Unit 19: A place to live
Goldilocks
Select a unit
- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 4
We often use the words very, too, and enough to talk about problems - when things are too difficult or when we don't have enough time. In this session, you're going to hear Alice and Neil talking about their problems.
Then we want to hear from you, but not about your problems - tell us about fairy tales from your country. Try to use very, too and enough correctly!
Activity 3
News Report
School shortage
There's a shortage of housing in the UK so the building of almost 50,000 new homes in the English county of Cornwall should be good news. But teachers are warning there aren't enough school places for all the new children. Find out more in News Report.
Listen to the audio
Some head teachers in the English county of Cornwall are warning planned new housing could bring too many new children into the area. This, they claim, will put too much strain on already overcrowded classrooms.
Cornwall Council is deciding where to invest £32m of government money for new school places over the next two years.
According to local government plans, over 47,000 new homes will be built in Cornwall by 2030. Head teachers are worried that local schools will not have enough resources to accommodate the children of the new families.
Connor Downs Primary School, near Hayle, is already very full: it has capacity for 175 pupils – but 178 are currently attending, with seven classes in six classrooms.
The head teacher Susan Costello said she was "constantly having to turn people away".
Rosemellin Primary School, in Camborne, also said it was nearly full and it was facing three new housing developments nearby, with no prospect of money to allow it to extend.
Head teacher Jonathan Peek said: "There are plans for 500 houses, and we believe when all the houses are developed it will mean about 150 children."
Cornwall Council said it hoped to have the details on where the latest cash would be spent by the end of February 2015.
You can download News Report here.
Vocabulary
head teacher
the teacher who is in charge of a school
county
an area of a country (the UK is divided into 86 counties)
to claim
to say that something is true
strain
stress or pressure
overcrowded
containing too many people
capacity
enough space
to turn people away
not to allow people to enter
prospect
possibility of something happening in the future
cash
money
End of session 4
That's the end of session 4. We hope it's been very interesting and not too difficult. In Session 5 you'll find the next episode of our drama, Frankenstein. There's also the weekly quiz to see if you really have studied enough this week!
Session Vocabulary
head teacher
the teacher who is in charge of a schoolcounty
an area of a country (the UK is divided into 86 counties)to claim
to say that something is truestrain
stress or pressureovercrowded
containing too many peoplecapacity
enough spaceto turn people away
not to allow people to enterprospect
possibility of something happening in the futurecash
money