My 3 Summaries of Listenings from NPR!

I listened to “Traffic Accidents Top Cause Of Fatal Children Injuries”. It is about the problems that cause to make children die and according to the text, The World Health Organization shows that the most dangerous reason is a car on the road because the crashes kill 1 million children every year in the world. The publical huge problem is the children who survive have 8, 9 injuries which make them lead death. 840,000 children die evry year and this the same quantity of child and adolescent population of Chicago. The main problem is real traffic accidents. In Africa, which has the highest rate of fatalities, most children die while they are walking alone. In Asia, 3, 4, 5 people travel on 1 motorcycle. Also, unexperienced drivers dramatically reduce injuries. In developing countries, there is no seperation between the pedestrians and the traffic roads in many places, so many children are killed by cars. The safest truth from Sweden is that if a car is driven more than 35 km /an hour, children can be died more. At the end of the text, WHO recommends to promote funding about preventing childhood injuries for international projects for highway consruction and health development.


Ersin KOÇ



I listened to “Zoo Elephants Live A Shortened Life, Study Finds” and it is a debate between researchers. Some elphants which live in zoos live shorter than the elephants which are in wild life in some continents because of the bad quality of zoos. Some elephants are dying really early. For example, half of the elephants die by the age of 19 in European zoos. Also, Asian elephants in zoos live 44.8 years and Asian elephants in the wild life live 45 years as average. These are almost same number. To sum up, animals in some zoos live longer, but others not, and some changes in zoos can contribute to make animals live a long and healthy life.


Ersin KOÇ



I listened to “You Have Got A Friend In P-A”. It is a puzzle program which is broadcast on every Sunday. People join the program, try to answer the puzzle questions, and have fun. For that week, every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or title in which one word starts with P-I and the other starts with P-A, and the P-A and P-I words can be in any order. Also, a new guest join the special part of every segment, and Tom Jones, who is a very famous singer and who sold more than 100 million records worlwide, joined the segment for that week. Besides, the girl who joined the program said she was very jealous because Tom Jones was there and she was just on the phone. The special guest asks a puzzle question and people send their answers to the website till deadline. After the deadline, one of the people who has the right answer plays a puzzle on ear and the puzzle is added with him or her of the New York Times as he or she is a winner and a master of the puzzle.


Ersin KOÇ