Eindexamen engels vmbo kb 2013, tijdvak 2

1) Lottery Winners in a Council House (1) It’s the standard promise that lottery winners make: “I won’t let the money change me.” And Stan and Pat Cable are unusual in actually sticking to it – still living in their two bedroom council house a year after winning 4 million in the lottery. But there are some who see nothing to admire in the retired couple’s loyalty to their former the Norfolk coast. Mr Cable revealed he lifestyle, accusing the millionaires of was angry at his wife for buying a £135 staying in their £65 a week property designer handbag and purse. He said: instead of freeing it for the needy. “I just can’t change the way I feel about (2) The row began when the Cables money in five or ten minutes.” Mrs gave an interview to a local newspaper. Cable replied by questioning her In that interview they told that they husband’s suggestion to buy a 4x4 car cannot leave their house in which they to replace their 11-year-old Vauxhall have lived for 27 years. One reader, Vectra to pull the caravan. She added: Reginald Fidler, 85, wrote to the paper “We are not going to make this money and complained that they should have change our habits. I have not got bought a place of their own months ago expensive tastes. This win means we and released the house for someone on can just buy what we want and we don’t the waiting list. “The council should have to worry about 9 anymore.” investigate council tenants and ask (5) Nick Gowrley, of mid-Suffolk those who can afford a private home to council, reassured the Cables that they leave the property, thus releasing it for will not have to leave their council those it was originally intended for.” home. He said: “Unless they neglect (3) But Mr Cable, 64, a groundworker the property or break any rules on the who retired 11 years ago with a bad tenancy agreement they have the right back, hit back, saying he and his wife to stay in their present accommodation. ‘laughed their heads off’ when they Mr and Mrs Cable have been secure read Mr Fidler’s letter. “We didn’t take tenants for a number of years and any notice of this chap,” he said. “We although their financial situation has are happy as we are and we like our changed, their rights remain the same neighbours.” A friend added: “It’s as those of other council tenants.” outrageous that they should be Daily Mail, 2009 noot 1 Council House = sociale huurwoning

A Kangaroo in America (1) An American woman suffering from depression found help in the company an unusual companion, local city officials worry the therapy pet − a partially paralysed 1) kangaroo − a public safety risk. Christie Carr hopes city officials will allow her to keep Irwin, a 25-pound great red kangaroo that she cares for much like a child. Irwin rides in a car seat, is dressed in a shirt and pants each day and is rarely away from his doting caretaker. (2) At the advice of her therapist, Carr began volunteering at a local animal sanctuary, where she met Irwin, then just a baby. Less than a week later, the kangaroo ran into a fence, fracturing his neck and causing severe brain damage. Carr volunteered to take the animal home and, while nursing him back to health, developed a bond. Irwin cannot stand or walk on his own, although he is slowly gaining back mobility and can hop three or four times in a row with assistance. "Irwin will not live if I have to give him up," Carr said. (3) Native to Australia, healthy male great red kangaroos can grow up to 7 feet tall, weigh more than 200 pounds and bound 25 feet in a single leap. But because of his accident, Irwin isn't expected to get larger than noot 1 partially paralysed = gedeeltelijk verlamd

Invasion of the Alien Ants Chris Ayres Los Angeles 1 IT SOUNDS like the plot of a far-fetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic. Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges – all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled. 2 Having ruined pumps at a sewage facility, the ants are now marching towards NASA’s Johnson Space Centre and William P. Hobby airport, Houston, putting state officials in a panic. “They’re itty-bitty things, and they’re just running everywhere,” said Patsy Morphew, a resident of Pearland, on the Gulf Coast. 3 She spends hours sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “There’s just thousands and thousands of them. If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.” Crazy is the right word. The ants are known as ‘crazy rasberry ants’: ‘crazy’ because they seem to move in a random scrum as opposed to marching in regimented lines, and ‘rasberry’ after a pioneering investigator, Tom Rasberry, who first identified them. 4 The ants have so far spread to five counties in the Houston area. Scientists are not sure from where they originate but they seem to be related to a type of ant from the Caribbean. “At this point it would be 21 to eradicate the ants because they are so widely dispersed,” said Roger Gold, a Texas A&M University entomologist. He added that the only upside to the invasion was that the crazy rasberry ants ate fire ants, which sting humans during the long, hot Texas summers. 5 But, unfortunately the ants also like to suck the moisture from plants, feed on precious insects such as ladybirds and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken. They also bite humans – although not with a sting like fire ants. 6 Perhaps their most remarkable characteristic, however, is that they are attracted to electrical equipment. Pest control specialists say that they are inundated with calls from homes and businesses now that the warm, humid season has begun, with literally billions of the ants wreaking havoc across the state. Worse, the ants refuse to die when sprayed with over-the-counter poison. Even killing the queen of a colony doesn’t do any good, because each colony has multiple queens. The Texas Department of Agriculture says that it is working with researchers from A&M University ants. and the Environmental Protection Agency to find new ways to 24 the The Times, 2008

The Art of Selling Sports to Teenagers When applied correctly, the motivation, discipline and structure in sporting activities are great for teenagers’ development Louise Tickle (1) It can be difficult to convince unwilling teenagers that running around a muddy field with a hockey stick in the middle of winter is good for them. But at Wexham School, Slough, staff try to do just that. “We believe that sport, together with healthy eating, has a real impact on students’ lives and learning. It helps them concentrate on their lessons,” says Adam Dale, the school’s director of sport. (2) Wexham School takes a consultative approach to integrating sport into teaching. For instance, teenage girls and PE do not normally mix because young women can be self-conscious and are wary of body image. Here, though, girls are asked about what kind of activity they’d enjoy taking part in and what puts them off. In addition, when girls said they’d like to try aerobics, a specialist teacher was hired to run the sessions. Asking students what they’d like to wear during sport lessons and designing a more flattering and comfortable PE kit is another example of the school’s canny approach. Of course, the hope is that adopting an active lifestyle now will encourage sports participation into adulthood. (3) On average, Wexham runs five different after-school activities each day that pupils can participate in fully, or dip in and out of, as the mood takes them. Pre-school activities are