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There are some very good in Central Park to go in-line skating. There is a 6-mile long and the roads
there are pretty good. They were last in 1994, and you can skate pretty fast there. If you can do it in under half an
But remember: do not clockwise. Many happen because people do not remember that and into
each other. Please also remember that you the park with bikers, joggers and pedestrians. At the 72nd
Street from Central Park beginners can get on how to stop with their skates. Just look for guys in red shirts
They are usually there on weekend afternoons from mid-April to the beginning of November. Have fun skating in Central
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The first humans dreamed of going faster and than they could on foot. They first this in Scandinavian
countries using skis. The wheel was at around 3500 B.C., but carts were very slow without the appropriate roads. So,
for many , the fastest and most popular of transport was the horse, which can run at about 50 kilometres an
hour. This record was broken in the 18th century when the hot-air and the railway both began to .
Two Frenchmen, the Montgolfier brothers, had the idea of creating a large balloon. A fire heated the air, making the
balloon . During the first flight, the two passengers were admiring the view when they saw smoke ! The
balloon was burning , but luckily, they to put out the fire and land safely.
The first train with an engine that ran on was developed by Richard Trevithick in 1803. On his first trip with passengers
the train fell off the tracks because they were not strong enough.
The bicycle did not until 1840 when a Scotsman , Kirkpatrick McMillan, created the first one to have pedals. People
rode without them before but they were not very and rather slow.
The 20th century saw the of many other means of transportation. The petrol-driven car completely the
way people thought about transportation, and so did the airplane. People have always dreamed of flying. One day in 1903 , two
American brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, managed to make a short in their newly-designed aircraft. From that
time on, a huge industry grew that allowed people to around the world, easily and .
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Many children in school all over America are taking language courses in Chinese. The concept is easy. On one day they
It is an to learn languages when you are young because small children up the language and use it
in situations. Chinese has become so that schools also want to parents Chinese courses.
Because of Chinas growing , Chinese has become a language many people want to learn. In the United States about 50,000
students from kindergarten to eighth grade are taking Chinese, to only 5,000 in 2004. About 100 million people worldwide are
studying Chinese as a second language.
The Chinese has a started a number of Confucius Institutes to the language and the countrys culture. Currently, there
are such institutes in over 60 countries. 2,000 students have the program in the last two years.
In the Philippines people think that learning Chinese will allow them to get better in the future. As more and more Chinese travel to
other countries as tourists or on , people who can speak Chinese have an advantage over others.
In Panama one government has even thought about making Chinese in public schools, however it is so hard to get
In the future Mandarin Chinese might not English as the worlds number one language but because China is further
it will become an important language.
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How come it is so to find English food in England? In Greece you eat Greek food, in France French food, in Italy Italian food, but in
England, in any High Street in the land, it is easier to find Indian and Chinese than English ones. In London you can eat Thai,
Portuguese, Turkish, Lebanese, Russian, Polish, Swiss, Swedish, Spanish, and Italianbut where are the English restaurants?
It is not only in restaurants that foreign are replacing British food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta, pizza and
poppadoms are booming. Why has this happened? What is wrong with the of Britain that they prefer cooking pasta to potatoes? Why do
the British choose to eat lasagne instead of shepherds ? Why do they now like cooking in wine and oil? But perhaps it is a
good thing. After all, this is the end of the 20th century and we can get from all over the world in just a few hours. Anyway, wasnt
English food always disgusting and ? Wasnt it always to death and swimming in fat? The answer to these questions is a
resounding No, but to understand this, we have to go back to before World War II.
The British have in fact always imported food from . From the time of the Roman invasion foreign trade was a major on
British cooking. English kitchens, like the English language, absorbed ingredients from all over the worldchickens, rabbits, apples, and .
All of these and more were successfully into British dishes. Another important influence on British cooking was of course
the . The good old British rain gives us rich and green grass, and means that we are able to some of the
finest of meat, fruit and vegetables, which dont need sauces or complicated recipes to disguise their .
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pedestrian pessimist racist spectator spinster tourist vegetarian widow
A person who watches a sport or an event rather than takes part in it is called a .
Mrs Brown has been a since her husband died 7 years ago.
Pamela and Frank have been going out with each other since they met at the university. He is the first Pamela has ever wanted to
marry.
If you work for yourself you are called self-employed. If you work for somone else you are an .
He thinks British people are far superior to other nationalities and looks down on all foreigners. He's such a .
write the stories but the controls the of the newspaper. He or she decides which stories should go on
the . Editors also write the for the main stories. The Sunday papers have more sections than papers , for
example they have a sports section with of different sporting events, a section with articles about money and the stock
market and a section. This often has interviews with like film stars and singers. Newspapers are cheap in the UK and they
make lots of money by including . news is one of the fastest growing areas of the .
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Twitter is a social network that allows users to send and short messages, called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 long.
You can send tweets from your computer or even from your phone. While some social networking services like Facebook or MySpace
are more Twitter is simple to use. To send or get messages you just have to create an on Twitter. You can
of .
In most cases Twitter is made up of many small groups of people. Sometimes only they can follow each others . You could post Hey,
Im going to the pub , and all of your friends could read it at once .
Your messages on Twitter can be private, meaning only your friends can read them or you could make them , meaning they can be seen
by everyone.
Twitter is used for many things. You can post an event, organize group conversations or just tell the world what youre doing at the
moment. You can also use Twitter of sending many texts to different people. Just post your messages on Twitter and everyone else can
see them.
Many people their Twitter status very often, sometimes even a couple of times an hour. Recently, Twitter has also been used
in . Companies use twitter to people about new products or just to post something that is on .
Twitter has become very . Since its birth in 2006 over a people around the world have been using it .
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My father didn't feel well. He was a lot and had a bad . so he decided to to see his . The
doctor told him he probably had a and advised him to take a few . He also said he should stop smoking. My father said he
had tried but couldn't, so the doctor recommended . It was successful and he has now given up, but unfortunately there have
been : he has nearly three kilos in two weeks . Soon he'll have to go back to the doctor to ask how to .
By now you've arrived at school and I hope you're feeling comfortable in your new surroundings. I remember excited I was
when I went abroad for the first time. I don't know your experience will be like mine but I did think that you being a little
optimistic when you predicted that you n't be homesick at all. I imagine you may start to feel a little lonely in the next few
weeks. Just case, I'm attaching a leaflet on "culture shock" . It explains you might have certain feelings and tells
Anyway, I'm sure that you'll have a great time in England - but always remember you can rely on me if you need anything.
Moving House
I think one of most difficult things to do is to move house, especially when you have somewhere all your life. As well as leaving
your home, you also have the problem of packing everything own into boxes. You don't realise how much you have until you have to pack
it all up ! We moving house in about two weeks' time so I know what I'm talking about! My father found a new job in another
village about a hundred kilometres from here. He has looking for an opportunity like this a long time so the whole family agreed
that we should move. Our house is sold , and my parents have found a new one. It is much bigger than the one we live
in the moment. My sister and I will have our own rooms, I'm glad about because she has been annoying me lately. She
is borrowing my clothes without asking me. She isn't very glad about moving , but I' quite excited about it, and I don't I'll mind
about living in a new town.
Going Places
When we think about how the world has changed our great-grandparents' time, it's important to take account how the
world of transportation has changed . Of course, people complain traffic nowadays, but even in the past people to think
that the roads were dangerous. When cars were a new invention, a man walk in front of them with a red flag, warning everybody
Another thing that we don't find strange more is the variety of products we have in our shops. When we go to our local supermarket,
we can find tea China , bananas from South America and radios from Japan. All these products to be
transported. day, goods are moved from one part of the world to by all kinds of means of transport.
In the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, which is set hundreds of years the future, it is forbidden to build computers. This is because
thinking machines have become so powerful they almost took over the world. Instead, there are Mentats - humans trained to
perform the kinds of calculations and analysis that you normally expect a computer to carry .
Even Mentats are a fictional creation, human computers are something real. The word "computer" was first used than 300
years ago and referred to a person job was to perform mathematical calculations. In the middle of the 18th century, Clairault, a
French mathematician wanted to calculate the date when Hailey's Comet would return. Although he knew to do this, the
calculations were very complex, so he shared the work with several computers who helped him arrive at the correct answer.
In the 19th century an Indian mathematician was employed as a computer by a team of British explorers, and was the first person to calculate
the height of the highest mountain the world , was later named Mount Everest. During the World Wars of the
20th century, huge teams of human computers employed to work on maps, codes and countless other military and engineering
projects. It was not about 1950 that mechanical computers began to take over, and the days of the human computer were finally
numbered.
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