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Handout 4b
Practice 1 — TEXT STITCH ACTIVITY
Read the ‘text’ and put the three different texts back together: Why doesn’t it make
sense?
Allow the fruit to steam in its own juice for a further 15 minutes.
So she hated it when that infuriating Keith Scott seemed to go out of his way to suggest that her heart wasn’t in
the affair.
That’s why we created ‘Portfolio’, a brand new concept in saving.
Put them into a fireproof dish with the water, and a tablespoon of the sugar.
She knew that he loved her – in a calm settled way rather than any grand passion – and that he would make her a
good, kind husband.
Ensuring that the lid is tightly sealed, put the dish into a preheated oven, Gas Mark 6.
So that way, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Pour over the top, and serve with double cream.
Melodie Neil and Jed Martin were old friends.
Mix juice with the brandy, mulled wine, and rest of the sugar.
We do, too.
Wash and core the apples, taking care to remove all the pips.
In short, when she became engaged to him she knew exactly what she was doing.
Spoon out the cooked apples and arrange them attractively in round on a serving plate.
Do you feel that you never get a fair slice of capital cake?
Slice finely.
Portfolio is a high interest investment account that makes your money work for you, while still giving you instant
access to your capital.
Reduce temperature to 3 after 10 minutes.
Practice 2 — Text Analysis 1: Analyze the following text from as many different perspectives as
you feel important:
Bullied teacher wins £230,000 damages
Rebecca Smithers, education correspondent
The Guardian, Saturday 5 October 2002 01.37 BST
A bullied teacher has been awarded a £230,000 payout for personal injury and loss of earnings after being forced out of his job by
his head.
A judge ruled that the sacking from Coedffranc junior school in Skewen, South Wales, was unlawful, and had already awarded Alan
Powis, 53, £80,000 in interim payments pending a full settlement scheduled for yesterday.
But Mr Powis was given the payment in an out-of-court settlement on Thursday to end a lengthy legal battle.
He lost his job after the head, Sheena Ball, questioned his ability and accused him of incompetence. When he won support of parents,
Ms Ball claimed he was undermining her authority and he was sacked for gross misconduct. Mr Powis, a father of two, suffered a
nervous breakdown but found work as a £2.50-an-hour security guard and a door-to-door salesman to make ends meet.
Judge Gary Hickinbottom, sitting at Swansea's civil courts of justice, said that the sacking in 1997 was unlawful and that it was Ms
Ball's conduct that was to blame. The settlement against Neath and Port Talbot county borough council's education authority was
settled by its insurers.
Yesterday Mr Powis said he was pleased with the ruling. "I'm not the least bit interested in having a flash new car. What I did want
when I began this claim was the return of my good name, the return of my dignity, and the return of my peace of mind. I'm starting
to get that now.
Bashar al-Assad thanks Putin for Syria strikes as Russia announces US talks
The Guardian 21 OCT. 2015
Bashar al-Assad has thanked Vladimir Putin for his military support in the Syrian crisis, praising the
Russian leader for intervening to fight “terrorism” in one of the most dramatic turning points of the fourand-a-half-year war. The surprise meeting between the two presidents in Moscow, which took place on
Tuesday evening but was not announced by the Kremlin until Wednesday, was followed by the
announcement of imminent talks between Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. It was Assad’s first
foreign visit since the uprising against his authoritarian rule broke out at the height of the Arab spring in
2011. Since then 250,000 people have died and millions have been displaced.
The Russian military intervention in Syria began three weeks ago with airstrikes against opposition groups
inching closer to Assad’s strongholds in the west of Syria.
Putin ordered airstrikes against Islamic State, but most Russian attacks have targeted other rebel groups
fighting Assad. According to a Kremlin transcript, Assad told the Russian president: “First of all I wanted
to express my huge gratitude to the whole leadership of the Russian federation for the help they are giving
Syria. If it was not for your actions and your decisions, the terrorism which is spreading in the region would
have swallowed up a much greater area and spread over an even greater area.”
Putin hailed the Syrian people for standing up to the militants “almost on their own” and claimed the Syrian
army had notched up major battlefield victories of late. Also present at the meeting in the Kremlin were
Russia’s foreign and defence ministers, as well as the head of the security council and of the foreign
intelligence service.
Assad’s first official state visit since the revolution began hints at growing confidence in his camp that the
Russian intervention may reverse or at least stall a series of military setbacks and defeats over the past
nine months, with rebels having seized significant territory in the provinces of Idlib and Hama and beat
back regime offensives in Aleppo and Daraa.
Isis seized key territory in Homs this summer, including the historic city of Palmyra.
Russian intervention has primarily targeted rebel groups, including those backed by regional and western
states, with a minority of airstrikes hitting Isis. The regime has opened several fronts against the rebels,
backed by Russian airstrikes, hoping to take back territory in Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Latakia.
Syrian state TV said the two presidents discussed the continuing military operations in Syria against
“terrorist” groups – a catch-all term that the regime and Moscow use to refer to the rebels fighting to
overthrow Assad – as well as plans for ground campaigns.
Putin was quoted as saying he would assist on the military and political fronts in Syria and would contact
other foreign powers in an effort to reach a settlement to the crisis.
The Russian president is due to speak to an audience of foreign politicians and Russia-watchers in Sochi
on Thursday. Since addressing the UN general assembly last month in a call for the world to come together
to fight terrorism, he has been keen to emphasise that Russia must be part of the solution in Syria. “Putin
wants to be seen talking to Assad,” said Sir Tony Brenton, the former British ambassador to Russia, on
the sidelines of the Sochi conference. “He is the only channel through which we’re likely to get Assad on
board to any kind of transition and this impression will be reinforced by this meeting.”
The Russian foreign ministry later announced later that the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the US
secretary of state, John Kerry, had agreed to meet in Vienna on Friday with their counterparts from Saudi
Arabia and Turkey to discuss the Syria crisis. The Saudis and Turks are key backers of anti-Assad rebel
groups.
That constitutes one of the broadest encounters yet held to discuss the Syrian war – although it
conspicuously excludes Iran, which along with Russia is a key supporter of Assad. The Saudis and
Iranians are deeply hostile to each other and unlikely to agree to discuss Syria with each other. “The US,
Saudis and Turks will want to see what Russia will put on the table,” said Julien Barnes-Dacey of the
European Council on Foreign Relations. “But I think it will be one of those occasions when everyone goes
hoping that the other side will back down. I am sceptical that it will lead to an opening.”