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    Listening and Reading

    2
    1 Listen and put the sentences in order. ( / 8)
    0. The villas allow us to glimpse everyday life. 1
    a. Kitchens and baths were added.
    b. Many villas were destroyed by fire.
    c. The sites are visited by thousands of tourists.
    d. The sites are often discovered by accident.
    e. Their ruins remained hidden for years.
    f. The villas were beautifully decorated.
    g. In their kitchens, bread was baked.
    h. The first villas were farms.

    2 Read and complete the sentences. ( / 7)

    B
    oyan Slat is a 20-year-old on a mission to remove barriers and processing platforms designed to collect
    floating plastic from the world’s oceans. He has floating plastic trash. The ocean cleanup concept is
    dedicated his teenage years to finding a way to designed to capture the floating plastic to be recycled, but
    collect it. But can it really be done? Is there any point in lets fish and plankton pass through unharmed.
    trying to clean the ocean when there is so much plastic Slat enjoys solving puzzles and works 15 hours a day
    flowing into the sea every day? developing technology to solve problems in the world. To
    Over the last 30 to 40 years, millions of tons of plastic teenage inventors everywhere he says, “If you want to do
    have entered the oceans. At least 10% of the global something, do it as soon as possible.”
    production of plastic ends up in the ocean, and most of
    that, 80%, comes from land-based sources. Litter gets swept Extract adapted from
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29631332
    into drains and ends up in rivers. So, that plastic straw or
    cup lid you dropped could end up in the sea. The plastic
    congregates in five water systems in the major oceans. The
    worst is the huge Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between
    Hawaii and California.
    In the summer of 2011, an idea came to sixteen-year-old
    Boyan while diving in Greece. He says he was shocked to
    see more plastic bags than fish. “Everyone said to me: ‘Oh
    there’s nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into
    the oceans,’ and I wondered if that was true.”
    Slat developed his idea as part of a school science
    project. His invention consists of a series of floating

    0. Boyan Slat dedicated his teenage years to finding a way to remove plastic from the oceans.
    1. Ten percent of the global production of plastic
    2. Eighty percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from
    3. In Greece, Boyan saw more
    4. Slat’s idea was part of
    5. The floating barriers are designed to
    6. The cleanup concept is designed to let
    7. Slat likes solving

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    Speaking and Writing ( / 10)
    1 Look at the list of technology inventions developed since the second half of the last century. Which ones do you
    think have had a stronger impact on life? Rank them in order of importance: 1 = the most important, 5 = the least
    important. Discuss in pairs. Take turns asking and giving reasons for your choices.

    video games console


    smartphone
    tablet
    drone
    mobile apps

    2 Think of how to make, repair or recycle one thing at home. Write a list of simple instructions. Include the list
    of tools and materials needed.

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