A In pairs, discuss the following questions. 1. Have you ever made or listened to a podcast?
1. Have you ever made or listened to a podcast?
2. What makes a good podcast?
B In one of their Notes from Spain podcasts, Ben and Marina talk about the
Financial and legal sides of setting up their website. In pairs, make a list of
The possible points they might mention.
Financial matters: processing payments Legal matters:
C 
0.14 Listen to the podcast and check your answers.
D 0.14 Listen again and complete the following extracts.
1. … my dad, who is 65, is buying a lot on the Internet. ________, problem number one is that you will probably have to find an accountant who …
2. … in a way that he could understand. ________, the other problem is that the accountant is going to have to work with you and a lawyer to …
3. … as most of our customer base is English-speaking. ________, what’s next? Setting up your website.
E Decide if the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
1. Words such as now, so and OK are used in the podcast to move the conversation forward.
2. Words such as now, so and OK are used in the podcast to show agreement.
F 0.15 In the second part of the podcast, Ben and Marina discuss setting
up the actual website and sources of inspiration. Listen and tick (√) the
Points that they discuss.
Setting up the website: Inspiration:
Host company? ? Books
Bandwidth? Websites?
Software? ? People
Hardware?
Web design?
G 0.15 Listen again and complete the following extracts using the words
In the box
| actually |
1. Well, the main reason our web host is in the USA is cos it’s cheaper.
2. …. on their server. ______, let’s move on to talk about getting your website designed.
3. … all around the world … _______ . That’s E-L-A-N-C-E dot com, elance.com. Very useful.
4. We ______ did all of the web design ourselves, using Open Source software.
5. … is free. _______ I think that’s most of the main points covered. _______, finally, how about if people want a bit of inspiration?
6. OK, _______, I think that’s at fourhourworkweek.com or …
Focus on reading
Read the article and mark the sentences T (true), F (false), or DS (doesn’t say).
The children who sang on Another Brick in the Wall by the British group Pink Floyd have changed their tune since 1979. 25 years later, they are trying to take the group to court because of unpaid royalties.
The song, which was a number 1 in the UK and abroad, was an attack on school and education and it had the famous chorus, ‘We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control... teacher, leave those kids alone!’ The chorus was sung by thirteen schoolchildren from Islington Green School in London, who were taken to the Britannia Row record studios to sing on the recording by their music teacher. They never met the group and were paid for their work. When the head of the school heard the song with its anti-school lyrics, she banned the children from receiving any publicity or from appearing on TV.
Peter Rowan, a royalty expert from Edinburgh, has spent two years trying to find the children, now adults, and he intends to help them make a legal claim for royalties. Mr Rowan said, ‘They probably won’t get more than a few hundred pounds each, but this is about recognition. They deserve to have their work recognized even if it has taken 25 years.’
Ian Abbott, 40, was one of the children who sang on the record. He said, ‘Now I don’t agree that “We don’t need no education.” Education is so important. I really regret that I didn’t study more at school. I would like to go to university now and get a degree. But work gets in the way when you get older. Sometimes I say to my nieces, “You must study harder,” and they say, “But why? Look at what you sang on that song.” ’
Mirabai Narayan, another one of the children, now works as a teacher herself. She said, ‘I sometimes wonder if the song influenced my career. My job now is to help kids with learning difficulties.’
1. Another Brick in the Wall was also successful outside the UK.
2. The children got a little money for singing on the record.
3. The music teacher was a friend of the group Pink Floyd.
4. The head of the school wasn’t happy about the song.
5. Peter Rowan was one of the thirteen children.
6. He thinks the children will get a lot of money.
7. Ian Abbott is sorry that he didn’t work harder at school.
8. He doesn’t have any children of his own.
9. Mirabai Narayan is sure the song made her become a teacher.
Language Focus
4.1. a) Read the newspaper article and match the sentence halves. 1. Piers Sharma 2. Mike Ryde 3. Arran Frenandez 4. Francesca 5. Frederick a) took Maths GCSE at the age of five b) is a college principal c) is taking a GCSE next year d) is six years old e) is waiting for his exam results b) Read the text again and correct the factual mistakes in these statements. 1. Exam results are coming out later this month. 2. Piers Sharma got an A in the exam 3. There are five students in Piers’ class at school. 4. The college has a maths course for babies. 5. Mike Ryde’s son is top of the class at school. 6. The parents decide when children are ready to take an exam. 7. Mike says the older children love working with computers. 8. Mike thinks few children could take a GCSE at the age of eleven. c) Match the following words and phrases from the text with the meanings A-J.
| Who’s a clever boy then? Is it wise for children aged six and seven to be taking GCSE exams, asks Zoe Brennan Like many youngsters across the country, Piers Sharma will be waiting for the postman with trepidation next month, when exam results come out. Being seven years old, he is not the average GCSE student, however. ‘It was a bit hard, and a bit easy,’ he says of the exam in computer skills. ‘The hard bit was the video conferencing, the applications bit was easy.’ Does he expect to pass? Sharma sounds momentarily stressed. ‘I did really well in the practical, I got an A,’ he says. ‘In the exam, I might have got a C+ or a B+.’ Most students do their GCSE at the age of fifteen or sixteen, but Sharma is one of a growing number of pupils sitting exams extraordinarily early. This year, he is one of an entire class of nine children – four seven-year-olds and five six-year-olds – who in May took a GCSE in information and communication technology (ICT) at the private Ryde College in Hertfordshire. The course takes a year to complete. Mike Ryde, principal of the college, confirmed that three of the children were five years old when they embarked on their GCSE studies, having ‘graduated’ from the college’s baby and toddler computer course, where learning starts at eighteen months. At the age of three or four the infants attend ‘primer’ lessons. Then Ryde judges when they are ready to sit the exam. ‘The most we’ve ever had before has been one or two children of this age doing a GCSE,’ says Ryde. ‘The very fact that we’ve got nine students this year shows that a lot of six and seven-year-olds would be capable of doing this. It is no coincidence that they all started in classes so early. The youngest ever to have taken a GCSE at Ryde was Arran Fernandez, who was five when he took Maths in 2001. Ryde’s own daughter Francesca, seven, will take the ICT GCSE next year and his son Frederick, six, is on the primer course. ‘The wonderful thing is that at a level designed for a fifteen-year-old has a knock-on effect,’ he says. ‘Francesca is topping the class at school.’ ‘We also have children doing English and Maths really early, but the younger children seem to gravitate towards ICT,’ he says. ‘They love working with computers.’ Many educationists and parents would be horrified, arguing that six is too young to burden a child with exams. Ryde, however, believes that early GCSEs should be introduced widely, claiming that such a system would reduce the stress on youngsters later on. ‘At present, you see children taking upwards of ten GCSES at once at the age of sixteen,’ he says. ‘That’s a tremendous pressure. Why not give them the opportunity to take one or two a year? It seems to me that most children are ready to do a GCSE by the age of eleven. We should not dumb down the system to the lowest common denominator – education is all about opportunity.’ |
Unit 1 The language of newspaper’s components
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5 Whs and the H
NB:5Wh және H (кім, не, қашан, қайда, неге және қалай)
Тілшілер осы 5Wh және H (кім, не, қашан, қайда, неге және қалай) ескереді. Кез-келген жақсы дайындалған хабар осы сұрақтарға жауапты қамтамасыз етеді.