【正文】 s and pictures and say their names. You see, I39。t understand 1 had to learn their meanings all over again.Interviewer It must have been very frustrating.Martin It was, but I was determined to get better. I was in hospital for three and a half months. When I got home I got a special puter programme that I worked with every day. And slowly my language came back to me. It was a struggle, a big struggle. I had to learn to read and write again too.Interviewer Why do you think that you were able to recover pletely? It39。s very important, apparently.Interviewer And now that you39。m just grateful to have my life back.Passage 2Interviewer In 1907 an Italian educator called Maria Montessori opened a school in Rome that taught young children using methods that were very different from traditional teaching. Today, the Montessori method, as it39。re not encouraged to be noisy.Sarah No, definitely not...Interviewer Claudia?Claudia Yes, the classroom39。t tell the child what to do?Sarah Not at all. While a child is doing an activity we observe them. Then we work with the child for a short time and then leave them to work on their own.Interviewer That sounds excellent. And what about your equipment? It39。t it?Sarah Yes, and a piece of equipment is often designed for one activity only.Claudia Right. It39。re getting something right or wrong.Interviewer So they don39。s right. Another Montessori principle is the importance of physical activity. Children learn by doing, so when they39。t understand how important it is for children to use their imagination. If she was alive today, she would recognize that. But still, the fact is, her methods are very successful.Unit 4 Person to personListening inPassage 1John Are you packed?Mike Yup. Everything39。ve packed your mobile?Mike I39。ve got another ten minutes before we need to leave, so we might as well relax. You know someone told me an amazing story yesterday about these Australians who got pletely lost in some national park.Mike And don39。s right!Mike So what happened?John Well, it was this guy with his son and niece I think she was about 14 and they were hiking in this really rugged country and they got pletely lost no idea where they were at all.Mike That39。t. Anyway, the guy had his mobile and he phoned the emergency services — it wasn39。t find them. And then this is the interesting bit the guy sent photos of the place where they were.Mike I39。s pretty obvious, really. And in the photos there were mountains in the background, and the staff at the emergency service centre were able to identify exactly which mountains they were. And they used the photos to pinpoint their location, you know, to get the exact location.Mike How did they do that?John They used mapping software.Mike Right.John Anyway, by then it had got dark and really freezing. So they slept behind this ridge and covered themselves with leaves. And you know what the young girl said afterwards? She said, It was quite fun.Mike Really, wasn39。t think so.Mike So is there a happy ending?John Yes, well they sent out helicopters as soon as it was daylight and the helicopter hovered over the area, and the man kept talking to them till they were able to pinpoint his location. And when they finally found them they were only 400 metres away from where they39。s because they39。d taken their photos because the ground was too rough to sleep on.Mike Incredible!John And the moral of the story isMike Always take your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.John And take one that has a camera.Mike Hey, I think we should go, John.John Yes, OK. You think we39。s the 21st century way of having fun online. And if you39。s wellknown that . office workers spend up to two hours a day on a site, exchanging messages and photos. And do students ever do anything else? Different social networking sites are used by different age groups.For people in their 20s, the most popular site is Facebook, the online phenomenon started by an American student in 2004. It39。s made its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, a very rich man indeed.What39。s top universities, when he launched the Facebook website, working from his college room. In only two weeks, more than twothirds of his college had signed up and in a year, thousands of colleges were using it. Today, Facebook has millions of users. More than half of them visit the site at least once a day.So what makes Facebook so special? Like other networking sites, you create a profile with photos, you list your interests, you exchange messages and join groups of friends. But where Facebook is different is that it gives you a privacy that you just don39。s safe to do so.But you still need to be careful about what you think is safe to show people. One reason is that more and more employers are using Facebook to check out potential employees. Is the person you39。s been travelling round the world for the last three years, and in his interview he said he39。t get the job.Unit 5 All you need is loveListening inPassage 1Interviewer So tell us about how you first met.Amy How we first met... Oh, it wasn39。t you begin at the beginning?Amy Good idea. Well, I was 22 and I39。t expected it.David She was terrified! I noticed her immediately. She looked so scared she was wearing this great hat — but she was white as a sheet.Amy Oh, I don39。t done that.David Rubbish! You were perfectly safe. Anyway, we got to the summit — it was a kind of flat area and Amy just collapsed she couldn39。s true, I couldn39。t!David They did!Amy Well, you talked to me, and that39。t eat a thing! I was still feeling too sick. David You did, you know.Amy You know, you have a terrible memory sometimes. David So do you! ... To cut a long story short, we got married six months later and went on a threeweek honeymoon to Barbados. Amy Two weeks!David And we39。s move on to online dating, a way of meeting a potential partner that39。Hanlan and Claire Goodall are two online dating experts who