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What an impressive picture?

Who are those people?
What are they doing?
Where do you think this picture was taken?

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Could you be a sumo wrestler?

 Could You Be a Sumo Wrestler? Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. Think about part of speech before you complete the blanks.

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 1. Sumo wrestlers represent the ________________________Japanese male.
 2. Sumo wrestlers sleep, eat, and ________________________together.
 3. Before wrestlers can enter, the ring must be ________________________during a traditional Shinto ceremony
. 4. Wrestlers can’t ________________________hair during a match.
 5. Only the highest ________________________wrestlers are allowed to wear white.
 6. After beating an opponent in practice, the winner sometimes ________________________his opponent around by his hair.
 7. A good wrestler tries to strengthen his ________________________through practice.
 8. The body of a sumo wrestler should not only be big and strong, but also ________________________.
 9. Wrestlers consume about 10,000 ________________________a day—more than three times that of the average male.
 10. Big meals are followed by ________________________naps, to make sure sumo wrestlers keep their weight on.

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Inside SUMO

 Complete the blanks with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
 1. This sport dates back more than ________________________.
 2. Participants wear ________________________ garb.
 3. Wrestlers toss ________________________onto the ring before they enter to appease Shinto spirits
. 4. Chankonabe is a stew made from fatty meats, ________________________, ________________________, and ________________________.
 5. To win a sumo match, wrestlers must knock their opponent ________________________or out of the ring
. 6. A sumo match usually lasts less than ________________________.
 7. Sumo wrestlers belong to ________________________, which function like clubs and are where they learn sumo from experienced wrestlers.
 8. The grand champions of sumo, the Yokuzuna, wear ________________________ around their waists
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Readers 1st Batxillerat B. Stage 5.

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Brat Farrar. Stage 5

'You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place and no one will ever know the difference. You'll be rich for life!'

And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the idea; it was criminal, it was dangerous. But in the end he was persuaded, and a few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune. The Ashby family seemed happy to welcome Patrick home, but Brat soon realized that somewhere there was a time-bomb ticking away, waiting to explode . . .

Treading On Dreams. Stories from Ireland. Stage 5

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'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air.'

Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories.

The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish writers Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, Lorcan Byrne, Frank O'Connor, Claire Keegan, Eamonn Sweeney, and Somerville & Ross.

The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks?

But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring's holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there is a death by drowning, and then another . . .