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Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
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Dear English community, 

We have a new mini-contest starting in our community today! The contest is a ‘Caption the Image’ contest and it’s open for entry until Friday, the 27th of June, at midnight.

Why join this contest? In this contest you can use your creativity and English writing skills to come up with a caption for the image below. And by participating in this contest, you’ll have a chance of winning a €50,00 Gift Voucher to purchase books or e-books on the online bookstore Libristo!

So, how does it work? 

  1. Send in your submission by writing a captivating ‘caption’ for the ‘Climate Change’ themed image below.
  2. The text needs to be written in English and it needs to be written by YOU.
  3. The caption needs to describe the situation in the photo in a creative or symbolic way in one or three sentences. 
  4. The deadline for submissions is Friday, the 27th of June at midnight.  

NB:  

  • Please be reminded not to write anything that could be considered offensive. If you’re unsure, please check our OLS Forum Netiquette and House Rules; 
  • You can only submit a maximum of one comment. 
  • There will be ONE winner.
  • Everyone who joins the mini-contest has an equal chance of winning, and there will be one who will be chosen at random via raffle.

Let’s get started with the assignment! This is really where you can let your creativity and imagination run free! Write a caption for the image below: 



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Source: pexels.com

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Looking forward to reading your entries :-)

Good luck!

Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English



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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

BellónLucía -
3 adults and 4 children pick up rubbish at the beach to keep the environment clean.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

lucairene -
Tiny hands, huge difference, let's make a cleaner today for a brighter, healthier tomorrow!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

AWASTHIDIVYANSHU -
Parents pass down values on the shoreline, showing their kids that every scrap they lift today is a pledge to cleaner coastline tomorrow.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

RashidHasnain -

Youngsters supervised by their ancestors, learning to keep the planet Earth clean for their bright future!

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LOUNISHanane -
erasing garbage history in order to provide future generations with a legacy of pristine, lovely nature.
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TóthMarcell Balázs -
It’s not just about cleaning a beach, it’s about uniting for a cleaner tomorrow. No matter the color of our skin, the Earth is our home. Let’s honor it together.
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De MonteAlessandra -

Cleaning our beaches, protecting our climate: small things for a great tomorrow.

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ClercTom -
Environmental awareness in action: children learn the importance of protecting nature by taking part in a beach clean-up alongside adults
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RamaekersFaas -
People coming together to clean the one thing that truly matters, earth. And passing it on to the young ones.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

CristeaSarah-Ioana -
The future lies in their little hands, all we do is encourage them to use their power wisely
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OttLars -
Attentive beach walkers clear away some garbage. If everyone leaves a place a little cleaner or tidier than they found it, the world will be a better place.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

NikolovaPlamena -
Нека научим децата да чистят след себе си и има шанс утре да сме на по-чисто място!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
Hi dear Plamena Nikolova,

Could you write your entry in English? Otherwise it is not eligible unfortunately.

Good luck!

Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

NikolovaPlamena -
I write again, as before in English:

Let's teach and children to clean up after themselves and then there is a chance we will be in a cleaner place tomorrow!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

AFRIYIEGYAMFUA -
Keeping our environment clean for a sustainable future - A shared responsibility of both the young and old.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

hornpavlos -
Making an impact: Families fighting back environmental pollution in cleaning the beach of plastic waste.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

massetmelanie -
Barefoot and brave, they gather the remains of our neglect with a grace we never deserved. No cape, no superpowers—just a shared will to rewrite the ending. Climate change wrote the crisis, but we’re writing the response

MASSET Mélanie
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Pardo PérezCarlos -
An instructive, responsable and encouraging reflection on how Climate Change should be addressed: with the family and friends happily cooperating on a sunny day at the beach.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SilvaMaria João Rey -
One bag at a time, we’re taking our planet back.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

WilmsInka -
Everywhere you are, you can do something for our planet, with family, with friends, even with strangers, in your nearest neigbourhood or in your free time at the beach, keep it up
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

PetcuIonela-Cristina -
The children and their parents protect the environment by cleaning the beach together. The parents teach the children how to behave well and to take care of nature.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

GoswamiDronashish -
United across generations, they sift through the beach’s plastic scars, each discarded bottle reclaimed a promise to mend our warming world.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Berrar TorreYun Xiu -
Make the environment clean again! Anybody can join the fight, no matter age, gender or race. The future is up to us.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

salwadominika -
Kids and adults picking up plastic,piece by piece because a cleaner beach means a cleaner future.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

HalfaouiCelina -
In my day, it was seashells that we used to collect on the beach... Let's clean up our beaches and get back to the good old days !
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SchmiedlerChristine -
Adults and children collect plastic trash from a beach, which is slowly swallowed by the rising see. The plasic comes from an island, that will never sink. The island made of plasic swimming in the ocean.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OrlačnikMarina -
By the restless sea, the trash does stir. It shakes our hearts, the souls and blur the world. Let's stand as friends, clean waste away - and watch the sea grow calm that day.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

KOŞARYaren Aybala -
Change doesn’t always shout. Sometimes, it walks along the shore with a garbage bag and a smile.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

BalkoYana -
Make your future clean and bright—start with the beach. Small steps lead to a great future!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Lupiáñez FontanalsAndreu -
Together, hands and hearts unite to heal the ocean’s wounds, one piece of plastic at a time, bringing hope back to our future generations.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

ČekadaAntea -
We all wonder where love is, but what do you see in this picture?
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

ShajudheenAlthaf -
Youngsters are taking matters into their own hands for a cleaner environment and a brighter future by clearing waste from beaches under their parents' supervision
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

GonzálezDiego -
The beauty of existence does not lies in our perfection, but in our ability to transform our own chaos into order, to mend what we have broken, and to find meaning in life´s simple moments. That is the essence of humanity; that is who we are.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Alonso HernándezPaula Esther -
So that our footprints on the sand are the only trace we leave behind.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

GöktekinÖmer Faruk -
The transfer of garbage collection and cleanliness awareness from parents to children, from generation to generation, promises a better future for this world.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

RojíkAdam -
Let's make this planet right. Even one piece of picked up garbage can start a global change if everybody does it.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Mateu DomingoJudith -
Small hands, big change: united by the shore, these climate heroes are cleaning today for a cleaner tomorrow.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

FerreiraDiana -
Barefoot in the sand, they gather what we left behind, not just plastic, but the pieces of a broken promise.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

cacciatoreirene -
No matter how hard you try, every living being leaves traces behind.
But you can choose how you want to leave traces.
Your choice, our path.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

ClimentRafael -
This picture evokes my memories of being in Norden (Germany) with my students (aged 15-16 years old) and collecting rubbish on the North Sea. Then we made a work of art to convey this message: take this time of uncertainty as an opportunity to leave a better world for future generations.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

FerreiraBruna -
In the image we can see families collecting trash, but that's not all, they are also helping the planet. Trash that is carried by the waves to the beaches every day.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

JanSindelar -
Small hands, big change - cleaning the shore today to save our tomorrow.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

HaibtJulian -
Greenwashing: Act now! What‘s really necessary for impactful change. Read our latest article and learn more on the topic of climate change.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
Thank you for your entry Julian! I like to how you added a 'call to action' in your caption. Just likes a real social media caption :-)
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Avila MorenoLaura -
The true inheritance is the values we build along the way and our future is everynone's combined, so show, teach and treat with respect the world we all live in.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

De TrochMichiel -
While the immediate effect of this effort is a cleaner beach, the greater effect would be working to stop pollution - making beaches stay clean in the first place.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

EllinaNefeli -
Moving with the waves, with the wind, moving with our earth with our bodies, synchronised, to clean, to cleanse…from the shores to our souls, until the scars of our excess no longer pollute.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SánchezSantiago -
Not everyone can change the world at once. But some don’t wait to make it happen.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SeninVladlen -
Is cleaning a beach looking boring? Planet Earth will not do it for you.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

DuttaShubhankar -
Regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity, the wonderful volunteers understood the fact that the greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

MalgrainHugo -
Three sentences:

Plastics that are more numerous, younger and longer-lived than humans, but also taller than children.
Plastics that are caught with nets or by hand, like fish.
Beachgoers replaced by plastics that are no longer there to sunbathe, but to pollute.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

NicolaiMalin -
You love spending your summers on the beach, listening to the waves crashing and watching the seagulls circling? Take responsibility now and keep the beach clean so that many other people can also experience these unforgettable little moments!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

MariaArdelean -
Guardians of the shoreline, these dedicated hands transform scattered waste into a beacon of hope. Their vital efforts are the quiet, yet powerful, tide turning against a changing climate.
-Ardelean Maria
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Viu i DuranOriol -
There will be more reasons to teach, as long as we walk on a plastic beach.

PS. Libristo's front page images with the tagline "be whoever" are AI generated, showing a lack of care for the environment and humanity as a whole. Plastic is not the only thing destroying our planet!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SalzmannDaniel -
As water flows, the Trash-Mount grows, so pick it up it´s everbodys deed, cause that´s where nature is most in need.
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ChegkaziKaterina -
All nations, all generations! Let's team up for a claner tomorrow!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Ramos GuerraAna Sofía -
Parents do, children follow: leading by example in taking care of our common home!
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

Vanden HeuvelNathan -
Two families, parents and children hand in hand working to create a better tomorrow.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

SchlagheckenDavid -
Parents leading by example, teaching their children that saving the future begins with simple acts - bending down to collect the trash that careless hands left across.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

BogátiGergely -
With each bottle they collect, hope grows that the next wave will carry fewer reminders of our waste.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

BrunettiSara -
The future won't fix itself, we are the solution. Future generations are looking up on us: every piece we pick is a promise to the planet; a cleaner beach, a brighter future. This is what climate action looks like: not someday, but today. Change begins with caring, and caring begins with us.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
This contest is now closed. Thanks to all who participated and sent in their lovely caption! I'll inform you when we know the date of the raffle to choose the winner!

Warmly,

Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English

PS, if you want to get more involved in our community and practise your English, why not join our upcoming speaking session on the 17th of July? You can sign up via this link: https://academy.europa.eu/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=37905
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

IrolloAndrea -
A group of people carrying out a hefty and, at the same time, physically demanding activity to undo the damage that other disrespectful human beings caused to the environment.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

YelliEsma Yağmur -
If you want to live, you have to keep alive and collect the garbage.
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Re: Mini Contest: ‘Caption the Image’ (Deadline: Friday the 27th of June)

OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
Dear contest participants,

The raffle to draw the winner is planned for this Friday at 2 pm Central European Time! The raffle will be recorded and published in this thread afterwards. You are also invited to join me during the raffle and attend it live via THIS LINK.

All participants who have complied with the contest rules and submitted their entry by Friday, June 27th, at midnight (CET) have an equal chance of winning.

Warm wishes,


Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English
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ChegkaziKaterina -
I'm sorry but I was away with erasmus the last month and I'm not sure who the winner was eventually. Did you post it somewhere? Thank you in advance!-)
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OLS Community ManagerMarieke -
Dear Katerina,

Thank you for your message! The winner of the contest was contacted privately via DM :-)

We will publish the recording of the raffle via this thread shortly if you want to see how the winner was drawn.

Warm regards,

Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English
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OLS Community ManagerMarieke -

Dear contest participants,

Thank you all for participating! You can find the recording of the live raffle below if you'd like to see how the winner was drawn. We have already sent the prize to the winner of this contest.

    

    

Hope to see you in a future contest!

Warmly,

Marieke, OLS Community Manager - English

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ChegkaziKaterina -
Todo bien! Thank you!
I was just wondering if I had won and didn't know. I was not in good touch with my emails lately !-)

Un abrazo!-)