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Friday, 29 April 2022

Listening Test-May 2 (9th Form)


Nº 4

Listening Test-9th form-May 2022
Narrator: Is this a dream?! Maybe! Or maybe artist Marc Chagall is mixing memories of his home in Russia with folktales he heard when he was little. He was living far from home, in the big city of Paris, France when he painted this picture.

Look at the big cow again. Did you notice that thin line connecting her eye to the eye of the man?

Maybe Chagall connected them because he remembered how much the animals and people in his town relied on each other.
Maybe all nature was important—check out the tree the green man is holding with clouds of seeds bursting out of it. Chagall said:
Artist, Marc Chagall (read by an actor): Our whole inner world is reality.
Narrator: He meant that what we see in our imaginations can be as important as what we see with our eyes. How you would you paint your feelings about your home town?

Monday, 10 May 2021

Listening Test-8th form- february 2019

Diners Listening for 8th form test


Restaurants called “diners” can be found throughout the United StatesThey make simplelow-cost food. But traditional diner food is often unhealthy.
One group of diners is cooking healthier food for theircustomers and, surprisinglythey love it.
There are many people waiting for their meal at the Silver Diner in WaldorfMarylandAmong them areAshley Holt and Norman Baileywho eat there often.
“I like the food. It’s fresh, it’s good. I would come here more often especially because it’s a lot healthier."
Great atmospherequick service and great food!”



Monday, 4 February 2019

Emiliano Sala search: Body seen in plane wreckage

One body has been seen in the underwater wreckage of the plane that was carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
 

Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson
A search on Sunday found the Piper Malibu plane on the seabed off Guernsey, almost two weeks after it went missing.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed the sighting on Monday morning.
It added it was now considering the next steps.
The "substantial amount of wreckage" of the plane, which went missing on 21 January, was found on Sunday morning after a privately-funded search began.
The flight had been carrying Argentine striker Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, from Nantes, north west France, to Cardiff after Sala completed his £15m move to Cardiff City.
Credits to BBC News

Thursday, 22 February 2018

What you need to know about bread

Ultra-processed foods have been linked to cancer - so should we be worried about eating bread?




A link between highly processed foods and cancer has been suggested by French researchers.
They classified foods including cakes, chicken nuggets and mass-produced bread as "ultra-processed".
Do we need to worry about eating bread?
Produced by Jan Bruck and Suniti Singh
BBC hHealth

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