HV56 P3 W6 basiswoordenlijst F - I

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is in our "zakkie" in our bag
• We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

learning goals

I know how to use the words from basiswoordenlijst F - I

Look through the list (F-I)

Find the words described by the following definitions.

a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services. (F)

a number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company. (F)

relating to the whole world; worldwide. (G)

to comprehend fully. (G)

causing or likely to cause physical injury (H)

having or showing compassion or benevolence (H)

treating all rivals or disputants equally/being objective (I)

feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment. (I)

a number or set of items distributed at one time./
each of a regular series of publications. (I)

MOST OF THE FIVE MILLION people in the UK who are wholly

vegetarian or eschew red meat choose their diet on the grounds of ethics (intensive farming, animal welfare) or health (high blood pressure, cholesterol). Those in the ethical camp are often passionate about green issues, but a non-meat diet as a way to combat climate change has only recently been suggested. A UN report, Livestock's Long Shadow, argued that beef and dairy farming globally create more climate-changing gases (18 per cent) than the world's transport system (13 per cent). Although

some have questioned the details of this report, there is no doubt that the carbon footprint of livestock production is hugely significant ─ and growing. 

Have you got the professional credibility to support and challenge head teachers and senior managers to recognize the issue and tackle the causes while offering creative and evidence based solutions? 

A report from the computer security firm McAfee this week declared cyber-crime to be almost as big as the global drugs trade and costing the UK £6.8 billion a year. Some experts took issue with McAfee's big numbers ─ including a global cost of £266 billion, and an estimate of '150,000 European jobs lost' a year. But all agree that the problem is a serious threat to growth in the advanced economies and that its measurable size is misleading anyway, because so much of it goes unreported. 

 I can recall the ridiculous headlines when this summer’s forecast was issued, saying it was going to be a sweltering summer when the Met Office just said that it was going to be slightly above average. 

Body-worn video cameras are quickly becoming standard-issue for American police, especially at departments in the process of reform. And in New Orleans, the troubled police department is now requiring almost all officers to wear the cameras. It has a dark history of corruption, racism and brutality. 

The polar vortex is nothing new. On the contrary, it's thought that the term first appeared in an 1853 issue of E. Littell's Living Age.