Eindexamen engels vmbo bb 2016, tijdvak 1

Lost & Found 1 Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport is the fifth largest airport in the nation. More than 40 million passengers flew out of Houston last year. One of them was Tom Wagner who was flying from Louisiana to see his sister in California. “We had to change planes in Houston, Texas,” Wagner said, “I just took my hat off and I had a nap. When I woke up the lights were out. I was like, ‘what's going on?’ I had been fast asleep in a window seat near the back of the airplane.” Somehow, the crew and passengers had deplaned, and no one noticed Tom was still on board. 2 He woke up to a cold and pitch-black cabin and the aircraft doors were locked shut. He then made a frantic call to his girlfriend, who thought he was joking. “Debbie, I'm locked on the plane, I'm telling you the truth; you better go somewhere and get me off this plane.” At the same time his sister called the airline when he didn’t arrive. After more than half an hour, workers came aboard and were stunned to find the lone passenger. 3 United Express is investigating how this could have happened. “They obviously didn't sweep the plane,” Wagner said. “I wonder, who shut the door?” The airline however, said there had been a post-flight walk-through that was done, but the company couldn't explain how they had missed Wagner. “If an individual is going to be missed, what about a package or a backpack or a piece of luggage that could pose a threat to the aircraft on the next flight? What if I had a medical condition or something? What if I had a heart attack and I was dead? You just shut the plane and leave someone on there? That’s the way I look at it,” Wagner said. 4 Wagner told us he missed his connecting flight, but United Express got him to his destination in California. They did not refund his ticket, but they did put him up in a hotel room and gave him a $250 voucher for the extra costs he had to make. A spokesman said they sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this caused the passenger. bewerking van: abc13.com

The Middle School/Max Security Prison Uit het boek : ‘MIDDLE SCHOOL the Worst Years of my Life’ geschreven door James Patterson, waarin Rafe Khatchedorian zijn belevenissen vertelt. Rafe: 1 Okay, day your grandmother Got it? Now another so. And hundred. when they Village Middle Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it’s a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. 2 I’ve seen enough movies that I know when you first get to prison, you basically have two choices: (1) pound the living daylights out of someone so that everyone else will think you are insane and stay out of your way, or (2) keep your head down, try to blend in, and don’t get on anyone’s bad side. 3 You’ve already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight to the back row and sat as far from the teacher’s desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller the Killer, to be exact. It’s impossible to stay off this kid’s bad side, because it is the only one he’s got. But I didn’t know any of that yet. “Sitting in the back, huh?” he said. “Yeah,” I told him. “Are you one of those troublemakers or something?” he said. I just shrugged. “I don’t know. Not really.” “Cause this is where all the juvies sit,” he said, and took a step closer. “In fact, you’re in my seat.” “I don’t see your name on it,” I told him, and I was just starting to think maybe that was the wrong thing to say when Miller put one of his XXXL paws around my neck and started lifting me like a hundred-pound dumbell. I usually like to keep my head attached to my body, so I went ahead and stood up like he wanted me to. 4 “Let’s try that again,” he said. “This is my seat. Understand?” I understood all right. I’d been in sixth grade for about four and a half minutes, and I already had a fluorescent orange target on my back. So much for blending in. And don’t get me wrong. I’m not a total wimp. I decided to move to some other part of the room. Like maybe somewhere a little less harzardous to my health.

A wet fishing trip Some people are a bit too attached to their smartphone… 1 A 16-year-old boy from Cologne in Germany was on a fishing trip with a group of friends when he accidentally dropped his smartphone over the side of the boat. The angling club refused to let him use his diving suit to get back the device so the boy took matters into his own hands. He decided to drain the entire pond to find the cellphone. “I knew it was probably dead but I wanted to get the data card back with the numbers, pictures and videos of my mates.” 2 When it was dark he came sneaking back, armed with two powerful pumps and two hoses. “I thought the pumps would drain enough of the water from the pond,” he told his local paper. The youngster thought that if he directed the water into the toilet of the angling club he might get away with his plan - but he failed to notice that the toilet wasn’t attached to a sewage system. When the owner, who lived in the neighbourhood, saw the flooded car park he called the police. 3 The boy was ordered to pay for the damage to the toilet, the clean-up operation and the water to refill the pond. And though he didn’t recover his phone, he didn’t regret what he’d tried to do. “It almost worked,” he insisted. metro.co.uk

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE 1 A Russian fisherman, Pavel Ivanov, found a really special bottle last month. It was thrown into the sea in Germany 101 years ago and Ivanov pulled this beer bottle filled with a scribbled message out of the Baltic sea. It is believed to be the world's oldest. "This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact," he said. Guinness World Records previously identified the oldest message in a bottle as dating from 1914. This other bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea before being fished from the water. 2 Researchers were set to work to identify the author. They found out, based on the address, that it was 20-year-old Richard Platz who had thrown the bottle into the Baltic sea while on a hike with a group of friends in 1913. A handwriting comparison with letters written by Platz later in life confirmed that he was ‘without a doubt’ the author. 3 A researcher then located his 62-year-old granddaughter Angela, who lives in Berlin. She never knew Platz, her mother's father, who died in 1946 at the age of 54. "It was almost unbelievable," Angela said. She was able to hold the brown bottle in her hands at the Hamburg museum last week. Inside was a message asking the finder to return it to the writer's home address in Berlin. "That was a pretty moving moment," Angela said. "Tears rolled down my cheeks." 4 Angela told local newspapers that the surprise discovery has inspired her to look through family photo books to learn more about her grandfather, a baker who liked to read. The discovery will be on display at the museum until 1 May, after which experts will be set to work trying to read the rest of the message. Unfortunately, much of the ink on the message has disappeared as it has been wet. The Guardian.com

Harmless… or Not? Naomi, 14: 1 “Waiting to get home again after a boat trip with the sea cadets, I suddenly felt ill. My legs turned to jelly and I was gripped by pain. The last thing I remember was my mates screaming as I hit the ground. Then I blacked out. When I woke up, I was in hospital. I was totally confused. My dad was standing next to me and the doctor said: ‘Naomi, you lost consciousness because you had an unusually fast heart rate. You could have had a heart attack and died.’ 2 One of my friends had given me some energy drinks and I really liked the taste, so I didn’t think that it would hurt me. My favourite was Red Bull. It gave me a real buzz and I felt happy and full of energy when I drank it, so I had more and more. After a while I started buying Red Bull instead of soft drinks. Soon I was drinking at least a couple a day. I didn’t see this as a problem, but my mates started nagging me about it. ‘Do you really have to go to the shop again, Naomi, you went five minutes ago! You’re addicted’. I thought they were mad. It wasn’t as if I was taking drugs, it was just a drink. 3 My craving wouldn’t stop. I found myself getting up in the middle of the night to grab a can. I kept a secret stash under my bed, and there was always one in the fridge. I shared a room with my sister. We had no secrets for each other, but I didn’t want her to know about my habit. Hiding it from my family became impossible when my dad found the cans in my bedroom. ‘You must be drinking at least 50 cans a week. It’s not normal, you’re addicted,’ he ranted. I didn’t understand how I could be drinking so much. 4 Dad told the corner shop to stop selling me drinks, but I just bought them from a different shop, further down the road. I thought dad was overreacting. I was arguing a lot with my folks and being moody, sometimes shouting and kicking the doors. Soon after that, I started getting chest pains. I felt like my ribcage was shrinking. I knew it wasn’t right and that I should go and see the doctor, but I ignored it - until the day I collapsed on holiday.

5 When Dad found out at the hospital why I had blacked out, he told my school what had happened and they put me in touch with a counsellor who specialises in helping people with misuse problems. The cousellor helped me cut down to a couple of cans of Red Bull a day and then to a couple a week. Before long I stopped drinking them altogether. 6 Now, whenever I have a craving, I take my mind off it by thinking about something else. I think of happy times, like when Dad fell from the trampoline in our garden. We all still laugh about that. I think it’ll be a while before the cravings stop, but at least I’ve got them under control. Energy drinks may taste nice, but they’re not worth risking my life over.” 7 A spokesperson for Red Bull says: “One 250ml of Red Bull Energy drink contains about the same amount of caffeine as a coffee, which is 80mg. The consumption of Red Bull should therefore correspond to a person’s intake of coffee and the same is true for children. We do not recommend Red Bull to young children. Red Bull is available in a large number of countries because health authorities across the world concluded that Red Bull is safe to consume. Last year, four billion Red Bulls were consumed world wide.” bewerking van: mybliss.co.uk