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Wat was de reden voor ‘the Department of Transport’ om de heer Hunt te schorsen? A Hij bracht het leven van kinderen in gevaar. B Hij had zich misdragen tegenover kinderen. C Hij hielp kinderen op een plek waar hij niet mocht staan. last night after they Michael Hunt, 60, who used his initiative to come to the rescue of youngsters struggling to dodge traffic just yards from his allotted crossing point, described the decision as ‘ludicrous’. But the retired RAF squadron leader was removed from duties for ‘misconduct’ because his bosses said he could have been run over on the dangerous stretch. Despite the dire risk assessment, schoolchildren must now cross the road on their own. Tory MP Phillip Davies, who described Mr Hunt’s treatment as ‘stark, raving bonkers,’ added: “Here is a man looking to do his job, yet these officials are more worried about him getting run over and suing for compensation than the kids he is supposed to look after.” He was stationed at a busy T-junction on the A1 close to Marown Primary school on the Isle of Man. But Mr Hunt also decided to help pupils who got off at a nearby bus stop and had no option but to cross the adjoining road. He was spotted by a Government inspector who ordered him to stop. The Department of Transport on the Isle of Man stood by its decision. A spokesman said: “We have a responsibility to schoolchildren, drivers and the school-crossing patrol officer to locate prescribed school crossings in safe areas.”
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Thrill-seekers are hung by their hips and hurtled at speeds of 70mph on Britain’s scariest new roller coaster. Susan Orchard reports S C R E A M ! 1 Riding Drayton Manor ’s new G-force is a bit like that moment when you wake in the middle of the night in rapid free fall only to be woken by a thud on your comfy mattress. But only a bit. Because on this feeling loss 24 seconds, little comfort. 2 this revolutionary I was more than a little nervous because its claim to fame (at least according to the brochure) is the nerve-racking fact that there is nothing to secure your shoulders and just a bar across the hips. The idea is that the positive G-force will hold you in place. Sadly, all this did little to reassure me as I didn’t understand a word of it. I was dangling 23 metres above solid ground, held in place by a single bar across my hips. you’ll enjoy it. Once it’s over.





Je houdt van snelle, spannende achtbanen. Welke achtbanen zijn dan niets voor jou? Schrijf twee namen op. The Riddler’s Revenge SIX FLAGS, CALIFORNIA Claim to fame: The world’s longest, tallest, fastest, loopiest stand-up roller coaster. Ups and downs: The ride is based on Tim Burton’s Batman forever film and features 370 feet of track, a top speed of 65mph, a maximum G-force of 4.2 and a maximum drop of 146 feet. And you have to stand up. Why can’t these roller coaster manufacturers just let you sit down and relax? Leap the Dips LAKEMONT PARK ALTOONA, PA Claim to fame: The world’s oldest functioning roller coaster. Ups and downs: Built in 1902, this is not a natural first port for adrenaline junkies: it has a pedestrian top speed of 10mph, and a distinctly unexciting height of 48 feet. Despite such shortfalls, Leap-the-Dips has become a national monument. It was nearly scrapped in the 1980s, but was restored and reopened in 1999. Steel Dragon NAGASHIMA, JAPAN Claim to fame: The world’s longest steel roller coaster. Ups and downs: It has three colossal hills and two sections of track where the coaster train disappears into a tunnel, only to emerge when the riders have turned a little green. At 8,100 feet in length, it is, by distance, the longest roller coaster in the world, although with speeds up to 95mph, that 8,100 feet gets eaten up pretty quickly. Kingda Ka SIX FLAGS, NEW JERSEY Claim to fame: The world’s fastest and tallest roller coaster. Ups and downs: When the steel monster opened this year, it broke pretty much every record going. New England thrill-seekers can now re-arrange their entrails to their heart’s content, when Ka launches them from 1 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds, before catapulting them 456 feet into the sky. The ride is definitely not for the fainthearted.

coaster. Ups and downs: This one doesn’t break any Ups and downs: On top of the records for speed or size, or number of Stratosphere Tower, more than 900 feet coronary arrests, but it wins all the prizes for above the ground, this takes some beating. ingenuity. The riders simply hop into their The track extends a total of 868 feet and red, white and blue minis, and pretend to the passengers ride in an open vehicle drive the booty out of the square with the which whisks round the tower at just over threat of being done over by the caribinieri. 30mph. The slowness of the rides ensures There are, disappointingly, no voiceovers on the passengers contemplate every last inch the ride. between them and the ground.
opgave 4Tekst 4 ‘I rejected a job in insurance to live in a tree.’

‘I rejected a job in insurance to live in a tree.’ Kate Bonner, 32, from Dorset, became a tree protester in 1995. She now runs a nursery school. ‘I had always done what my parents expected of me, studying hard and going to university. 40 nearest reclamation yard. Afterwards, I could either follow the 5 career path they wanted, or break out and do something more positive. ‘I had just been offered a job in 45 months. There were about 50 insurance, which promised good 10 pay and prospects. My parents wanted me to take it, but I disagreed with the ethics of the industry. 50 very basic, communal lifestyle. My ‘I’d heard of a tree-protest site 15 near where I lived at the time, in Guildford, Surrey. The council was planning to widen a road and build a huge incinerator in the middle of 55 a housing estate. After watching 20 coverage on the local news, I decided that I wanted to make a difference. Although I had never protested about anything before, 60 I was 30ft up in the air. this felt like the right thing to do. 25 ‘When I told my parents I was planning to become a protester, they were deeply disappointed. They care about the environment, but believe the right way to get 30 things changed is to go through your local councillor or to write to your MP. But, at 23, I was full of determination. ‘It was a cold winter’s morning 35 when I left. There was only one person awake on the site. He told me they needed long wooden

‘One day, a passing motorist in a big, flash car saw me washing my face in a bowl and yelled: “Get a bath!” He probably saw me as 65 some dirty crusty. 85 on. I felt I had made a difference, ‘Everyone found their natural roles. My job was to get wood and water. When we needed food, we hitched into town. A lot of our 70 supplies came from supermarket 90 skips at the back of the supermarket. On the day we heard the protest had been successful, loads of police and council 75 members showed up and the 95 sustainable lifestyle. My atmosphere was amazing. ‘Next, I moved to a site at Lyminge Forest, Kent, where we eventually stopped a holiday 80 village being built on 440 acres of


What reason does Kate mention in lines 8-24 for not taking the job she’d been offered? A She could not accept the moral standards of the business. B She realised that this kind of company damages the environment. C She thought the job didn’t offer enough opportunities. D She wanted to show her parents that she could make her own decisions.

Geef voor elk van de volgende beweringen over Kate’s ouders aan of deze juist of onjuist is volgens regels 25-33? Omcirkel achter elk nummer ‘juist’ of ‘onjuist’ in de uitwerkbijlage. 1 Ze waren geïnteresseerd in milieubescherming. 2 Ze vonden dat je milieuproblemen op moet lossen via de politiek. 3 Ze verwachtten dat Kate de politiek in zou gaan. 4 Ze hoopten dat het verkeersproject door zou gaan





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Enkele inwoners van de Ierse stad Dublin vertellen wat ze wel en niet goed vinden aan hun stad. → Wie van de ondervraagde personen wil dat Dublin autovrij wordt? Schrijf de naam op. What I like about you David Boland went out into the streets to find out what people of the city like best, and what they would change. The best thing about Dublin is the cosmopolitan atmosphere. There are so many different nationalities now living in Ireland. It feels much more like I’m actually living in Europe, rather than living in an Irish city. If I could change something, though, it would be the traffic. I have a motorbike and a car, but I don’t bring the car into town any more, because of the traffic and the cost of parking. I only use it to go down the country. Alan that the tourists can find them, and One of the things I have always liked about Dublin is the fact that it’s fairly well contained. But I’m looking forward to the time when a lot of its building work is gone. Jennie a while. Otherwise, Judge Roy I like the company in Dublin, all the friends that I have around. But I would like to change the litter situation. Brian though, is a more efficient bus I’ve been here for two years, and what I really like is the music scene. There are a lot of great
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opgave 8Tekst 8 The 77 million curse

The 77 million curse When 47-year-old mother of six Dolores McNamara from Limerick won £77 million on the EuroMillions lottery she knew life would never be the same again. She could give up her part-time cleaning job and stop worrying how to pay for her youngest child’s school uniform… 1 But wealth has come at a price – and that’s a sobering thought for the person who will win the even bigger £85 million jackpot in the same lottery. Six months after her dream windfall, 4 Dolores and her family have been plagued by kidnap plots and death threats which have forced them to go into hiding. While decorators put the finishing touches to their £1.2 million new home in Co Clare, the McNamaras are living somewhere else, in fear for their lives. 2 Dolores’s eldest son Gary, 26, had to leave his home on the outskirts of Limerick with his girlfriend and child after the police told him of plans by a notorious Irish criminal gang to abduct them and hold them for ransom. All Dolores’s children are being protected 5 by bodyguards and their new home is being fitted with a major security system. 3 Another blow came when her mother, Betty O’Donovan, died. Instead of enjoying her wealth as Ireland’s 72nd richest person, Dolores spent hours a day at her mother’s bedside. Betty was among those who had privately expressed concerns about the problems her daughter’s huge, new-found riches could bring.








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opgave 11Tekst 11 Wristband that really saves lives

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opgave 13Tekst 13 A dyslexic author writes children’s novel

A dyslexic author writes children’s novel At the age of 51, Sally Gardner has 40 just produced her first novel. Nothing remarkable, except that, until the age of 14, she was considered uneducable. 5 “I remember the look of horror on the teacher’s face when I came to take my 45 English O-level 1) ,” she says. “She told me just to sit quietly and not disturb the others.” The teacher had a point. 10 When Sally Gardner sat her 11-plus 2) , she had drawn all over the paper. One 50 I couldn’t spell or read the word school after another gave up on the girl who had to change her name from Sarah to Sally, because she couldn’t 15 spell it. And yet for the past ten years, she 55 years ago, that wasn’t an option. After has made her living by writing children’s books. Recently, she wrote I Coriander , which is a semi-magical 20 story for older children. Gardner thinks in three dimensions. “When I look at a 60 a boy was having a fit in class, tree, every single leaf looks equally clear.” This gift has made her a successful costume designer, but she 25 discovered it only after a humiliating childhood. Even now, many years on 65 don’t come easily to her. Words have from her painful schooldays, she is still angry at the way she was belittled for what was then called ‘word blindness’ 30 and would now be called severe dyslexia. 70 “It’s a miracle if a child like me leaves school unharmed,” she says. “I was thought lazy and stupid. I was 35 called ‘Silly Sally’. I was bullied and took to stealing to make friends. For 16 75 circus trick of being able to read and years I was punished by an education system which considered the things I was good at inferior. My parents noot 1 O-level = eindexamen noot 2 11-plus = soort Citotoets aan het eind van de basisschool noot 3 School for maladjusted pupils = school voor moeilijk opvoedbare kinderen





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Halt! Wife in hot pursuit “ It was not like a car chase in the films. I soon caught up with them. The lorry was driving slowly along the A60 which was heavy with traffic. I flashed my lights and gestured them to pull over, but they just indicated that they were carrying on. So I drove over to the wrong side of the road and stopped in front of them. I obstructed the Jane Pickering had just picked up the phone to tell her husband Andrew that their garden shed had been broken into, when she saw a lorry pass the front of her house. On the back of the lorry Jane saw their very own cement mixer! passing by, used his mobile phone 1 Mrs Pickering phoned the police to report the loss of around £1,000 of her property. “I immediately hung up and grabbed my car keys and set off in pursuit. It was an instinctive decision, but something that I think I would do again,” she said.




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Wat is de taak van de ‘parkeerfee’ bij een winkelcentrum in Miami? A het bewaken van auto’s van klanten B het bijvullen van parkeermeters voor klanten C het inpakken van boodschappen voor klanten Parking-meter fairy That guy folks see skating around Miami in a pink wig, lavender tutu and angel wings, isn’t a raving lunatic. He’s just the city’s first ‘parking-meter fairy.’
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