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FREEZE FRAME

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

These are the words with letters rearranged: lion

tiger

panther

leopard

cheetah

EXERCISES

1. Banana trunks, sugar cane and coconut leaves are used to decorate temples, streets and homes.

2. People want their lanterns to go up higher into the sky because the higher it goes, the greater the fortune it will bring them.

3. Yi Peng is the word for the full moon of the second lunar month.

4. The Yi Peng festival will be held in Chiang Mai.

SPEAKEASY

1. Tang is scared of getting humiliated and hurt by the 190-pound fighter.

2. The three synonyms for wimp in the conversation are: - Chicken: not brave; afraid to do something

- Sissy: a boy that other men or boys laugh at because they think he is weak or frightened

- Wuss: someone who is not brave or is not willing to do something exciting or dangerous

KARAOKE KORNER

Feel the wind on your shoulder.

Let go of your yesterday.

Fly.

Open up the part of you that wants to hide away.

Forget about the reasons why you can�t in life.

Find a dream you can follow.

Reach for something when there�s nothing left.

Trust yourself and don�t give up.

UNIVERSITY TIPS

Answers for Paragraph 5 section:
1. B: A low-level CIA analyst got his facts wrong and he did not know the actual size of the aluminium tubes.

2. E: Within 24 hours the Energy Department proved that the information about the tubes was wrong.

3. A: The Energy Department issued three papers over a four-month period in 2001 showing that the CIA analyst got his facts wrong and the International Atomic Energy Agency also proved that the CIA analyst�s theory was false.

4. G: International experts in Vienna, Austria dismissed the CIA�s theory about the tubes.

5. F: The International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear programme.

6. D: The International Atomic Energy Agency completely rejected the CIA tubes for bombs theory.

7. C: The next day President Bush, in his State of the Union address, warned of an Iraqi nuclear threat.

2. Colin Powell.

3. Dick Cheney.

4. Condoleezza Rice.

5. Colin Powell.

6. Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

7. Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

8. d.

9. Yes.

10. c.

11. b.

12. c.

13. Scenario 1 > a.

Scenario 2 > b.