Episode IV
Stept's colleague and his wife get back together by Stept and Mellisa .While, the feud between Tom and Earl Kelly intensifies when a falconry day at Waterloo Road goes badly wrong.
Episode V
Drugs awareness day is organised on Waterloo Road. Governor Ralph Mellor who is Flick's duagher is inspectetor of this projectwants. He want Marley Kelly out of the school and away from his daughter so he pressure them to be voluntary drugs tests. But, he found the true that Flick is drug addict while result of Marley Kelly's test is negative. Then, he try to switch result of their test. It fails when Flick tell the true to protect lover,Marley Kelly.
Speaking Skills
Pronunciation
I practiced my accent in websit
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www.esl4kids.net/tongue.html
www.fun-with-words.com/tongue_twisters.html
and I am valunteer in oxfam shop to develop my speaking and listening skills by face to face
Reading and Writing Skill
Care system for elderly must be made fairer, says report
• Number of over-85s will double by 2050• Long-term care funding 'must increase substantially'
Staff and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 March 2009 11.14 GMT
Article history
The present long-term care system is struggling to cope, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Photograph: Getty
Spending on long-term care must increase fourfold by 2050, a report claimed today.
The publication by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) proposes a four-step plan to make the care system for elderly people fairer.
Options For Care Funding: What Could Be Done Now? suggests the interim solutions would help those struggling under the current system.
It details findings from consultations by the foundation in which the system was described as "unfair, unclear and unsustainable".
The report states that by 2050 the number of over-85s will double. It proposes:
• Equity release, whereby older homeowners would be able to pay for home-based care by deferring the costs until their home is sold (an estimated cost of £33m a year)
• Increasing the capital limits for care home fees that dictate whether an individual in a care home receives support from a local authority from £22,250 to £42,500 (£280m a year)
• Doubling the £21.90 personal expenses allowance for people in care homes supported by local authorities (£250m a year)
• Free personal care for anyone requiring nursing care to remove inconsistencies between whether or not care is funded by the NHS or the individual (£212m a year)
The JRF said the solutions drew on evidence and research collected over a number of years, including information from Caring Choices, a 2007 public consultation carried out across England and Scotland.
Sue Collins, author of the report and the foundation's lead on its long-term care programme, said: "Everyone, including the government, agrees that the UK needs a new long-term care funding system. But it may be a decade before a new system is in place.
"These reforms could quickly make a difference to older people and their carers struggling to cope under the present system."
The government is due to publish a green paper on its long-term plans to reform the care funding system later this year.
The report, however, warns the recession could cause the reforms to "lose momentum".
"Without changes, older people – including those on very modest incomes – will increasingly have to pay more out of their own pockets," it states.
The foundation's chief executive, Julia Unwin, said: "It is especially important in the current economic crisis that the government stays on track and commits enough resources towards creating a system that works.
"It is vital that we continue to engage with people – not just the professionals but service users, carers and all of us who will be facing this issue in the future."
Vocabulary
Fund
source of supply; stock
Substantial
of or having substance;material
Struggle
to make a strenuous effort;strive
Cope
to contend or strive,especially successfully
Foundation
the act of founding or the condition of being founded
Fourfold
having four units or aspects;quadruple
interim
an intervening period of time
foundation
the act of founding or the condition of being founded
Equity
the condition or quality of being just,impartial, and fair
Whereby
by which or by means of which
home-based
a base of operations;headquarters
defer
to put off, postpone
dictate
to say or read aloud for transcription
authority
the right and power to command, enforce laws ,determine influence
inconsistent
incompatible, contradictory
reforms
to improve by correction of error or removal of defects
recession
the act of withdrawing , a moderate, temporary
modest
having or showing a moderate estimation of oneself ,shy ,reserved
chief
one who is highest in rank or authority
commits
to do, perform,or perpetrate
engage
to hire; employ
to attract and hold
Reading skill
Don't blame amateur keepers for declining bees
The reason the buzz of bees was quieter last summer is because the government's bee inspectors can't keep tabs on us hobby beekeepers. That, at least, was the conclusion of a report yesterday from the National Audit Office.
One in three hives were wiped out by a blood-sucking parasite that feeds on the bees and their larvae and spreads nasty viruses. Unless they are controlled, infested colonies can die out - and we're being accused of letting this varroa mite run riot.
But hang on a minute. All the beekeepers I've met since taking up this hobby three years ago care deeply about their bees. Why would they fail to take precautionary measures against the bees' assailant? Lack of knowledge perhaps?
Well, anyone who has read a beekeeping manual, or gone on a course - and let's face it, donning your beekeeping suit and confronting a 50,000-strong colony without some preparation would be pretty daft - will be well aware of the pesky mite, which no hive in the UK is free from. You can spot the tiny brown dot on the bees, or more easily on the white larvae. Feeding your bees a natural jelly-like substance made from thymol in the autumn is the best protection.
Tracking down the estimated 20,000 beekeepers at large wouldn't be difficult; those collecting a swarm of bees from an association or a commercial apiary could be required to register them. But this won't solve the problem of our bees dying at an alarming rate. For one thing, there simply aren't enough bee inspectors to go round because of government cuts to its National Bee Unit.
The truth is that the jury's still out on what is killing our bees. What about the role of pesticides? The European parliament and the Co-op supermarket thinks there is enough of a case against bee-toxic chemicals to ban some of them. What we need is more funding for research in this area - rather than attacking the very people who are trying to help save our bees.
amateur
one who engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
buzz
to make a low droning or vibrating sound ike that of a bee
to move quickly and busily ; bustle
hives
a skin rash marked by itching welts , usually caused by an allergic reaction
wiped out
to destroy completely ; annihilate
larvae
the wingless,oftenwormlike form of a newly hatched insect
nasty
digustingly dirty;filthy;foul
mite
any of various small
riot
public uproar or disturbance
assail
to attack with violence
confront
to come or bring face to face with
pesky
annoying;troublesome
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