Room 1 – Manutuke School
NEWSPRINT – Term 1 – Week 10
Honeymoon a Disastrous Affair
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Swedish couple have arrived back in their homeland after a four month round-theworld honeymoon, which coincidentally took them to the precise locations of some
of the biggest disasters of recent times.
They started their trip in Munich, and arrived
just in time to witness a snow blizzard that locals called the “storm of the century”. Hoping for
better weather, they headed to Bali, but were met by a monsoon.
Things did not improve on their Australian leg, which started with the bushfires in Perth,
follow-ed by the flooding in Brisbane, and finished with a cyclone in Cairns.
As luck would have it, their next stop was Christ-church, New Zealand, the scene [sēn] of the
recent devastating earthquake. .
By this time you can probably guess the next stop on their itinerary….. Tokyo, where they
exper-ienced yet another massive tragedy.
The couple have remained upbeat about what must have been one of the most unusual set of
coincidences ever experi-enced by a pair of trav-ellers. "At least we are fortunate when it
comes to love," said the bride.
Article 1 RESEARCH LINK:
http://tinyurl.com/NEWSPRINT554
Inspirational Story from Africa
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ike many African nations, Ethiopia struggles to overcome a poverty that is due in
part to poor cultivation practices, but one man has shown that change is possible,
and his actions have become an inspi-ration to many.
Gashaw Tahir was born in Ethiopia but grew up in the US. On a return visit to his place of
birth, he was shocked to see how deforestation had destroy-ed the place he remem-bered from
his childhood, and how that in turn had affected the entire local ecosystem.
Determined to make a change, he asked the local council for a small plot of land and some
money to plant trees. They gave him a little less than a hectare and enough [ē-nuf] money to hire
a handful of unem-ployed young men to help him. The scheme [skēm] proved so successful [sukses-fůl] though [Ћō] that he was soon given a further 4450 hectares, and enough [ē-nuf] money to hire
1000 work-ers.
Alongside the replant-ing programme, Gashaw also set up an agricultural research Centre to
teach modern planting and har-vesting techniques [tek-nēks]. He has become a national hero,
and his work has inspired similar projects in other parts of Africa.
Check out his story at the link below.
Article 2 RESEARCH LINK:
http://tinyurl.com/NEWSPRINT555
Students Fold Under Pressure
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tudents at a school in Massachusetts cleaned up the old world record last week when
they successfully folded a 39.5 km length of toilet paper in half, 13 times.
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event took place in a 250m long hallway, and while it sounds like a rather odd thing to do, the
feat does require a particular set of skills. In order to complete the task without any breaks or
tears in the paper, the 15 students involved had to work well together as a team, and be patient
and painstaking as they laid each new fold precisely onon top of the preceding one.
The task took four hours to complete, and broke the old record of 12 folds set in 2002. The
school intends to try again next year a roll that is 7.3km long.
Just for the record, by the time the last fold was completed, we calculated that the mass of
paper would have been thou-sands of sheets thick!
Video of the feat can be found at the research link.
Article 3 RESEARCH LINK: http://tinyurl.com/NEWSPRINT556
Dog and Cat Radio for Pets…
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eaders concerned about just what their pets are listening to will be pleased to learn
that there is at least one radio station available that plays the “right” kind of music.
A Los Angeles cat owner saw that whenever “Snickers” was restless or nervous, music
seemed to settle her down. This led him to set up DogCat Radio, which aims to keep pets
company while their “parents” are out at work.
In between the music, (which no doubt
[dowt] includes old favour-ites such as “What’s New
Pussycat?” and “You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog”), come plenty of barks and miaows [mēyowz], as well as advice for pet owners.
While the station says it makes no money, it is clearly popular enough to be able to earn the
advertising dollars it needs to keep functioning, as it is now in its 6th year of operation.
Perhaps this is not so surprising: with Americans prepared to spend over $US40 billion each
year on their pets, marketers are very keen to exploit any opportunity to pro-mote their
products to them.
Article 4 RESEARCH LINK:
www.DogCatRadio.com
…And Even an Airline Too
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n the subject of Americans and their animals, another service that is proving
popular is an airline that carries pets only. .
PetAirways is the brainchild of a
husband-and-wife team, and has planes that have been specially modified to carry animals
between nine major U.S. centres [sen-tirz].
While prices are much the same as those charged
by the largest U.S. airlines, the service is very different. Prior to takeoff, each animal is given
a pre-boarding walk and a bathroom break. The planes each carry about 50 animals in the
main cabin, not in the hold, and attendants check on them every 15 minutes during a flight.
Routes [roots] have been carefully designed [dē-zīnd] too, so that animals on long trips will
be able to stop over and have a bathroom break, playtime, dinner, and bunk down for the
night before finishing their trip the next day.
If only the airlines treated their passengers the same way…
Article 5 RESEARCH LINK:
http://petairways.com/
Random Website
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definite finalist for the wackiest site of the year award can be found at the link
below.
The site simply displays a random vowel, and then it refreshes itself every 30 seconds.
We have no idea why the site exists…maybe it’s just an example of …. leteral
thinking?
Article 6 RESEARCH LINK: http://www.randomvowel.com/
Ten Questions
(1) Show on a map the route taken by the Swedish couple on their honeymoon.
(2) Write out the first paragraph of Article 1. Put a single line through all the nouns and pronouns, highlight all the
verbs, and underline all the articles and adjectives.
(3) According to the information given in Article 2, are there any other factors contributing to the poverty that exists in
many African nations?
(4) According to the information given in Article 2, what had changed in Gashaw Tahir’s home area during the time
he had been away?
(6) How many times would the students mentioned in Article 3 have had to roll the 39.5 km of toilet paper up and
down the hall to get it all laid out?
(5) Writing Challenge: (Based on Article 2) ‘How in My Life I
would Like to be an Influence for Good’ (Max. 350 words)
(6) (Based on Article 4) Research the development of one product or service that is of benefit to animals in your
community. Present your findings as an interesting and informative information brochure.
(7) According to the information given in Article 4, in what year did DogCat Radio start up?
(8) Show on a timeline how a pet travelling with PetAirways would be cared for.
(9) Based on just the information given in Article 5, can you tell if U.S. pet owners have other services that allow them
to pamper their pets? How do you know that from the text?
(10) Design any two of the following for Pet Airways: a logo, a slogan, a jingle, a business card.
Extra for Experts
(1) Write out the first paragraph of Article 1. Put a single line through all the nouns and pronouns, highlight all the
verbs, and underline all the articles and adjectives. Put parentheses around prepositions, brackets around conjunctions,
and double lines through any adverbs.
(2) (Based on Article 2) Research one story that you find truly inspirational. Retell it in your own words to a live
audience, using some form of electronic media to support your presentation.
(3) Writing Challenge (Based on Article 1) ‘The Day Tragedy
Struck…’ (this may be treated as either a fiction or non-fiction
topic) (350-500 words)
(4) The initial layout of 39.5 km in a 250m hall = 39.5 ÷ 0.25 = 158 layers. If that initial layout was then folded 13
times, how many sheets thick would have been in the final fold?
(5) This week’s articles include a deliberate misspelling to create a pun. Identify which word it is, and in writing,
explain the pun..
Crossword:
The first number beside each clue refers to the news item in which the answer is to be found. The number in brackets
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Large Crossword:
The first number beside each clue refers to the news item in which the answer is to be found. The number in
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What is the name given to the study of the flight of projectiles?
On a weather map, what does an isobar connect?
Which countries make up Great Britain?
If a month begins on a Sunday, what will it always have?
By multiplying a number by nine, dividing it by five, and then adding 32, what conversion have you
performed?
6. What is the minimum number of faces which a pyramid can have?
7. Who invented both the scissors and the parachute?
8. How would you write the year 1999 in Roman numerals?
9. According to physicists, what is the fastest moving thing in the universe?
10. Which is the world's largest city (per head of population)?
11. What is Thomas Crapper invent?
12. How many years are celebrated in a sesquicentennial?
13. Who wrote the Unfinished Symphony?
14. Complete the proverb. “All roads lead to _________ .”
15. In which year did the great Wall Street Crash occur?
Featured Country: Guatemala
Locate the following features on the map:
- Capital
- Bordering countries
Area:
- Gulf of Honduras
- North Pacific Ocean
Population:
Capital:
Language:
Type of Government:
President:
Currency:
National Flag:
- Highest Point
Secret Codes
Type of Code: Second Letter
Instructions: Select every second letter and put them together to read the message.
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Type of Code: Polybius Square
Instructions: Each letter has been replaced with the numbers of the row and column
in which it appears in the Square.
e.g. K has been replaced with 25.
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