B2-unit 13

The former superintendent of one of the country’s top school districts was charged Tuesday with embezzling more than $1 million. Long Island’s Roslyn School District, less than 20 miles from Manhattan, is considered one of the finest in the nation.
Exercise B:
4. School districts around the state helped teachers out by hiring them to work janitorial or maintenance jobs for just a day. 5. The loophole ends Wednesday. 6. Because it is a time of soaring costs for health insurance and prescription drugs.
News Item 2 Exercise A: the arrest of the former superintendent of one of the country’s top school districts who embezzled more than $1 million.
Exercise B:
Exercise C 1. The spherical shape, the incredibly fragile nature, the beautiful colours, and a combination of all these phenomena are so fascinating. 2. He noticed them when he was a very young boy. 3. A strange object fell out, looking like a flattened gray coloured ice cream cone. 4. He did it as instructed on the cereal box. 5. He learned that as the bubbles became larger, the lower the movements must be so as not to dislodge the bubble from the cone.
Exercise B 1-8
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Exercise C 1. The oceans and the rivers contain most of the water in the world. 2. Eight. 3. Because red tide, a high-than-normal concentration of the miscroscopicalgae Karenia, affects the central nervous system of fish so that they are paralyzed and cannot breathe. 4. In 1972. 5. They try to reduce pollution from agricultural wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, and encourage farmers and foresters to protect the environment.
Section Two Listening Comprehension Part 1 Dialogues, Dialogue 1: Exercise
A: eighteen metres/ nineteen/ twentymetre/ fibre glass B: sixteen/ 42 take-offs and landings/ tandem/ rear
Part 2 Prediction and Inference Exercise
1. skill or knowledge in a particular area 2. To have one’s fingers crossed or keep one’s fingers crossed means to hope for a successful or advantageous outcome 3. a place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government/ opinion
Passage 2: Exercise A The living creatures on the earth all depend on water. There might be a great misfortune falling upon us if water heavily polluted. The fruit trees would come into flowers, but bear no fruit. The rivers and lakes would be lifeless, for all the fish died. Everywhere, there might be a shadow of death. Strange illness would sweep the chicken, the ducks, the pigs, and the cattle, and people, whether old or young, would die mysteriously and suddenly. Anyhow, great misfortunes might creep over us without our notice.
Part 3 News News Item 1 Exercise A: child laborers transported from Benin to Nigeria working illegally under poor conditions.
Exercise B: 70 child laborers/ secretly transported/ slaves/ 4 years/ lack of food/ act against/ working illegally
News Item 3 Exercise A:
thousands of Texas teachers are rushing to retire before a lucrative loophole in Social Security law closes.
Exercise B:
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Exercise B:
Pamela Gluckin, a former assistant superintendent also accused of taking more than $1 million. Tassone, 57, was superintendent for more than a decade, retired days after Gluckin was charged. The arrest of Frank Tassone came a month after similar charges were filed against Pamela Gluckin. 10 to 20 others eventually could be implicated Tassone could get 25 years in prison if convicted.
Unit 13- Book 2 Section One Tactics for Listening
Part 1 Phonetics Breakfast: about 8 o’ clock, or later/ no more than ten or fifteen minutes Lunch: between one and two o’ clock/ about an hour Dinner: about eight/ over an hour
Thousands of Texas teachers are rushing to retire before a lucrative loophole in Social Security law closes. No, most Texas teachers do no pay into Social Security and instead participate in a state pension fund. Yes, they are allowed to receive Social Security benefits if their last day of work before retirement is in a job covered by Social Security.
Dialogue 2 Exercise 1-8 B C D D A
Passage 1 Exercise A: One of the most effective ways is to use soap solution.
Exercise B 1-8 DCAB CADD