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English Test for Pre-intermediate (Test 1)

 English Test for Pre-Intermediate  Part 1. Reading (10 points). Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words in the box.   a . defend          b . civil              c . submission         d . screen            e . control         f . involved           g . alternative     h . protection           i . Eventually         j . powerful         k . nation Cambodian Independence After Angkor, Cambodia remained an important and … 1 …state up until the eighteenth century. From the thirteenth century on, however, it had to …2… itself against two nations that gradually grew more and more powerful, Thailand in the west and Vietnam in the east. By the nineteent...

English Test for Pre-Intermediate (Test 2)

 English Test for Pre-Intermediate  Part 1. Reading (10 points) . Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words in the box.   a . first      b . dry     c . energy     d . mixed    e . used    f . warm     g . sun     h . opposite      i . come     j . produced    k . dangerous At one time people did not know how to make fire. We can imagine how the … 1 … person discovered it, probably by accident. People, perhaps children, playing with two … 2 ... sticks, rubbed them together until, suddenly, a spark was … 3 …   Such an achievement must have surprised them. What was it? Where did it … 4 … from? How long did it take to discover what this spark was? It moved. It had … 5 … The spark became a flame and grew. The flame became fire and spread. It was like the … 6 … . They discovered that when something i...

រូបភាពខ្លះៗ​នៃវិទ្យាល័យហ៊ុនសែនចុងកាល់ The Pictures of Chongkal High School, Odar Meanchey, Cambodia.

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 The Pictures of Chongkal High School, Odar Meanchey, Cambodia. 

Handbook for Generating Wealth

by Phil Bartle, PhD He is not poor who hath not much But he who craves much. Thomas Fuller Preface : This is the second of three companion handbooks for the field worker. Most community development workers are concerned with the generation or creation of public or communal wealth (access to human settlements facilities or services such as schools, clinics, roads, market-places, water supplies, sanitation). The first companion handbook (Handbook for Mobilizers) concentrates on that. This one looks more at private (individual or family) wealth, how the reduction of poverty can include small scale or micro enterprise, and how a community mobilizer can contrib-ute to its development. It is the result of six years of mobilization and community management training in the CMP (Community Manage-ment Programme) of Uganda, executed by UNCHS (Habitat) and implemented by the Directorate of Community Development of the Government of Uganda. Many lessons were learned over the years, some by success,...