Eindexamen Engels vmbo-bb 2024, tijdvak 1: vragen en antwoorden

1 Baby Dany's mother has been left shocked after her sister-in-law asked for her to pay for her top ruined by the baby's vomit. She said she was fine to let her sister-in-law hold the baby. She then added: "But then I noticed that she was holding Dany way too tightly." The new mum said her sister-in-law insisted the baby was fine and it would be obvious if she was "uncomfortable". "At that moment, Dany puked all over her. This freaked her out and she handed over Dany to my husband. Sister-in-law then looked at her shirt and yelled: `Oh no. This is Gucci. Your daughter ruined my Gucci shirt'," the mother wrote.

2 "I apologised and said that Dany didn't do it on purpose and that we can get it cleaned for her." But the sister-in-law insisted the top was worth thousands and she needed to pay up. The mum added: "I told her that we're not giving her any money and that we warned her she was holding the baby wrong but she chose not to listen. My husband said that his sister shouldn't have worn such an expensive shirt if she wasn't ready for it to be ruined, since she knew she was going to be with a baby all day."

bewerking van thesun.co.uk, 2021

1 Tourists will soon be able to sightsee from space, in style, with the announcement of `Aurora Station', the first-ever luxury hotel in space! For $9.5 million per person, hotel guests will travel into space for an unforgettable 12-day experience. If it wasn't enough being among the stars, guests will be able to see an average of 16 sunsets and sunrises each day, and take part in research experiments such as growing food in orbit¹.

2 Frank Bunger, CEO and founder of developer Orion Span says he built the company to "build and sustain human communities in space", with the goal to make space "accessible to all". Guests will need to take part in a 3-month training course. The hotel will open in three years time. If you're keen, you can put down an $80,000 deposit to reserve your place on board.

bewerking van theshortnews.com, 2018

noot 1 orbit = een baan om de aarde

1 A little pygmy possum has been found on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, almost a year after a fierce bushfire destroyed the place where the creatures live. Ecologists feared that the fragile animal from the marsupial family was wiped out following a fire. However, a recent survey has revealed at least one of them has survived in a large unburnt patch on the western side of the island. Pat Hodgens, a fauna ecologist, explained that sightings were rare due to the species' tiny size. The discovery is seen as an ecological win.

2 In addition to the pygmy possums, researchers found southern brown bandicoots, native bush rats, eastern banjo frogs and more. The Kangaroo Island Wildlife team is surveying all species in the unburnt area as they search for the dunnart, another local marsupial. "They are very difficult to find," Hodgens said. There are more records of little pygmy possums compared to dunnarts. They are only found on the western end of the island – 93 per cent of the predicted habitat range has been burnt. "We didn't catch any, but we monitor the area with camera traps so we know they're in the area."

bewerking van stuff.co.nz, 2020

noot 1 marsupials = buideldieren

1 No matter how much you do your research, there's always a certain level of uncertainty about moving to a new neighborhood. This couldn't be more true for 19-year-old Madison Kohout – she never expected to find herself living in the community she accidentally ended up in. When she was moving from Oklahoma to Arkansas, she was searching for an affordable two-bedroom apartment. She came across a listing for $350 a month and immediately signed the contract without visiting it in person. When she moved in days later, she discovered her neighbors were all over 65 years old. She soon realized that she had moved into a senior living complex.

2 "The first week of moving here was crazy!" Madison revealed. "I was busy with finding a job and setting up my apartment, I didn't even notice! I thought it was a bit weird that all of my neighbors were significantly older than me." While she was exploring her new surroundings, the teenager came across a sign that said `Senior Living Apartments'. Once she saw the sign, everything became clear. She says, "I was like, `Oh, my goodness, I can't believe I did this'."

3 Even though the apartments are designed for seniors, they were advertised as `equal opportunity housing', meaning they do not discriminate based on age. Therefore, Madison was able to move in without question. According to Madison, her new neighborhood is nice and quiet, since her neighbors are always sleeping by the time she gets home. The teenager also claims she can play music as loud as she likes, since some of her neighbors are hard of hearing. Madison reports that she's been warmly welcomed by the other residents, and some of them have even invited her over for dinner and left snacks at her door. Madison says, "It's like having extra sets of grandparents."

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1 As human beings, we all have our own individual tastes and preferences. However, some things in this world are loved almost everywhere, such as pizza, candy, and cherry blossoms. So what would happen if you combined all three of those things? You'd get a cherry blossom cotton candy pizza. That might sound like something that could only exist inside a wonderful dream, but you can actually order this amazing culinary innovation at a restaurant in Tokyo right now.

2 The restaurant in Kanda, a Tokyo neighbourhood, has made a slight change to its popular cotton candy pizza, replacing the regular cotton candy topping with a version that's sprinkled with cherry blossom petals. The thin-crust, three-cheese pizza is served with a sweet honey ginger sauce that you drizzle over the cotton candy.

3 Much like the cherry blossoms themselves, though, there's a limited window of time in which you'll be able to enjoy the cotton candy pizza. It made its debut on March 27, and will only be sticking around until April 2, so if you want to experience all that this season has to offer in Tokyo, make sure to visit the restaurant before or after one of your cherry blossom parties in the park.

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1 There's a reason why dogs are considered man's best friend. That definitely is true for Leo. The dog's story was recently shared online by a Thai internet user called Pravat. He spotted Leo hanging around the road, acting as though he was abandoned, when a woman came by to feed him. After asking around, Pravat found out Leo had actually been waiting along the same street for four years now.

2 According to the feeder, Pinnuchawet, she had tried bringing Leo home as he had been rather skinny and was suffering from leprosy. However, Leo escaped from her house days later and returned to the road where he was first found. The dog was not willing to follow Pinnuchawet home again, so she had no choice but to bring the food to him.

3 Kind-hearted internet users helped to share Leo's story on social media in hopes of reuniting him with his owners. Leo's lucky stars shined down on him when a family contacted the original poster saying Leo looked like BonBon, a dog they had lost four years ago. The first owner, Noi, explained that they had brought their dog along to visit their relatives. When they stopped at a gas station, they realised BonBon was no longer in the car.

4 The family was extremely happy to find out that he was alive and well after so many years. Even though BonBon wagged his tail in excitement when they were finally reunited, he was unwilling to follow Noi home. After having a discussion, Noi and Pinnuchawet decided it would be better for the latter to care for him while Noi dropped by every now and then to help.

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1 A Cape Cod diver is safe after an encounter with a humpback whale that nearly killed him. "I got down to about 45 feet of water, and all of a sudden I just felt this huge bump, and everything went dark," the diver said. "And I could sense that I was moving, and I was like, `Did I just get bit by a shark?' Then I felt around, and I realized there was no teeth and I had felt no great pain," he said. "And then I realized that I was in a whale's mouth and he was trying to swallow me."

2 "One of the things that went through my mind was just, `What if he does swallow me?'" After what the diver estimated to be about 30 seconds in the mammal's mouth, he said the whale surfaced quickly and spit him out. "All of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head. I just got thrown in the air, and landed in the water and I was free and I just floated there. I couldn't believe it. And I'm here to tell it."

3 The diver was pulled out of the water by a crewmate, rushed ashore, and taken to hospital. In the end, he said, he was "all bruised up," but whole. Biologist Jooke Robbins said the encounter was most likely an accident. "We don't really see humpback whales doing anything like this normally," Robbins told CNN. She said that humpbacks often engage in so-called "lunge feeding," in which a fast moving whale tries to gather a large volume of food in its mouth quickly. "When they do that, they don't necessarily see everything," she said.

4 Charles Mayo, also a marine biologist, agreed. "It's a little like sitting down to a really nice meal, and into your mouth flies a fly," he told CNN. Mayo, like Robbins, could not recall a similar situation in which a diver ended up in a humpback's mouth. "He must have kept his cool," Mayo said. "To get out of a situation like that you have to be a top pro."

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A 19-year-old Michigan man who has been in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest teenager has finally found an affordable pair of shoes, thanks to a 3D printer. Broc Brown is 7-feet-8-inches¹ tall. He has cerebral gigantism. It affects about one in 15,000 people.

The California-based shoe company Feetz uses an app to convert photos of someone's feet into a 3D model, which can be measured to create custom-fit shoes manufactured by a 3D printer. CEO Lucy Beard delivered a pair of black and red shoes to Brown at his home in Michigan last week. The shoes were the colors of Brown's favorite basketball team, the Chicago Bulls. "Whoa," Brown said. "Heck, I don't like them. I love them. Thank you." Beard said it was a first for the company. "We've never done a shoe this big before, but we're just excited to get Broc some comfy shoes," Beard said. "We're really just honored to do this."

Until he turned 18 in 2015 and could no longer qualify, he was considered the tallest teenager in the world. With his new shoes, Brown thinks he can get back in the Guinness Book of World Records. "These definitely are the world's largest shoes," he said.

bewerking van cbsnews.com, 2017

noot 1 7-feet-8-inches = 2 meter en 33 centimeter

Delta's new Airbus A220 aircrafts feature some notable upgrades, not least of which are the toilets that will feature a window. There will be three toilets on each plane, one at the front and two at the rear, and there will be a window in one of the two rear toilets on every Delta A220, the airline confirmed.

Several other new features on the planes are Wi-Fi and personal power ports for each passenger. Economy class passengers tired of feeling overly squeezed in their seats will also be happy to know that the 18.6-inch-wide main cabin seats will be the widest among any narrow-body aircraft. The overhead bins are a bit roomier, the windows are a bit larger, and there is ambient LED lighting throughout the plane as well, all of which point to a potentially more pleasant flying experience.

bewerking van afar.com, 2018

1 Five-year-old TyLon Pittman was watching videos of How the Grinch Stole Christmas when he suddenly became afraid. He reached for the phone and called the police to report an urgent tip. "I just want to tell you something. Watch for that little Grinch. Because the Grinch is gonna steal Christmas, OK?" TyLon said on the 911 call, which was posted on a news website. The 911 dispatcher asked the child if he was home alone. His father quickly came to the phone and apologized for his son's call to the police. "No, no it's fine," the dispatcher said with a laugh. "He called in saying the Grinch was trying to steal his Christmas."

2 Two hours later, there was a knock on the door. TyLon's 25-year-old brother TeDera answered the door and saw a police officer standing there. "I opened the door and saw the uniform and she explained to me, `I'm looking for a little boy who was watching the Grinch?'" said TeDera. "We called him out and he explained to her what happened." The officer told TeDera that normally police don't respond to these kinds of calls. TeDera grabbed his phone and started recording as the officer told TyLon that she'd protect him from the Grinch. "She said she thought it was the cutest thing," TeDera said. "She wanted to pay him a visit to let him know his Christmas will be safe."

3 Then the police department took it a step further. They invited TyLon and his family to tour the police station on Monday. When the 5-year-old arrived, they surprised him with a real-life Grinch (really someone dressed in a Grinch costume) who was in a police car. They told TyLon to lock him up. TyLon took the Grinch by his hand and put him in a holding cell and locked the door. The boy then reluctantly let him out, and the Grinch commended TyLon on his bravery.

4 TeDera said that even before this happened, TyLon wanted to be a police officer, and that he does even more so now. He described his brother as an outgoing kid who regularly makes everyone laugh and said his family has enjoyed the attention the 911 call has brought, and thinks the whole episode is pretty amusing. "We were shocked he actually did it," TeDera said, "but we had a talk with him about when it's OK to call 911."

bewerking van stuff.co.nz, 2017

1 Introduction. Screwdrivers are arguably the most popular and easiest-to-use tools we have. It is believed that these tools trace their roots back to the Middle Ages, where they were used to tighten screws on suits of armor.

While this tool has retained most of its original shape and design, it has had to evolve to meet the needs of the new world. Today, there are numerous types of screwdrivers, each designed to fulfill different kinds of applications. To allow you to find the best tool for your needs, the following is a guide to the different types of screwdrivers and their uses.

2 Flathead screwdrivers. Also known as: straight, slotted, flat blade. Flathead screwdrivers are the oldest types of drivers. They feature a flat-planed blade that fits into screws with single, straight slots. They come in various sizes to meet the size requirements of the screw.

Today's flatheads feature pointed parallel ends to enhance their grip on the slot. This prevents incidents of slipping, which can lead to damage of the surrounding material or injury to your hand.

3 Phillips Head screwdrivers. Also known as: crosshead. Phillips Head drivers get their second name from their cross design. These drivers come with angled tips to allow them to fit deeper into the screw head, thus reducing the chances of the driver sliding out. This design also allows you to apply greater force to the driver.

4 Robertson screwdrivers. Also known as: square head drivers. Robertson drivers originate from Canada, which is where they are most commonly used. They are not as popular in other parts of the world. And they aren't your common screwdriver; they come with a sunken square socket that allows them to have one of the highest force tolerance of any screwdriver. This is because they have no tip, thus eliminating any chance of the driver slipping. Thanks to their durability, this driver finds application in the automotive and furniture industry.

5 Spanner driver. Also known as: pig-nose, snake-eye. This screwdriver features a two-prong tip that resembles a barbecue fork. It works on flathead screw heads that feature two small cutouts on the sides. As a result, these screws cannot be removed without this particular driver. Thanks to their uniqueness, these screws and their drivers are used to fasten fixtures¹ in restrooms, elevators, and bus terminals.

bewerking van housegrail.com, 2021

noot 1 fixtures = houders aan muur of plafond, voor bijvoorbeeld lampen of handdoekautomaten