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• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

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Exercises D, E, F, H, I,K

Exercise D

1. It’s about seatbelts (particularly about three-point seatbelts).

2. In 1959.

3. Nils Bohlin, i.e. the three-point seatbelt

4. Volvo.

5. 1967

Exercise E

Information around ‘the why’:

- Physics 

- Car stops -> you don’t

- Danger: flying around

- Danger: hitting the ceiling/doors

- Nils Bohlin: expert on extreme forces

Exercise E

Information around ‘the fix’: 

- 1950s: passenger safety very bad

- Only two-point seatbelts

- Inside of car: metal

- Y-shaped seatbelt -> not very good

- Bohlin designed V-shaped belt

- Easy to use!

- Volvo

Exercise E

Information around ‘the adoption’:  

- 1959: first use of V-shaped seatbelt 

- PV544 & Amazon 120

- Volvo: standardised seatbelts in new cars

- Volvo shared lots of information

- Open patent: everyone could use this idea

- 1967: first seatbelt in backseats

- Seatbelt: more and more modern

- Now officially fixed in every new car by law

Exercise Fa

1. decade: a period of ten years

2. to prove: to show that something is true

3. fortnight:  two weeks

4. to recall: to bring the memory of a past event into your mind, and often to give a description of
what you remember 

5. to set in motion: to get going, to create movement

6. to memorise: to learn by heart

7. to devise: to create, to develop

8. to deny: to say something is not true

9. to disprove: to show that something isn’t true

10. annual: happening every year

Exercise Fb

1. advertisement                   6. admission
2. motioned                             7. proof  
3. memorise                            8. admitted
4. remind                                  9. developing
5. solution                              10. distracted

Exercise H

1. - Flying from the car.

 - Smashing into (interior) parts of the car.

2. Before Mr Bohlin went to work on seatbelts (a device that keeps people in place inside a crashing car), he had been working on ejection seats (a device that shoots people out of crashing aircraft). So his new work was pretty much the opposite of his earlier work.

3. His knowledge of extreme forces and what they do to the human body.

4. - They put a lot of force on a very small area of your body, which can easily damage that part.

- They don’t keep your upper body in place, so you can still easily hurt your head, neck and back.

Exercise H

5. - It was much easier to put on.

 - It puts any pressure on the strongest body parts (shoulders, chest and pelvic bone) instead of on parts that are more easily injured (especially the squishy areas like the belly and the organs in there).

6. It was not used all that widely at first.

7. - They gave a lot of demonstrations with crash-dummies.

 - They gave a lot of information.

 - They took out an open patent instead of a regular one.

8. Seatbelts are now mandatory (verplicht): the law says that they have to be in every single new car, lorry and SUV. Back then, in 1959, they were only used in a small percentage of cars.

Exercise I

 0. its (line 7)           the three-point seatbelt (line 5-6)

 1. it (line 8)              the three-point seatbelt (line 5-6)

 2. it (line 12)           this necessary creation (line 12)

 3. it (line 23)           your car (line 22)

 4. who (line 36)     Nils Bohlin (line 35)

 5. his (line 39)        Bohlin’s (line 38)

 6. them (line 43)    people (line 42)

 7. they (line 47)      seatbelts (line 46)

 8. it (line 52)           a lap belt (line 48-49)

Exercise I

 9. it (line 63)                     the Y-shaped three-point belt before the
                                             Volvo one (line 59)

10. which (line 76)            the simple V shape (line 76)

11. it (line 79)                      the buckle (line 78)

12. its (line 89)                   Volvo’s (line 86)

13. its (line 103)                  the belt design (lines 102-103)

14. they (line 107)              universities, researchers and other
                                              automakers (lines 106-107)

15. those (line 115)             extra early stopping brakes, easier and
                                              automatic latching and built-in airbags
                                              (lines 112-114)

Exercise K

1. B     5. C

2. D     6. A
3. C     7. B
4. A     8. A

5kgs is the limit

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Homework for next lessons:

WEDNESDAY - SO Keywords text 1 & 2

THURSDAY - Writing Skills

W will start with the writing Skills booklet

MONDAY - Alquin Magazine

5kgs is the limit - exercises Exercises: D, Gab, H, I, K