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Nanny

Do you know what a nanny is? That’s right, a person who looks after small children, usually a woman.
Often, they live with the family and they look after the children when the parents can’t do it, because
they are at work. Are there any male nannies? Yes, of course! Some families, maybe if

the mother is single, or the father travels a lot, prefer a male nanny. And what’s the difference? There is
no difference really. Nannies, male or female, can play sports and do outdoor activities with the children
– especially in the holidays, when the children want to be active but their parents need to work.

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The pet store.

George is at the pet store, looking at what kind of pet he might want to get for his birthday. George
asked if he could have a horse, but his parents said no because horses are too big.

First, he sees dogs and cats. Baby dogs are called puppies. Baby cats are called kittens. George likes them
because they are easy to take care of and can play a lot, but they will get bigger. George wants a small
pet.

Then George sees animals that have to live in a cage. He sees rabbits, guinea pigs, and mice. Mice are
what you call more than one mouse. He likes these animals because they are small. Birds live in cages
too. George sees a parrot and a canary. He likes them all, but he doesn’t want to clean the cage.

George sees the animals in tanks. The tanks full of water have fish and turtles in them. He thinks about a
goldfish but decides he likes the turtles more. There are also tanks with rocks and sand that have snakes,
spiders, and scorpions, but George is afraid of them. George likes the turtles best, but they won’t fit in
the little fishbowls. Turtles need bigger tanks, so they can swim sometimes and hide sometimes.

George decides he wants to get a turtle for his birthday. He buys a book on how to take care of a turtle
and a list of what types of turtles the store has.

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1. World’s Tallest Hotel

The five-star JW Marriott Marque hotel in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has 72 floors. It is
355m high. It has 1,608 rooms. It also has 18 shops, 14 restaurants, a swimming pool and a large spa.
The 14 restaurants offer food from all. around the world, from Japanese or Thai to South American.
Shops and services offer you everything you. need, from a bookshop to a hairdresser. And the rooftop
bars give you amazing views of the whole of Dubai! Book today for the best hotel experience ever.
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Birthday party

Today is a special day. My grandmother Amy is 70 years old!

All the family is here. My grandfather Alfred. Grandmother’s

two sisters, Emily and Dawn, and their husbands, Graham

and Stewart. Their children are here too. Anne and James

are Emily’s daughter and son, Kim is Dawn’s daughter.

Kim is here with her baby, Jessie, and her husband, Bill.

Anne is here with her husband Jerry and James is here with

his wife, Deborah, and their two sons, Mark and William.

My mum, Diana, and my dad, Rob, are here of course, with

me, and my two brothers, Jacob and Ben. It’s so good to

have three generations of the family all together for this

special birthday!

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JOBS

1. Tour guide Tourist service needs a tour guide to take small groups of tourists on visits to the old town.
You need to speak English and one other language, and you need a good memory for facts. Driving
license also needed. Contact us. 2 Office manager We arc a large city office and sell computers to
international businesses. We need an office manager for our sales department. You need to be very
organized, good with people and have good telephone skills. You also need to manage our website and
use Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Apply online. 3 Pizza delivery person Can you ride a motorbike? Do you
know the city well? Are you friendly but can you also work alone? We are a small pizza business. We
need a delivery person to take pizzas to people's houses. Sometimes we need help in the kitchen,
cleaning and cooking. Contact us for more details. 4. Airport shop assistant A chance to join a busy team
in our duty-free shop at Terminal 5. We sell watches, cameras, laptops, perfume, make-up, sunglasses
and other high-class items. Are you friendly, polite and good with people? Can you work fast in a busy
international shop? Hours: 5a.m.-2p.m. or 2p.m.-10.00p.m. Apply online.

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Transport facts around the World
Travel by taxi There are pink taxis in Moscow. Chennai (India), and a lot of other cities. The pink taxis are
for women only, and the drivers are women. In Madagascar, taxi drivers of ten stop for petrol and the
passenger pays. In Rome, a taxi fare is double when it rains. More than half of the London Underground
is not underground. 2. Travel by car Venice, Italy has a secret road system, and people usually travel
around Venice by car. An eleven kilometers section of the Tianmen Mountain Road in Hunan, China has
ninety-nine bends. 3. Travel by plane In Thailand. there's an airport with a golf course in it. One airline
plans to charge passengers for using the toilet. 4. Jeanne Socrates is the youngest woman to sail solo
nonstop around the world.

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Man talks for six days

Arvind Mishra of Dehradun, India talked about scientific computations for 139 hours, forty-two minutes
and fifty-six seconds from 1st to 6th March, 2014. One audience member said, 'I listened for thirteen
hours and waited for the end, but Professor Mishra didn't stop!' After six days Mishra finally stopped,
and now he has the world record!

Grandmother sails round world

At the age of seventy, Jeanne Socrates sailed round the world alone. She started her trip from Victoria
Harbour in Canada and finished on 8th July, 2013, two hundred and fifty-nine days later. She is the oldest
woman to sail solo nonstop around the world. 'She tried this twice before in 2009 and 2010,' said a
friend: 'But there were some problems with the boat and she didn't finish'

Nonstop tennis match

Carlo Santelli and Daniel Burns played tennis for thirty-eight hours, two minutes and nine seconds on
10th May 2010 in Clifton, New Jersey, USA. We asked them about the winner but they didn't answer our
question. Winning wasn't important to them. They only wanted to break the world record.

Woman walks for eleven years

Ffyona Campbell travelled around the world in eleven years. The amazing thing is that she walked almost
all the 32,000 kilometres. In Africa, she started in Cape Town in 1991 and arrived in Tangiers in 1993.
Why did she walk so much?

Well, maybe it was because of her childhood; she moved home twenty-four times before she was
sixteen!

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PROBLEMS

1. Jon's problem: My problem is I'm always tired. I work in a cafe from seven in the morning to six
in the evening. I drink a lot of coffee at work because I'm tired. I never have breakfast, but I
usually have a sandwich and a cake for lunch. I don't often go out in the evenings because I'm
tired. 2. Layla's problem: My husband does nothing in the house. I often get home after work and
 there isn't any food in the flat so I always buy food and cook. He says he isn't hungry and he
doesn't want a big dinner. He wants to sit down and he watches TV all evening. I think it's
important to have dinner together and talk. 3. Rob's problem: There are a lot of beautiful places
in the world but I never see them. My problem is I don't like travelling by plane, train, boat or car
so I never go on holiday.

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What a strange place to meet!

1. Omar: In Algeria, in the Sahara Desert.

I was on a bus to Timimoun, a town in the desert. The bus had engine problems and we stopped in a
small village for the night.

The local people were very friendly, and one guy, Habib, took me home to his family.

I thought he was a really nice person. We talked a lot and became great friends.

2. Jon: In hospital in China. I was in a car accident and broke my leg.

I went to hospital and was there for a week. There was a Chinese guy in my room, Li. We had a lot of
time to talk and became great friends, and never lost contact.

3. Alison: In a cafe in Argentina.

I was on holiday, and someone took my money. I sat down in a cafe. I didn't have any money but I
was very hungry. The waitress came to my table and said, 'Hi, I'm Claudia. Do you need help?' We
were instant best friends!

4. Cynthia: On a rope bridge in Pakistan!

I walked from one side, and another woman, Anne, walked from the other side. We met in the
center, and we were both very scared.

We were there for half an hour. Finally, a guide came and helped us.

After that half-hour together we were friends for life.

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Businessman, 35, Dies In Hotel

This morning, Rose Green , a cleaner at the Adolfi Hotel Edinburgh, found millionaire businessman
Jim Black dead behind the hotel.

Police think he died between 10 o'clock and midnight last night. Mr.Black and his wife, Carla, were at
the hotel with Black's business partner. Mike Brown.

Witness statement.
Jim Black was a good friend and we were business partners. We sometimes visited places together at
weekends - me, Jim and his wife Carla. Carla didn't like me, she wasn't happy with Jim. I think Carla
killed Jim.

Yesterday afternoon I played tennis with Jim for an hour.

We started at two o'clock and then at half past three, we went to our rooms in the hotel.

I met Jim and Carla at seven o'clock in the restaurant. Jim was very quiet, but Carla talked a lot. I
think Jim was angry with her, but I don't know why. We ate dinner together and after that I went to
my room at ten. l think Jim went out.

I didn't go to bed. I wasn't tired and so I listened to the radio.

I went to bed at half past eleven.

Mike Brown:

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Today is a special day. My grandmother Amy is 70 years old!

All the family is here. My grandfather Alfred. Grandmother’s two sisters, Emily and Dawn, and their
husbands, Graham and Stewart.

Their children are here too. Anne and James are Emily’s daughter and son, Kim is Dawn’s daughter.
Kim is here with her baby, Jessie, and her husband, Bill.

Anne is here with her husband Jerry and James is here with his wife, Deborah, and their two sons,
Mark and William.

My mum, Diana, and my dad, Rob, are here of course, with me, and my two brothers, Jacob and Ben.

It’s so good to have three generations of the family all together for this special birthday!

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A. Life in the year 2000 was very different from life in 1900.

In 1900 in the USA, there were three and a half children in an average family. The top boy's name
was John and the top girl's name was Mary.

In 2000, the top names were Jacob and Emily and there was only one child in each family.

B. In 2000 there were 54 million new cars on the roads.

In 1900, there were only 4,000 new cars. In cities transport was by horse and a small number of
buses.

C. The number of people in cities was very different. London was the top city in 1900 with 6 million
people.
 The top city in 2000 was Tokyo with 27 million people.

D. Women's lives were very different both at home and in public.

For example, in the 2000 Olympics there were 827 women and 1,512 men, but in 1900 there were
1,319 men and only 19 women.

E. 1900 was the year of the Kodak Brownie camera. Letters were the only way to communicate
except for telephones in some rich families.

In 2000 was big and there were mobile phones with cameras.

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The Last Stop is a restaurant with a difference. The restaurant is an old train station. And it’s an
interesting place. There’s an old steam train in the middle of the restaurant. The train is now a bar.

We sat at the bar and looked at the menu while we waited for our table. Station Master’s Soup, Train
Driver’s Special, First-class Ticket: the names of the food are all connected to the station theme.

The service was quick and friendly. The food was good. Very good. And the atmosphere was great. I
really recommend The Last Stop for a fantastic night out!

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How to reach your goals

Here’s a typical situation. Someone says, 'I'm going to lose weight'. 'I'm going to change jobs'. 'I'm
going to stop smoking.' One month, two months or one year later. there's no change. When we have
a goal, how can we be sure we reach it?

Here are 8 top tips:

1. Write the goal on a piece of paper. Put it over your desk.

2. Tell a friend your goal. Ask him or her for help.

3. Don't talk about it a lot- you lose energy that way. Talking is not doing. You want to do.

4. Make the goal concrete. Don't say, 'I'm going to save money'; say, 'I'm going to save $1,000 in six
months.'

5. Give a start and finish date.

6. Be sure the goal is your goal, not a goal that someone gave you.

7. Do something to reach your goal every day.

8.Close Friends helping can be ok for your goals.

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 Great inventions: Where are they from?

Great inventions are international, but where are they from?

Where is the wheelchair from? How about aspirin? And chocolate?

Read and find out!

Food

 It's no surprise that pizza is from Italy, the invention of an Italian baker, Raffaele Esposito.

 Switzerland is famous for chocolate, but chocolate is in fact from Central America, from Mexico.

 And what about another food, margarine? Well, margarine is the invention of a Frenchman,
Hippolyte Mege-Mouries.

Communications

 The word 'paper' is from the Egyptian word 'papyrus', but paper is one of the great inventions of
ancient China.

 And the pencil? That's from England. Now we don't communicate on paper very much, but by
email.

 Email is the invention of an American, Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson's first email was QWERTYUIOP!

Health

 Aspirin is from Germany, the invention of Felix Hoffman, for his ill father.

 And how about the wheelchair? The wheelchair is a Spanish invention. The first wheelchair was
for King Philip II of Spain in 1554.

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No trains? Great!

People don't usually like waiting in train stations. They feel bored, and there's nothing interesting to
see or do. But that's not true in these train stations!

1. Tanggula Mountain Railway Station, Tibet, is at 5,058 metres. The Tanggula mountains and the
river are a beautiful sight. It's a lovely place to wait for a train.

2. Union Station in Washington DC, USA, is the number one place for many tourists. It's over 100
years old, there are 130 shops, and many restaurants and cafes.

The station is a great place to bring your family for a dinner, and people never feel bored - there's so
much to do and see.

3. Atocha Station in Madrid, Spain, has trees inside the station, so people walk around and drink
coffee in the middle of a beautiful green jungle.
 4. Haydarpasa Station in Istanbul, Turkey, is almost an island.

It stands in the sea, and has water on three sides. There are boats from the station.

5. Pickering Station in Yorkshire, England, is a small town station with an old-time atmosphere.
There’s a hairdresser's and an old tea room.

Once a year the people there dress in 1940s clothes

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SHOPPING DAY

Tim’s shopping day Tim loves to go with his mother when she goes to grocery shopping. Because his
favorite store is right next to the grocery store. It is a big Book Store. Tim goes straight to the
bookstore when his mother is doing shopping. Tim’s favorite section is the sports section for
children. They have all kinds of books about sports. There are magazines that tell everything about
sports and players. Tim likes sports and he spends a lot of time looking at the books and magazines
in this section. He likes the area with children’s books, too. Tim always waits in the bookstore for
Mom to come and get him. He chooses one book, or a magazine and his mom buys it for him. It is a
nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

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Routine

My morning routine My family lives in a small house. It’s simple but pretty. It has a large garden. I
like to work in the garden but my sister hates to work in the garden. She prefers to read. She reads in
the morning, in the afternoon and at night. I give all of the vegetables to mom and dad. They like to
cook in our small kitchen. I eat any vegetable, but my sister eats only a few. My family always eats
breakfast and dinner together. We talk. We laugh. Then my sister washes the dishes. At night dad
likes to listen to music. Mom works on the computer. I watch television. And my sister reads. Soon
we go to bed. My parents go to bed late, but my sister and I go to bed early. I’m ready to go to sleep
but my sister wants to keep reading.

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On World Teacher’s Day we asked our readers to tell us about their favorite teachers. Here are some
of your answers. ‘ My ¬ first teacher was Mrs Davies. I was four years old. She was tall and had long
dark hair. I went to a small village school and she was my teacher for three years. I can’t remember
what she taught me, but I can remember her smile. She always smiled!’ ‘My favorite teacher was Mr
Morgan. He taught me science at secondary school when I was about 13 or 14. He had grey hair and
a big beard. He always looked very serious, but he had a great sense of humor! He loved science and
he loved teaching. He was the best teacher I ever had.’ ‘ Dani was a Spanish student. He was 21. He
came from Madrid and he was a language assistant at our school for a year when I was 16. He was
 great fun. He told great stories and showed us photos and videos of his life in Madrid. I loved his
classes so much I decided to study Spanish at university!’

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Gardeners and florists are the happiest workers

A new survey puts gardeners and florists at number one in

the happiness league. But what makes them so happy?

Nine out of ten gardeners and florists say they are happy in their

jobs. That compares with four out of ten once workers. We asked

them why.

‘I love my job! I spend all day in the open air, all year round,

seven days a week! I love watching the plants grow and

change from spring to summer to autumn.’

Dave, gardener, Brighton

Being in contact with nature and working outdoors are two very

important things for gardeners. Florists’ jobs are a little different.

They don’t work outdoors, they don’t grow the flowers, but they

are just as happy!

‘I have a small flower shop in the town center. I work five days

a week and sometimes at weekends. I love every minute.

I love flowers and I really like helping people decorate a hotel

or a restaurant or a special place for a special occasion.’

Chloe, florist, Edinburgh

So, if you want to be happy at work, get a job as a gardener or

a florist!