English Speaking Test: Sea Turtle & 911 Call

 Sea Turtles 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rmv3nliwCs

Sea turtles are ancient mariners. Present in all but Earth’s coldest oceans, these marine reptiles are well-adapted to a life on the move.

Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. The earliest known marine turtle lived about one hundred and twenty million years ago, named Desmatochelys padillai. It was six feet long and had the characteristic features of modern sea turtles including a carapace, or a top shell, and paddle-like limbs. Today, there are seven species of sea turtles with the largest being the leatherback. Growing as long as eight feet and weighing up to two thousand pounds, it is larger than known fossils of its prehistoric ancestor, the padillai.

Sea turtles can lay more than one hundred and fifty eggs at a time. Called the clutch, these large egg deposits help ensure the survival of sea turtle hatchlings. Once a female lays her eggs, she returns to the sea, leaving her hatchlings to fend for themselves. Fewer than point one percent of hatchlings survive to adulthood in part due to numerous predators on the beach. Emerging in large numbers increases the chance that some will survive.

Sea Turtle

A sea turtle’s sex is determined by temperature. Unlike most vertebrates, a sea turtle’s sex is not determined by sex chromosomes. Instead, the temperature of the nest determines the sex of the hatchlings. When temperatures are warm, at about eighty eight degrees Fahrenheit, most of the hatchlings will be female, but when temperatures are cooler, less than around eighty two degrees Fahrenheit, most of the hatchlings will be male.

Sea turtles use Earth’s magnetic fields to navigate. Sea turtles have geomagnetic abilities which serve as an internal GPS. The turtles have particles of magnetite, a magnetic mineral, in their brains. The magnetite likely plays a role in orienting sea turtles to Earth’s magnetic poles, similar to a compass. Baby sea turtles imprint on the unique magnetic signature of the beaches where they hatch. This magnetic map can guide them back to the same beaches several years later to lay their own eggs.

All seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction. Once abundant, sea turtle populations have dramatically declined in the past two centuries. Fishing is a major threat to sea turtles as they become caught in fishing nets as bycatch, or accidental catch. Illegal harvesting of turtle eggs, trafficking in turtle products, and ocean pollution are also concerns. However, policies have been enacted to reduce bycatch, protect turtle habitats, and prohibit the killing of sea turtles and their eggs. By continuing this kind of intervention, humans can help stop the decline of sea turtles, helping keep this ancient mariners in the world’s oceans.

Woman Disguises 911 Call by Ordering Pizza - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL_8kNFmTI

Hello and welcome to the Twenty Two News. My name is A from Class and I will accompany you for the next three minutes. Our story today is about a wrong call at first glance that quickly turned out to be a call for help. Luckily for an Ohio woman, her 911 dispatcher was listening very carefully.

A 911 call was made in Oregon, and when the dispatcher answered, he was pretty confused. The caller was a woman, who asked for a pizza. The dispatcher was puzzled. He stated that the number the woman was calling was the wrong number, but then the woman’s tone of voice changed. The dispatcher soon understood that there is something wrong going on.

In his fourteen years of service, this is a call Oregon dispatcher Tim Teneyck has never gotten before. Although people saw it on Facebook, nobody has ever been trained to face this situation. The 911 dispatchers were just trained to listen. He also said domestic violence calls are common but not like this.

Teneyck questioned the woman if the culprit was still there and if any medical is required. She answered using codes related to pizza. The abuser was still in her house, but she didn’t need medical. After this exchange Teneyck alerted officers to hurry. He also reminded the police to turn off the sirens and declared that the case was a domestic violence one.

Teneyck says his intuition that something wasn’t right kicked in, which to him, reaffirms how important listening is in his line of work. He said that other dispatchers that he had talked to would not have picked up on the pizza code the woman used.

Michael Navarre from the Oregon Police Department praised the dispatcher. He also said that some other dispatchers may have hung up. Oregon police chief Michael Navarre expressed that ordering a pizza to indicate domestic violence is something he’s never heard of. Not in his years, not his forty-two years of law enforcement.

But coming up with some kind of code to alert 911 that you’re in trouble is the right thing to do. The chief says if you ever find yourself in a similar situation here’s what you should do: Find a way to convey to the police dispatcher that you are in trouble. He added that the woman who called using pizza codes did that not with her words, but with the tone of her voice.

Thanks to the quick thinking of both the caller and the dispatcher, the alleged abuser, Simon Lopez, was arrested and locked up.

Chief Navarre said Teneyck handled the call beautifully and that it had a happy ending.

The victim’s daughter says when she made the call she was hoping to keep the person hitting her mom from running away before the police got there. And that strategy worked. And they also talked about texting to 911 as well too is a good way, if you can. Alright, this story is also a reminder if you or anyone you know who is a victim of domestic violence, you can contact here locally the alliance against family violence and sexual assault at 322-0931. You can also call the 24 hour crisis hot line three two seven ten ninety one and you can call the national domestic violence hotline at one eight hundred seven nine nine safe. And always, in case of an emergency, call 911.