Eindexamen engels vmbo gl/tl 2013, tijdvak 1

Adventure Playgrounds (1) Adventure playgrounds to let older children find out about risk will open around the country. Children's Secretary 1) Ed Balls promised to spend extra money for physically- challenging play areas aimed at turning 8- to 13-year-olds away from the computer screen. He is worried too many children no longer experience controlled risk which would teach them to take safe decisions in future. It is part of a major government plan to reverse the decline of childhood. This plan also aims at improving drugs and alcohol education in an attempt to tackle increasingly risky behaviour such as binge-drinking. The exposure of children to violent images via the internet or video games will also be tackled. teamwork and leadership skills there. noot 1 Children’s Secretary = minister van Gezinszaken

BUY DESIGNER FASHIONS ON A SHOESTRING Chic&Seek is selling luxury clothes and accessories at low prices. So how does it measure up? Maisha Frost reports A NEW firm has fashioned a way of selling designer labels at a snip thanks to its own business model. Chic&Seek is a destination for expensive, beautifully made clothes and accessories that their owners no longer want, but regard as too 4 or little used to throw or give away. Entrepreneur Tara Nash- King’s recession- conscious venture gives contemporary classics a second life by what she describes as ‘redistributing’ them at a fraction of their original cost. Customers who never lacked taste, just the 5 to do it justice, can now afford a timeless silk Chanel top for £180 or a handbag by Alexander McQueen for less than £300. Nash-King, 29, sells online and by visitor appointments. The recession has changed the way lots of women shop. Even the rich are keen to get 6 . There’s something very desirable about not paying the full price, but still owning something very lovely. At first Nash-King thought her buyers and sellers would be two distinct sets of people but that is 7 . She says: “People who sell through me also buy. London is a 10 ? Nash-King says it could be

Go with the Flow WHERE would you rather be? Office bound and waiting for lunchtime, or camping in the Arctic, waiting for a polar bear to decide whether to make you his dinner? 1 Going out on the ice proved an easy decision for Charlotte Eddington, 27, the head of energy and sustainability at CB Richard Ellis, a global property consultancy. After six months’ hard training, dragging sledges weighted with sand around Richmond Park, Charlotte and a companion became the youngest all-female team to complete the 350-mile Polar Race, from Canada to the North Pole, in April. 2 But then nothing really prepares you for temperatures as low as minus 70 ° C (-94 ° F), including wind chill, and ice rubble the size of small houses. “It is very hard. You can’t wait to get home and have some nice food,” Charlotte says. “We weren’t aiming for a position in the race but the more we went through, the more 14 we got.” The team came third, reaching the finish after 17 days, 4hrs and 35mins. 3 Back at her desk after five weeks on paid leave, Charlotte has been given a new perspective on managing her team. “On the ice, teamwork is about survival,” she says. The pair had to check each other’s faces for frost nip, for example. “If you don’t look after each other, you’re not looking after yourself,” she says. And when faced with a large polar bear rummaging for food and seemingly undeterred by their banger gun, the pair stood together and advanced towards the hungry animal making as much noise as possible. Another polar bear clawed a hole in their tent while they were sleeping but was soon scared away. 4 “You see problems from a different perspective and you have a lot of drive. Now, if I go to the gym, it’s not enough to go for a half-hour run, I really have to push myself. It’s similar with work as well.” She puts the same dedication and power into motivating her team. She says that enthusing others is the best way to get people pulling together. “After you have been out there and faced the worst and come through it with a smile on your face, you bring that into your job. We didn’t have a cross word in the Arctic. You see people in the office getting annoyed about something and you think, ‘there must be a way around it’. In the Arctic you have to solve your problems and you have to be prepared for every eventuality.” The Times, 2007

I'm Just Beginning By James Cracknell (1) Since taking up rowing I'd dreamt of winning a gold medal. Relationships, a ‘proper’ career, money, holidays, and friends' weddings had all been sacrificed at the altar of rowing. After having won two Olympic gold medals I was mentally prepared to retire. Then television presenter Ben Fogle bounced up to me at a party. "I'm doing a rowing race across the Atlantic. Do you want to do it with me?" he asked. After discovering he couldn't row I politely declined, but soon realised I was missing something: a goal. I'd had one since I was 16 years old and felt incomplete without having something to aim for. So I phoned up Ben and agreed to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. (2) The difference between preparing for a sporting event and a challenge like this became obvious on a number of fronts: practical, financial and emotional. The Olympics demanded that I train to the best of my ability and then perform when it mattered; not easy, but I was supported by a coach and several other trained specialists. Ben and I only had each other. We also had a boat to build, navigation tests to pass, radio and sea-survival courses, training and (in Ben's case) learning to row. Getting sponsorship was virtually impossible and my wife wasn't too keen on me spending two months at sea. (3) 21 . We only got clearance to race 24 hours before the start and hadn't spent more than two hours on our boat. We'd totally under-estimated the psychological challenge of being out at sea in a tiny boat. There had been no discussion about how little we really knew each other or would function as a team. The first week aboard was spent coming