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STRAIGHT FORWARD

At Risk, What’s Love Got to Do with It ?, Inside Information, Seekers, In Your Dreams – det är rubrikerna på de fem teman som ingår i straight Forward, ett läromedel för de elever som endast läser kärnämneskursen i engelska.

Huvudboken innehåller texter och ordlistor. Alla övningar finns i Workmate. Med huvudboken följer en cd med alla texter och hörövningar i mp3-format.

STRAIGHT FORWARD Birgit Harling Anders Lidén Andrew Thelander

NATUR OCH KULTUR

Engelska A

CONTENTS

AT RISK

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The Dancer

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Philippe Petit dances in unusual places.

Too Little …

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Pat was an anorexic for nine years.

The Rally Princess

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Annie Seel is hooked on desert racing.

Tomorrow When the War Began

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Three youngsters under fire from an enemy patrol.

West Side Story

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Love and hatred in a world famous musical.

Too Much …

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“Big Pete” weighed 763 lbs.

WHAT´S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT ?

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A Sign of Love

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“10.25 on a school night. And you were just … out?”

Internet girl “lied about her age”

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Shevaun got in trouble on the internet.

Doing It

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Dino wants desperately to do it with Jackie.

Too Much Love Will Kill You

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The HIV / AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

Gone with the Wind

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Scarlett loves Ashley who is marrying Melanie.

Love Songs Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain.

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INSIDE INFORMATION

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Pardon My Language

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What’s the dirtiest word in the English language?

Sonia – Another Rule Broken

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Sonia’s behaviour is improper for a Muslim girl.

Tenderness

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What makes Eric – almost 18 and in prison – feel tenderness?

Inside Your Brain

84

Is there a part of your brain that can sense danger?

Casino Royale

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James Bond felt a gun press into the base of his spine.

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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“Why would we be interested in gossip?”

4

SEEKERS Set Them Free?

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What can poems do that prose can’t?

“I Just Did What I Had to Do”

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Why an 86-year old black woman was given the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.

Weetzie and Dirk

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“But you know I’ll always love you the best”, Dirk told Weetzie.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy in the land of Narnia.

The Big Payback

122

More children in America are killed by firearms than by all natural causes combined.

The New Girl The memory of injustice won’t fade away.

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IN YOUR DREAMS

130

I Had a Dream

132

What are dreams? Where do they come from?

On the Catwalk

136

Life behind the scenes of fashion models

Never Give Up Your Dream

142

Shea Cowart – gold medal sprinter with amputated legs

Dream Princess

146

The romantic and tragic life of Princess Diana

Dreamcatcher

150

Only Stephen King can write such a sickening story

Money’s Not Everything

154

Simone doesn’t want to be mega rich.

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Alphabetical Word List

157

Student CD

172

Too Little …

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To Anorexia , my old companion and enemy , I have just gotten home from the hospital and this time I think it will work. I really feel now that I don’t need you any longer, so please leave me alone! You have ruined nine years of my life, isn’t that enough? You have made me into a person that I don’t want to be, a person who lies, who isolates herself, who is selfish and self-centered, who doesn’t trust anyone, who can neither give nor accept love. You made me throw up, take laxatives, always be cold and angry and hungry, you took away my periods, you made me believe that I was bad and that no one could love me, that even those who said that they loved me would soon abandon me. When I looked at myself in the mirror, you made me think I was fat and ugly.

When other people said that I was so thin that I looked like a walking skeleton, you made me believe it wasn’t so. You made me feel worthless, but I admit that at the same time I needed you to protect me and make me feel safe and in control.

With you I knew the score, you were always there, I couldn’t fool you like I fooled other people – my parents, the doctors, the teachers, my so-called friends …

What was my life like before you came into it? I can hardly remember. I think I was a nice girl, had good grades, was pretty good at sports. I always worked hard to make myself worthy of other peoples’ esteem. Perhaps I worked too hard, perhaps my parents didn’t take as much notice of me as of

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my brother, who was always raising hell. But when you came into my life, Anorexia, then they took notice. Then I was in control.

I think that what set you off, Anorexia, was when a friend told me that this guy had said I was getting fat. I was in 8th grade and had just reached puberty. I didn’t want to be fat, I wanted to be thin so people would love me. First I cut out junk food and started doing 200 sit-ups a day. In a month I lost 7 lb. People said I looked soo slim, but instead of feeling satisfied with that, I wanted to be even slimmer. I cut out eating almost altogether. I drank loads of water and started running cross country. I ran four miles a day and did 500 sit-ups every night. I weighed myself about twice an hour. What other people said – friends, parents, nutritionists – didn’t matter. I heard their words, but they didn’t penetrate.

I had power, I was in control. I was special. I had something no one else had. You. You made me become anemic, you ruined my immune system, you gave me muscle spasms and made my hair fall out. Still, starving myself was like a high. I didn’t want to go to the hospital to give it up, be fed thru a tube. I identified myself as “Pat the anorexic”. I was afraid that if I stopped being anorexic I would lose my identity, I would be nobody.

Now nine years later I have realised that I was not in control. You were. But I’m not going to let you rule my life any longer. I have started to fight back and I will win. I know now that being an anorexic is no way to live. It is a way to die.

Now at last I am learning to trust people again, I know there are people who love me for what I am inside. I want to be normal, I want to be happy. So this, my old companion and enemy, is a good-bye letter. Get out of my life and stay out!

Pat

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… I’m walking down the street, dressed in my tight jeans and a T-shirt.

My hair is blowing in the breeze.

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those ads on TV. I stop to look in a shop window. A man comes up to me. He says ‘Have you ever thought of being a model?’ He gives me his card.

It says Top Model Agency …

On the Catwalk

Thousands of teenage girls all around the world dream of becoming famous fashion models. But ninety-nine out of a hundred never make it. The rare one who does make it is therefore special in some way. Must she have a beautiful face?

Often, but not necessarily. In fact, a large nose that might not be so pretty in real life can sometimes be a photographic asset. She must be slim and, above all, she must be tall with long slender legs. A beautiful body is not enough, though. A model also needs brains and a good knowledge of languages.

She has to understand what the photographer wants from her and what message the pictures are supposed to give. So she must be something of an actress as well.

Of course, it also helps to have connections. Elisabeth Jagger – the daughter of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and the supermodel Jerry Hall – has been a model since she was 14. Before that she was, in her own words, “a skinny girl with acne and big feet.”

There are also incredible cases, like that of Waris Dirie. She is one of twelve children born into a traditional family of desert nomads in Somalia. When she was twelve, her father arranged a marriage between Waris and a sixty-year-old man, in exchange for five camels. But Waris ran away. She managed to cross the Somalian desert and reach the capital, Mogadishu, where she stayed with an aunt. Later on, she made it to England where she worked as an unpaid maid

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for her uncle, who was the Somalian ambassador. During that time, Waris taught herself to read and write. When the ambassador and his family returned to Somalia, Waris got a job with McDonald’s. It was there that she was discovered by a fashion photographer. And that was the start of a brilliant career as a super model.

Many girls daydream about being discovered like that by a model agency scout who asks “Have you ever thought of becoming a model?” and arranges a photo session. That does actually happen – as it did for Waris. In most cases, however, nothing happens beyond the first contact. To get anywhere, you have to sign up with a model agency. The models-to-be arrive at the agency, clutching their portfolio of photos, and are scrutinized from top to toe. Nine out of ten girls are turned down. And of those who do get registered with the agency only a few ever make it to the well paid international jobs. Of course the ones who get to the top earn fabulous amounts of money. What about $300 000 during a single fashion week in Milan? But then, their career as fashion models is usually quite brief. For many girls, it finishes when they are around twenty-five. Hopefully, they will have saved enough money to be able to study or set up their own business. Even here, the case of Waris Dirie is exceptional: she was appointed by the United Nations as a special ambassador for women’s rights in Africa. Waris is working to stop the practise of female genital mutilation. She herself was mutilated at the age of five.

Is the model’s life a glamorous one? Yes and no. The glam part is travelling to other countries to do advertising campaigns in places most teenagers can only dream of: New York, Chile, Barbados, Bali, South Africa … A normal working day, however, is anything but glamorous. It’s just hard work from morning to night. It can also be a dangerous life. There are photographers and stylists out there who take advantage of young inexperienced models and exploit them sexually. Some newcomers are afraid that, if they refuse sex, they might be overlooked when the work assignments are handed out.

There is also the danger of drugs, although serious

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companies try to avoid using models who have drug problems or eating disorders. The Swedish clothing chain H&M had planned to use the supermodel Kate Moss in an advertising campaign for their collection 2005 – 2006. But when the British tabloid The Daily Mirror published pictures of Kate Moss snorting cocaine, H&M broke their contract with her.

In the International edition of The Times, October 27 2005, the following appeared under the heading ‘H&M replaces Moss’ : “The Swedish clothing chain Hennes & Mauritz said it will use the Italian model Mariacarla Boscono for its new collection, replacing Kate Moss who was dropped after reports of cocain use.”

So, all you thousands out there who dream of becoming famous fashion models: If your dream comes true, don’t expect it to lead to an easy life. It will be a life full of hard work and responsibilities. And remember this: there are millions of people who will watch ‘every step you take and every move you make’. Don’t let them see you fall.

… I enter the front doors of Top Model Agency.

People stare at me. One of the agents says to her colleague: ‘Wow! She’s just the type Prada is looking for!’ …

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De här komponenterna ingår i straight Forward Textbok med elev-cd (mp3) 27- 63198-2 Workmate 27- 63199-0 Lärarhandledning 27- 63202-4 Lärar-cd 27- 80212-4 Just About Everything 27-63200-8 Fler övningar på ordförråd och grammatik finns på www.straightforward.nu

STRAIGHT FORWARD

At Risk, What’s Love Got to Do with It ?, Inside Information, Seekers, In Your Dreams – det är rubrikerna på de fem teman som ingår i straight Forward, ett läromedel för de elever som endast läser kärnämneskursen i engelska.

Huvudboken innehåller texter och ordlistor. Alla övningar finns i Workmate. Med huvudboken följer en cd med alla texter och hörövningar i mp3-format.

STRAIGHT FORWARD Birgit Harling Anders Lidén Andrew Thelander

NATUR OCH KULTUR

Engelska A