English Unlimited HTL 3, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

127 In the news 10 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Read the information and examples in the box. Then answer the questions. GRAMMAR 6 Present and past participle clauses What’s interesting is … Read the article again and circle the correct participles. b Listen to two colleagues, Abby and Joe, talking about the news. Which two stories do they talk about? Had they both heard about the stories? Listen again and answer the questions. 1 What reminds Joe of a news story? 2 What are they shocked by in the story? 3 In the second story, what is Joe worried about? 4 What does Abby think is surprising? 5 What does Joe feel is important? a LISTENING 8 TCD 3/15 b You can use participle clauses after nouns to help you describe a scene. She saw the crocodile lying on the road . A participle clause is similar to a relative clause: She saw the crocodile which was lying on the road . Here are more examples of participle phrases from the news items: 1 A large grass fire sweeping through far North Queensland is spreading rapidly. 2 Two officers have been hurt in an incident involving a family of three . 3 It will become quite common for babies born in 2000 to live to see 100. 4 She is sharing her bathroom with a crocodile run over by a car . Grammar reference and practice, p. 163. 1 Which clauses in 1–4 are made with: a present participles ( -ing )? b past participles (often -ed )? 2 Which kind of participle has: a an active meaning? b a passive meaning? Read the article about working hours in France. Do you believe the French work harder than the British? a 7 e French work harder than the British, says the French embassy in London, (1) responding/ responded to an article (2) titled/titling “France’s failed socialist experiment is turning into a tragedy.” “But is it really true”, asks a French journalist (3) living/lived in London. Labour productivity in France is €45.4 (£38) per hour (4) working/worked according to Eurostat, well ahead of the EU average of €32.1, while the OECD reports that the average number of working hours per week in France stood at 38 hours for 2011, (5) comparing/compared to 36.4 in the UK and 35.5 in Germany. Productivity per hour in France is 15% higher than in the UK. Hard work indeed! e 35-hour week, long (6) criticised/criticising by the Conservative Party, is a reality still to many French workers. However, over the years, the law has been amended, and workers (7) wishing/wished to earn more can work overtime. Recently, many French workers from the retail sector have petitioned the government to be allowed to work aer midnight and on Sundays in order to earn more. Inotherwords, the cliché lunches (8) lasting/lasted two hours belong, for most French workers, to a distant past. Who works harder – the French or the British? Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv