Eindexamen engels vmbo bb 2014, tijdvak 1

Jody’s holiday adventure Jody, a 14-year-old girl from Nottinghamshire, tells us about her scary experience. 1 “It was the summer holiday and my sister Jess and I were bored. We decided to visit our older sister Kay. Her house is just a short walk from where we live. After walking for about five minutes, we bumped into some classmates. While we were talking, a group of boys on mopeds started driving up and down the road, making a lot of noise. 2 Some of the people living there came out looking angry. Suddenly a police car drove around the corner. “OK everyone, fun-time over!” shouted one police officer, getting out of the car. The boys started swearing at the police. The police caught a boy and tried to put him in handcuffs. But the boy wanted to run away and that made the policeman very angry. “OK, I’m taking out my Taser,” he suddenly said. A Taser is a kind of gun which gives a strong electric shock through a wire attached to darts. 3 Then it happened. “Jess, help me!” I screamed to my sister. “What is going on?” I felt a stabbing pain in my leg and my entire body was shaking. A terrible pain shot through me. Then everything went dark. I had been hit accidentally by the Taser gun. After a while, I began to see clearly again. I tried to stand up but I couldn’t move because I felt a huge cramp in the back of my left leg. One of the darts from the Taser stuck out of my leg! I pulled it out and saw the blood coming through my jeans. 4 I wanted to go home as soon as possible, but then the policeman said something I will never forget: “Come back! You still have one in you!” I tried not to cry from pain when he pulled a second dart from my left shoulder. Then the police drove us home in a police car. The policeman apologised to my parents and sat with us while we waited for an ambulance to arrive. They checked my blood pressure and did some tests and then told me I was OK. Everyone said I was lucky, Tasers can be dangerous. 5 For the next few weeks, I felt very shaken. I was scared easily and I had constant cramps in my leg and shoulder. Now I feel all right again. We didn’t make an official complaint to the police. I do not hate them for what happened, but I do think they should have been more careful - the Taser should never have hit me”. Bewerking van: www.mailonline, augustus 2012

Cedrick’s True Story 1 “Last February I became very breathless and tired. In March our family doctor sent me to a hospital in London and there I was told I had a serious heart disease. I needed a pacemaker real soon. It was my first ever operation and the doctors said my heart’s function would improve now. But in October I was getting worse by the day. I was pale, thin, always cold, breathless and my oxygen levels - usually 98-100% in a normal person - were 40- 55%. 2 Then in December, on my way to the cinema with my friends, I felt very dizzy and I collapsed in the car park. Luckily, a cardiac nurse happened to be nearby and she gave me the kiss of life. I was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. The specialists advised me to join the waiting list for a heart transplant. I had always been very much against it but now I knew it was my only option. Only sixteen days after I was put on the list, the hospital called… I was speechless, which is very rare for me! 3 Surrounded by my family, I waited for confirmation that the donor heart was a good match for me. When I was taken to the operating theatre at 11.30am, I hugged my family. I felt nervous but hopeful that the transplant would lead to a new and better life for me. I don’t remember much about the first week after the operation, as I was under heavy sedation. But after 11 days I felt much better and I was allowed to move out of the intensive care and on to a ward. 4 I had my first test to check if my body wasn’t rejecting the new heart, but all was well. Just 17 days after the transplant I was allowed to go home, feeling like myself again. No longer permanently out of breath, ill and unhappy. 5 Finally I want to ask you to think about registrating as an organ donor. You can do it online and it could save up to nine lives. Thousands of people in the UK today are in the same position I was in, waiting every day for that life-changing call, so talk to your parents and think about signing up to give the gift of life!” Bewerking van een verhaal in Mizz, zomer 2011

Singing sensation - Clare Maguire 1 For as long as she can remember, Clare Maguire wanted to be a singer. But not everyone shared her vision. “My music teacher told me to stop dreaming and get on with my schoolwork. He said that I’d never make it as a singer, so I rebelled and dropped out of school,” Clare explains. “People ask me what I would like to say to him now, but I’d probably thank him because he was the reason I am successful now.” 2 “I went home and told my parents that I wasn’t going back to school,” she says. “I had no choice, making music was the only thing I could do and the one thing that made me feel great. My parents were really worried, understandably, and said I should get a job and try to make it within a year. So I got a job at Topshop while putting as many demos as possible on MySpace. After hearing one of my demos, a London-based producer called Primary 1 contacted me, introduced me to my manager and things took off.” 3 At 19, Clare took the brave step to say goodbye to her family and moved 120 miles south from Birmingham to London all by herself to focus on her music. “I was quite lonely at first but then I started to work a lot and meet people. I always say the best thing to do is find people around you who make you laugh and everything will be all right, so that’s what I did.” 4 Clare is a successful singer now but she is amazingly down-to-earth. “I don’t think anything has changed that much, apart from developing a fan base and getting messages from people saying they want to meet me,” she says. “All I care about is creating something which people really enjoy, that’s my ambition.” Bewerking van: My Bliss, 2012