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bob-sled, bob-sleigh 

orig. U.S. A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes. Also bob-sleighing vbl. n., the sport of riding on a bob-sleigh.

1839 in Amer. Speech (1948) XXIII. 44/1 Then there would be wear and tear of bob-sled. 1848-60 in BARTLETT. 1888 [see BOB n.1 2d]. 1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Sept. 882 The logs are loaded on bob-sleds and taken to the mills. 1894 H. GIBSON Tobogganing 163 Bobsleighing is another amusing form of tobogganing which has become very popular during the last few years Ibid., A Bobsleigh consists of two machines.connected together endways by a board, upon which the crew sit or lie. Ibid., The Bobsleigh, Bobsled, or double-ripper. 1910 Daily Chron. 12 Jan. 7/2 An English bobsleigh team.dashed down the bobsleigh run and route above Grindelwald at a great speed. 1959 Maclean's Mag. 9 May 82/4 A winded horse, his sleighbells jingling, struggled to pull a real bobsled up the icy slope. 1968 Listener 12 Sept. 335/2 The night that we first transmitted our £60,000 production of Hamlet at Elsinore, they gave the front cover to the world bob-sleigh finalists.

Dig og klimaet

Nok er klimatopmødet overstået, men på EMU kører klimakonkurrencerne på klimacup.emu.dk videre indtil juni 2010.

Målgruppe: Dansk, Engelsk, Tysk, Fransk eller evt. et andet fremmedsprog på de gymnasiale uddannelser - stx, hf, hhx, htx.

1 Opgave: Lad dine egne synspunkter komme til udtryk  'Klimaforandringer' - hvad tænker du?

Målgruppe: Alle elever i grundskoler og på ungdomsuddannelser.

2 Opgave: Lav et billede, en tegning, en skulptur eller en kollage om ordet klimaforandringer. 

Der er frit slag - brug fantasien!  http://klimacup.emu.dk/konkurrencer/billedkunst-gym/index.html

Ubekvemme film

Målgruppe: Geografi, Dansk, Engelsk, Samfundsfag, Biologi, Filmkundskab på gymnasiale uddannelser - stx, hf, hhx, htx.

3 Opgave: Se en af filmene eller The Age of Stupid eller An Inconvenient Truth, skriv et essay om eller lav en filmanalyse af filmen/filmene.

http://klimacup.emu.dk/konkurrencer/inconvenient-truth-gym/index.html