Tekst 1

“A ghost stole my mom’s watch!”

“My family had just moved into a new house, and I had heard all these creepy stories about it. Supposedly a 12-year-old boy named Fred had died there years ago, and he still haunts the house. But why would I believe those stories? I convinced myself that people were just trying to freak me out. Then, one day, my mom went out for a few hours and left me home alone. When she got back, she came into my room and asked, “Katie, did you borrow my watch?” “No,” I said. She looked confused. “I left it on my bureau, and it’s gone,” she said. We searched everywhere, but the watch was nowhere to be found. But I knew no one had been in the house but me - so where did it go? Exactly a year later, Mom walked into her bedroom - and the watch was sitting on her bureau! There was a note beside it that said, “Sorry about your watch. I never learned to tell time.” Here’s the scariest part: it was signed, “Fred.” Now I know all those scary stories about my house are true!” Katie, 17, Ontario

Wat vindt Katie het engst aan de gebeurtenis die hieronder beschreven wordt?

Je gaat begin maart een weekend naar Londen, samen met een vriend/vriendin.

Jullie willen graag om een uur of zes ’s avonds naar de London Dungeon.

 Kan dit volgens de folder?

Antwoord met ‘ja’ of ‘nee’ en verklaar je antwoord.

tekst 2.Big Kids on the Block - Johnny Dee

1 Last Saturday, an account manager

from south-east London spent

seven hours sitting in her Vauxhall

Zafira parked outside the house of

a stranger she knew only as the

Giraffe. “It was,” she says, “one of

the most exciting things I've ever

done.” The woman, who would like

to be known as Agent Squirtel, in

order to protect her identity from

rogue commandos, was taking part

in StreetWars Killer, a water-pistol

assassin game that has turned 150

Londoners into paranoid snipers

with super-soakers. At about 8am

her target emerged from his house

and she gave chase down the

street, successfully aiming her gun

at his upper torso. It was only then

that she realised she had squirted

the wrong man: it was the Giraffe's

flatmate, Dave. “He was OK about

it,” she says. “It was a hot day, he

said he would dry out.”

2 StreetWars is just one of many

large-scale urban games being

played in cities all across the

world. All of them are similar in that

information spreads via the

internet. To anyone who chances

upon them on the street, they

seem like surreal, random events.

All of them also utilise wireless

technology such as GPRS1), use

real streets rather than boards or

computer screens as their game's

grid, and all resemble childhood

games in their simplicity.

3 “They definitely appeal to people

with a Peter Pan complex2),” says

Yutai Liao, a San Francisco

graphics designer whose alter ego,

the Mustache Commander, is

behind the StreetWars craze.

“Where's the law that states that

once you get to a set age you can

only have fun by going to dinner

parties with other adult friends?”

The average age of competitors,

says Liao, is 25.

4 Frank Lantz, a US college

lecturer who encouraged his

students to play a human game of

Pac-Man, believes the social

aspect is the main reason why

urban games are becoming a

trend. “A lot of these games use

new technology but they're also

about a return to the classic values

of pre-computer gaming: face-toface social interaction,” he says.

“I also think there's something

appealing about 7 to run

around public space creating a

spectacle.”

5 Indeed, not everyone can be

good at football or kung fu, 8

we're all pretty good at hide and

seek.

Which of the following is true of paragraph 1?

Which of the following is not true about StreetWars according to paragraph 2?

What is true about Yutai Liao according to paragraph 3?

‘urban games are becoming a trend’ (alinea 4) 

Wat is hier volgens Frank Lantz de belangrijkste reden voor?

Kies bij 7 in alinea 4 het juiste antwoord uit de gegeven mogelijkheden.

Kies bij 8 in alinea 5 het juiste antwoord uit de gegeven mogelijkheden.

tekst 3 My Son, the Chimp

British teacher takes him toys, watches TV and has a

laugh with him

By Marie Woolf

Political Editor

1 A British woman has

launched a court

challenge to become

the legal guardian of

a 160lb chimpanzee in

a test case that could

confer basic rights on

apes across Europe.

2 Paula Stibbe, 38,

a teacher who lives in

Vienna, has applied to

the Austrian courts to

take legal responsibility

for a 26-year-old male

chimpanzee which, she fears, could be subjected to

laboratory tests if he isn’t given legal ‘rights’. Animalwelfare organisations see it as a test case that would

give special legal status to the great apes. It comes as

Members of Parliament make a fresh attempt to ban animal testing on primates1)

across Europe.

3 Ms Stibbe, who is originally from Brighton, befriended Hiasl the chimp eight

years ago and now visits him every week, bringing biscuits and his favourite

Viennese pastries, clothes, including Wellington boots, and art materials. The

ape, which has lived in an Austrian animal sanctuary2) most of his life after being

rescued by customs officials as a baby, is facing an uncertain future after the

sanctuary ran out of cash.

4 Ms Stibbe, who spends hours with Hiasl each week, says she regards him

as a ‘friend’ and is horrified about the prospect of him being transported to a

laboratory. If her application to become his legal guardian is successful, she

would be responsible for making decisions about his welfare.

5 She told The Independent on Sunday she plays hide and seek and watches

wildlife programmes with him. “He likes being tickled and he likes dressing-up

clothes,” she said. “He is especially fond of Wellington boots…. He likes drawing

with coloured chalk, mostly scribbling. He laughs a lot and is very gentle with

me, even though he has the strength of seven men. He has a special greeting

for me and tweaks my nose between his middle and index finger when I arrive.

He enjoys watching TV, and is specially fond of wildlife documentaries. I showed

Hiasl the chimp likes ‘dressing-up clothes’ and enjoys watching TV him a video of gorillas,

and when two gorillas were mating he was completely fascinated by them.

I want to make sure that he has a fully secure future, and

does not end up in a lab abroad.”

6 Hiasl was captured as a one-year-old in Sierra Leone and smuggled to

Austria, where he was bound for a vivisection lab. He was found by customs

officers after surviving the journey to Europe in a box, and was taken in by the

sanctuary.

7 20 he is granted basic legal rights, he could be sent abroad to a

laboratory when the sanctuary closes. Paula Stibbe’s case follows moves in New

Zealand and Spain to give rights to great apes. These apes share about 98 per

cent of their DNA with humans.

Why has Paula Stibbe ‘launched a court challenge’ (first sentence) according to

paragraphs 1-2?

She wants to...

Why is there a chance that Hiasl may soon be transported elsewhere according

to paragraph 3?

‘in the next phase of the campaign’ (alinea 1) selecteer van de volgende maatregelen aan of ze al in een eerdere fase zijn genomen volgens alinea 2.

‘to get Britons to change their present, polluting habits’ (alinea 2) 

In welke zin eerder in de tekst wordt een voorbeeld gegeven van gedrag dat slecht is voor het milieu? Citeer (= schrijf over uit de tekst) de eerste twee woorden van deze zin.

What becomes clear about the plastic bag charge in paragraph 3?

What can be concluded from paragraph 4?

How does the final sentence round off this article?