3 82 SEMESTER CHECK Semester check !! LESEN B2+ Ich kann ein breites Spektrum an Texten (auch literarischen) auch zu weniger vertrauten Themen verstehen und die Hauptaussagen sowie spezifische Informationen und implizite Bedeutungen erfassen. Read the text about efforts against teenage alcohol abuse in Iceland. First decide whether the statements (1–8) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross ( ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first 4 words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. READING 1 Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews, youth centers by Egill Bjarnason REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) – The clock strikes 10 p.m. on a Friday night when the ‘Parent Patrol’ enters a popular playground in suburban Reykjavik. The teens turn down the music and reach for their phones to check the time: It’s ticking into curfew. Every weekend, parents all over the Icelandic capital embark on a two-hour evening walk around their neighborhood, checking on youth hangouts. The walk is one step toward Iceland’s success into turning around a crisis in teenage drinking. Focusing on local participation and promoting more music and sports options for students, the island nation in the North Atlantic has dried up a teenage culture of drinking and smoking. Icelandic teens now have one of the lowest rates of substance abuse in Europe. Other countries are taking notice: The Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis, the institute pioneering the project for the past two decades, says it currently advises 100 communities in 23 countries, from Finland to Chile, on cutting teen substance abuse. “The key to success is to create healthy communities, and by that get healthy individuals,” said Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, a sociology professor who founded the ‘Youth of Iceland’ program, which now has rebranded as ‘Planet Youth’. The secret, she says, is to keep young people busy and parents engaged without talking much about drugs or alcohol. That stands in sharp contrast to other anti-abuse programs, which try to sway teenagers with school lectures and scary, disgusting ads showing smokers’ rotten lungs or eggs in a frying pan to represent an intoxicated brain. “Telling teenagers not to use drugs can backlash and actually get them curious to try them,” Sigfusdottir said. In 1999, when thousands of teenagers would gather in downtown Reykjavik every weekend, surveys showed 56% of Icelandic 16-year-olds drank alcohol and about as many had tried smoking. Years later, Iceland has the lowest rates for drinking and smoking among the 35 countries measured in the 2015 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. On average, 80% of European 16-year-olds have tasted alcohol at least once, compared with 35% in Iceland, the only country where more than half of those students completely abstains from alcohol. Denmark – another wealthy Nordic country – has the highest rates of teen drinking, along with Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic, where 92% to 96% have consumed alcohol. 164 WRITING COACH Writing coach Read the task carefully and make sure you fully understand what to do before you start writing. It will give you clear information on: the text type: article, blog post, blog comment, email, essay or report the readership: (online) readers, the manager of a company, an international jury, etc. the topic: sports, traffic, health, e-scooters, etc. details of the topic: content points framed in the bullet points 1 the purpose of writing: give or ask for information, discuss an issue, give an answer to a question, argue in favour of or against a cause, share experiences, give your opinion, entertain or persuade the reader(s), make suggestions, report on facts or offer a solution to a problem, etc. The information below will give you an idea of how to structure your text and how formal/informal it should be. Formal text types: essay, report, formal email Formal, semi-formal/neutral, personal text types (depending on the task and the readership): blog post, blog comment, article, more personal email An international youth magazine is launching a series of articles on interesting trends. Next month’s issue will feature e-scooters. They are asking young people to send in articles and promise a free e-scooter to the writer of the best article. You have decided to send one in. In your article you should: explain what makes riding e-scooters attractive comment on possible disadvantages of e-scooters advise people riding e-scooters on how to act responsibly Give your article a title. Write around 250 words. Readership: readers of a youth magazine attracted by articles on interesting trends Topic: interesting trends – e-scooters Text type: article Purpose: giving advice/ information/your opinion Additional information: title, required number of words: 250 words Six tips for writing a good text 178 VOCABULARY mental (health) disorder psychische Störung/ Krankheit resilience [rI*zIljEns] Widerstandsfähigkeit, Durchhaltevermögen psychosomatic [+saIkEUsE*mxtIk] If an illness is caused by mental problems, it’s called psychosomatic. psychosomatisch bulimia [bU*lImiE] Bulimie to recover from sth. sich von etw. erholen setback The team has suffered several setbacks this year. Rückschlag, Rückschritt to be associated with sth. mit etw. assoziiert/ verbunden werden 10 tax-funded aus Steuereinnahmen finanziert healthcare system Gesundheitswesen 11 to raise sb.’s spirits Let’s go for a walk in the sun to raise your spirits. jmdn. aufheitern self-consciousness Verlegenheit, Gehemmtheit nutrition [*nju"*trISEn] Ernährung to educate sb. about sth. jmdn. über etw. aufklären state of mind Gemütsverfassung 14 to seek private care sich in privatärztliche Versorgung begeben self-harm Selbstverletzung eating disorder Essstörung to seek/get treatment sich behandeln lassen inability Unvermögen, Unfähigkeit to undertake sth. This is the largest project we have undertaken so far. etw. durchführen to refer [rI*f3"] sb. The patient should be referred to a lung specialist. jmdn. überweisen psychiatrist [saI*kaIEtrIst] Psychiater/in primary Our primary concern must be the environment. Haupt-… rejection [rI*dZekSEn] I’ve applied for 15 jobs, but I’ve only received rejections. Absage, Ablehnung assessment Einschätzung, Beurteilung self-help Selbsthilfe to consult sb. I think you should consult a specialist. jmdn. konsultieren/ um Rat fragen/aufsuchen social divide soziale Kluft 19 bugs Insekten; Ungeziefer AE American English BE British English fml. formal infml. informal opp. opposite abbr. abbreviation sb. somebody sth. something etw. etwas jmdm. jemandem jmdn. jemanden jmds. jemandes Unit 01 mental healthcare psychische Gesundheitsfürsorge 1 mental illness psychische Erkrankung health insurance Our company provides health insurance for employees and their families. Krankenversicherung 3 healthcare professionals Fachpersonal im Gesundheitswesen 4 to nourish [*n0rIS] The children were well nourished and in good physical health. (er)nähren balanced diet It’s important to have a balanced diet. ausgewogene Ernährung essential fatty acids lebenswichtige Fettsäuren wholemeal bread Vollkornbrot a stodgy dish hier: schwer verdauliches Essen fizzy drink Limonade, kohlensäurehaltiges Getränk heart-pumping Doing heart-pumping exercises will keep you fit. die Frequenz des Herzschlags anregend brisk jog flotter Lauf extended walk ausgiebiger Spaziergang anxiety [xN*zaIEti] hier: innere Unruhe, Beklemmungen insomnia I’ve been suffering from insomnia for a week now. Schlaflosigkeit migraine [*mi"greIn] A lack of sleep is known to trigger migraines. Migräne stomach cramp Magenkrampf mindfulness Achtsamkeit to minimise sth. etw. minimieren/ vermindern GP: (abbr. for) general practitioner Hausarzt/Hausärztin STD: (abbr. for) sexually transmitted disease Geschlechtskrankheit birth control method Verhütungsmittel 5 to resist the temptation der Versuchung widerstehen tobacco products Tabakwaren 7 demanding anspruchsvoll, fordernd 8 to go undiagnosed unentdeckt bleiben (Krankheit) 9 to detect warning signs Warnsignale erkennen Vocabulary 116 LITERATURE Literature along the way The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood In her famous dystopian novel1 The Handmaid’s Tale, first published in 1985, Canadian author Margaret Atwood describes the Republic of Gilead, which has replaced parts of the United States. There, life has to be lived according to the principles of the Puritans and other conservative religious fundamentalists. The story has been adapted to several formats, such as a TV series and a graphic novel, and Atwood has written a sequel to it called The Testaments, which was published in 2019. 1 The imaginary society portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the near future. It has problems with human reproduction as most men are infertile due to environmental pollution. For this reason, women who have already given birth to children are trained to be surrogate mothers for high-ranking officials. As ‘Handmaids’, these women are ‘walking wombs’, losing their identity so completely that they even carry the names of their ‘Commanders’, e.g. Offred (= of Fred). In monthly ceremonies, the Handmaids are subjected to sexual intercourse with the Commanders – in the presence of and as surrogate for their wives. Any children they conceive are raised by the Commander’s wife while the Handmaids are sent to another household to boost the birthrate once again. Before you start reading, discuss these questions with a partner. Share your ideas with the class. 1 What do you think such a state could look like in general? How could society be different from today? 2 What could a resistance movement in Gilead look like? Now read parts of the novel and answer the question below. 2 The narrator of the story, called Offred as a Handmaid (we are never given her real name), describes her room and clothes. A chair, a table, a lamp. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of a wreath2, and in the centre of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out. There must have been a chandelier3, once. They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to. A window, two white curtains. Under the window, a window seat with a little cushion. When the window is partly open – it only opens partly – the air can come in and make the curtains move. I can sit in the chair, or on the window seat, hands folded, and watch this. Sunlight comes in through the window too, and falls on the floor, which is made of wood, in narrow strips, highly polished. I can smell the polish. There’s a rug on the floor, oval, of braided rags. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? 1 1 Dystopian novels portray negative aspects of present-day society, like poverty or oppression, as a political warning. They present worst-case scenarios of already existing threats to humanity. Atwood famously claims that everything she wrote about in The Handmaid’s Tale had happened in the real world at some point in time. 2 wreath: Kranz 3 chandelier: Kronleuchter 136 EXAM PRACTICE Exam practice Read the text about Lavasa, a new city in India. Answer the questions (1–8) using a maximum of four words. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. READING 1 India invents a city At first glance this could be Italy – the promenade, the cafés and ice-cream parlours, the terraces of little apartment houses. Even the name of the place, Lavasa, sounds vaguely Italian. But look again and it clearly isn’t Italy. It’s too clean, too new. And there are hardly any people. What makes it all the more improbable is that Lavasa is in India, the land of autorickshaws and slum dogs, of sweat and dust and litter. With only a handful of residents, Lavasa is a city-in-waiting. But its corporate backers believe it will soon represent a new model of urban development and governance in India – a country where the term ‘city planning’ has long been a contradiction in terms. Lavasa lies in the mountains some 130 miles southeast of Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, and 40 miles west of Pune, a growing hub of software programming and computer animation. If all goes according to plan, Lavasa will eventually house more than 300,000 people. It will have a worldclass medical campus, luxury hotels, boarding schools, sports academies, a space camp, and, its developers hope, animation and film studios, software development companies, biotech labs and law and architectural firms – all of the knowledge industries at the heart of the ‘new India’. Lavasa is the brainchild of Ajit Gulabchand, a high-profile billionaire industrialist and the chairman of a conglomerate known for megaprojects like bridges and dams. It’s the first city in India to be planned according to the principles of ‘New Urbanism’, which advocate walkable cities that mix business and residential development, offer mixedincome housing and preserve green space. Lavasa will provide centrally pressurised running water, reliable electricity, sewage treatment, garbage collection and even fiberoptic connections in every home. These things are so alien in India that when prospective house buyers first saw Lavasa, many asked why they couldn’t see water tanks on the roofs and whether the price included a septic tank. Perhaps the most radical thing about Lavasa is the fact that it is built and governed by a private corporation. Most Indian cities are run largely by regional states, so urban development falls to overstretched bureaucrats or state politicians chiefly interested in winning over rural voters. The Lavasa Corporation has hired LESEN B2+ Ich kann ein breites Spektrum an Texten (auch literarischen) auch zu weniger vertrauten Themen verstehen und die Hauptaussagen sowie spezifische Informationen und implizite Bedeutungen erfassen. !! Reading You can find the answer key to the following tasks online. Go to www.oebv.at and type in this code: vv66cd. Mit dem Semester check und dem dazugehörigen Lösungsschlüssel am Ende des Buches können Sie sich selbstständig eine Rückmeldung zur Erreichung der Lernziele einholen. Der Writing coach macht Sie mit den Besonderheiten verschiedener Textsorten vertraut. Authentische Schreibaufträge und Modelltexte zeigen Ihnen exemplarisch, worauf es bei der Bearbeitung ankommt. Hinweis zu SRP-ähnlichen Listening-Aufgaben in den Units: Um eine flexible Handhabung im Unterricht (oder auch zu Hause) zu ermöglichen, besteht der Audio-Track immer aus einer einmaligen Aufnahme des Hörtextes mit nur einer kurzen, thematischen Einleitung. Der Track kann jedoch beliebig oft abgespielt werden, um auf individuelle Bedürfnisse einzugehen. Registrieren Sie sich mit dem Nutzerschlüssel (hintere Umschlagseite innen rechts unten) auf Mein öbv. Online-Code, der zu den Audio- und Video-Dateien im Internet führt. Geben Sie den Code einfach in das Suchfeld auf www.oebv.at ein. Verweis auf die CD Ihrer Lehrkraft Hierbei handelt es sich um einen original FM4Beitrag. Verweis auf die DVD Ihrer Lehrkraft mit Videobeiträgen (u. a. von der BBC) Kennzeichnung von Aufgaben, die die Formate der standardisierten Reifeprüfung üben Hinweis auf eine sprachliche Besonderheit 03 01 Symbole Das Vocabulary im Anhang enthält den Lernwortschatz in der Reihenfolge, wie er in den Units vorkommt. Wörter, deren Aussprache sich vielleicht nicht gleich erschließt, sind durch Angaben zur Lautschrift ergänzt. Die Seiten Literature along the way möchten Ihnen Lust auf die Beschäftigung mit klassischer und moderner englischsprachiger Literatur machen. Der Abschnitt Exam practice bietet zahlreiche weitere Aufgaben zu den Formaten der standardisierten Reifeprüfung – begleitet von passgenauen Tipps. Ihre Antworten können Sie im Anschluss mit den online verfügbaren Lösungen vergleichen. 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