Assignment 1
a Find the following countries on the world map: Finland, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine.
Soldiers, Earthquakes, Ants
All over the world, a lot is going on. A new roundup gives all the important information of events near and far, events in Russia and Ukraine, in Mexico and Taiwan. And also very down to earth. |
Assignment 2
Read the text. Connect the words and expressions that have the same meaning in the text.
1. to call up | a. all the cars formed a line that moved slowly or not at all |
2. reserve soldiers | b. to become very expensive |
3. to rejoin | c. to find by adding (optellen), subtracting (aftrekken), multiplying (vermenigvuldigen) or dividing (delen) |
4. army | d. a guess that you make based on the information you have |
5. to go sky high | e. hurts, damages, wounds |
6. traffic was backed up | f. to join again |
7. border | g. a large group of people who are armed and trained to fight |
8. magnitude | h. a line separating one country or state from another |
9. severe | i. an object or tool that is used for catching animals |
10. aftershock | j. one thousand trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) |
11. injuries | k. to order soldiers to come for active military duty |
12. quadrillion | l. people with military experience who must serve in the army when they are needed |
13. an estimate | m. size or strength |
14. a trap | n. a smaller earthquake that follows a large earthquake |
15. to calculate | o. very bad or serious |
Assignment 3
a Connect the items on the left with the correct description on the right.
1 aftershock | a Young Men Race to Leave Russia As It Calls Up Soldiers |
2 airplane tickets suddenly very expensive | |
3 counting insects | b Earthquakes Strike in Mexico And Taiwan |
4 international scientific information | |
5 reserve soldiers called up | c Scientists Report That Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants |
6 train knocked off the rails |
b Why are there long lines at Russia’s border crossings?
1 300,000 reserve soldiers want to join the European Union army.
2 Many Russian men are leaving because they do not want to join the army.
3 There are not enough people working at the border crossings.
4 Tourists from several large cities in Russia want to visit Finland.
c “The numbers of insects around the world are dropping.” What does this mean?
1 Around the world, more and more car windows are covered in dead insects.
2 Insects that go sky high will drop dead.
3 Scientists know little about the numbers of ants living underground.
4 There are less and less insects all over the world.
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