he was going, he went along the other drops along the path of the subterranean river to a lagoon, where millions of drops awaited."What are you doing here?" - asked "the child of no". And the drops responded: "Glub, glub". A drop that spoke the language of the children, approached and said:"Let's create electricity.""What for?" Asked the boy."For many things," replied the drop. "So that you have light in your house, so that appliances, such as the refrigerator or the washing machine work ... Do you want to help us? No drop left."And "the boy of no", not to vary, answered: "No. I prefer to go home to play with the computer." "That's why electricity is needed," explained the drop.Suddenly, a drop that seemed to command more than the other drops, gave the order and all the drops prepared to create energy. As if they were only one, they pounced against a wall, forming mountains of foam, while the boy's not watching them from behind. He watched them work together, how they sweat the fat drop so he could have electricity in his house and remembered what the drop in the children's language had said: "no gullet left." And he felt inside something that can only be felt in one of those days when something magical can happen: he felt the need to help. And joined the rest of the drops to create energy.When he had finished, he slipped through a pipe and returned to the faucet again and became a child again. He gave many kisses and hugs to his parents and grandfather and, although they did not believe his story, they verified that something had changed, because if they asked him to pay the light, instead of saying "now, now ..." he said "save , Save ... "and turned it off, because he had understood the importance of saving energy and the enormous effort to create it. And over time they stopped calling him "the boy of no" and regained his name.

Answer 2

Flowers on the Moon
There was once a very sad and gray little planet. Its inhabitants had not cared for it, and although they had all the inventions and spaceships of the world, they had thrown so much rubbish and dirt in the field that they contaminated everything and there were neither plants nor animals left. One day, walking on his planet, a child found a small red flower in a cave. She was very ill, about to die, so she carefully picked her up with her land and began to look for a place to look after her. He searched and searched all over the planet, but he was so polluted that he could not survive anywhere. Then he looked up at the sky and saw the moon, and thought it would be a good place to look after the plant.So the boy put on his astronaut costume, climbed into a spaceship, and fled with the plant to the moon. Far from so much dirt, the flower grew with the care of the child, who visited every day.And so much and so well took care that soon after more flowers germinated, and those flowers gave rise to others, and in a short time the whole moon was covered with flowers. That is why from time to time, when the child's flowers open, for a few minutes the moon is dyed a soft red, and so reminds us that if we do not take care of the Earth, there will come a day when there are only flowers on the moon.