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ClipDic English, Parrt 2, Workbook

Contents

Foreword.........................................................................................3

Unit 1Paris puts brake on ‘mad’ drivers..............................................4

Unit 2Undercover British police help to find The Scream...................6

Unit 3Boys who killed sent back to their parents................................8

Unit 4S Koreans riot over explosion.....................................................10

Unit 5Arsonists torch forest...................................................................12

Unit 6Woman found safe in Cairngorms after two nights in snow tells

of looking forward to pint of Guiness....................................14Unit 7

Girl, 4, suffers lip and throat burns from bleach in fruit juice.16Unit 8

A brief affair of the heart............................................................18Unit 9

Social scientists advise German government to recognise world’soldest profession......................................................................20

Unit 10Science digs into mystery of life..................................................22

Key..................................................................................................................24

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Foreword

F o r e w o r d

Dear Student,

Welcome to the ClipDIC workbook, which contains ten newspaper articles dealing with the same topics as the CD. Just as the CD was designed to help you understand news reports, this workbook is a collection of press cuttings with exercises aimed at improving reading comprehension. When you are familiar with the vocabulary associated with a certain topic on the CD, turn to the corresponding article in the workbook. First read the article through and try to understand the gist. The first exercise is a crossword or matching game designed to help you figure out the meanings of new words. Now read the text again; this time you should be able to understand it much better. The next exercise concentrates on a particular aspect of the article, and introduces more new words, expressions, idioms, etc.

Kedves nyelvtanuló !

Ez a füzet a ClipDIC CD munkafüzeteként, de anélkül is használható. Míg a CIipDIC a beszélt nyelv jobb megértését szolgálta, a munkafüzet eredeti újságcikkei és feladatai a szövegértés fejlesztésében segítenek. Tanulási módszerként azt javasoljuk, hogy ha a CD egy témakörét feldolgozta, lapozza fel a munkafüzet idevágó cikkeit. Olvassa el a cikket, elôször csak a lényeg megértésére koncentrálva. Oldja meg a cikkhez tartozó elsô gyakorlatot, ami egy keresztrejtvény vagy párosításos feladat: meghatározásai segítenek kitalálni a szövegben található ismeretlen szavakat. Ezután olvassa el újra a cikket, reméljük, most jobban fogja érteni. A második feladat a cikkben elôforduló jellegzetességekhez kapcsolódik, újabb szavakat kifejezéseket, szókapcsolatokat mutat be.

Jó munkát kívánunk mindenkinek!

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ClipDic English, Part 2, Workbook

Paris puts brake on ‘mad’ driversFROM CHARLES BREMNER IN PARIS

Spurred by the motorway pile-up in which 15 people died last month, the Government of Edouard Balladur has launched the latest in the long history of efforts to tame the French driver and curb the slaughter which makes French roads the most dangerous among big Western nations.

The measures include a new offence of excessive speeding, a reduction of the alcohol limit from 8mg to 7mg per litre and a campaign to encourage drivers to administer breath-tests to themselves. Safety groups denounced the measures as timid in the face of France’s annual death toll of over 9,000. „It fails to tackle the root cause - lack of education” said the League Against Violence on the Roads.

„France still has an unacceptable level of insecurity on the roads,” said Bernard Bosson, the Transport Minister, who unveiled the package of measures settled by a committee headed by M Balladur. Road deaths rose sharply again this year after a lull in the second half of 1992 following the imposition of the penalty points licence, an event which sparked a lorry

driver’s strike and brought the country to a standstill.

The November pile-up on the A10 motorway in the southwest briefly focused thought on the way France tolerates a road death-rate double that of Britain’s. Twice as many men as women are killed and half of all fatalities are singlevehicle incidents in which the driver leaves the road.

Curiously, the most dangerous time� of day is not Saturday night as in many countries, but Sunday night as in many countries, but Sunday lunch transforms many family-men into would-be Alain Prosts. While the Gaullist Government is wary of stirring further insurrection with any big crackdown, safety organisations say the only hope of real progress would be fierce enforcement combined with an effort to educate the younger generation to eschew traditional Gallic driving styles and to change the widespread belief that alcohol makes no difference to „good” drivers.

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Unit 1

Exercise 1

Translate the clues to complete the crossword. All of the words appear in the article in some form.

1. mészárlás

2. sarkallva, ösztönözve vmi által 3. pillanatnyi szélcsend 4. óvatos, elôvigyázatos 5. megfékez 6. csomag 7. lemond vmirôl 8. megszelidít 9. intézkedések10. lázadás, felkelés

Exercise 2

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Use the words below to complete the sentences.

spending glove compartment ignition handbrake steering wheel driving-licence puncture boot accelarator seat-belts wipers clutch passenger

1. Safety is very important. Nowadays allcars are fitted with _________ in the driver’s seat and in the ________ seat. Many modern cars also include air-bags in the ________.

2. There was broken glass on the road so got a _____. Luckily, I had a spare wheel in the ____.3. You mean you can’t drive! But it’s easy; I’ll show you how. First, turn on the ________, then

press down gently on the ________, look in the mirrors to make sure that nothing is coming towards you. Now, release the ________, get into first gear, release the ________, and thet’s it.

4. Yesterday a policeman stopped me for ________. He asked me for my ________.5. John is a taxi driver. He keeps his maps in the ________ ________.6. I couldn’t see anything because of the rain so I turned on my windscreen ________.

Unit 1

Undercover British police helpto find The Scream

Alex Bellos

SCOTLAND Yard detectives played a key role in the undercover sting operation which recovered the stolen Norwegian painting, The Scream, it was revealed yesterday.

Norwegian police found Edvard Munch’s masterpiece virtually undamaged at a hotel in south Norway on Saturday. Three Norwegians were later arrested. According to the daily newspaper Dagenbladet two Metropolitan Police officers fooled the thieves by pretending they would buy the painting for Ł250,000.

Norwegian police had contacted London shortly after the theft and tltc Norwegians worked closety with Chief Inspector John Butler, head of Scotland Yard’s Arts and Antiques squad.

„While John Butler worked with [Norwegian police inspector] Leif Lier . . . two of Butler’s agents had already been in touch with people who claimed they could get hold of The Scream,” the paper said.

Scotland Yard issued a brief statement confirming it had cooperated but left the Norwegians to release any

further details. Knut Berg, director of the National Gallery in Oslo, said the painting had a microscopic pinprick but he deseribed the work as undamaged.

„The thieves must have handled it with extreme caution, „ he said. „It was wonderful to see the painting again and we hope to have it back on the wall on Wednesday,” Mr Berg said.

Two men, filmed by video, carried out the theft on February 12, on the day of the opening of the Winter Olympics at Lillehammer. They smashed a window. grabbed the painting and disappeared in less than a minute. „I am extremely happy and relieved that one of our greatest and most well-known art treasures has been recovered. This has been an eyeopener,” said minister of culture, Aase Kleveland.

The painting, which art experts say would be impossible for theives to sell on the open market, was found in Aasgaarstrand, a beach resort where Munch had a cottage and where he painted some of his most famous works.

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British police are in the forefront of tracking down Europe’s stolen art,

partly because an estimated 60 per cent of it ends up in London.

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Unit 2

Exercise 1


1. nyomozó 2. sértetlen 3. üdülôhely 4. közlemény, nyilatkozat 5. rövid 6. elôvigyázatosság 7. rablás 8. megerôsít 9. felfed vmi addig ismeretlen dolgot10. közzétesz

Exercise 2

Use the following words to complete the sentences below.

outbreak lookout backlog getaway takeoverlayout break-ins outcry turnover turnout

1. seventy per cent of the commitee members were missing from the meeting. The chairman was

disappointed with the low ________.

2. There was public ________ when Finance Minister raised taxes.

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3. All the villagers had to stay indoors and wear masks after the ________ of a deadly disease.

4. I’m on the ________ for Henry. Have you seen him anywhere?

5. The secretary went on holiday for a week. When she arrived back in the office she had a

________ of work to catch up on.

6. Peter and Frank robbed a bank this morning. Their friend Patrick drove the ________ car.

7. Have you heard the news, there’s been a military ________ in Bujumba. General Zembingee

has declared himself President.

8. The company’s ________ was fifty per cent higher than last year.

9. The architect showed us the ________ of the new building.

10. There were two ________ on our street last night. Fortunately, nothing valuable was stolen.

Unit 2

Boys who killed sent back to their parents

Andrew Gumbel in Paris

WHEN three boys killed a tramp in the southern suburbs of Paris late last year, the French press immediately drew comparisons with the James Bulger case and asked many of the same questions about the evil that children can do.

But the judicial treatment of the case could not have been more different. The children appeared before an examining magistrate, but were diseharged and returned to their parents because under French law they were too young to be tried and prosecuted.

The case had many of the same elements as the Bulger* case. The three boys, aged eight to 10, regularly played with a group of tramps on a stretch of waste ground near their home in Vitry-sur-Seine southeast of Paris, and went on shopping trips to bring them wine, cigarettes and food.

On October 29 last year, two of the tramps had a fight after their makeshift shelter burned down and one, a man in his 50s called Pierrot, was knocked to the ground. Egged on by the other tramp, the three boys then punched and kicked Pierrot and beat him with sticks. Once they realised he was dead, they stripped him

naked and dumped his body in a shallow well and covered it with wooden planks.

The local examining magistrate, Serge Portelli, soon caught up with the boys and charged them with manslaughter. But the case got no further because the age of criminal responsibility in France is 13.

Mr Portelli, whose only option was to confine the boys to the care of professional social workers, decided that the second tramp was largely to blame for Pierrot’s murder and allowed the boys to return to their families.

But the magistrate witheld the case from the press until the James Bulger trial, then in full swing, was over. Rather than demanding more severe treatment of the boys from Vitry-sur-Seine, French newspapers generally preferred to question the wisdom of submitting Jon Venables and Robert Thompson to a full-blown criminal trial.

Le Journal du Dimanche interviewed the oldest of Pierrot’s attackers after his killing came to light at the end of November.

The 10-year-old, named only as T, was asked what his plans were. „I don’t know,” he said. „It is Christmas soon and I am going to get a bicycle and a stereo.”

* Two 10-year-old boys, John Venables and Rober Thompson, murdered 2-year-old James Bulger in England.

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Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues below. All the words appear in the article in some form.

1. emberölés

2. értelem, bölcsesség 3. ideiglenes, tákolmány 4. alkotóelemek 5. nem mély 6. felelôsség 7. támadók 8. bírósági 9. bíró10. lyukasztó11. csavargó12. vádol, eljár vkivel szemben13. szabadon bocsát

Exercise 2

Use the following words to complete the sentences below.

Unit 3

milk apple nuts breadwinner pie tea salt cheese

1. You want to open a casino in the Nort Pole. I think that plan is just ________ in the

sky.

2. Mr Jones has twelve sons but Jack, the youngest, is the eye.

3. The roles are reversed in the Bush household. Mr Bush washes, cooks and looks after

the children, while Mrs Bush, who works as a TV presenter, is the ________.

4. A holiday by the sea is not my cup of ________, I’d much rather go mountain-

climbing.

5. O.K. I’m going to take a group photograph. Everybody stand in front of the door.

Stand up straight, now say ________.

6. Oh dear, I’ve broken John’s CD-player. He’ll go ________ when he finds out.

7. Look, you sold your ticket. It’s too late now. There’s no use crying over spilt

________.

8. I know he said he was going to fire you, but he doesn’t mean it. You should take

everything he says with a pnch of ________.

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S Koreans riot over expolsionShim Sung-won Taegu

WEEPING reiatives demanded compensation yesterday for the loss of 100 of their loved ones, most of them children, killed when a gas blast devastated a swathe of South Korea’s Taegu city.

Police investigating Friday’s blast said that prosecutors would seek the arrest of three offcials of a small engineering firm which was working at a shopping centre project near the blast.

The relatives’ grief turned to anger when 60 of them besieged a local council office, accusing officials of neglect and of leaving corpses from the blast to rot in city morgues.

„Dozens of bodies are rotting at the hospitals because they dont know what to do with them,” a weeping parent said.

The relatives smashed desks and chairs at an ofiice hastily convected into an emergency centre after the explosion ripped through a central district of South Korea’s third largest city, 240 km (150 miles)

south of Seoul. Taegu Mayor Ixe Jong-ju spoke to the families later and said loved ones of each victim would get a preliminary conpensation payment of four million won (Ł5.250) to help with funeral expenses.

A police spokesman told Reuters the three men sought by prosecutors were officials of Standard Engineering and Constructon Inc.

„Prosecutors are seeking the armst of these three men in connection with the gas explosion,” the police official said. A grim-faced President Kim Young-sam, reeling from yet another man-made disaster in his term of office, visited the scene of the blast and ordered a swift probe.

Of the 98 official death toll so far, 48 of the victims were children heading for schools in the area when the explosion hurled cars, trucks and buses through the air like toys.

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Unit 3

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Exercise 1

Complete the crossword below. All the words in the crossword appear in the article in some form.

1. concerned with designing and constructing roads, bridges, etc

2. investigation 3. to turn sth into sth else 4. a place where dead bodies are kept before burial 5. those who suffer in an accident 6.groups of twelve 7. ask for something when you have a right to it 8. crying 9. throw10. employees11. coming before a more important event12. attack and surround

Exercise 2

There is a spelling mistake in the article. Can you spot it?

Exercise 3

Use the words below to complete the following sentences.

urn grave wreath mourners weep widow

Unit 4the deceased corpses funeral ashes

1. The Police were shocked when they found for ________ under the floor.2. The ______ began to ______ as the coffin was lowered into the ________.3. During the _____ service the priest spoke about all the good things that _____ had

done.4. Last Sunday the ________ laid a ________ on her dead husband’s grave.5. Norwadays many people choose cremation instead of burial. I think it’s a good idea;

my family wouldn’t have to visit my grave, instead they could keep my ________ in an ________ on the mantelpiece.

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Arsonists torch forestARSONISTS have

been accused by the government of starting a massive forest fire in the greater Athens area after gas cylinders were found near the seat of the blaze.

The fire, which raged out of control for three days, brought unprecedented environmental damage in the region.

Some 20,000 acres of pine forest were destroyed, depriving pollution-ravaged Athens of a much-needed source of oxygen, while grazing and cultivated land and a dozen homes were destroyed. The arsonists are believed to have been working for speculators intent on development.

Champagne socialist: A Greek tycoon who says he owes his life to the Russian newspaper and former Leninist mouthpiece Pravda has saved the publication from financial ruin by becoming its major shareholder.

Yannis Yannikos, 69, a communist who was sentenced to death during Greece’s bitter 1946-1949 civil war, will partner it as president in a joint venture.

„I will never forget the period of my life when I was in mortal danger. Pravda was with us then and how I am repaying old debts,” said Yannikos, adding that he, like hundreds of other leftwingers, believed he escaped the firing squad in the 1940s only because op a Pravda campaign.

Talks fail: An abortive round of talks this week between the government and employees is likely to result in further strikes.

„The conservatives have chosen to go against all social institutions, against society as a whole. They can only expect more strikes,” said Lambros Kanellopoulos, leader of the giant General

Confederation of Greek workers, after the negotiations failed.

For almost three weeks banks, post offices, transport, power and telecommunications have been paralysed by stoppages as workers protested against a proposed social security bill and unpopular austerity measures. On Tuesday police used against demonstrators in Athens protesting against government policies.

0il explosion: Two senior officials blamed for a fatal explosion at an oil refinery outside Athens have been jailed pending their trial.

Experts conducting an investigation into the blast, which has now claimed seven lives, said two other officials would also be charged.

The blast was triggered by a leak in a crude oil refining unit.

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Unit 5

Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues. All the words appear in the article in some form.

1. példátlan, még soha elô nem fordult dolog

2. kivégzôosztag 3. rom, összeomlás 4. fennakadás, leállás 5. takarékossági intézkedések 6. forrás, eredet 7. vádol 8. adósság 9. legelô10. könnygáz11. gumibot12. tárgyalások13. tartozik vkinek, köszönhet vmit vkinek14. részvényes

Exercise 2

Match the people on the left with the descriptions on the right.

1. An arsonist is someone who breaks into a house or flat and steals money, jewellery,electrical appliances, etc.

2. An embezzler is someone who deliberately sets fire to property.

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3. A blackmailer is someone who steals groceries, clothes, etc. from shops, supermrketsand department stores.

4. A mugger is someone who has committed a crime.5. An assassin is someone who makes fake money.6. A swindler is somebody who threatens to tell other people damaging information

if you don’t give him/her money.7. A burglar is someone who steals people’s wallets, purses, etc. by taking from

their pockets when they are not paying attention.8. A culprit is someone who earns money by deceiving people.9. A forger is someone who attack you, usually on a street, and steals your possessions.10. A shoplifter is someone who uses other people’s money (e.g. a company’s) for his/her

own benefit.11. A pickpocket is someone who kills for money.

Unit 5

Woman found safe in Cairngorms after two nights in snow tells of looking forward to pint

of GuinnessAngella Johnson

CLIMBER Jacqueline Greaves yesterday greeted rescuers who found her wandering disorlentated after two nights in arctic conditions on a snowbound Scottish mountain by saying she was looking forward to a pint of Guinness.

Mrs Greaves, a 53 year-old grandmother, survived in subzero conditions by digging shelters out of snow drifts after losing her pick in a fall.

She was airlitted to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, for treatment for frostbite. and is expected to leave for her home In Lowton, Greater Manchester, today.

A surgeon, Mark Jannsen, described her as a remarkable woman, who had required very little treatment. „She had slight frostbite on her fingers but otherwise she was unhurt. She knows how lucky she is to be alive.”

She had told him the wind was so high her survival bag was ripped to shreds.

She tried to walk to safety but had to turn back because of the conditions. The second night she dug a snow-hole.

She had been wearing several layers of winter clothing, and that protected her.

Hopes of finding Mrs Oreaves alive were fading when she was spotted walking near the Luig Beg Burn, on the 3,500ft Derry Cairngorm mountain north of Braemar, Grampian at about 9.15am yesterday.

„When she snw us she stopped walking, sat down and there were tears of pure relief and emotion. It was a memorable moment,” said Corporal Alan Sylvester, a 28-yeac-old part-time deputy leader of Kinloss mountain rescue team, whio was leading the sevenmember search party.

Mrs Greaves’s husband, Roy, 52, said he never doubted she would be found alive. „I was quite contident because she is very fit and she knows what a she’s doing.” He praised the perseverance of the search and rescue teams.

Some 70 volunteers, police officers, six dogs and two RAF Sea King helicopters had scoured a three-mile radius of the Cairngorm after Mrs Greaves, a secretary at Lowton West primary school, Greater a Manchester, was reported

missing by her companions, Bruce Nutter, and David Cawley, both from Greater Mancheser,on Sunday.�

Cpl Sylvester said: „When we got to Jacqueline the first thing she said to us was: ‘I am looking forward to a pint of Guinness.’ We gave her hot drinks, Mars bars, chocolate, Ribena. She was starving and sald her food had run out after the first day.”

He said the rescue teams kept going because they had been told she was a strong-willed courageous woman.

„She had one helluva will to live. To be honest, we are asking ourselves if we could have survived in the conditions that she did.”

But he did not think she could have survived another night on the mountain. Mrs Greaves told the team she lost touch with Bruce Nutter, 49, from Leigh, and David Cawley, 29, from Pemberton, both in Greater Manchester. They were descending the mountain in white-out conditions on Sunday.

It was thought that the men fell through a cornice - a snow overhang - and into a gully, but Mrs Greaves sald she was the first to fall through. Her companions had begun to search for her and went past her when they in turn fell down the mountainside.

Mrs Greaves, unable to find them in the blizzard conditions, made her way back up some distance, where she started to blow her whistle. She became disorientated by the snowstorm and having lost her ice axe was unable to dig a snow hole.

One of her first acts after falling was to empty her rucksack and put on all the clothes she ad with her.

She climbed into her orange fastic bivvy bag - designed to reserve body heat - and sheltered beneath a wall of snow for he night.

On Monday she walked up on he plateau of the mountain tryng to make her way off but it appears she was walking in circles.

Despite the ground search nobody spotted her. „Our rescue helicopter was unable to operate because of the weather conditions,” an RAF spokesman said.

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On Monday night her bivvy bag split and she ended up using it as a blanket under another snow drift. She said she started hallucinating about motor bikes and roads.

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Unit 6

Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues. All the words appear in the article in some form.

1.eltájolt, irányt tévesztett

2. kétség 3. híres ír sör 4.rétegek 5. fagyás (testrészé) 6. megkönnyebbülés 7. csákány 8.önkéntesek 9. kitartás, állhatatosság10. kutató expedíció11. figyelemre méltó12. fennsík13. bátor14. (le)ereszkedô

Exercise 2

A mountain-climber is a person who climbs mountains. Match the following people in column A with the descriptions of what they do in column B.

A B

1. A miner (a) is someone who protects property during the night.

2. An air traffic controller (b) is someone who stuffs the skins of dead animals.

3. A copywriter (c) is someone who calculates the risks involved in an insurance

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policy.

4. A night-watchman (d) is someone who writes the texts of advertisements, brochures,

etc.

5. A continuity announcer (e) is someone who digs for minerals and fossil fuels under the

gound.

6. A tailor (f) is someone who makes clothes for men.

7. A lumberjack (g) is someone who cuts down trees and transports timber.

8. A steeplejack (h) is someone who tells television viewers which programmers

are

coming next.

9. A taxidermist (i) is someone who looks after sheep.

10. An actuary (j) works at an airport and tells pilots when and where to land.

11. A shepherd. (k) is a person who repairs chimneys, towers and the tops of

buildings.

Unit 6

Girl, 4, suffers lip and throatburns from bleach in fruit juice

THE manufacturers of a children’s fruit drink were yesterday investigating how bleach was put into blackcurrant juice drunk by a four-year old girl.I.eanne Niesiolowska of Derby sutiered burns to her lips and throat after sipping from a carton of Jurassic Park juice. Instead of blackcurrant the carton contained an orange liquid smelling of chlorine.A spokesman for Refreshment Spectrum of County Durham, which manufacturers the drink on behalf of Coca-Cola, said the firm was meeting police and environmental health officials. „All the information available points to the fact this was an isolated incident. The public should not be concerned,” he said.The girl’s mother, Sandra Clarke, said: „Leanne came crying to me holding the drink so I went and called my next door neighbour. I tasted some and said ‘Oh my God it’s bleach’.”A police spokesman said Leanne who was allowed home from hospital after treatment had been fortunate.„If a child younger than Leanne had taken a sip from the carton it could have been a lot worse fortunately she was old enough to be able to tell her mum something was wrong.”

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Exercise 1


1. fekete ribizli

2. szomszéd 3. fehérítôszer 4. egészség(gel kapcsolatos) 5. gyártó 6. szóvivô 7. nyugtalankodik vmi miatt 8. szerencsés kimenetelü 9. torok10. kezelés11. rendelkezésre álló12. környezeti13. elszigetelt, egyedülálló (eset)

Exercise 2

Divide the words below into the five groups listed.

whisk apple plaice ladle pear mango sole cod vensionfish slice mutton carrot cauliflower beef trout apricot orange turnip

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Unit 7herring salmon veal rolling-pin pork onion cabbage cleaver

FRUIT VEGETABLES MEAT FISH UTENSILS

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A brief affair of the heartDeirdre Molloy

THE turbulent comance of Waterford woman Betty Vicker-O’Connor, tragically cut short by her husband’s death in combat, is part of the Loved Ones series being broadcast by Channel 4 next month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.

Waerfod was a quiet place in 1938, and Betty, aged 18, was not long out of the Mercy Convent and running her own beauly parlour when she heard of a new arrival in town:

„A very handsome Englishman had come to establish the production of mineral water at Henry Downes spirit bond warehouse in Thomas Street, which was where I lived with my family.”

„Evelltually I saw him and, the girls were right - he was very dashing! After that I would catch his eye in passing but we never spoke. Then my friend Alma Barry invited me to her birthday party. I arrived at her digs at 7.30, and it was Vic who opened the door. He was holding a big bunch of flowers and he said „these are for you”. Edward was too sedate a name for him, everyone called him Vic.”

The pair hit it of immediately and soon Betty was sneaking off to the pictures with Vic when her parents thought she was at badminton with her friends. Despite their illicit rendezvouses, Vic was always the gentleman. „lt was two weeks before he asked if he could kiss me - I thought he would never ask!”. Their relationship was discovered, when

by accident, they sat beside Betty’s parents in Waterford’s Coliseum Cinema one night.

Her father was furious and Betty was thrown out of the house. A nun at the Mercy Convent said to her of the relationship: „I hope it doesn’t last.” But her godmother Mrs Dalton came to the rescue, persuading her father that they should be Vic was received into the Catholic church just as the War began. He volunteered for service and was called to train in the King’s ‘Liverpool Irish’ Regiment. On his third brief return from England they were married in Waterford Cathedral on 9. July 1941. Her parents did not come to the service - only her sister attended as bridesmaid. They saw each other only twice more before Betty received news of his death at the Battle of the Bulge on the 4. January 1945. At 23, Betty was a widow. In three-and-a-half years of marriage they had spent 30 days living together. Recently returned from the States where she worked for 27 years teaching drama in Los Angeles, Betty still regards Vic as the love of her life. „I never really imagine Vic as dead. I still see himsmoking his pipe and waving goodbye to� me for the last time.

For Betty, her experience gives an insight into how the war impacted on so many relationships. „People wonder how those fellows must have felt when they were in the army. I was worried that Vic would forget me and he didn’t. Even when he was away he arranged to have ftowers sent to me.”

Betty’s story will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 5pm on 6 May.

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Unit 8

Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues below. All the words in thecrossword appear in the article in some form.

1. megemlékezik vmirôl 2. gyôzelem 3. tollaslabda 4. keresztanya 5. ásvány 6. komoly, megfontolt 7. koszorúslány 8. özvegy 9. ügy, „affér”10. oson, sompolyog11. viharos, féktelen12. évforduló

Exercise 2

Match the adjectives in the column on the right with their opposites on the left. 1. outgoing (a) cowardly 2. entertaining (b) uncompetitive 3. dexterous (c) ugly 4. brave (d) shy 5. beautiful (e) awkward 6. polite (f) unreliable 7. ambitious (g) boring

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8. self-conscious (h) untrustworthy 9. generous (i) tactless10. reliable (j) unfeeling11. tactful (k) tight-fisted12. sceptical (l) rude13. tolerant (m) dull14. honest (n) narrow-minded15. sensitive (o) gullible16. witty (p) vain

Unit 8

Social scientists advise German governmentto recognise world’s oldest profession

David Gow In Bonn

IT IS a flourishing German business, turning over an estimated 12 billion marks (Ł4.8 billion) a year and rising, even in the recession of the past two years. It employs between 40,000 and 400,000 and attracts increasing numbers of recruits at a time of high unemployment.

But it carries severe health risks and the possibility of violent attack, and lacks personal or social security cover. Retirement confers no right to a pension or retraining.

The oldest profession in the world is the subject of a 385-page report, Documentation On The Legal And Social Situation Of Prostitutes In Germany, by, three social scientists; published by the ministry for women and youth.

Based on inquiries in 10 German cities - including Rostock, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Leipzig and Dresden in the east - it recommends to the government that prostitution should be legally and constitutionally recognised as a profession. The authors argue that prostitutes, whether recognised as employees or self-employed, should have the right to make contributions towards their socialsecurity,� including unemployment benefit and pension.

To encourage prostitutes aged 30 or over to leave the profession, they should

be given careers adviee and retraining opportunities.

The authors recommend that needy prostitutes who wish to leave the profession should have their rent and rates paid for them to prevent homelessness - although some are said to earn more than Ł10,000 a month before deductions (by their pimps).

Estimates of the number of prostitutes in Germany vary enormously, partly because it is believed that more than double the numbers registered at health offices work the streets, brothels and so-called Eros-centres, or work from home.

Officially, there may be as few as 40,000 to 60,000. But one prostitutes’ support group estimated a few years ago that the real number was 400,000. The report suggest the true figure lies somewhere between.

German courts have ruled that prostitution cannot be classified as paid employment because it is immoral under the terms of the constituiton. But the authors point out that laws drawn up to protect youth and decency may no longer reflect prevalent ideas of morality.

The ministry that commissioned the report is reluctant to follow its recommendations. „That might have to wait until after the general election, in the next legislative period,” a spokeswoman said.

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Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues. All the words in the crossword appear in the article in some form. 1. hozzájárulások, közremüködések

2. alkotmány

3. levonások 4. átképzés 5. segély 6. újoncok, kezdôk 7. erkölcstelen 8. lehetôség 9. fiatalság10. részben11. selyemfiú12. hajléktalanság13. szegény, szükölködô14. virágzó, jólmenô

Exercise 2

Use these words to complete the sentences below.

shpo-steward blue-collar redundant trades strike dismissed on the doleshop-floor picket line canteen

1. The ________ is the worker’s trade union representative.2. ________ workers are skilled manual workers.

Unit 93. John is unemployed, he’s ________.4. The new computers were more efficent then many of the employees; as a result hundreds of

workers were made ________.5. Tim has two ________: he is a carpenter an an electrician.6. Last week the workers at the glass factory went on ________ after one of their colleagues was

unfailrly ________.7. The striking workers formed a ________ outside the factory to prevent people from entering.8. The workers usually have lunch in the ________.9. The ________ is the part of the factory where the gods are actually produced.

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Science digs into mystery of lifeTim RadfordScience Editor

Scientists from Britain and the United States meet today in London to talk, for the frst time, about all the answers that still lie in the soil.A three-day workshop at the Natural History Museum will confront a great irony of life on earth: that while practically all the large mammals, birds, flowering plants and fsh are described and recorded, the creatures that create the soil and lurk in it are -- in many places -- still a profound mystery.

A crumb of soil could hold 100 billion micro-organisms. Nobody knows whaY they are, or what they all do. Experts know of about 10,000 diatoms (microscopic algae), and think there could be 100,000, or even 10 million, to be discovered. They know of 4,000 bacteria: there could be 400,000. There could be 1.5 million species of fungi, 10 million kinds of algae, a million species of worms; another million spiders and mites. One guess is that microorganisms and invertebrates could represent 88 per cent of all the species on the planet. Science knows about only 5 or 10 per cent of them.The other irony is that life -- on land -began in the soil, says Dr Steve Blackmore of the Natural History Museum. It began with primitive bacteria

that enabled plants to develop and produce oxygen, slowly altering the atmosphere to suit the development of animals.”Most of those ancient forms are still around: dinosaurs have come and gone, but most of the early experiments of life on earth are still around as soil organisms,” he says. „If you drew a map ofthe world and say: ‘where do we know about the organisms?’ we’re actually in the best known country. Britain is the best documented bit of the earth, simply because of a nationalistic obsession with documenting things.”The workshop, organised by the US National Science Foundation and the British science community, plans to take the first steps to a systematic exploration of life underfoot.„Until perhaps the middle of the last century most of the basic biological exploration was geared to: ‘can we eat it? No we can’t. So can we get rubber out of it?’ „ says Dr Blackmore. „We had a pretty simplistic approach to exploring what the natural world had to offer us. We now live in a very much more complicated world. Once you’ve got one penicillin, you find a number of antibiotics, and then you start discovering resistance, so you are going to need new ones. Modern society has all kinds ofdrives to find new microbes.”

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Exercise 1

Complete the crossword by translating the clues below. All the words in the crossword appear in the article in some form.

1. gerinctelen állatok

2. irónia 3. a láb alatt 4. ösztönzés, indító lökés 5. ellenállás 6. megbúvik, rejtôzik 7. bonyolult 8. felkutatás 9. rögeszme, megszállottság10. „mühely”11. emlôsök12. szembesül vmivel13. moszatok, algák14. talaj

Exercise 2

Use the words below to complete the following sentences

lie lay lied lying liar lair laid

1. The doctor told the patient to __________ down.2. She __________ the table before dinner.

Unit 103. He went to the beach yesterday, but when I asked him where he had gone he

__________ and said he’d been working all day.4. A person who doesn’t tell the truth is a __________.5. One day last week after lunch John __________ down in the hammock and feel

asleep.6. When I entered the room the dog was __________ in front of the fire.7. A __________ is a place where wild animals sleep.

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Unit 1

Exercise 1 Exercise 2

s p u r e d

l u l l w a r y c u r bp a c k a g e e s c h e w t a m e m e a s u r e s i n s u r r e c t i o n

Unit 2


u n d a m a g e d r e s o r t s t a t e m e n t b r i e f c a u t i o n t h e f tc o n f i r m r e v e a l r e l e a s e

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1. seat-belts...passenger...steering wheel2. puncture...boot3. ignition...accelerator...handbrake... clutch4. speeding...driving licence5. glove compartment6. wipers

1.turnout 2. outcry 3. outbreak 4. lookout 5. backlog 6. getaway 7. takeover 8. turnover 9. layout10. break-ins

Unit 10Unit 3


w i s d o m m a k e s h i f t e l e m e n t s s h a l l o wr e s p o n s i b i l i t y a t t a c k e r s j u d i c i a l m a g i s t r a t e p u n c h t r a m p p r o s e c u t e d i s c h a r g e

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1. pie2. apple3. breadwinner4. tea5. cheese6. nuts7. milk8. salt

Unit 4


p r o b e c o n v e r t m o r g u e v i c t i m s d o z e n s d e m a n d w e e p i n g h u r l o f f i c i a l sp r e l i m i n a r y b e s i e g e

Exercise 2

„c o n p e n s a t i o n” was the spelling mistake. It should read „c o m p e n s a t i o n”

Unit 5


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1. corpses2. mourners...weep...grave3. funeral...the deceased4. widow...wreath5. ashes...urn

Key

f i r i n g s q u a d r u i n s t o p p a g e s a u s t e r i t y me a s u r e s s o u r c e a c c u s e d e b tg r a z i n g l a n d t e a r g a s b a t o n s n e g o t i a t i o n s o w e s h a r e h o l d e r

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1. (b) 2. (j) 3. (f) 4. (i) 5. (k) 6. (h) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9. (e)10. (c)11. (g)

Unit 6


d o u b t G u i n e s s l a y e r s f r o s t b i t e r e l i e f p i c k v o l u n t e e r s p e r s e v e r a n c es e a r c h p a r t y r e m a r k a b l e p l a t e a u c o u r a g e o u s d e s c e n d i n g

Unit 7


n e i g h b o u r b l e a c h h e a l t hm a n u f a c t u r e r s p o k e s m a n c o n c e r n f o r t u n a t e t h r o a t t r e a t m e n t a v a i l a b l e

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1. (e) 2. (j) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (h) 6. (f) 7. (g) 8. (k) 9. (b)10. (c)11. (i)

Keye n v i r o n m e n t a l i s o l a t e d

Exercise 3

FRUIT VEGETABLES MEAT FISH UTENSILS

apple turnip venison cod whiskpear carrot beef sole ladleorange cauliflower veal herring fish slicemango cabbage pork salmon cleaverapricot onion mutton plaice rolling pin

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Unit 8


v i c t o r yb a d m i n t o n g o d m o t h e r m i n e r a l s e d a t e b r i d e s m a i d w i d o w a f f a i r s n e a k t u r b u l e n t

Unit 9


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outgoing shyentertaining boringdexterous awkwardbrave cowardlybeautiful uglypolite rudeambitious uncompetitiveself-consciousvaingenerous tight-fistedreliable unreliabletactful tactlesssceptical gullibletolerant narrow-mindedhonest untrustworthysensitive unfeelingwitty dull

Key

c o n s t i t u t i o nd e d u c t i o n s r e t r a i n i n g r a t e s r e c r u i t s i m m o r a l p o s s i b i l i t y y o u t h p a r t l y p i m p h o m e l e s s n e s s n e e d y f l o u r i s h i n g

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1. shop-steward2. Blue-collar3. on the dole4. redundant5. trades6. strike...dismissed7. picket line8. canteen9. shop-floor

Unit 10


i r o n y

u n d e r f o o t d r i v e r s r e s i s t a n c e l u r kc o m p l i c a t e d e x p l o r a t i o n o b s e s s i o n w o r k s h o p m a m m a l s c o n f r o n t a l g a e s o i l

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1. lie2. laid3. lied4. liar5. lay6. lying7. lair

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