You will hear a university tutor talking to two students about problems they are having with a business studies project. Questions 21 – 22 Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 21 What is the problem that the students are having with the project? A The readings are too difficult B The readings are not interesting C The project is taking …
You will hear Dan Saunders, a wildlife expert, giving a talk about Pandas. Questions 11-12 Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 11.Each day, pandas need to eat: A Very little nutrition B 12-38 kg of bamboo C 330 pounds of bamboo 12. If pandas are cared for away from the wild, they can live for approximately: A 6 months B 14-20 years …
Children’s Literature Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history:lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had …
THE WILD SIDE OF TOWN The countryside is no longer the place to see wildlife, according to Chris Barnes. These days you are more likely to find impressive numbers of skylarks, dragonflies and toads in your own back garden. The past half century has seen an interesting reversal in the fortunes of much of Britain’s …
Vote For Women The suffragette movement, which campaigned for votes for women in the early twentieth century, is most commonly associated with the Pankhurst family and militant acts of varying degrees of violence. The Museum of London has drawn on its archive collection to convey a fresh picture with its exhibition The Purple, White and …
Volcanoes-earth-shattering news When Mount Pinatubo suddenly erupted on 9 June 1991, the power of volcanoes past and present again hit the headlines A Volcanoes are the ultimate earth-moving machinery. A violent eruption can blow the top few kilometres off a mountain, scatter fine ash practically all over the globe and hurl rock fragments into the …
The history of jeans The first people to wear jeans were sailors in the 16th century. Sailors were gone for a long time. They had to do hard work outside in bad weather. Often their clothes had holes in them, got thinner or lost color. They needed something strong against wear and tear. Their clothes …
Walk for charity Dear Friend,Please join us for our annual Walk for Charity. Starting in Weldown, you and your friends can choose a delightful 10, 20 or 30 kilometre route.The money raised will provide support to help people all over the world. Start collecting your sponsors now and then simply come along on the day. …
What’s the purpose of gaining knowledge? A ‘I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any subject’ That was the founders motto for Cornell University, and it seems an apt characterization of the different university, also in the USA, where I currently teach philosophy. A student can prepare for a career …
Obtaining Linguistic Data A Many procedures are available for obtaining data about a language. They range from a carefully planned, intensive field investigation in a foreign country to a casual introspection about one’s mother tongue carried out in an armchair at home. B In all cases, someone has to act as a source of language …
