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Review 5 p.76
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SchoolsAround the World
Q W"|rr" tolked o lot obout different schoolsoround the world. Now let's tolk obout how they're sometimes
different becouseof the woy peoplelive. For exomple,in someplocesfomilies move oround o lot, so
studentsgo to o "tent school"thot con be moved with them. And I've o friend in Alosko who's o "flying
teocher."His studentslive far from ony school,so he flies o smoll plane to their housesto teoch them.
1. Sorry,I connot todoy. I hove to finish my homework. 3. No, I om not. I om the tollest in my closs.
2. Well, there is o lot to do, and I hove only iust storted. 4. It is finished. I think it is omozingl
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Hi, my nome's Tino R.ogers.I need to orronge my new schedule for Mondoys.
OK, let's see,you're in the eighth grode, so from 8:15 to 9:10 you hove longuoge orts in Room
12.Then from 9:15 to 10:10,you hove moth in Room 28, ond sociql studies is from 10:30
to 71:25 in Room 16. Then you'll need to go to the lob for sciencefrom 11:30 to 12:25. Thot's
over in the West Wing. After lunch, you hove reoding from 1:30 to 2:00 in Room 18. And from
2:05 till 3:00, you can choose either bond or leodership.
Tino: Um ... I hoven't been toking bond, so I guessI'll toke the leadership closs.
Teocher: OK, thot's olso in Room 18. And for the lost period, you con choose choir, ort or PE.
Tino: Oh, I definitely prefer PE.
Teqcher: OK, then. Your PE closs will be from 3:05 to 4:00, ond you meet in the gym.
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Q Vonng condlesis o lot of fun ond con be very rewording. Candlescon be made using little equipmentond
the moteriolscon be eosily bought. However,the hord-ond dongerous-port to moking condlesis melting
the wox sofely.Melting the wox beyond the requiredtemperoturecon cousefire. Using o digitol olorm
thermometerto checkthe temperotureof the melting wqx is very importont to preventoccidents.
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2 , Melting the wox beyond the requiredtemperoturecon cousefire.
3 . It is usedto checkthe temperotureof the melting wox.
Q, 1. I reolly wont to learn how to moke condlesbecouseI think they're useful,but my mom sqys,"Why
moke them when we con eosily buy them?"
2. Making condles cqn be risky. However, the risk con be reduced by using proper techniques ond
moteriols.
3. Here in our city we hove hobby clubs devoted to moking condles. Although, in other cities, condle-
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Emmq: Well, my brothersand I usedto ride bikesto school,ond it olwoys turned into o roce.
Host: But there still oren't mony girls who competein freestylebike events.
Emmq: Well, I've two brothersond three boy cousins,so I'm the only girl in the fomily. We alwoys ployed
together,so now I neverthink twice obout competingin so-colledboys' sports.
Host: Are there other freestyleriderswho you look up to os role models?
Emmo: Sure.Cory Coffeyis omozing. Shewos the first womon to lond o bock flip in o competition.And
she con do bor spins,endosond toilwhips. I figure if shecon do it oll, so con I if I proctice
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q Keeping fish is o greot hobby becouse there ore so mony interesting types of fish you con keep. The clown
fish is cl very good exomple. They protect themselves by living with onother onimol-the seo onemone. Seq
creotures don't eot seo onemones becouse they hove mony poisonous orm-like ports. However, the poison
doesn't offect the clown fish. By living in ond oround the sea onemone, the clown fish con ovoid being
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Mork: Hi, fulie. Yeah, I wos on vocotion.
fulie: Oh, I see.Where did you go?
Mqrk: My fomily went to Kenyo. It wos so cool!
Iulie: Kenyo? Wow! Whqt did you do?
Mqrk: We drove oround in o jeep ond tried to get reolly close to the wild onimols, Iike lions.
fulie: Reolly? Weren't you scored?
Mork: No, not reolly. It wos quite sofe inside the jeep, ond our guide wos very experienced.
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definitionsusingwords like which is/meansl... a gaod diet, which is what you eat regu/arly,/ ...a
ba/anceddiet, and that means eating the right amounts of different foodsl. Sometimes a speaker
will givea definitionfir"st,then saythe new word or phnaseafter calledlThingsmade from mtlk,
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adjective, adverb,etc.]by where it comesin a sentence.
Q Vony people choose to be vegetoriqns. But if you don't eot meot, you hove to moke sure to eot the right
kinds of vegetobles to get oll the nutrients you need. For exomple, legumes like beons ond peos ore high
in protein. Vegetorions con get the fots their bodies need by eoting milk products, eggs ond foods rich in
vegetoble oils. Some vegetorions, colled vegons, ore very strict with their diets. They won't eot onimol
products of ony kind. Vegons con get the fots they need from vegetoble ond nut oils.
vegetorians ' don't eot meot / eot right kinds of vegetobles to get nutrients needed
legumes ' beons ond peos / high in protein
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Q t believe it's a good ideo for fomilies to vocotion ot o ploce thot everyone con enjoy. Otherwise someone
might get bored ond could stop the others from hoving o good time. I think thot on crmusement pork is o
good choice for fomily vocotions. Most porks hove ottroctions for children of oll oges, os well os for odults.
And if your grondporents ore going with you, most porks will hove ottroctions thot they con enjoy, too, Iike
shows or gordens.
Opinion Detqil
It's o good idea for fomilies to vocation ot o ploce someone might get bored ond stop others hoving
thot everyone con enjoy. good time
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vocotion. grondporents enjoy shows or gordens
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2. Becouse otherwise someone might get bored and could stop the others from hoving o good time.
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@ Hey,kidsl Whot ore you going to do over summer vocotion?Let me guess,your porentswont nt you to
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mountqins by o loke, ond here ot Wild English, we leorn English by doing o lot of fun croftss cond octivities,
ploying exciting outdoor gomes ond singing songs oround o big compfire! Give us o coll now tw at 555-2267.
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1 Do you go on on exchongeprogrom?
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here. But I think it should olso be possible to do homework on poper.
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In todoy's show, we'll be tolking obout hobbies. A lot of
In mony countries, students ore usuolly in clossesof the some people choose expensive hobbies like photogrophy ond golf.
grode ond obout the some oge. Whot I'd like to tolk obout
But, some hobbies don't cost o lot of money-they con be
is how, in some smqll schools in the country, o closs con useful ond even kind ofcool. A greot exomple ofo cheop but
have students ofmore than one grode ond different oges. For cool hobby is plone spotting. How this works is people go to
exomple, students from grodes 1 to 3 ore oll in one classroom oirports ond wotch the plones toke off ond lond. They like to
together. guessthe model of the plone ond the yeor it wos built.
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Boy: So, how did you become such o fontostic surfer?
Listen to the interview.
Girl: It wos my dod. He olwoys took me swimming ond Alex: Welcome bock to SportsNet TV. Let's see whot our
surfing when I wos very little. And he tought me reporter Teddy Miller hos for us todoy.
o lot of good tricks, too. Teddy: Thonks, Alex. I'm with chompion soccerployer,
Boy: Does your sister surf, too? Mory Willioms. Hi, Mory.
Girl: No, she isn't into surfing at oll. She'sinto rock Mory: Hello!
climbing. Teddy: So tell us, how did you become o soccerployer?
Mory: I ployed soccero lot ot school when I wos young.
I even ployed on the boys'teom. But my PEteocher
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Listen to the interview. o greot soccerployer.
Host; Next up on Tolk-Bock Rodio, we hove the fomous
snowboorder Bobby Dovis right here in the studio.
How ore you, Bobby?
Bobby: Yeoh, not bod. And how ore you?
Listento the statements.
Host: I'm greot! I wont to stort by osking how you storted 1 She'sreolly into collecting gome CDs ond comics.
snowboording. Who got you into the sport? 2 His fother tought him how to ploy footboll ond his mother
Bobby: I guessit wos my good friend Donny. He sow some tought him the piono.
snowboorders on TV ond thought it would be fun 3 When they were young their porents bought them inline
to try. So he osked me to go snowboording in the skotes ond skoteboords.
mountoins one winter. We tried it out ond. well, 4 Meet me ot the pork ot 5 o'clock and pleose don't forget to
I wos pretty good ot it. bring the kites.
Host: And whot did your porents think of your new
hobby?
Bobby: They didn't like it much ond thought it wos too
dongerous. But ofter o while they bought me
o boord ond some boots.
Host: Do you troin o lot? Listento the classreport.
Bobby: Yeoh, I go to o snowboording comp. There, my I'd like to tell you obout how dogs ore speciol pets to hove.
coach gets me to do o lot of free-riding on the slopes Dogs moke good pets becouse they ore friendly ond keep us
ond o lot of jumping. compony. Ihey con protect us by guording the house ond
borking if strongers come too close.They ore olso fun to ploy
with becouse they ore olwoys hoppy. They ploy by running or
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Listen to the statements.
I Like, you know, kite-flying, basketball ond roller skoting.
2 I talked to her ond she soid it wos o lot of fun.
Listento the classreport.
3 I went to the store ond bought o new gome.
Some people think pets ore just fun to ploy with. But pets con
4 Do you wont to ploy boseboll with me ond my friends? reolly help us in o lot of different woys.
First, pets ore greot becouse they con get us to exercise more.
By wolking or running oround with the dog every doy, well,
we're moving ond using our muscles. It helps us stoy heolthy.
We con leorn more obout onimols bv seeino them ot the Girl: Oh, wow! Whot did you do with it?
zoo. Boy: Woit-you're scored of mice but not snokes?
We con learn more obout onimols bv seeino them ot the
zoo,
3 Animols ore greotbecousethey ore so interestingto study.
4 Animols ore greotbecousethey ore so interestingto study.
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GD"@ Iguanos ore speciol pets to hove, but you need to toke core
Listen to the classreport. of them well. You con moke o nice home for your iguono by
putting sticks, leoves ond rocks in o gloss tonk. You should
My nome's Scott. Let me tell you about o pet I'd like to hove.
put o lomp next to the tonk, too, because iguonos need to
It's o tiger. I'd like to hove it os o pet becouse it looks fontostic
stoy worm. Iguonos only eot plonts. So you con keep them
ond is so fierce. It could protect me by growling ot people who
heolthy by giving them vorious kinds ofvegetobles.
ore dongerous. It could olso keep me worm on cold nights
becouse it hos thick fur.
Boy: OK, where do we go next? Girl: I'm not going in there! You con go by yourself!
Girl: How obout the snoke enclosure? Boy: Whot's the problem? AIl the spiders ore in gloss coses.
They con't hurt you, you know.
Boy: No woy! They're so cold ond slimy, ond... ugh!
Girl: No! You'll hove to oo in there olone! I'll woit here for
Girl: OK, OK! Well, we could go ond see the tigers ...? you.
Boy: Ugh! No thonks. Seen them oireody o hundred times
before.
Girl: Ihe pondos? They're so cute, let's go see them!
Boy: No, they're boring, too.
Listento the questions.
Girl: Well, whot do you wont to see? L Where did you go while we werelooking ot the snokes?
Boy: I think the penguins would be fun to look ot. Whot do 2 Whlyore you coveringyour eyes?
you think? 3 Why om I so scoredof lions ond tigers?
Girl: Yeoh! Penguins ore cute! Let's go! 4 When did you buy the ticketsfor the elephontshow?
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I So how ore you going to get to the pork? GD,@
2 Where do you wont to go next? Listen to the classreport.
3 Why did you run owoy when the giroffe come out? Doiry foods ore on importont port of o good diet, which is
4 Who ore you going to meet ot the pork? whot you eot regulorly. These include things Iike milk, yogurt,
butter ond cheese.Doiry foods ore high in protein-o kind of
nutrient thot helps your body grow.
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Listen to the dialogue. energy. Corbohydrotes ore found in breod ond rice.
Girl: We found o mouse in our clossroom once. I wos
scored!
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[ane: Hi, Liso.
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Listen to the classreport. fone: Oh, it wos terriblel Ihe restouront wos so bod. I don't
Let's tolk obout two things thot I think ore very importont wont to go bock there ogoin.
when we tolk obout heolthv eotinq: whot we eot ond when we Liso: Reolly? Whot hoppened?
eot.
[one: There wos o deod fly on my birthdoy coke! I couldn't
So, looking first ot whot we eot, we must remember thot we believe it!
oll need o bolonced diet, ond thot meons eoting the right
Liso: Thot's terrible!
omounts of the different food groups. I'll give you some
exomples. We need more groin food-which is food mode fone: But things got bod even before thot. After we ordered,
from wheot, rice, oots ond corn-becouse it gives our bodies the woiter spilled lemonode oll over my shoulder.
energy ond helps them grow. But our bodies don't need much Lisq: Reolly? Thot's so bod!
fot, so we need to eot Iesssweetsond not use too much butter Yeoh, ond then they brought out chicken soup for
fone:
or morgorine on our breod. Mom, when she ordered vegetoble soupl Oh woit, but
When we eot is olso importont. Skipping breokfost or lunch is thot wos after we moved to o new toble becouse the
never o good ideo. We need to eot in the morning ond in the tqblecloth wos dirty!
eorly ofternoon so thot we hove the energy to study, do our Lisa: Which restouront wos it?
homework or ploy sports during the doy. At night we con eot
Iessbecause we don't need much energy for sleeping. fone: The Lotus Seed.Don't go there ... ever!
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Listen to the statements.
1 You reolly shouldn't poy if the food is so bod.
L Cereol ond rice ore exomples of breokfost foods. For
lunch, there ore mony heolthy foods you con eot. You con 2 We hoven't eoten yet.
hove sqndwiches, fruit or yogurt. 3 I don't know why the service here is so slow.
2 Our bodies don't need much fot, so we shouldn't eot o lot 4 They couldn't hove dessert.
of fried foods. Now, we should be coreful ot whot time
we eot these foods, becouse when we're osleep our bodies
con't use the energy made by fats. @"@
3 So eoting the right kinds of foods is very importont. It Listento the classreport.
helps you keep o bolonced diet. Exercise is olso very Lost yeor I tried three new restouronts. My fovorite wos the
importont for good heolth. It helps you burn energy. Diomond Restouront. I went there with my closs in fuly ond
we hod roast duck. Before thot, in Morch, my uncle treoted
me to curry prowns ot Lucky's Restouront. The food wos so
spicy-l dronk woter ofter every bite. For New Yeor's Eve,
Listen to the passage. my family ond I went to Pizza Poloce. We ordered o lorge
Eoting o voriety of food gives you o more bolonced diet. Here mushroom pizzo.
ore some woys to do it. For breokfost, odd sliced bonona to
your cereol. If you're hoving o sondwich for lunch, put some
vegetobles in it, Iike pickles and olives. For on afternoon
snock, odd fruit to your yogurt, such os strowberries or sliced
peoches. For dinner, hove some pototoes with your meot. @"@
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Sondwiches con be nutritious becouse you con put different
kinds of food in them to help keep you heolthy. You con odd
vegetoblessuch as sliced lettuce ond tomoto. By odding meot
@"@ Iike hom or solomi in your sondwich, you get protein. Doiry
Listen to the dialogue. products olso give you protein. You con spreod butter on the
Boy: Hey there,Tony.SorryI couldn'tjoin you for your breod or odd o slice of cheese.Breod is groin food, which gives
birthdoy lunch lost week.Wos it good? vou corbohvdrotes for enerov.
Tony: Oh yes!Therewerenochoswith o lot of cheese,then
my fovorite-o big steokwith fries!
Boy: Wow,soundsnicer Listen to the statements.
Tony: After thot wos dessert.They brought out o huge ice 1 So children need to leorn obout food thot is heolthy for
creom coke.I wos very full! them. Now, one problem is oll the odvertising on TV
showing junk food.
@"@ 2 You need o lot of energy from food. Just think obout not
Listen to the phone conversation. eoting breokfost-you won't hove energy during the doy.
3 Soft drinks ore not good for you ot oll. This brings us to
fone: Hello?
sugor. Mony drinks hove o lot of sugor, but now you con
Liso: Hello, ]one? It's Liso get drinks thot ore sugor-free.
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Girl 1: How wos lunch yesterdoy? My fomily ond I ore plonning our summer vocotion. We're
Girl 2: OK, I guess.The best port wos dessert-we hod thinking of going to the beoch or the mountoins. Not
chocolote ice creom. First, we went to thot new everyone in our fomily con swim, so I think we should go to
restouront on Wilkins Drive. It wos full when we the mountoins. Dod ond Mom like fishing ond my brothers
got there, so we hod to woit for 30 minutes. Then and I like comping. Plus, we might see o deer-or o block
we found out thot the food wos more expensive beor! Who knows?
thon we thought, but thot wos ofter we sot down
ond Iooked ot the menu. So then we got up quietly
ond left. We ended up ot Dylan's Steokhouse.
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Listento the radio advertisement,
Listen to the statements.
Let me guess,you wont to get your homework done over the
1 I wouldn't eot thot, if I were you. vocotion but you olso wont to hove fun, right? Brion's Surf
2 I didn't understond the menu becouse it wos in Sponish ond Study School is the onswer. At Brion's Surf ond Study
3 They shouldn't let pets into this restquront. School, you'll hove fun teochers to help you with your studies
in the mornings, then you're free to surf in the ofternoon. You
4 I couldn't decide whot to order.
need to be eleven or older, ond you hove to bring your own
surfboord.
Interested?Coll us ot 555-0090. Thot's 555-0090.
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Listen to the classreport. Listento the radio advertisement.
When vocotioning, I think it's importont for fomilies to Are you trying to leorn English? Are you tired of reading
go somewhere new. I believe expioring new ploces con be English books ond toking o lot of tests oll the time? It's time
very exciting. For exomple, Iost yeor my fomily ond I went for you to leorn English the fun ond noturol woy! Sign up for
to o mountoin resort for the first time. My dod ond brother our Quick and EasyEnglishprogrom ond you're going to spend
hod o greot time skiing. My mom enioyed the spq. I went oll your time leorning English by speoking English. Yes,that's
sightseeing-l wonted to toke pictures, but I forgot to pock right-no study, no tests. For four weeks, you're going to live
the comero! Thot's onother thing to remember. Things could with on English speoking fomily in Son Francisco,USA! Not
go wrong when you're on vocotion, so it's o good ideo to plon only thot. We're going to toke you on shopping trips, teoch
weli. you how to ride the subwoy ond toke you on treosure hunts
oll over the city. You're going to wont to stoy in Son Froncisco
forever!
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Listen to the classreport.
should hove studied English for ot leost three yeors in your
I believe fomily vocations must be plonned corefully. I think home country. You'll olso hove to poss on interview.
deciding where to go is very importont. For exomple, don't Whot ore you woiting for? Sign up for this greot odventure
plon to go to o scubo-diving resort if some members of your now! Coll us now ot 555-9978.
family would rother go sightseeing. It's importont to choose
o ploce thot everyone con enjoy.
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out obout other things you con do in cose your plons foll Listen to the statements.
through. The weother could suddenly chonge, for exomple.
1 You hove to hove o possport ond o viso.
So ifyou con't go to the beoch, why not go to video orcodes,
omusement porks or museums? If you wont to go skiing, but 2 We're going to see the Golden Gote Bridge while we're in
there's little or no snowfoll, think obout hiking. Son Froncisco.
Vocotions often meon troveling for o long time. It's very eosy 3 Mony of my friends hove gone on study trips.
to get bored. It's o good ideo, then, to toke olong some books 4 Ihey wont to go to Conodo to study English.
to reod or some gomes to keep you busy. Like on electronic
gome...or o trovel chessset, if you like chess.
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Through the Internet, we con find grommor tips or look
up words using online dictionories. Of course, this is good
because often we're not sure obout our grommor ond spelling
6h@ when we write o report.
Listen to the classreport. Not mony of us hove referencebooks of home to check or
Now, where to go on vocotion is o question most fomilies find informotion. The Internet hos o lot of informotion on
need to think obout. I think o long stoy ot the beoch is greot different subjects,which we con find very quickly ond eosily.
if your family lives in o big city. You would get lots of fresh The Internet olso gives us the convenience of emoil. We con
air ond sunshine. Most fomilies enjoy going to the beoch. It's emoil our teochers outside of closs. Thot's greot becouse there
fun-ond convenient too, becouse there ore usuolly mony isn't much time in closs to osk the teocher questions obout
qood hotels neorbv. our homework.
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1 Moke sureyou toke o lot of cleonshirtswith you. The Internet helps connect students through chots ond
2 You con wqtch your fovoritegome ot the hotel. forums.
3 I hope you didn't leovethe keysin the room. 2 Online technology is getting better ond better oll the time.
4 I heordthot the sond is so white! 3 Typing essoyson o computer is eosier thon writing them
in o notebook.
Emails ore very convenient, that's why people don't wont
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Listen to the radio advertisement.
Studying will be so much more fun if you're doing it in fresh
mountoin oir, don't you think? Tom's SwissHiking ond Study
Tours will toke you through noturol forests ond beoutiful Listento the passage.
volleys. Our fun ond friendly tutors will tolk to you obout I don't use the Internet very often. And I never use it to do
noture, longuoges ond science.Eoch tour losts for six doys. my homework. Not oll the informotion on the Internet is
You need to be 13 or over, fit ond heolthv. Coll 555-9823 for relioble. Some informotion is just not true. To be sure, I get
more informotion. my informotion from the librory. Also, I prefer to meet my
friends thon chat with them online. And I con olwoys get new
information by reoding mogozines ond newspopers.
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Listen to the statements.
I Pleosetry not to hit the keys too hord.
J Do not remove the webcom from the monitor.
3 Use eorphones if you wont to listen to oudio clips.
4 Tell us whot you think of our new gomes.
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Leorning o foreign longuoge tokes time ond effort. It gets
more difficult if people don't get o chonce to use it. Online
forums ond chot rooms con help with this problem. An online
forum lets people from different countries shore ideos. For
example, if you're trying to leorn French, you con proctice
by posting messogesin French. If you wont to get o foster
response,chot rooms might be better. You con chot obout
onything-the news or your fovorite hobbies. You con olso
leorn obout one qnother's culture.
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Listen to the statements.
1 Students con listen to speciol podcosts on the Internet.
2 These doys even young children find computers very eosy
to use.
Notebook computers ore reolly eosy to corry around with
you.
Downlooding files from the Internet is getting foster ond
foster.
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Listen to the dialogue.
Boy: Hi. I con'tgetthecomputer
to stort.Couldyouhelp
me?
Womon: Sure. Remember thot you must log in before you
con use our computers. Find the green box ot the
top right of the screen.Type in the four numbers on
the login cord you got from the moin counter. Hit
the enter key ond there you ore-you're logged in!
Boy: Thonks o lot!