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Manhunt: cacería
Rag: tomar el pelo
Prescient: profético
Deviate: desviarse
Ditch: deshacerse de, abandonar
Roil: agitarse
Wander: deambular
Unscathed: ileso
Wind up: dar cuerda a algo
Foreboding: presentimiento malo
Disengage: soltar

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bjackson0417 November 11, 2020

Task description & scene summary

Please watch the video and then Identify the past modal verbs in the dialogue from the movie.

Created using the grammar quiz generator of iSLCollective. Make your own quiz from any Youtube video in a few minutes.

Former boxer Terry Malloy expresses regrets about his fighting career to his gangster brother.

Video length: 2 minutes 43 seconds

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution License

First published: 2020-11-11, 11:41:59 (GMT+1)

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Video quiz questions (printable)

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Fill the gap: ... son When you weighed 168 pounds you were beautiful you ________________________ been another Billy Conn and that skunk we go for you a manger He ...

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Fill the gap: I ________________________ taken Wilson apart so what happens, he gets the title shot out in the ball park and what do I get?

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Fill the gap: ... you ________________________ looked out for me a little bit You ________________________ taken care of me just a little bit so I didn't have to take a dive for ...

4)

Fill the gap: I could've had class I ________________________ been a contender I could've been somebody Instead of a bum,

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"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
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On The Waterfront (Past Modals) - English ESL video lesson

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Home Video lessons On The Waterfront (Past Modals) bjackson0417 November 11, 2020 Please watch the video and then Identify the past modal verbs in the dialogue from the movie. Created using the grammar quiz generator of iSLCollective. Make your own quiz from any Youtube video in a few minutes.

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Mild: leve
Jab: golpe
Outbreak: brote
Surveillance: vigilancia
Thrive: desarrollarse
Stock: acción (money)

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Image source, Reuters

More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries.

The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated - without naming any countries - and warned that more cases are likely to be reported.

Infections have been confirmed in nine European countries, as well as the US, Canada and Australia.

Monkeypox is most common in remote parts of Central and West Africa.

It is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.

There is no specific vaccine for monkeypox, but a smallpox jab offers 85% protection since the two viruses are quite similar.

So far, public health agencies in Europe have confirmed cases in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden.

In a statement on Friday, the WHO said that the recent outbreaks "are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries".

It said it was "working with the affected countries and others to expand disease surveillance to find and support people who may be affected".

The WHO also warned against stigmatising groups because of the disease.

"It can be a barrier to ending an outbreak as it may prevent people from seeking care, and lead to undetected spread," it said.

WHO's Europe regional director Hans Kluge warned that "as we enter the summer season... with mass gatherings, festivals and parties, I am concerned that transmission could accelerate".

He added that all but one of the recent cases had no relevant travel history to areas where monkeypox was endemic.

The first case of the disease in the UK was reported on 7 May. The patient had recently travelled to Nigeria, where they are believed to have caught the virus before travelling to England, the UK Health Security Agency said.

There are now 20 confirmed cases in the UK, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Friday.

Authorities in the UK said they had bought stocks of the smallpox vaccine and started offering it to those with "higher levels of exposure" to monkeypox.

Spanish health authorities have also reportedly purchased thousands of smallpox jabs to deal with the outbreak, according to Spanish newspaper El País.

Australia's first case was detected in a man who fell ill after travelling to the UK, the Victorian Department of Health said.

In North America, health authorities in the US state of Massachusetts confirmed that a man has been infected after recently travelling to Canada. He was in "good condition" and "poses no risk to the public", officials said.

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Tighten: reforzar
Breadwinner: sostén de la familia
Decree: decreto
Stint: período
Withdrawal: privación
Garment: prenda
Erode: erosionar

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By Simon Fraser
BBC News

The Taliban have ordered female Afghan TV presenters and other women on screen to cover their faces while on air.

Media outlets were told of the decree on Wednesday, a religious police spokesman told BBC Pashto.

The ruling comes two weeks after all women were ordered to wear a face veil in public, or risk punishment.

Restrictions are being tightened on women - they are banned from travelling without a male guardian and secondary schools are shut for girls.

One female Afghan journalist working for a local TV station in Kabul, who did not want to be named, said she'd been shocked to hear the latest news.

"They are putting indirect pressure on us to stop us presenting on TV," she told the BBC.

"How can I read the news with my mouth covered? I don't know what to do now - I must work, I am the breadwinner of my family."The new decree will take effect from 21 May, Reuters news agency reported, quoting a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue.

The spokesman referred to the ruling as "advice" - it is not clear what will happen to anyone who fails to comply.

"Based on information received by Tolo news, the order has been issued to all media outlets in Afghanistan," the news channel reported.

The decision is being widely criticised on Twitter, with many calling it another step by the Taliban to promote extremism.

"The world deploys masks to protect people from Covid. The Taliban deploys masks to protect people from seeing the faces of women journalists. For the Taliban, women are a disease," one activist tweeted.

The private Shamshad news channel posted a photo of its news presenter wearing a mask, and other similar images are being shared on social media.

#AFG A powerful message from an Afghan woman (TOlo TV Host) that needs reflection: This is me, Yalda Ali, a woman -on verge of being eliminated by the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue. We are required to appear like this, hereafter. @bsarwary pic.twitter.com/Gjjhgm0wJf
- Wali Arian (@waliarian) May 19, 2022

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter

During their first stint in power in the 1990s the Taliban forced women to wear the all-encompassing burka in public.

The hardline Islamist movement was driven from power by US-led troops in 2001, after which many restrictions eased. Women appearing on television showing their faces became a common sight.

Who are the Taliban?

After retaking power last August, following the withdrawal of foreign forces, the Taliban had held off issuing new laws on what women should wear.

This raised hopes they would govern Afghanistan, a deeply conservative and patriarchal country, more flexibly this time.

Many women still wore the burka, but in bigger cities it was also common to see women continuing to wear headscarves.

However in early May the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue announced that all women would have to cover their face in public, and indicated that a burka would be the ideal garment to achieve this.

Anyone refusing to comply with the ruling risks an escalating series of punishments.

Most Muslims around the world do not consider women covering their face mandatory, or oppose them working.

Women are still employed in some jobs in Afghanistan, such as healthcare and education, but many others have been told not to return to work now the Taliban are back in power.

The country has been plunged into economic crisis and famine under Taliban rule.

Western diplomats have indicated that resuming development funding and unlocking frozen cash depends on better treatment of women.

But early hopes the Taliban might relax their approach have been eroded amid signs influential hardliners in the group have the upper hand.

The journalist in Kabul who spoke to the BBC wanted the international community to put pressure on the Taliban.

"They should tell them you have 10 days to change otherwise we are going to cut off relations and aid."

She said she believed the Taliban planned to stop women doing all kinds of work outside their homes. "They want women to live like prisoners at home. Every day they issued decrees against us - I don't think we can survive."

Additional reporting by Mahfouz Zubaide

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By Simon Fraser BBC News The Taliban have ordered female Afghan TV presenters and other women on screen to cover their faces while on air. Media outlets were told of the decree on Wednesday, a religious police spokesman told BBC Pashto.

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Wales staff boycott Qatar over gay rights

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Wales staff boycott Qatar over gay rights

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Some of the Welsh national football team's staff will not travel to the World Cup in Qatar because of the country's stance on gay rights.

Head of Welsh football Noel Mooney said the team would use the event as a "platform" to discuss human rights in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.

He is also asking Fifa and Uefa to "think very deeply about their conscience" when choosing host nations.

Qatari officials have said it would be a "tournament for everyone".

Following a 1-0 victory over Ukraine, Wales has qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1958.

The decision by Fifa to host the tournament in Qatar has been widely criticised, with the country's wider record on human rights also under scrutiny.

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has "multiple concerns", including Qatar's record on gay rights and its treatment of migrant workers.

Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar and Amnesty said women and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer or questioning) people "continue to face discrimination in law and practice".

In an interview with the BBC Politics Wales programme, Football Association of Wales (FAW) chief executive Mr Mooney said the squad hoped to use the World Cup "as a force for good".

He added: "The consensus between the [European] Uefa nations is to use it as a platform for improvement and that's very much what we intend to do.

"We are looking forward to playing a very active role, from the FAW and the Welsh government's perspective, in airing our views."

Mr Mooney said he did not believe it was the "right thing" for the team to boycott the tournament.

But he said some of his friends and FAW staff members "won't be travelling" to Qatar because of the country's stance on gay rights.

He added: "They're not going to go to the tournament, which is absolutely their right to do so.

"The vast, vast majority of people will go and understand also our position that it is a platform to try to improve life there and to have good dialogue on issues like human rights... and migrant workers.

"So, we're looking forward to playing a full part in that and getting clarity on any outstanding issues for travelling supporters."

Some members of the Rainbow Wall, Wales' official LGBTQ+ supporters' group, have previously said they will not travel to Qatar to support the team.

But Mr Mooney said the Rainbow Wall "will be front and centre of our thoughts as we plan for this World Cup".

The FAW boss said he was concerned about "sports-washing", the use of sports by governments to distract from their human rights abuses.

"We have had a World Cup in Russia in 2018 which was a massive PR success," Mr Mooney said.

"I think anybody who left the World Cup would say it was a great success for Russia.

"We've seen what has happened since [with Russia's invasion of Ukraine].

"There are concerns, certainly I have them, on how sport is being used as a façade, maybe, for something else.

"So, I think that the rights holders, the big global sports institutions like the Olympics, Fifa, Uefa and bodies like that, really have to think strategically and they have to think very deeply about their conscience," Mr Mooney added.

Speaking in the Senedd on Tuesday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales should use its opportunity to raise human rights issues with Qatari authorities "while the eyes of the world are on that country".

Mr Drakeford added: "We are absolutely delighted that Wales will be represented at Qatar, but we should not look the other way from the reservations that we would have as a nation from some of those human rights issues that we see there."

Fatma Al-Nuaimi, communications executive director of Qatar's supreme committee for organising the tournament, previously told BBC Sport: "It's a tournament for everyone, a tournament of firsts, and a tournament where everyone will be welcome."

For more on this story you can watch BBC Politics Wales at 10:00 BST on Sunday 12 June on BBC One Wales, or catch up afterwards on iPlayer.

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1) Marty is in a hurry, because the lightning ... by 10:04 p.m.

2) In four minutes' time Doc ... the wires.

will be connecting

will have connected

3) Thirty years from now Doc ... about this night with dread.

4) The moment the current collector contacts the wire, Marty ... back to the future.

will be teleporting

will have been teleported

5) The next time Marty sees Doc, he ... about his death.

will be warning him

will have warned him

6) For the next 4 minutes, Marty ... problems with DeLorean's engine.

7) According to the plan, by the time the alarm-clock goes off, DeLorian ... .

8) By the time DeLorian accelerates to 88 mph, Marty ... back to the future, but by the time it accelerates to 89 mph he ... .

will be going (x2)

will have gone (x2)

will be going, will have arrived

will have gone, will be arriving

9) In 30 year's time people of Hill Valley ... to fix this clock tower.

will still be trying

will still have tried

10) The next time Doc sees Marty, he ... 30 years older.

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Back to the Furure: Future Perfect vs Future Continuous - English ESL video lesson

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ESL video lesson with an interactive quiz: Grammar practice . Practice the use of Future Perfect and Future Continuous. Remember that Future Perfect indicates action completed before a specific time in the future, while Future Continuous stands for action in progress at a specific time in the future.

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The Future is Perfect with James Bond - English ESL video lesson

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Look at these examples to see how the passive voice is used.

A lot of olive oil is produced in Italy.
This book was written by Angela Davis.
The suspect will be released tomorrow.
This product has not been tested on animals.

Try this exercise to test your grammar.

Read the explanation to learn more.

Grammar explanation

We use the passive voice to change the focus of the sentence.

My bike was stolen. (passive - focus on my bike)
Someone stole my bike. (active - focus on someone)

We often use the passive:

when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say)

so that we can start a sentence with the most important or most logical information

in more formal or scientific writing.

How we make the passive

We make the passive using the verb be + past participle. We start the sentence with the object.

It is not always necessary to add who or what did the action.

Only the form of be changes to make the tense. The past participle stays the same. Here are examples of the passive in its most common tenses.

Do this exercise to test your grammar again.

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El número de espacios a rellenar depende del modo de juego o ejercicio seleccionado.

El vídeo se detendrá hasta que rellenes todas las palabras de la línea.

Si el vídeo se detiene tu vida descenderá, cuando tu vida se agota el juego termina.

Para volver a escuchar una línea presiona el botón o la tecla de "retroceso". También puedes pulsar sobre la letra y arrastrar hacia la izquierda.

Para saltar una palabra pulsa el botón o la tecla "tabulador". También puedes pulsar sobre la letra y arrastrar hacia la derecha.

Ten en cuenta que ambas cosas son penalizadas con algo de vida.

Al rellenar los huecos se consiguen puntos.

Si cometes errores perderás puntos, vida y bonificación.

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El número de espacios a rellenar depende del modo de juego o ejercicio seleccionado. El vídeo se detendrá hasta que rellenes todas las palabras de la línea. Si el vídeo se detiene tu vida descenderá, cuando tu vida se agota el juego termina. Para volver a escuchar una línea presiona el botón o la tecla de "retroceso".

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Listen to this episode from Tay To Z: A Taylor Swift Podcast on Spotify. In this episode we chat about "Forever Winter" from "RED: Taylor's Version (From the Vault.") We talk about how much we love this song and how it is completely heartbreaking. We also discuss the unfortunate relatability of it.