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In this issue of Kid you’ll come across: • past simple • present perfect • gerunds • superlatives • prepositions

Kid | Slogan

Look at these two ads and answer the questions.

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Identity Card Full Name: James Metcalfe Campbell Bower Place and Date of Birth: London, 22nd November 1988 Profession: actor, musician and model

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1) Describe the ads. What can you see?

2) Do you know the stories of the two characters on the book covers?

3) In your opinion, why can’t we see the faces of the readers?

4) Think of a title or a slogan to describe the two ads.

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Famous Faces | Jamie Campbell Bower What’s on in the UK? | May/June Report | The volleyball World Cup Poster | Adele An Anniversary to remember | George Orwell’s Big Brother Kid News | International Museum Day Film of the month | How To Train Your Dragon 2 Fun and Games!

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Hi boys and girls, Summer’s here and this is the last issue of Kid for this year!

As usual, this issue is fun-packed and there’s something for everybody! If you’re a sports fan you can read about the volleyball World Cup. If you like visiting museums then you can find out about International Museum Day. We also have something about the cinema and literature and don’t forget to test yourself on our Fun and Games page.

So what are you waiting for? Start reading now! And of course, have a great summer!

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Kid | Famous Faces

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Campbell Bower

The National Youth Theatre was founded in 1956 by the actor and director Michael Croft, with the aim of discovering and preparing young talent between 14 and 21 years old.

His mum, Anne Elizabeth, is a record manager, while his dad, David Bower, works for the Gibson* Guitar Corporation.

Last year we saw him in Shadowhunters, the first film based on the series of fantasy novels written by the American writer Cassandra Clare. Yet this fascinating British actor already has a long and brilliant film career behind him.

The names of the character played by Jamie? Match them to the right films.

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Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

From music to acting

working together with Johnny Depp. In 2008 he merged* music and cinema together playing the part of a musician in RocknRolla

by Guy Ritchie.

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The Twilight Saga

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Shadowhunters –City of Bones

Magicians, vampires and knights

a Caius, one of the Volturi b Jace Wayland, angel warrior c Anthony Hope, a young sailor d Gellert Grindelwald, Albus Dumbledore’s best friend

At eight years old Jamie began to have singing lessons but as time went on, in addition to his passion for music, his interest in acting grew. His first experience on stage came about* thanks to a part* in Alice in Wonderland. He also took part in some performances by the National Youth Theatre in London.

Jamie was also one of the Volturi in Twilight, and he appeared in the second and fourth episode With Tim Burton and of the saga (New Moon and Breaking Dawn). He also took Johnny Depp part in another big screen* and In 2007 his colleague and friend literary phenomenon - Harry Laura Michelle Kelly advised him Potter, in the final chapter to participate in the auditions* for the film version of the musical Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In 2011 he was the Sweeney Todd, directed by the main character in the TV series master of gothic* Tim Burton.

Camelot, where he played the Jamie was chosen and at only 19 part of King Arthur. years old he had the honour of

The answers are on page 15

Glossary auditions: a short performance where you sing, dance etc to be chosen for a role in a film,play big screen: cinema came about: happened Gibson: important company that makes guitars gothic: a film genre that uses a dark, mysterious setting merged: joined together part: (here) role in a film

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Kid | What’s on in the UK?

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May/June

Welcome back to our regular feature where we take a look at what things you can do in the UK at specific times of the year.

So read on to find out more!

Glastonbury Festival

strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. There are five main events during the tournament.

Gentlemen’s Singles, Ladies’ Singles, Gentlemen’s Doubles, Ladies’ Doubles and Mixed Doubles.

The 2010 Wimbledon tennis tournament broke a world record. The match between American John Isner and French Nicolas Mahut lasted 11 hours 5 minutes over 3 days. It’s the longest match in tennis history. Isner finally won after 183 games!

Summer is on its way and this means lots of outdoor festivals in the sun! One of the biggest outdoor festivals is Glastonbury that takes place in Somerset, in the south of England. It happens the last weekend of June and it’s a celebration of contemporary music but also dance, comedy, theatre, circus and other arts. It first started in 1970 as a hippy festival. Nowadays, famous singers and bands perform on the many different stages of the festival watched by more than 175,000 spectators. In 2013, the Arctic Monkeys, the Rolling Stones and Dizzee Rascal sang at the festival while this year Lily Allen is going to appear. Many of the people working at the festival are volunteers and a lot of money made from the festival is given to charity.

The Chelsea Flower Show If you like looking at pretty flowers then this is the place for you! It’s the most important flower show in the UK and people come to see it from all over the world. It takes place every year in May for five days in Chelsea, an area of London.

It first started in 1826 and nowadays has around 150,000 visitors. The royal family visit the show each year and it’s also broadcast* on TV by the BBC. There are prizes for the best flowers and plants and participants try to impress the judges by creating something unusual. In 2009, there was a garden made only of plasticine* and in 2011, there was a garden that was suspended in the air. Do you have any ideas for an unusual garden?

Summer Solstice The summer solstice celebrates the longest day of the year when the sun is at its maximum elevation*. There are many different celebrations that take place but one of the most well-known is at Stonehenge in the south of England. Here 20,000 people come together to watch the sunrise* on the official first day of summer (June 21st). The solstice is a pagan* festival that goes back 5,000 years and the spectators perform music and chants* as the sun goes up.

The famous monument of Stonehenge is a very suggestive* place to hold the event as it’s surrounded in mystery. No one really knows how the stones got there and there are many theories about its origins – some people believe the stones were brought by aliens or the wizard Merlin, while others believe it was the site of an ancient burial* ground. What do you think?

Fowey Festival of Words and Music This festival takes place in May every year in Cornwall in the south of England. It’s a celebration of the life and works of the writer Daphne du Maurier. She was born and lived in the area until her death in 1989. Some of her famous works are Jamaica Inn, Frenchman’s Creek and Rebecca and they were all inspired by her love of Cornwall. The festival includes literature, music, exhibitions, workshops and concerts. There’s something for everyone! And why not get a copy of one of her books so you can experience the delights of this lovely place too!

Wimbledon Summer also means lots of important sporting events in the UK. One of the most important is Wimbledon. It’s the oldest tennis tournament in the world and has existed since 1877. It takes place every year at the end of June in London. It’s a part of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments (the US Open, the Australian Open and the French Open). It’s the only major tennis tournament still played on grass. There are strict* rules that competitors and spectators have to respect. For example, the players must wear only white. It’s also traditional to eat

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Do you know…..?

The month of May also sees the final of the football association’s cup (the FA cup) in the UK. It takes place at Wembley Stadium in London. But do you know which football team has won the FA cup the most times?

Unscramble the anagrams to find out!

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broadcast: shown on TV burial: when people are put underground when they die chants: keep singing a word or phrase many times without music elevation: in a high place pagan: relating to an ancient religion that had many gods and worshipped nature plasticine: a soft substance used by children to make models strict: severe suggestive: makes you think of or remember a particular thing sunrise: when the sun goes up

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The 18th male volleyball world championships will take place in Poland from September 3rd to 21st. The competition is organised by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and 24 teams will take place.

Did you know?

The volleyball

World Cup The 24 teams that will compete against each other in the final phase of the championship are divided in the following way: 3 from Africa, 4 from Asia-Oceania, 5 from North America, 3 from South America and 8 from Europe (9 with Poland which is the organising country and therefore qualified automatically).

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The history of the World Championships The first male volleyball world championships took place in 1949 in Czechoslovakia, but with only European teams -10 in total. In 1956, in France, the competition took place with 24 teams from all over the world. In 1960 the first world championship outside Europe was organised – it took place in Brazil.

Winning teams The team that has won the most victories in this tournament is the former Soviet Union, that since 1949 has been victorious* six times. The

2014: a year of volleyball

2014 is an important year for this sport. The 17th female volleyball world championships will take place immediately after the male tournament from 23rd September to 12th October in Italy.

The matches will be held in six different cities Rome will inaugurate* the tournament, followed

by Bari, Modena, Verona, Trieste and Milan.

nineties were dominated by Italy, that won three times consecutively (1990, 1994 and 1998), while in the new millennium it’s the Brazilian national team that has won three times in a row* (2002, 2006 and 2010).

Officially, volleyball was born in 1895.

This sport was “invented” by William Morgan, a P.E* teacher at a college in Massachusetts, USA. He thought up* the idea as an alternative to the usual physical exercise that was common in that period and as a sport to be practised indoors during the winter months. It combined elements from other sports such as handball, tennis and basketball. Morgan chose the name “mintonette”, as it resembled badminton*.

Glossary accumulate: collect, put together badminton: a game in which two or four players use a racket to hit a small light object with feathers across a net inaugurate: open an event in a row: one after the other, consecutively opponents: the team you’re playing against P.E: physical education thought up: produced, invented an idea variant: something that is related to another thing but isn’t exactly the same victorious: won

Guess the missing words!

- A volleyball …………………………… is made up of 6 people. The …………………………… (18 metres long and 9 metres wide) is in the shape of a …………………………… and it’s divided by a …………………………….

- The aim of the game is to drop the …………………………… in your opponents’* area, making sure it goes …………………………… the net, or by making the ……………………………in the other team make a mistake: in this way, you accumulate* …………………………….

- Volleyball was first admitted to the programme of the Olympic …………………………… in 1964 at the Tokyo Olympics.

- Beach volley is a variant* of volleyball and is played on …………………………….

The answers are on page 15

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Kid | Poster

Adele This month we celebrate Adele’s birthday. She was born May 5th 1988 so that makes her 26 this month. Happy Birthday Adele!

If you haven’t heard of her before (and that’s probably quite impossible), Adele is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

She’s from London and is a superstar!

In 2006 she was discovered by chance when a friend of hers put a video online on MySpace.

A record producer saw it and offered her a recording contract. She made her first album in 2008 called 19 (as she was 19 years old at the time) and it became a very successful album. Following her first album, she received many nominations and at the Grammy Awards in 2009 she won ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’.

In 2011 she made her second album, 21, which was even more successful than the first one and consequently in 2012 she won six Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards and 3 American Music Awards. She also appeared in the ‘Guinness Book of Records’ for having sold more than 3 million copies of her album in one year in the UK.

Do you know…..?

On 19th October 2012 Adele had a baby boy. What’s his name?

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Marco Francesco Angelo

The answers are on page 15

In 2011 and 2012, she was named Artist of the Year and Time magazine named her as one of the most influential people in the world. In 2013, she received an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Original Song’ for her song Skyfall that she wrote for the James Bond film of the same name.

Well done Adele!

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Kid | An anniversary to remember

65 years ago, Orwell published one of his best-known novels: 1984. It’s a literary masterpiece that has influenced all areas of culture from music to the cinema… and even a very well-known TV programme.

expressions of quantity/ modal verbs/nouns

George Orwell’s

Cinema

The Hunger Games saga has a lot in common with 1984 - both stories are set in a future society governed by an absolute regime, where the characters have to fight for their freedom.

Big Brother

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The book was published in 1949 but Orwell had already completed it a year earlier. The title is actually the inversion of the last two numbers of the year in which he finished his work.

For us today, 1984 belongs to the past but at the time represented a not too distant future, and Orwell deliberately chose it to transmit his prophetic* message.

The story depicts* a future society where there’s no freedom - people’s actions and thoughts must be constantly controlled by Big Brother, who has the appearance of a man about forty-five years old, with a big black moustache. No one has ever seen him in person, but his picture is printed* on many posters that are put up around the city, and his eyes watch everyone and everything.

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The significance of the title

A terrible world

Find the synonyms of the following words in the text:

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Big Brother today The reality show The Big Brother takes its name and inspiration from Orwell’s novel. The contestants* are followed by videocameras 24 hours a day and consequently, the public can watch what goes on in the “house” at any time.

This TV format* has had great success and has been exported to more that 40 countries worldwide.

The main character is called Winston Smith.

His job is to “correct” and modify already published books and newspapers, to make them more coherent* with Big Brother’s rules.

He falls in love with Julia, but their love will be hindered* as it’s against the law.

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The answers are on page 15

Music Many songs contain references to this book. David Bowie, the Eurythmics, Radiohead, Muse all these successful artists have paid tribute* in their own way to George Orwell’s world.

Glossary coherent: reasonable and sensible contestants: people who participate in a competition or race depicts: shows format: the form that a TV programme is produced in hindered: stopped something from making progress paid tribute: praised someone publicly printed: put a photograph of someone or something on paper prophetic: describing something that will happen in the future

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Kid | News

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International Museum Day May 18th is International Museum Day. It’s organised around the world and has existed since 1977. In 2013, 35,000 museums from 143 countries on 5 different continents participated. It’s an occasion to increase people’s awareness* of how important museums are in our society and how they enrich* our culture and heritage.

National History Museum Have you ever spent a night inside a museum? Or slept near a big dinosaur?

No, well, here’s your chance! Your dream can come true at the National History Museum in London. Once a month a sleepover is organised within the dinosaur section of the museum.

The event starts early evening with

London is home to over 240 museums and there are museums to suit every one’s tastes. You can spend days wandering around the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum…….and still not manage to see everything.

But let’s take a look at some of the more unusual museums that London has to offer.

collection of more than 1,700 original cartoons and prints and also has a library with more than 5,000 books and 4,000 comics about the subject. Every year it holds the ‘Young Cartoonist of the Year’ awards and it also gives a Lifetime Achievement Award to an artist who has made an important contribution to British cartoons.

Can you …….?

Match the places in London where you can see the following things! a

an Egyptian mummy

b an exhibition of Turner’s painting

Elementary, my dear Watson Everyone’s heard of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, written by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Well, according to the stories Sherlock lived at 221b Baker Street in London between 1881 and 1904 and this is where you can find the Sherlock Holmes Museum. You can visit Sherlock’s study where all his personal belongings* are laid out in their usual place such as his deerstalker hat, his pipe, his magnifying glass and his chemistry equipment. You can even

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Believe it or not!

sit in his armchair by the fire and try to solve the crime!

Crime Museum And if visiting the Sherlock Holme’s Museum hasn’t satisfied your passion for solving crimes, there’s the Crime Museum. It’s situated at New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Police Force. It’s existed since 1874 and it was created to help the police in their study of crime

and criminals. It’s divided into two sections. The first is a reconstruction of the original museum while the second contains many exhibits* from 20th century crimes.

In Piccadilly Circus in the centre of London you come across* a rather unusual museum. It’s called ‘Ripley’s Believe it or Not’ and it contains more than 700 bizarre* exhibits.

These were all collected by Robert Ripley, who was a reporter and a cartoonist, on his travels around the world during the 1920s and 1930s.

Exhibitions include a two-headed calf*, the skeleton of a giant dinosaur and Marilyn Monroe’s cardigan.

various activities connected to the world of dinosaurs and then at midnight everyone to bed! But don’t be afraid, if you hear some strange noises during the night……. it could just be the person next to you snoring*!

Cartoons In 2006, London’s first cartoon museum opened. It’s located near the British Museum and contains many examples of cartoons and comic art from the 18th century to the present. It holds a

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an exhibition of ‘One million years of the human story’

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President Obama and Elvis Presley

1 Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum 2 The National History Museum 3 The British Museum 4 Tate Britain The answers are on page 15

Glossay awareness: the ability to notice things belongings: possessions bizarre: strange, unusual calf: a baby cow come across: find, meet enrich: make something or somebody richer exhibits: displays snoring: the noise people make when they are sleeping

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Kid | Film of the month

review of structures met during the year

Kid | Fun and Games!

True or False

Have you read the report on page 6?

Put yourself to the test with this True or False exercise!

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1 In the first male volleyball championships teams from all over the world participated.

2 The first world championship that took place outside Europe was in 1960.

3 The Brazilian national team won the last championship.

Did you know that….?

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Is it possible to tame* a dragon? It seems so, and it can also become your best friend! The story of Hiccup and his toothless* dragon set in the mythical world of the Vikings* - continues in this sequel that’s soon to be released at the cinema.

Where we left off* Hiccup is a shy 14-year old boy who has to prove his bravery by capturing a dragon, as established in ancient Viking traditions. But when he comes across an imprisoned* and injured dragon he decides to help it to fly once again. With the passing of time, a strong friendship grows between them that goes against all the rules of the Viking community in which Hiccup lives. However, the young protagonist is able to show that the idea of seeing dragons as monsters or enemies is wrong and instead they can be allies* that are useful to the community.

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- The film is based on the book with the same name written in 2003 by the English writer Cressida Cowell.

- We’ll get to know a new character in the film, Valka the protector of dragons, with the voice of the Australian actress Cate Blanchett.

- Dreamworks Animation created Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda amongst others.

4 The ex Soviet Union has won the most championships.

5 The next female championship will take place in Poland.

6 Volleyball was officially born in 1985.

7 This sport first appeared at the Olympics in 1964.

9 Volleyball has nothing in common with sports like handball, tennis or basketball.

Let’s get to know Jamie Campbell Bower better?

What we’ll see The film takes us to the fantastic world of Hiccup and Toothless, five years after the events narrated in the first episode.

The two friends, now inseparable, experience exciting adventures in the pursuit* of new territories: it’s in this way that they discover a secret cave of ice in which hundreds of wild dragons live together with the mysterious Dragon Knight. They find themselves at the centre of a battle to protect the peace and change the future of men and dragons.

Complete the sentences!

Glossary

English | model | collection | cinema | songs | thriller | singer | London

allies: trusted friends goodness: the quality of being good imprisoned: in prison left off: (here) where we left them in the last film pursuit: (here) try to find tame: make a wild animal into a domestic animal toothless: without any teeth Viking: population of Scandinavian warriors

- Before entering the world of ……………………, he worked as a …………………… for Select Model Management, a famous agency in ………………. .

- Jamie is a …………………… and guitarist in the band The Darling Buds.

- He played two …………………… on the soundtrack of the film Sweeney Todd: No place like London and Johanna.

- In 2010 he starred with Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell in the ……………………

London Boulevard.

Dragons: good or bad?

- He’s one of the faces for the advertising campaign for the popular ……………………

Dragons are legendary creatures rich in symbolic meaning in different parts of the world. oriental cultures

western cultures

Traditionally, in ………………………………. they’re seen as evil creatures that cause death and destruction, while in ………………………………. they’re considered to bring good luck and goodness*.

The answers are on page 15

brand Burberry for their spring/summer 2014…………………..

Answers Page 2: Slogan: 1) 2) 3) 4) Free answer.

Page 3: Match: 1.c, 2.a, 3.d, 4.b.

Pages 4-5: Solve the anagram: Manchester United.

Pages 6-7: Guess the missing words: teams; court; rectangular; net; ball; over; players; points; Games; sand.

The answers are at the bottom of the page

Pages 8-9: Adele’s son: c Angelo.

Pages 10-11: Find the synonyms: deliberately; modify; inspiration; contestants; significance; depicts.

Pages 12-13: Match the places: a 3; b 4; c 2; d 1.

Page 14: Dragons: good or bad?: western cultures, oriental

cultures. Page 15: True or False? 1 False; 2 True; 3 True; 4 True; 5 False; 6 False; 7 True; 8 False. Jamie Campbell Bower: cinema; model; London; singer; songs; thriller; English; collection.

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