Draga dijakinja, dragi dijak,

preden začnete reševati naloge, pozorno preberite vsa navodila in prosite nadzorne profesorje za pojasnilo, če česa ne razumete. Kasneje, med spletnim reševanjem nalog, vprašanja niso dovoljena.

Za reševanje nalog imate do 60 minut časa. Ko se bo bližal konec reševanja nalog, se bo polje z uro obarvalo oranžno, tik pred koncem pa še rdeče.

Želimo vam veliko uspeha.

IATEFL Slovenia in državna tekmovalna komisija

Task one

Read the article and then decide if the statements in the table below are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN. There is only one possible answer for each statement.

SPIN IT

The whirling dervish and the B-boy, seven centuries and 8,ooo kilometres apart, are inextricably linked by a joy in movement and the continuous search for perfection

At a block party in the Bronx in the mid-1970s, and a bustling Turkish market in the mid-1270s, the same thing happened. The rhythm of the streets – a hip-hop sound system, the hammering of gold-beaters working their precious metal – was picked up like a radio signal and used to develop a new way of movement.

The New York hip-hop kids started the B-Boy movement with their spins and breakdances. Breaking, as the dancers themselves call it, is a pillar of hip-hop culture that originated in New York in the 1970s and is commonly referred to as a subculture of resistance. Two dimensions are intertwined in breakdance: the significance of utopian aspirations and the role of the body in subjective transformation. The participants enact utopian values in breaking, for instance by affirming the value of street life and people from the streets. Furthermore, breaking leads to subjective transformation among its young practitioners and the body plays a central role in this change of subject position. It is interesting that girls use breaking to rebel against dominant images of ideal womanhood, resulting in changes in gendered subjectivity. Hence, from disempowered, marginalised young people, breakers turn into determined agents with physical strength and emotional resilience. The dedication and discipline required to become a breaker demonstrates that these youth hold socially valued qualities with which they aim to claim a dignified place in society.

Seven hundred years before them, Rumi, a poet and a teacher of Sufi, a mystic branch of Islam, heard the gold-beaters bang, along with the religious chants they used to keep time, and began to whirl around the marketplace in the city of Konya. His was a more overtly religious experience, but, in those moments when the ground was broken for breakdancing and the sema, the dance made famous by the whirling dervishes, something spiritually uplifting occured.

Upon his death in 1273, Rumi’s followers founded the Mevlevi, a Sufi order, in his honour. Sufi fraternities were first organised as an established leadership in which a member followed a prescribed discipline in service to a sheikh or master in order to establish rapport with him. A member of such a fraternity is referred to as a dervish. Dervish orders were at one time much larger in size than they are today, as the government has taken control over most Dervish monasteries. In 1925, Turkey ordered the dissolution of Sufi fraternities by decree, but the Mevlevi was preserved among small villages throughout the Middle East. In 1954, the Turkish government granted the Mevlevi order special permission to perform ritual whirling practises for tourists during two weeks each year.

''It's important to see the common point in different cultures,'' says Murat Demirhan, a Turkish B-Boy known as Joker. ''B-Boys have a master-apprentice system. So do the Mevlevis. Both are communities where newcomers respect experience, and the community itself. In my crew it was like that.''

Joker hosted a Red Bull BC One cypher at the Sirkeci railway terminal in Istanbul, Turkey's national qualifying event ahead of the world finals of the B-Boy tournament in Seoul, South Korea in November. This brought together French B-Boy Mounir Biba, the reigning world champion, and Ceyhun Varisli of the Mevlevi order. After hundreds of years in parallel, a whirling dervish and a B-Boy performed on the same stage for the first time.

Adapted from The Red Bulletin, June 2013

Now read the statements and tick the correct column: TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN. An example (0) has been done for you.

Example 0: Turkish markets are a busy, crowded place. TRUE

	TRUE	FALSE	NOT GIVEN
1. Breakdance is a form of resistance to hip hop.
2. The breakdancer's body movement serves as a personal response to outside circumstances.
3. Committed breakers increase their ability to cope with stressful situations and crises.
4. Rumi was a great mystic and poet in the Persian language.
5. The religious order was never outlawed.
6. Today's dervish whirling is a biennial fortnight event for tourists.
7. Both groups share a similar system of passing the knowledge to the new generations.
8. The event in the largest city in Turkey took place subsequent to the world finals.

Task two

Read the text and provide synonyms for the words below. Choose them from the ten words in bold type in the text and write them in the text boxes provided.

Flying into Australia, I realized with a sigh that I had forgotten again who their prime minister is. I am forever doing this with the Australian prime minister--committing the name to memory, forgetting it (generally more or less instantly), then feeling terribly guilty. My thinking is that there ought to be one person outside Australia who knows. But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, wherein I encountered (0) the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. This seemed doubly astounding to me--first that Australia could just lose a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of this had never reached me. The fact is, of course, we pay shamefully scant attention to our dear cousins Down Under--not entirely without reason, of course. Australia is after all mostly empty and a long way away. Its population, just over 18 million, is small by world standards--China grows by a larger amount each year--and its place in the world economy is somewhere on the periphery; as an economic entity, it ranks about level with Illinois. Its sports are of little interest to us and the last television series it made that we watched with avidity was Skippy. From time to time it sends us useful things--opals, merino wool, Errol Flynn, the boomerang--but nothing we can't actually do without. Above all, Australia doesn't misbehave. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't have a coup, recklessly overfish, arm a disagreeable despot, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner.

Adapted from: Down Under by Bill Bryson.

Now write the synonyms in the text boxes provided. An example (0) has been done for you.

0. CAME ACROSS - ENCOUNTERED

1. DEPOSITION -

2. NEGLIGIBLE -

3. KEENNESS -

4. OPPRESSOR -

5. VESTIGE -

Task three

TENSES

Read the following article and put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Write your answers in the text boxes provided. Use only the FULL FORMS of the verbs given. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

The arts must do more to oppose dirty money

Wed 12 Dec 2018, The Guardian

Those attending the COP24 climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, this week ARE GREETED (0 - GREET) are greeted by a bizarre sight: an artistic celebration of one of the main fuels responsible for destroying the global climate. Katowice is the centre of Poland’s coal industry, and despite hosting a conference that may represent the last chance saloon when it comes to (1 - TAKE) meaningful action on climate change, local politicians pride themselves on the black stuff. Perhaps no different should (2 - ANTICIPATE) when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change decided on such an inappropriate venue and to allow coal companies to sponsor the talks.

Should society (3 - SURVIVE) climate change with some form of civilisation intact, some of the things we are doing now will be looked at with the same moral distaste that we feel towards slavery; some legitimate parallels are supposed (4 - DRAW) by many earlier writers and commentators. Climate change is yet (5 - HURT) those (6 - NOT/BEAR). Our failure to make the dramatic changes to our economy and society means we currently behave as if we own the lives of future generations and have a right to steal their lives from them. Since its beginnings, art (7 - RECORD) contemporary life and Katowice is no different: there is a counter-exhibition on coal by art students, drawing attention to the “dark side of coal” pushing for an end to oil sponsorship of the arts. Students also suggest publicly denouncing such resources despite “closing their own pipelines”. “Let art soar beyond what feeds it!” one wrote under his work.

The problematic of corporate sponsorship has also been challenged by many musicians. Neil Young is due to play a large concert in Hyde Park next summer. Recently he criticised the event’s sponsor, Barclays, declaring the bank a “fossil-fuel-funding entity”. (8 - CONFRONT), Young said such sponsorship proved incompatible with his beliefs about the climate, and that he (9 - SEEK) to rectify the situation. Yesterday he claimed victory, saying the concert was now proceeding without Barclays as a sponsor. “I would rather my eco-advisers (10 - WARN) me about this hypocrisy earlier. To be sponsored by the same people I speak against – that’s madness!” Knowing more light should (11 - SHED) on this, it’s only high time others followed in his footsteps.

There’s also a strong case against continued fossil fuel sponsorship from an economic perspective. The financial sector (12 - COMMENCE) to divest from fossil fuels long before Neil Young made it public. Now, smart money is in renewables and the green economy. Since the Paris Agreement was adapted in November 2015, the sustainable finance agenda has been moving away rapidly.

What’s more, the EU legislation requires of all financial market players to give full information about how customers’ money is invested. Since the EU is committed to (13 - HAVE/FOSSIL FUELS/PHASE OUT) by 2050, any pensions for people aged under 40 that contain assets based on fossil fuels are claimed to be misdirected. Decisions (14 - NOT/THROW) money at fossil fuels are more and more appreciated.

Task four

Form new words from the words in the bracktes. Write one word in each gap. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

The Man who Betrayed Anne Frank identified (0 - IDENTIFICATION) after 77 years

Anne Frank's diary, published after her (1 - DIE), is the most famous first-hand account of Jewish life during the war. The recent study suggests that a team including an ex-FBI agent said Arnold van den Bergh, an (2 - FAME) Jewish figure in Amsterdam, probably "gave up" the Franks to save his own family.

The team, made up of historians and other experts, spent six years toiling away (3 - INVESTIGATION) and, not to mention, arduously, to crack the "cold case". That included using computer algorithms to search for connections between many different people, something that would have taken humans thousands of hours.

Van den Bergh had been a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, a body forced to implement Nazi policy in Jewish areas. After its (4 - BAND) in 1943, its members were dispatched to concentration camps. But the team found that van den Bergh was not sent to a camp, and was instead living in Amsterdam as normal at the time. There was also a suggestion that a member of the Jewish Council had been feeding the Nazis (5 - DISPENSE) information.

"When van den Bergh lost all his series of protections exempting him from having to go to the camps, he had to provide an (6 - VALUE) piece of info to the Nazis that he's had contact with to let him and his wife at that time stay safe," former FBI agent Vince Pankoke told CBS 60 Minutes.

The team said it had struggled with a series of (7 - REVEAL) one being that another Jewish person was probably behind the (8 - BETRAY). But it also found lots of (9 - EVIDENT) suggesting Otto Frank, Anne's father, may himself have known that and kept it secret.

In the files of a previous investigator, they found a copy of an anonymous note sent to Otto Frank (10 - IDENTITY) Arnold van den Bergh as his betrayer. Mr Pankoke told 60 Minutes that anti-Semitism may have been the reason it was never made public. "Perhaps he just felt that if I bring this up again… it'll only stoke the fires further," he said.

"But we have to keep in mind that the fact that [van den Bergh] was Jewish and that meant it was not (11 - COWARD) but the untenable position in which he was put by the Nazis that made him do something to save his life. "Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reports that van den Bergh died in 1950.

In a statement, the Anne Frank House museum said it was "impressed" with the investigation team's work. Its executive director, Ronald Leopold, says research value is (12 - EXAMPLE) by the new research that had "generated important new information and a fascinating hypothesis that merits (13 - FAR) research".

The museum said it was only (14 - DIRECT) involved in the investigation but had shared its archives and museum with the team.

Task five

Read the sentences and decide which of the four answers from the drop-down menu best fits each gap. Select one possible answer. An example (0) has been done for you.

0. »It's hot in here.« - »__________ I open the window?«

a) Will b) Shall c) Do d) Would

1. When Mary woke up, the sun .

2. By the time I go out tonight I my presentation on natural disasters

3. in my seminar paper, I realised that I had forgotten to put my name on it.

4. Ms Bettencourt Meyers the richest woman in the world.

5. At first, many sushi restaurants weren’t at all successful in the Balkans, but they eventually in the capital cities.

6. I hate this cold and foggy weather! on a tropical island right now.

7. How did you find out about the secret surprise for Mum and Dad? Did Grandma again?

8. Roger's car has only four seats but it can carry six people in .

9. Everyone who forgot to hand in their assignments on time found themselves .

10. This kind of chance comes once in a moon. You should really appreciate it.

Task six

Read the text and fill each gap with only ONE suitable word. An example (0) has been done for you.

Every Student’s Nightmare: A Teacher with the “You-Just-Have-to-Read-This-Book!”

When faced with (0) contemporary novels, students would often (1) an eyebrow and feel (2) out of the usual storyline or predictability. This may displease some language teachers, but we need to (3) in mind that any (4) person who has had their predictions and set patterns (even such of reading) crushed is not (5) take it lightly. Needless to say, contemporary novels are, frankly, no light (6).

In fact, we need to prepare students for the challenging (7) any way we can and allow them to be displeased about the work (8) fond (and biased?) we may be towards it. There’s nothing more terrible than a teacher who wants to (9) their own affection for a piece of literature reflected in student’s mouths. Help them (10) appreciation for the intricate mastery of writing and in (11) such a way they might risk (12) other similar works a go.

How, you ask? Have them immersed (13) the time and setting of (14) the author and the storyline. Don’t be afraid of provocative questions, or perhaps act passages out in front of the class. Sometimes a bit of live action is enough to connect the dots (15) previously missing.

Task seven

Complete the sentences based on Mark Haddon's The Curious Accident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A, B or C. There is only one possible answer.

1. The main character of the novel likes

a) the colours yellow and brown.

b) lists and patterns.

c) being touched.

2. According to Christopher, a dog has the following four moods:

a) happy, agitated, aggressive, pensive.

b) happy, anxious, playful, aggressive.

c) happy, sad, cross, concentrating.

3. When Father is able to see Christopher at the police station,

a) Christopher gives him a hug.

b) he appears to be angry with his son.

c) they don’t hug but make a special gesture with their fingers.

4. In Christopher’s order of things seeing four yellow cars in a row means

a) a black day.

b) a good day.

c) a super good day.

5. When Christopher starts doing his detective work, he first speaks to

a) Mr. Wise’s mother.

b) Mrs. Shears.

c) old lady Mrs. Alexander.

6. Christopher presumes that the culprit for Wellington’s death is

a) father.

b) Mr. Shears.

c) one of the drug addicts living next door.

7. Several people tell Christopher to

a) keep up his detective work.

b) stay out of other people’s business.

c) ask Mrs. Alexander lots of questions about Mr. Shears.

8. Where does Christopher find his missing manuscript?

a) In a shirt box in the wardrobe in Father’s bedroom.

b) In a cupboard in their living room.

c) In a cupboard in his bedroom.

9. After finding out the truth about his parents,

a) Christopher does not want to live with his father anymore.

b) Christopher still trusts his father and is happy to live under the same roof with him.

c) Christopher runs away from home immediately.

10. When Christopher turns up at Judy and Roger’s London apartment,

a) they have a shouting match.

b) Judy is not at home until very late at night.

c) Roger happily invites him to stay with them as long as necessary.

11. Christopher expressed the need to return to Swindon

a) because he wanted to go back to school and hang out with his friends.

b) because he needed to hand in a home assignment to Siobhan.

c) because he was taking an important exam very soon.

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