Phrasal Verbs with Answers: To Call

This week,'to call' is the verb used to make our phrasal verbs.  Do you know what they mean?

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Comprehension: Bedouin children determined to learn in remote school

Watch the video below and answer the following questions. 

1. What is true about the place the Bedouin tribe live in?

a. The houses are made of bamboo.
b. There is running water.
c. There is no electricity.

2. What is true about the school?

a. The students are not very dedicated.
b. It is made with bamboo.
c. It complies with the Israeli building regulations.

3. The Bedouins believe there will be road access to the school, very soon.

a. True
b. False

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Transcript and Answers to Bedouin children determined to learn in remote school

It takes a certain kind of dedication to be a pupil at the Jahaleen primary school. With no road access, teachers and students must cross desert terrain to get there on foot. But for the Bedouin children studying in the impoverished West Bank community of Wadi Abu Hindi, it’s worth the effort.

"I want to study because I want to become a teacher. My father and my mother promised me, because my older brothers stopped, that they would educate me and my other siblings. "

Some 300 Bedouin from the Jahalin tribe live in Wadi Abu Hindi, which is made up of tin shacks and where there is no running water or electricity.

"Before the school was created, this area was lacking in education. Most of the families here, 90 percent or even more, couldn't read or write.”

Although the community would like to pave a road to the school, they can’t. They are located in a part of the West Bank known as Area C, which is under full Israeli military and administrative control. Buildings must comply with stringent Israeli regulations or face the threat of demolition.

"We are people that are deprived from any public services. Our houses and school were demolished in 1997. We managed to get an order from the High Court which allowed us to put things back as they were. We are suffering since 1997. In 2011, they again sent us threatening orders.”

But for now, the bamboo school, which was renovated by the villagers with help from NGOs, has been spared. 

Answers:
1. c
2. b
3. b

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Common Mistakes 2

Comprehension: News Report 7th December 2012

Watch the video below and answer the questions True or False.

1. Mark Turner takes photographs professionally.

a. True

b. False

2. Carlos Agang wasn't injured when he was found.

a. True

b. False

3. The operations manager at Stamco Ship Management thought the accident was due to human error.

a. True

b. False

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Transcript and Answers to News Report 7th December 2012

Like some dragon from the deep, a whale rises majestically to the surface and spouts a huge ball of fire from his blowhole.
Of course this stunning image is really nothing more than an optical illusion as sunlight is refracted through the jet of moist air creating a orange glow.

American amateur photographer Mark Turner, who went on the whale watching trip with his 82-year-old dad, said: 'We had a professional photographer with us as a guide, and on the first day, he told us about the fire breathing whale phenomenon that happens when the sun is low in the sky and is backlighting the whale.

'I immediately decided it was going to be my goal to take a picture of that.
'We were getting ready to set anchor for the evening and there were three whales swimming between our boat and a beautiful Alaskan sunset. As they spouted water from their blow holes, we could see the effect the sun had on the mist. The lower the sun got on the horizon, the more brilliant the colours.

Rescue workers found a 54-year-old man clinging to a boulder by a river – injured but alive – two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the south of the Philippines, killing at least 379 people. Hundreds are still missing.

All Carlos Agang had to eat was coconut and water until he was found in a tattered shirt with a fractured leg and bruises by a group of rescue volunteers in Compostela Valley, the province worst hit by Typhoon Bopha.

"I can't believe it. I didn't expect to see people survive two days after they were swept by flood and mud," a fire volunteer said.

Rescuers also found a pregnant woman on the other side of the river with her one-year old son after escaping floods that swamped their house.

The Dutch Coastguard has called off a search for six crew still missing after their cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank in the North Sea.

Five bodies have so far been recovered but officials said there was "zero" chance of finding survivors in the icy waters.

"We have now stopped and we will not begin again tomorrow," Coastguard spokesman Peter Westenberg said.

The Dutch defence ministry said the North Sea was treacherous when the  148m Baltic Ace collided with the 134m container ship Corvus J near busy shipping lanes, some 40 miles off the coast of the southern Netherlands.

However, the operations manager at Stamco Ship Management Co Ltd, which managed the Baltic Ace, said the conditions were normal at the time of the collision.

"You cannot control some things. This happened in good weather, normal weather. There was good visibility, so I feel most probably there was a human error," he said.

Answers:

1. b
2. b
3. a


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Idioms: Answers to Heady Idioms

Answers and examples to this weeks idioms. The theme this week is the head.

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