Eindexamen engels vmbo kb 2009, tijdvak 2

Come to Cornwall… and go cage diving with sharks 1 Mally Toms has been fishing for shark from the Cornish port of Looe for more than 40 years, but this is the first time anyone has asked him to make friends 4 with one. The skipper of the Jo-Dam is helping to test Britain’s first cage- diving trips and looks sceptical as an eight-foot-high cage is lowered onto his boat. “This will never work,” Toms said. 2 Cage diving is a popular sport in South Africa and Australia and it offers divers the chance to come nose to snout with sharks. The Cornish waters are home to at least two species of 5 large predatory 1) shark and, starting next weekend, divers will be able to see them up close. Richard Pierce, a shark conservationist, plans to run a dozen trips over the next few months, six from Looe on the south coast and six from Padstowe on the north. 3 Pierce and Mr Toms will lay a trail of ‘chum’, a mix of mashed up mackerel, to attract the sharks to the boat, then lower paying guests inside the cage into the water. They will be told to keep their fingers and other 6 extremities safely inside the cage. Some 1,000 people have applied for the 85 places available on this season’s schedule. Although the £85-a-head trips are non-profit making, noot 1 predatory = roofdierachtig noot 2 cetaceans = walvisachtigen

Police swoop on toy gun boy, 10 By Mark Blacklock 1 situation. It was well over the top and very scary.” James, from Birmingham, said: “I bought the gun from a market with my pocket money. What kind of 10- year-old would have a real gun?” The youngster, who had been visiting his uncle and aunt as a treat, was allowed to keep the 3ft-long toy gun and told that because he was under the age of criminal responsibility, he would not be charged. He is now back home with his mother Mandy in Birmingham. A Somerset Police spokesman said: “To the untrained eye, an imitation firearm can appear to be the real thing. It has to be treated as such because the safety of the public and police officers is at stake. Naturally, this is 15 . One way of dealing with this is to send firearms officers – and in this case there were reports of a male with a firearm. The message to parents is not stormed into the home of the boy’s uncle Trevor Taylor, who coincidentally collects replica firearms and swords, only to find James clutching his toy. 2 “We heard a furious banging at the 5 front door and when I opened it armed police were standing there,” said Mr Taylor. “For a moment I thought it was a joke - that someone was playing a trick on me. They said they had come about a gun. They burst in with their

Why girls love horses… Lucy Cavendish tells of her own very personal love affair 1 I FIND horses graceful, glorious creatures. There are so many things that are perfect about them: the way they move, their fluid bodies and shining coats, the way they smell, their velvet noses and ticklish ears. They are handsome creatures with lots of attitude and character. 2 There’s a difference in how women feel about horses and how our male counterparts do. Women have love affairs with horses. We kiss their warm soft noses. We brush, bathe and rub them. 3 We give them garlic and molasses in their feed to keep them 7 healthy. We put boots on them so they don’t hurt their legs. We talk about them as if they are husbands or lovers or babies. We call them 8 ‘my boy’ and ‘my lad’ and ‘he’ as in ‘he doesn’t like it when...’ and ‘ooh, my boy’s in a bad mood today’. 4 I know women who spend every penny they earn on their horses. They spend their weekends and evenings cleaning tack, 9 mucking out stables and grooming them and then, finally, riding; because it’s not just about the riding, it’s about being near them. 5 l have always been horse mad. My first ever love affair was with Puffles, a tiny little Shetland pony. 6 After Puffles there was Monty. 10 There is something within most He was kind and safe and greedy. But then a friend of mine did his back in and pretty much gave his horse Roger to me. They are still strong, sometimes

frighteningly so. And people love to conquer them. 11 It’s not for nothing that we use the term ‘breaking in’ to describe the process of how a young horse is turned into a reliable riding horse. 14 20 horses will always be unpredictable. When you ride them you are aware of that. They are stronger than you. If they want to get you off their backs, they will. 12 But we still fall in love with them. You can run away on a horse, you see. You can go fast down hills and gallop along beaches and through forests and over plains. It is the ultimate escape. And yet you 15 can also just walk along, at one with your horse, seeing things people don’t normally see. In a car, you go too fast, on foot you are too small. 13 Horses can be companions. We trust them. In the past, people have

High schools, wake up! 1 For the typical U.S. high school student, the morning alarm goes off no later than 6.30am. Breakfast (also known as the most important meal of 4 the day) is either wolfed down or skipped altogether. The school bus arrives by 7.00am and the first class starts at 7.30am. This schedule works well for sports coaches: with school out at 2.30pm, they have plenty of time to get their teams into shape. It also works well for working parents who like the idea that their kids leave the house before they do. However, it doesn’t work for the students themselves, who by the second period in their timetable 5 can be seen nodding off at their desks. 2 Sleep researchers who 27 the teens they have interviewed, found out that teenagers stay up later and require more sleep than kids of other age groups. “Teens who don’t get enough sleep are bad tempered and 6 poorer learners who are likely to cut classes,” say sleep researchers from Brown University. So why does nearly every school district in the USA start high school so early? Bus schedules and money! 3 School buses need to make three full cycles to take all students to school. Starting high school later would mean buying more buses and hiring more drivers. The cheapest would be sending the younger students

spacious, located in ‘quiet neighbourhood’ or ‘suitable for families’. However, Julian Bending who runs Ralph Bending Estate Agents in Glastonbury is unusually blunt in his approach to selling houses. In the past, he has described houses as grubby, cramped, and dirty and one was said to be ‘suitable for a midget’. Other adverts have included descriptions such as ‘original and grim 3 late '70s conversion’ and ‘would suit a witch’. In another, the estate agent warned customers tempted to view a £110,000 house with ‘It's difficult to imagine a more disgusting house than this’. 2 Mr Bending said his descriptions were popular with buyers, who he claimed were fed up with misleading information from estate agents. noot 1 Advertising Standards Agency = reclamecodecommissie, zij bekijken of reclamemakers zich aan de regels houden