Eindexamen engels vmbo kb 2010, tijdvak 1

The First Recycling Martyr A single scrap of paper in a bag for glass and tins turned a young man into a criminal 1 28-year-old Michael Reeves has become Britain’s first recycling martyr after a court fined him £200 for disobeying rules about sorting out rubbish. He had volunteered to take part in a recycling project organised by 5 Swansea Council. But somehow a single piece of junk mail found its way into a bag which was meant for other rubbish. And when council workers found his name and address on it, they prosecuted. 2 The case caused widespread anger. Even Friends of the Earth said that Mr Reeves’ case could ‘put people off recycling’ - and that’s bad news. Moreover millions of householders are already struggling to make sense of confusing rules concerning disposal of their rubbish. 3 Mr Reeves told The Mail on Sunday : “I now have a criminal record and it will be a burden to me. I will 6 have to explain myself every time I apply for a new job. And if I want to go to the United States I will have to apply for a special entry visa for the rest of my life. 4 I am not a violent man or a drunkard. I have not held up a bank. I have not committed fraud. But when I allowed a single piece of junk mail to appear in the wrong sort of recycling bag I found myself committing a crime. 7 It was not me who put the letter in the recycling bag. It was not even my bag. Yet the presence of my address between the cans and bottles was enough for the court to find me guilty. I have always been happy to do my bit noot 1 oproep om voor de rechtbank te verschijnen

1) ‘X Factor’ auditions for buskers’ By Victoria Thake (1) Buskers will be made to appear in an X Factor -style audition before being allowed to perform in a city centre. (2) Nottingham City Council has decided to introduce the elimination process in an attempt to improve the quality of street entertainment in the main square to the benefit of the general public. Budding performers will have to prove their talent to a panel of judges before being issued special permits which allow them to busk in one of six designated spots. (3) Baljit Thandi, of the city centre management team, said: “We are looking to introduce the scheme from the end of January and we hope to noot 1 busker: straatmuzikant

Denmark is the world’s happiest country – official By Jerome Taylor For those who think a tropical island paradise or a Beverly Hills mansion is the ultimate key to contentment, think again. The 5 happiest place in the world is, according to sociologists, far closer to home. In a new study aimed at charting each country’s levels of 10 happiness, Denmark has scored top marks, followed closely by Switzerland, Austria and Ireland. Britain came 41st, 18 places behind the United States. 15 The study, conducted by the University of Leicester, compiled data from 178 countries and 100 global studies to map happiness across the world and found that 20 countries with good access to healthcare and education came out on top. The report’s author, Adrian White, said the results showed that 25 people in the West should realise how lucky they were. “The current obsession in the West about how unhappy we are really needs a reality check,” he said. “I think one 30 of the most destructive myths is that people in intense poverty are actually happy. Because if you believe that, why should you do anything?” 35 Most of Africa and the former Soviet republics scored worst. Burundi, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo were the world’s least happy 40 places. noot 1 xenophobia: angst voor vreemdelingen

Helping hoodies hatch into good eggs Clive Aslet meets Roger Hosking, a farmer who combines rearing livestock with aiding delinquents 1 Picture this, Roger Hosking, a 3 Derbyshire farmer, is collecting eggs with a young assistant. The assistant is carrying 15 dozen of them. And then for no apparent reason, he has thrown them at Roger who is dripping egg yolk and standing ankle deep in broken shells. Question is: what happens next? Does Roger tell him to get off the farm and never come back? Or say, in a mild sort of way, without judgement: “Why did you do that?” and 4 end up with a better understanding of the teenager than anyone has had in the lad’s life. 2 Roger, 64, has owned the 100- acre farm Highfields Happy Hens since 1967. On the farm he keeps free range hens (25,000), turkeys (1,600 - but that was before Christmas), a few sheep, pigs and goats. But what he and his wife, Beryl, principally farm are delinquents, the sort of hoodies that everyone else has given up on. The Hoskings have been working with the Youth Offending Service since their sheep were slaughtered during a foot and mouth 1) outbreak and they were forced to find new ways of increasing their budget. 5 stretching job. While two people are at noot 1 foot and mouth = mond en klauwzeer, een ziekte waarbij dieren moeten worden afgemaakt.

it, they have time to talk. It is the talking that leads to the blow-ups, personal violence and sometimes egg throwing. When the lad who threw the 15 dozen eggs got over his explosion, he started to talk, then cry. Finally, he took off his shirt and showed Roger a back that was covered in wounds. 7 They were from the dog that his father would set on him for misbehaviour. 6 Then there is love. It is a word Roger uses quite a lot, but in no soppy sense. One day Roger came back at lunch time to find the yard wrecked, the walls covered in graffiti. Roger told the culprit: “If you do that again, you’ll have to go.” Then he realised that those words had been said to that boy time and time again in his life. The

Biscuits sacrificed to reduce seagull population 1 Bristol City Council has become so fed up with the growing seagull population in their city, that they are spending £25,000 on tackling the problem. More than 2,000 pairs of the birds are believed to be living in the city centre and the population is rising by an estimated 17 per cent a year. The population explosion, which has been blamed on fast food litter left by people, has led to a flood of complaints from residents. The gulls are notoriously noisy - particularly during the mating season - and produce large quantities of droppings. There have also been some reports of seagulls dive-bombing people to protect their territory. 2 Steve Cromer, deputy council leader, looked into the problem and found the authority’s options were extremely limited. He was