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“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?

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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.

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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?

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

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What is true about Yutai Liao according to paragraph 3?

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

Wat is hier volgens Frank Lantz de belangrijkste reden voor?

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

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

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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...

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Why is there a chance that Hiasl may soon be transported elsewhere according
to paragraph 3?

tekst 4 - English ban on single-use plastics

1 Plastic drinking straws, cotton buds and other single-use plastics could be banned from sale in England next year in the next phase of the campaign to try to halt the pollution of the world’s rivers and oceans. Cotton buds, often flushed down the lavatory, are one of the most serious sources of marine pollution. Altogether it is estimated that there are 150m tonnes of plastic in the world’s oceans, and over 100,000 sea mammals die from eating or getting tangled up in plastic waste.

2 Plastic microbeads have already been banned, and the introduction of the 5p plastic bag charge in England has led to a dramatic fall in their use: 9bn fewer bags have been distributed, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) figures show. A consultation will start later in 2018, and a ban could be enforced as early as next year. Other work, such as research into the impact of a tax on disposable coffee cups and a deposit return scheme on plastic bottles, is also under way in an attempt to get Britons to change their present, polluting habits.

3 But sources say behaviour will not be changed through regulation and compulsion. Ministers are keen that the public should be better informed about plastics that are reusable and recyclable, and want the process to be well supported, as the plastics bag charge was when it was finally implemented.

4 There is evidence that increasingly prosperous countries of the global south are beginning to react to environmental damage and pollution. Earlier this year, China decreased imports of plastic rubbish. As a result it became painfully clear how much the UK relied on sending its waste offshore. In India, Delhi banned all forms of disposable plastic more than a year ago after complaints about the illegal mass burning of plastic and other waste at local rubbish dumps, and the air pollution it caused. 5 The evidence of the damage that plastics do not just to wildlife and the food chain but to some of the world’s most beautiful places is now widely reported. The government has committed £61.4m to its latest initiative, some of which will be used for research and to help Commonwealth1) countries develop ways of stopping plastic waste entering oceans.

adapted from The Guardian, 2018
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‘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.

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‘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.

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

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What can be concluded from paragraph 4?

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How does the final sentence round off this article?