My name is Ahmed Mohammed, I’m 19 years old and I live in Abu Dhabi with my parents, 4 brothers and my sister. I was born in Abu Dhabi (UAE), my father is an engineer and my mother is a housewife.

I spent my first years in Abu Dhabi going to government KG school. When I was 6 years old I moved to the UK with my family as my father wanted to pursue his higher education. In the UK I went to an English private school with my two elder brothers, where I met a lot of new friends.

In my new school I participated in school sports competitions which I enjoyed very much, especially gymnastics and swimming. I remained in the same school for three years.

The school was located in a lovely city called Cardiff in Wales. There were lovely parks, fairs and shopping centers where we lived. I remember I had a yellow bike and I used to ride it all the time with my family and friends. I even remembered the time when the dogs from next door chased me around the block just because I was holding an ice cream in my hand.

Many weekends my mother use to take me to visit family and friends in other towns. I loved the welsh countryside with its green fields and lush scenery. We used to visit the welsh valleys where you could see many horses and sheep running around the huge fields, also the countryside had many farms, where you could buy a lot of different types of fresh fruits and vegetables .

After my father completed his studies my family and I returned to the UAE where i attended different private schools. I graduated from a school called IAS , it was one of the best schools I had ever attended . I met my best friends there and I’m still with them. After graduation, I decided to join Abu Dhabi’s men’s collage, where im still studying.


I hope I will succeed in my studies and graduate to make my parents proud of me. My goal is to become an electrical engineer to continue on for my father. On completion of my studies I would like to travel to many places around the world. Inshallah (god willing) I will achieve my goals.

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1) I feel like I could have done better and achieved more but circumstances stopped me and yes I will win.

2) Yes, as an individual, I preformed well, I tried my best but still i could have done better.

3) Yes, the team performed well, we co-operated and helped each other when needed.

4) The good things that happened in this course, is that my English improved a lot and I met some grat friends and teachers who helped me to succeed.

5) Nothing really bad happened but sometimes I got bad results in my quizzes.

6) We could improve our skills by spending more time writing essays and learning new words. Also we could practice reading and listing on our free time.

7) I have a wonderful teacher who always tries to help us improve our skills by given us a lot of interesting work to do.

8) Overall, the course was good. Kind of annoying with all the work we had to do but it was worth it.

9) Good work, the course was okay but quite long and the percentage of the blog should be higher since students work on it the most.

Renewable Energy Solutions

Renewable sources are used to produce electricity to reduce the amount of pollution. Power plants rely on fossil fuel to produce electricity. We should use renewable sources such as solar and wind energy to produce power. Renewable sources should be used more to reduce the amount of fossil fuel. When the amount of fossil fuel used is reduced the amount of carbon dioxide in the air decreases.

Energy Efficiency Solutions

Energy efficiency means using a technology that produces more power by consuming less energy. I’ll explain some of the solutions that should be made: First solution is that new buildings should be designed to depend on energy efficiency technology and solar energy. Second, people should stop using a lot of electricity and they should use energy efficient technology that produces more power by consuming less energy. Third, Cities can benefit from energy efficient by a system that combines heat and power.

Green vehicle solution

There are three types of solutions. First, any countries, cities and towns are saving taxpayer dollars and reducing air pollution by greening their fleets with hybrid gas – electric cars. Second, Governments encourage people to buy hybrid vehicles by providing them free parking and lower registration fees and taxes. Third, cities are replacing there polluting old buses with buses that run on cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) or with hybrid-electric diesel engines.

Masder city

Masdar city is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. The budget for master city will be about $ 22 billion. It will take eight years to build, 50,000 people will be able to live there. This project will save almost 2 billion dollars of oil in the next 25 years. Masdar city is a solution for global warming were no fossil fuel will be used to produce CO2. Masdar city will be divided into 4 main parts such as housing, business, commercial purposes and transportation / cultural pursuits. Masdar will be a city which relies on renewable energy like solar and wind energy. The goal from the master city is to develop a city which has no waste of what so ever and uses clean energy to brighten our future.

My name is Al Gore a former vice president of the USA. I was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2007 and now im trying with all my effort to find ways to save our precious world by preventing global warming.

I think that the world will be destroyed in the future by global warming, if we don’t act know.

I believe that if all the people around the world try to reduce their carbon footprint, the world could be saved.

I feel very sore inside me because the government doesn’t care about the effects of global warming and people who would suffer around the world.

I have done many things in my life. My main achievements are to explain and to show the world about the issues of “global warming.” I was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for the "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” I also starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary on the topic of global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. In 2007, I helped to organize the July 7 benefit concert for global warming, Live Earth. I’m currently chairman of the Emmy Award - winning American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management. a director on the board of Apple Inc., an unofficial advisor to Google's senior management, chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, and a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkin Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group.