Teen Innovations, Ocean Cleanup, Malala & Social Topics

Teenager Designs

1. It will be useful for cleaning the plastic rubbish that floats in our seas.
2. Because it can be toxic for fish and eventually harm human beings.
3. Yes, some environmental companies want to produce the device in the near future.
4. True (line 5).
5. False (line 11): The existing methods for cleaning sea water are not very efficient.
6. Sinking: floating.
7. Stink.
8. Advantage.
9. Efficient: efficiency.
10. What has Boyan Slat invented?
11. Humans produce the plastic rubbish with which the seas are polluted.
12. Boyan Slat said that he was going to earn a lot of money with that device.
13. Our planet would be much cleaner.

Malala

1. Because they are afraid of what education means and involves.
2. He means that the Taliban cannot read.
3. She is asking the world leaders to defend the right of all children, regardless of race or religion, to free, compulsory education.
4. False (lines 2–3): I'm just one girl out of thousands of people who have been injured or killed by the terrorists.
5. True (lines 8–9).
6. Obligatory: compulsory.
7. Forget: remember.
8. Weapon.
9. From.
10. A reporter asked the boy why the Taliban were against education.
11. They were cooking dinner when we arrived.
12. What are extremists afraid of?
13. There are millions of children in developing countries who have the same right to education as the rest of us.

Are You a Phubber?

1. Misusing mobile phones.
2. Considers phubbing disrespectful.
3. False (lines 1–2).
4. False (lines 3–5).
5. False (lines 12–13).
6. True (lines 15–16).
7. Discourage.
8. Rude: polite.
9. For.
10. Talk: talkative.
11. Irritating: annoying.
12. Had paid.
13. Better talk to each other face to face.
14. Where did you lose your cell phone?
15. Customers are asked to stop phoning while they are ordering.
16. The waiter said that those people were not listening to their friend then.

Screen Dinosaurs

1. (b) Dinosaurs, like...
2. (c) They are very similar...
3. False.
4. True.
5. True.
6. False: They should be enjoyed as a hybrid of fact and fiction.
7. Investigation: research.
8. Beyond.
9. Up.
10. Ability: able, unable, disabled.
11. I have ever seen.
12. Pray.
13. Parents should take good care of their children.
14. Who did Cecilia bake the carrot for?
15. You wouldn't have had an accident.
16. The owner showed us the house.
17. This room is not warm enough for the babies.

Triskaidekaphobia

1. (b)
2. (a)
3. True (line 2).
4. True (lines 13–14).
5. True (lines 15–16).
6. False (line 4).
7. Former.
8. Aware.
9. Proof: prove.
10. Beaten.
11. Hitting.
12. Support: back up.
13. Kate, who was playing against my sister, won the tennis match.
14. What is the number 13 synonymous with?
15. His brothers are noisier than he is.