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W: I was always surprised to see Tom using that tape recorder you were going to throw away. M: Yes, it’s very old. That he got it to work amazes me. Q: What do we know about Tom? He fixed the tape recorder. He is still working despite his age. He is trying to fix the tape-recorder. He bought a new tape-recorder.

W: Frank is thinking of buying a car. M: Should he be doing that with all the other expenses he has? Q: What do we know about Frank? He should buy a car. He has enough money for a car. He spends money like water. He can’t afford a car.

The new school year has begun in America. But some children do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home, usually with their parents as teachers. Educational companies, libraries, school systems and the Internet provide families with teaching material. Homeschooling is increasingly popular. Homeschooling groups estimate that two-million children, around two percent, learn at home. The last government estimate was 850,000 in 1999. Current numbers are not expected until next year. Some parents choose homeschooling because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. Many parents also believe homeschooling avoids problems of a lot of traditional schools. One problem is classes with too many students. Critics, though, say children need to attend school with other children to help them learn things like social skills. They also say that some homeschooled children do not get a very good education. All fifty states and the District of Columbia permit homeschooling. Some, however, require more preparation by parents or testing of children than others do. There is even a National Home School Honor Society. Membership is based in part on the same tests that students take in school. Homeschooled children go to college and have also won top competitions. These include this year’s National Geographic Bee. Fourteen-year-old James Williams knew that the Indian state of Goa is a former colony of Portugal. Q10: Which of the following is true about homeschooling in America? Q11: Why do some parents choose homeschooling? Q12: What is the National Geographic Bee? 850,000 children are currently learning at home. Teaching materials are from one source only. All the states in the U.S. permit homeschooling. Homeschooled children can hardly go to college.

An environment that is biologically diverse has lots of different plants and animals. This is needed for people to have enough high-quality food to lead active and healthy lives. The idea of biodiversity recognizes that natural systems are complex and depend on one another. In agriculture, depending on only a few crops can be dangerous. One example is the Great Potato Famine in the eighteen forties. Ireland depended on potatoes as a food resource. But a disease ruined the crop for several years. More than one million people died from hunger. Yet experts say the world depends on only four crops to provide half its food energy from plants. These are wheat, maize, rice and potato. The experts say it is important to support a large number of different food crops and farm animals that can survive different conditions. Such diversity helps to reduce the risk from losing one main crop. Farmers also have a responsibility to protect wild species. The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty percent of all land is used for agriculture. Farm fields are an important place for wild animals to live and reproduce. Also, farmers must consider the effects that agriculture has on the environment. Farm pollution or poor agricultural methods can harm wetlands, rivers and other environments needed to support life. Invasive species are a severe threat to biodiversity. Plants and animals often spread without natural controls when they enter areas they are not native to. They can destroy crops, native species and property. Invasive species cost the world economy thousands of millions of dollars each year. Q13: What does this report mainly talk about? Ql4: According to experts, what are the four crops the world chiefly depends on? Q15: Why are invasive species a severe threat to biodiversity? Importance of biodiversity. Protection of wild species. Farm pollution. Agricultural methods.

It________(2 words) if it was at the theater or just on your own TVGood morning, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s start this introduction to filmmaking with a simple question: How many of you have seen a movie this week? It doesn’t matter if it was at the theater or just on your own TV... Uh-huh, just as I thought; almost all of you have. Of course, most of us love the movies—the magic, the escape that they provide... but most of us rarely stop to think about the process of making a movie. Just what does it take to get that movie from the idea stage to the final product? What are the decisions that must be made? What problems are encountered? Exactly how does a movie studio go about making a movie? These are precisely the topics that we will be exploring today. There are six basic steps that are normally followed in the production of a full-length film. I’ll outline them for you. The first step is rather obvious... to make a film you must have an idea... a story... some topic for the project. The studio must find a property. That’s a key word, folks—property, p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y. You all know the common meaning of this word, of course, but in filmmaking the word “property“ has a very specific meaning. A property is the story on which the movie will be based. OK, it’s the story on which the movie is based. You are probably wondering why we call it a property... Well, it belongs to someone; it is their property and must be acquired by the studio, sometimes for quite a large sum of money. There are basically two kinds of properties. The first is an original story that has never appeared anywhere before—never been in a book, or magazine, or another film. In other words, the story was intended from the very beginning to be made into a movie. Star Wars is one good example of this type of property.

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