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ZADANIE 2
Good morning, listeners. Today, in our weekly
programme on ‘How to bring up your teens’, we are
going to share with you a few pieces of advice on how
to help your children keep their rooms in order.
No. 1 Provide plenty of shelves and drawers so that
your teen has a place for everything. Fun
storage items such as CD stacks, colour-coded
plastic bins and hampers can help organise
your teenager.
No. 2 Teach your teen how to vacuum, sweep, fold
clothes, dust and wipe down walls. Let him or
her know that these skills need to be exercised
in the bedroom. Encourage teens to throw out
the unused, unwanted and unloved.
No. 3 Help tackle a big job once. Keeping a room tidy
is easier with a clean start. New bedclothes,
curtains and painted walls can make a teen
proud of a room and more likely to keep it
clean.
No. 4 Work out a ‘clean plan’, creating an actual map
of where things go. Put trophies, stuffed
animals, Barbie collections, CDs, shoes, pens
and pencils and the laundry basket on the map.
Tape the map on the inside of a closet door.
No. 5 Work out a reward plan. For a month of
cleaning, add a little extra allowance or buy the
sneakers or a CD your teen has been wanting.
No. 6 No matter how bad the room gets, sometimes
you have to bite your tongue to respect your
teenager’s privacy and sense of who he or she
is. But keep an eye on things: dirty laundry, wet
towels or old food can end up being a health
hazard.
Finally, remember that neat and tidy is often copied
from big sisters and brothers and mums and dads.
ZADANIE 1
Host: Hello everybody. Today we will talk about the
favourite festival of all boys and girls –
Halloween. Our guest today is Prof. Ghost.
Prof. Ghost: Hello, listeners.
H: Prof. Ghost, what is the meaning of the word
‘halloween’?
PG: As you all well know, Halloween is celebrated on
October 31. Its name means hallowed or holy
evening because it takes place the day before
All Saints’ Day. Halloween is a time of parties
for both young and old.
H: What were the origins of Halloween?
PG: We don’t really know that, but there are many
superstitions and symbols connected with
Halloween. The Irish have a tale about the origin of
jack-o’-lanterns. They say that a man named Jack
was unable to enter heaven because of his sins.
He could not enter hell because he had played
practical jokes on the devil. So he had to walk the
earth with his lantern until Judgement Day.
H: Halloween is sometimes connected with the
beliefs of ancient Druids.
PG: Yes, it is. The Druids, an order of priests in
ancient Gaul and Britain, believed that on
Halloween, ghosts, spirits, fairies, witches, and
elves came out to harm people. They thought the
cat was sacred and believed that cats had once
been human beings but were changed as a
punishment for bad actions. From these Druidic
beliefs come the present-day use of witches,
ghosts, and cats in Halloween festivities. The
Druids had an autumn festival called ‘Samhain’,
or ‘summer’s end’. It was an occasion for eating
all the kinds of food which had been grown
during the summer. The custom of using leaves,
pumpkins, and cornstalks as Halloween
decorations comes from the Druids. The early
people of Europe also had a festival similar to
the Druid holiday.
H: How did this old pagan holiday come to be
celebrated by the Christians?
PG: In the 700s, the Roman Catholic Church named
November 1 as All Saints’ Day. The old pagan
customs and the Christian feast day were
combined into the Halloween festival.
H: Thank you Prof. Ghost for sharing with us your
knowledge on Halloween.
PG: You are most welcome.
/adapted from: Elizabeth H. Sechrist ‘Halloween’, The World Book Encyclopedia/
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Arkusz II
ZADANIE 9
Host
Teenage pop phenomenon Britney Spears kicked off
her UK tour on Tuesday at London’s Wembley Arena.
BBC News Online sent along thirteen-year-old April
Summers to report on Britneymania.
April
If you love pop then Wembley Arena is the place to be
this week as Britneymania hits the UK. Following
the postponement of two dates at Birmingham over
the weekend the Wembley Arena gig marked Britney’s
UK debut.
Backed by a superb group of dancers and excellent
musicians – drummer ‘Slam’ did a fantastic drum solo
during one of Britney’s costume changes – the 18-year-
old wowed the crowd. Her dancing and singing were
brilliant and she made about six costume changes –
my favourite was a silvery dressing gown with a huge
train like a wedding dress. There was also fireworks,
tickertape and altogether it was a great show.
Support acts Aaron Carter – at 13 he makes Britney
look like an old lady – and Australian double act
Sister2Sister got things boiling up nicely. Then there
was a 30-minute gap before the Queen of Pop – she
did actually sit on a throne at one stage in the show –
finally appeared. Making a stage entrance in a floating
‘spaceship’, she opened the show with Crazy (one of
my Dad’s favourites, though he might not admit it)
which really got things going.
The 12,000 capacity crowd – there were lots of girls of
my age but also quite a few men on their own! – went
wild as Britney tore into hit after hit. At one point she
took a break and four contestants fought it out on
stage for the right to meet her and have their
photograph taken with her. The winner was a boy from
Essex who had to walk like a chicken to win the
contest. Then Britney was back into the show, with
Born To Make You Happy, Lucky, I Can’t Get No
Satisfaction and several slower ballads. But the
80-minute show was rounded off with the song which
made her a star in the first place – Baby, One More
Time.
When she and the band disappeared I thought it was
all over but the crowd stayed in place and made more
noise, chanting ‘Britney, Britney’. So she came back
and played Oops ... I Did It Again, which was very
dramatic with Britney finally disappearing in a burst of
fire. All in all it was a really cool show and the crowd
loved it – I know I did and I think my Dad did too.
Go Britney!
ZADANIE 8
Good evening, listeners. Today we are going to talk
about invitations.
The way you invite guests to a party should give them
an indication of the kind of party to expect. If it’s a very
significant occasion – a bridal dinner or a silver
anniversary or a party honouring a distinguished guest
– the invitations will imply this formality. Not only will
they be issued at least two weeks in advance, but they
will most likely be written rather than telephoned.
Most of the parties you’ll be giving probably aren’t
going to be formal, and the telephone is often the best
way to give and get all the information necessary. Of
course, a written invitation, though a bit more formal, is
always in good taste. Ten days to two weeks before the
party, call the people on your guest list and invite them,
clueing them in on your plans. ‘It’s Dave Rogers’
birthday, and I’m asking everybody to bring a gag gift’
or ‘Wear low heels because if the weather’s decent
we’re going to cook outdoors’ or ‘The Moffats are
having a houseguest that weekend, so I thought I’d
dress up a little.’ However casual the invitation, don’t
be vague about the date or the hour. ‘Two weeks from
Friday’ can lead to confusion, and ‘late in the
afternoon’ can mean four o’clock to one person and
six o’clock to another. So be explicit. ‘Friday, the
twenty-sixth, at five’ leaves no room for
misunderstanding.
If the party is small, try to reach all the guests the same
day, so no one will feel they have been an afterthought.
If you’re having a large cocktail party it may be wise to
mail invitations – a little note or a printed invitation card
with time and place filled in – so that all will arrive at the
same time. In the past, invitations to an open house
or cocktail party didn’t require an acknowledgement,
but today almost everyone wants to know how many
guests to expect.
/adapted from: Betty Crocker’s Hostess Cookbook/
/adapted from: ‘“Brilliant” Britney’, BBC Online/
©Pearson Education Ltd 2004
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