Eindexamen engels vmbo gl/tl 2007, tijdvak 2

School bans cops and robbers 1 FOUR nursery class pupils have been suspended by their school in America for playing cops and robbers using their fingers as guns. The children, all four or five years old, were sent home for three days after shouting “I shot you” and “Boom, 3 I have a bazooka” during playtime breaks. 2 Parents of pupils of Wilson School in Sayreville, New Jersey – which has a “zero-tolerance” policy towards 4 threats and violence – are outraged, saying the punishment is too severe. The mother of one of the children said: “They should make them stay after school or go back to ‘writing on the chalkboard’.” The father of another said: “I understand there is fear and paranoia going on, but there has to be some basis for it. It was at a time when

A day in the life of ...a cycle trainer LONDONERS know all about traffic and the problems involved. One way to beat it is to get on your bike, but that, in itself, poses problems: “Some 5 people are worried about cycling on London’s busy streets,” says Simeon Bamford, 27, who set up Cycle Training in July 2000. “But we can teach them how to use the roads 10 safely and confidently. We can teach a 45 courses at summer universities. riding style which enables people to make lots of space around themselves and communicate assertively with other road users to get to where they 15 are going swiftly.” 50 head we’ll go into the school to give a Bamford has always loved cycling and, although he learned to drive as a teenager, he has never owned a car. “I always cycled to school, at university 20 and I have always cycled to work in 55 into it. 10 , a lot of kids end up not London.” At work he checks his e-mails and phones his instructors with bookings. His job is split between running the 25 office and acting as an instructor. 60 are taught to cycle safely and the Cycle Training has 35 freelance instructors, male and female. Most are former couriers, students, actors or retired teachers and all are trained to 30 do bike repair and maintenance 65 really enjoy it because it’s different to checks, covering things such as gears, brakes and wheels. Cycle Training runs individual and group courses (the latter usually in schools) covering 35 complete beginners to journey 70 confidently you use all the main accompaniment (helping cyclists plan their best route to and from work). With an estimated 160,000 regular cyclists in London and growing 40 concerns about traffic jams and 75 cycle lanes but it’s unnecessary and pollution, he is increasingly kept busy running courses for local authorities, who have provided funding for training

false impression that cyclists shouldn’t be on the road.” 80 He also rejects the use of safety gear. “Some people see cycling as a dangerous sport. It’s not,” he claims. 100 are known to be more punctual and “It’s a simple, inexpensive way to get around. AII you need is a bike. We say 85 you don’t need a helmet or anything else. If you wear a suit, cycle to work in a suit.” 105 “In Holland everyone cycles. It’s the Bamford works long hours and will often stay late at the office. He doesn’t 90 mind doing it, because he believes in the promotion of cycling. He says more of us should abandon the car and 110 less stressful.” public transport. “Companies are going to have to produce a green transport 95 plan and there are likely to be

Real-life Lassies to the rescue Mountain rescue teams are using family pets to help save lives, finds John Young High on the slopes of Glen Etive, in the Scottish Highlands, a distant figure in a bright yellow jacket moves 5 across the foot of a sheer rockface. Below him, leaping and weaving from side to side, harder to spot against the background of boulders and 10 heather, is a dog in search of the scent from another human hidden somewhere on the hillside. Policeman Kenny Lindsay 15 and Shadow, an 18-month-old German shepherd, are taking part in the annual trials of the Highland section of the Search and Rescue Dog Association (SARDA). The 18 the trials is to 20 assess whether dogs have been trained by their handlers to the level of skills required to be part of a mountain rescue team. On the road below, Les Silkowski is 25 sitting in his car with Tango, a two- year-old Belgian shepherd-Border collie cross, awaiting their turn on the hill. If Tango does his stuff, by locating two volunteers acting as ‘casualties’ 30 who have supposedly lost their way or injured themselves in the mountains, he will graduate from novice to fully fledged rescue dog. Although, like Lindsay, Silkowski happens to be a 35 policeman, he is anxious to point out that Tango is not a police dog but his own domestic pet. The same goes for all the dogs owned by members of SARDA, most of whom are civilian 40 volunteers, men and women who know the mountains and their hazards, and who are prepared to be called out at all

shepherds and Labradors. They must also have a playful temperament. If they don’t enjoy playing games, they can’t be trained.’ 75 ‘Dogs do have their limitations,’ he concedes. ‘You obviously can’t use them on steep rock faces where they would be fighting for their own survival. ‘They’re not so good in 80 forests, or in very hot weather when 100 between an exercise, like this weekend, there’s no wind to allow them to pick up the scent. But in the right conditions on open ground they are incomparable. They’re brilliant at 85 night, because they’re not relying on 105 these dogs live lives no different from sight to find their quarry. Humans can’t work then.’ On the Sunday morning, a helicopter arrives to practise winching 90 the dogs to the ground and back up The Times Weekend

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