Name:
Class:
Listen to a piece of news and fill in the gap with a word or a short phrase.
Israeli government is condemning (1) ________ Netflix for broadcasting the film called
Farha which depicted the violence related to the creation of Israeli
When asked why many Israelis were so (2) ________ by the film, director Darin Sallam said
it was because the film showed a truth they were trying to hide for so long. They don’t want
people to know that (3) ______ helped build the current state of Israel.
To make way for Israel's creation in 1948, (4)_______ expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians
from their lands and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in a series of (5) _________.
The Palestinians refer to the events as (6) _______, meaning catastrophe.
Answering to the question why she chose to (7) ________ a specific event from a
perspective of a 14-year-old girl, director Sallam said she wanted to show a girl having to
close her dreams, being forced to grow up due to the war.
Many people consider Farha as mild depiction of the violence in Israel back in 1948.
However, masses of Israelis boycotted the film, calling their soldiers (8)_________.
When asked to give comments on the idea that Farha is (9) ________ of new genre of film,
she thought it was a dream come true.
In the (10) ________ in Toronto, many people said they searched google to get information
about the events depicted in the film.
KEY
1. the global streaming channel
2. outraged and upset
3. destroying villages and killing people.
4. Zionist militias
5. mass atrocities and massacres.
6. Nakba
7. hone in on
8. the most moral army
9. heralding a new era
10. world premiere
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Listen to a piece of news and fill in the gap with a word or a short phrase.
To kick off the habit of nail biting, people have used many strategies namely (1)_____ on
their (2) ______, wearing gloves all day, or envisioning bacteria crawling on their fingers.
Habits are defined as behaviors performed regularly, and (3) _______ in response to certain
environments.
Habit forms when the brain learns that the behaviour is beneficial.
Dopamine , a substance released when you experience something positive, is not only a (4)
_____ mediating feeling of pleasure but also a driver of (5) _______, changing how your
neurons (6) _______.
Our brain builds connections that link the reward with the behavior.
It also associates the behavior with other cues, like your environment. Eventually, just
sitting at our desk will subconsciously trigger a nail-biting habit.
Once established, these (7) ________ work fast, outpacing the decision-making process.
To break a habit, it is important to understand its basis.
For behaviour like nail-biting or (8) ______, a practice called (9) ______ may come in handy.
The training involves analyzing habit cues and intervening at the right times. For example,
if you tend to bite your nails at work, (10) ________ a fidget toy at your desk to use when
you feel the urge to bite your nails.
KEY
1. rubbing chili peppers
2. cuticles
3. cued subconsciously
4. neurotransmitter
5. neuroplasticity
6. wire and fire
7. cue-behavior-reward loops
8. hair-pulling
9. habit reversal training
10. preemptively keep
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Class:
Listen to a piece of news and fill in the gap with a word or a short phrase.
Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing in the (1) ________ , has died in his Los Angeles
home.
With Friends, Perry was (2) ________ to worldwide fame along with his co-stars. Chandler
was well known for (3) ________.
US media reported that he was found dead (4) ________.
Los Angeles Police Department told BBC a man in his 50s was unresponsive in a water
emergency.
(5) ________, the company which produced Friends, said they were (6)_______ by the
actor’s death.
Maggie Wheeler paid tribute to Perry, saying she felt (7) ________ by every creative
moments they shared when acting in Friends.
Despite his success, Perry was (8)_______. In his autobiography, he wrote about (9) ______
during the filming of Friends.
After Friends series, he continued to (10) _______ of successful films, but he is most
remembered for Chandler Bing role.
KEY
1. globally successful sitcom
2. catapulted
3. sarcastic humor
4. in his hot tub
5. Warner Brothers TV
6. devastated
7. very blessed
8. by his own admission a tormented man
9. battling drink and drug addictions
10. star in a string
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Class:
Listen to a piece of news and fill in the gap with a word or a short phrase.
Skin is our body’s largest organ. Its main aim is to keep our insides in. Additionally, this
organ has many other roles to play in our lives.
For starters, skin is the foundation of the (1) ________ which also incorporates your hair,
nails, and (2)________.
Skin is made up of three layers: epidermis, dermis, and (3) _______ and it has three main
functions.
Skin is our first line of defense, without it we’d be (4) _______ of tissue and fluids,
fatally exposed to the elements.
Skin’s microbes which include bacteria and fungi (5) _______, an oily substance secreted
onto the skin’s surface by (6) _______ nestled inside the dermis. They help keep the
immune system in a state of constant surveillance, ready to react if the body really is at risk.
Apart from the protective role, our skin is also a sensory organ that helps regulate the
body’s temperature.
Under warm conditions, the skin’s sweat glands will (7) ________ onto the surface,
transferring heat out of the body.
Hair can also be stimulated to conserve or release body warmth.
Each human on average has 5 million (8)_____ distributed around the body, ninety to
150,000 of which lie on our (9)______, protecting the head from damage or sunburnt.
A phenomenon called (10) ______helps us keep the heat inside the body when we are cold.
KEY.
1. integumentary system,
2. specialized glands and nerves
3. hypodermis
4. a soggy mass
5. thrive in the sebum
6. sebaceous glands
7. secrete sweat via ducts
8. hair follicles
9. scalp
10. goosebumps