Q: CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot

"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn't it?"

"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.

The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as "awful mean" the girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you.

The way Anne and Diana went to school WAS a pretty one. Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was.

Lover's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm. It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables.

Answer the following questions:
1. how is the day going?
2. Who does she feel bad for?
3. why?
4. where are they going?
5. how do they feel about the walk?
6. How could it be worse?
7. who is carrying food?
8. what food is she carrying?
9. how many?
10. for how many to consume?
11. was this common, to bring food?
12. what was the name of the place they got educated at?
13. where is somewhere they pass on their walk?
14. and?
15. Where else?
16. Where are the livestock?
A: 1. splendid
2. people who aren't born yet
3. for missing it
4. school
5. It's lovely
6. by going round by the road
7. Diana
8. raspberry tarts
9. three
10. ten
11. yes
12. Avonlea
13. Lover's Lane
14. Willowmere
15. Violet Vale
16. the Cuthbert farm
Q: About 18,000 refugees from Burma have come to the United States each year since 2007. Some have settled in Howard County, Maryland between Baltimore and Washington. A local school began teaching English to the children of the refugees. But while the children learned the language, their parents did not. That made communication with teachers _ .

At present, almost fifty children from Burma attend Bollman Bridge Elementary School. Laurel Conran is a teacher there. She said, "The main idea is the global idea." She teaches English to speakers of other languages. One of her students is Tha Neih Ciang. Another student is Tha Neih's mother, Tin Iang. Ms. Conran practices English with Tin Iang at the mother's workplace. Many refugees from Burma work at Coastal Sunbelt Produce, a supplier of fruits and vegetables to restaurants and other businesses.

Laurel Conran started classes at the company to help refugees from Burma learn English. Laurel Conran said, "The program is a six-week session. It's once a week, on every Wednesday, from twelve to one o'clock. So every Wednesday I go to Coastal Sunbelt." As the workers eat lunch, they also practice their new language skills.

Lisa Chertok has a child at Bollman Bridge. She is also a manager at Coastal Sunbelt. She helped Ms. Conran develop the lessons, which she says have really helped. Lisa Chertok said, "Well, when the Burmese employees got here, they were very, very shy. Now I find that they are more outspoken than before. They're more communicative. As parents, they are also more involved in their children's school."

Jonathan Davis is the headmaster of Bollman Bridge Elementary School. Mr. Davis hopes the lessons will help these parents feel better about communicating with the school. He said, "Even as simple as making a phone call to say that their son or daughter is sick, even if that's the amount of English that they have got from the program, that truly will help us."

Answer the following questions:
1. Which school is teaching English to refugees?
2. where is this school at?
3. what cities is this near?
4. What was making communication with teachers difficult?
5. where are the refugees from?
6. how may have came to the US?
7. how often?
8. for how long?
9. who is the teacher helping them?
10. where else does she teach at?
11. what company?
12. when are these classes?
13. at what time?
14. how many weeks?
15. Is it held after work?
16. Is it their lunch break?
17. Does the teacher have help with the classes?
18. from who?
19. Does she work at Coastal Sunbelt?
20. doing what?
A: 1. Bollman Bridge Elementary School.
2. Howard County, Maryland
3. Baltimore and Washington.
4. the language
5. Burma
6. About 18,000
7. each year
8. since 2007
9. Laurel Conran
10. a mother's workplace
11. Coastal Sunbelt Produce
12. every Wednesday
13. twelve to one o'clock
14. six
15. no
16. yes
17. yes
18. Lisa Chertok
19. yes
20. a manager
Q: Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show.

In 1980, Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews. Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned; Michaels has remained since then. Many of "SNL"s cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, and achieved success in film and television, both in front of and behind the camera. Others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film.

Answer the following questions:
1. Has the shown been good for it's cast and writers?
2. When did Michaels leave?
3. Who replaced him?
4. When did the show premier?
5. Where is the show made?
6. Does it have an abbreviation?
7. what is that?
8. standing for?
9. Who got bad reviews?
10. how does the show end?
11. Who hosts the episodes?
12. how many seasons was Jean there?
13. Did Micheals ever return?
14. when?
15. What was the original title?
16. who created it?
17. why did michaels originally leave?
18. and who developed it?
19. is this a day-time show?
20. then what is it?
A:
1. Yes
2. in 1980
3. Jean Doumanian
4. October 11, 1975
5. New York
6. Yes
7. SNL
8. Saturday Night Live
9. Jean Doumanian,
10. unknown
11. a celebrity guest
12. One
13. Yes
14. 1985
15. NBC's Saturday Night
16. Lorne Michaels
17. to explore other opportunities
18. Dick Ebersol
19. No
20. a late-night television show