your watch on your other hand. Use your other hand in sports -- hitting a baseball or a tennis ball,

throwing a football, shooting a basketball, etc. Practice (7 2 cups of tea simultaneously, swirling

2 half filled glasses of water clockwise and (8 , and bouncing two balls at the same time. Get used

to the kinesthetic feeling of using the (9 of both your hands and arms together. Catch 2 balls

thrown to you at the same time. Throw 2 paper wads at the same time into the same paper basket --

one underhand and the other overhand. Throw 2 darts simultaneously at a dart board with both

hands. Write with both hands at the same time. Draw a butterfly, a (10 or a geometric figure

using both hands simultaneously, but keep practicing these exercises. Answer: 1. consciously 2. flipping 3. combing 4. garment 5. Thread

6. opposite 7. stirring

8. counterclockwise 9. muscles 10. vase SET 2

In this cynical age, firefighting remains a heroic and noble profession. The images of fire (1

we see on television and in film are often romanticized versions of day-to-day life on the job.

What is the life of a firefighter really like?

Carol Chetkovich in her comprehensive book Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire

Service (2 what it's like to enter a burning building. \often (3

with such intense heat and heavy smoke that it is impossible for them to walk (4 or to make out

their (5 . They wear face masks and air tanks to allow them to breathe, but the tanks are heavy, the

time limited and the breathing process (6 . The location is almost always completely unfamiliar,

filled with (7 and unknown hazards. While the engine crew works on the ground with water to

put the fire out, a truck crew ventilates the building, opening a sufficiently large hole in the roof to

allow heat, smoke and gases to escape so that the ground crew can do its work. Roof work is not

only dangerous, but generally requires a high level of strength, skill and (8 . If there are possible

victims, either crew may become involved in search and (9 (or body recovery, which means

working one's way through this foreign environment in darkness and heat, (10 what you may

find, taking care not to become trapped or disoriented.\Answer: 1. professionals 2. reveals 3. confronted 4. upright 5. surroundings 6. awkward 7. obstacles

8.

coordination 9. rescue 10. unsure Listening Comprehension

Directions: Watch the video clip and decide whether the following statements are True or False

SET 1

1. The ruins of Tikal are in the tropical rain forest of southern America. True False 2. 1,200 years ago, Tikal was home to 10,000 Mayas. True False 3. Tikal used to stand at the heart of the Maya civilization. True False

4. The Mayas believed only the priests could communicate with the celestial world of the Gods.

True False

5. The Mayas developed their own writing and mastered astronomy and mathematics. True False

Answer: 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. True 5. True