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A Piece of Cake 6 textbook / web
Amazing Adventures
What’s the Difference? Money Makes the World Go Round! What’s the Hype about Hackney? Are You Online? Being New
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A Piece of Cake 6 T e x T b o o k / w e b
Contents
1 Amazing Adventures 6 Exploring Australia 6 Peary of the North Pole 8 Scott of the South Pole 10 ocean Adventurer 12 The Final Frontier – Adventures in Space 14 Microadventures 16 our own Microadventure 18
2 What’s the Difference? 20 Twins and Twins Days 20 Two True Twin Tales 22 Copycat! 24 Copycat Quiz 26 Kids Who Are Different 28 The Rebel 29 The Copycat Plan 30 Avoiding Imogen 32
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3 Money Makes the World Go Round! 34 I wanna be a billionaire 34 Billionaire Boy 36 Money, Money, Money 38 My Money 42 The More Money Campaign 44 Charity – What Does Charity Mean? 46 What Can You Do for Charity? 48 Billionaire Boy 50 Dan’s Dilemma 52
4 What’s the Hype about Hackney? 54 Hello Hackney! 54 The London olympics – Fly the Flag! 56 Hackney Schools – Downs and out! 58 Hackney Schools – Going up! 60 School’s out! 62 Fireworks and Feasts – Festivals in Hackney 64 Guy Fawkes Night and Diwali 66 Festival Food 68 Westfield Shopping Centre Competition 70 Hackney Rap 70
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5 Are You online? 72 Home Alone with No Phone 73 online Language 74 Flaming!!! 75 The Power of Blogging 76 online Learning 78 Alice Springs School of the Air 80 Cyberbullying – Not Cool 82 What Is Cyberbullying? 83 Are You a Cyberbully? 84 Take Action! Stand up Against Bullying! 86 Fanfiction 88 Cilla and Joe Write Fanfiction 90
6 Being new 92 New Boy 92 First Day 94 Getting Dressed for the Big School 96
Word list – Text by text 98 Word list A – Z 110 Irregular verbs 120
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I’m investigating on the Investigator. Almost done.
How much further?
Just going walkabout.
Exploring Australia Australia is sometimes called “The world’s smallest continent, but the largest island”. There is a lot to discover and explore. Here you will meet some of the people who have explored Australia.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
50,000 years ago people from Polynesia settled in Australia.
She’s mad!
1770 Captain Cook “discovered” Australia.
1801 Lieutenant Flinders mapped the whole Australian coast.
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Made it at last!
Great place, let’s stay for a few thousand years. Just going walkabout.
Try, try, try again.
Why did I join this expedition?
Oh, no, British immigrants!
1861-62 McDouall Stuart made the first successful south-north crossing.
Silly hat!
I have discovered Australia.
1977 Robyn Davidson crossed Australia from east to west.
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Peary of the North Pole You need to be more than fit, tough and determined to survive at either the North or the South Pole. Everything at the Poles – especially the biting wind, the bitter cold and the brutal ice – is so extreme that only the bravest men and women have made trips to the Arctic and Antarctic. The first exploration of the Poles created true heroes. You are about to meet two of them and you will read their fascinating and frightening descriptions of their experiences. “Mine at last”– Peary was the first man to reach the North Pole Robert Peary was an American naval officer. He was determined to become the first man to reach the North Pole. He knew that he had to have an extremely strong ship to sail through the polar ice and so he designed his own ship, Roosevelt. The Roosevelt was narrow and had egg-shaped sides to let it ride up on the ice. Some parts of the hull were 76 centimetres thick (nearly one metre!) so the ice would not crush the ship. Peary and his crew sailed from New York in 1905. Peary did not make it to his goal on his first attempt, or his second, or … It was not until 1909 that Peary finally made it all the way to the North Pole – after eight attempts.
Peary’s diary describes how he felt when he was almost at the North Pole.
day they pained us so that we could hardly go to sleep. ... The air was as keen and bitter as frozen steel. [...]
When we awoke early in the morning of April 3, I
The last march northward ended at ten o’clock
had not dared to hope for such progress as we were
on the forenoon of April 6. [...] We were now
making. The bitter wind burned our faces so that
at the end of the last long march of the upward
they cracked, and long after we got into camp each
journey. Yet with the Pole at last in sight I was too
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robert Peary
weary to take the last few steps. [...] As soon as our
my dream & ambition for 23 years. Mine at last.
igloos had been completed and we had eaten our
I cannot bring myself to realize it. It all seems so
dinner, I turned in for a few hours of absolutely
simple & common place, as Bartlett said ‘just like
necessary sleep. But, weary though I was, I could
every day.’ I wish Jo could be here with me to share
not sleep long. It was, therefore, only a few hours
my feelings. I have drunk her health & that of the
later when I woke.
kids from the Benedictine flask she sent me.
The Pole at last!!! The dream prize of 3 centuries,
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Robert Scott
Scott of the South Pole Scott is famous for not being first to reach the South Pole. All of his team died in the Antarctic, but we know what happened to them from Scott’s diary. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had wanted to be first at the North Pole, but as soon as he heard of Peary’s successful adventure he sailed south with his men, equipment, and huskies. Scott was already on his way, with his men and equipment – and ponies, which proved not to be the best choice. When Scott at last got to the South Pole, he found the Norwegian flag. Amundsen sailed home to a hero’s welcome in Norway. Scott and his men were never seen alive again.
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Scott’s diary was found with the bodies. Here is what he wrote after they had found the Norwegian flag: Wednesday, January 17, 1912. We started at 7.30, none of us having slept much after the shock of our discovery. [...] The wind is blowing hard, T. - 21 degrees, and there is that curious damp, cold feeling in the air which chills one to the bone in no time. [...] Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow. ... Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. I wonder if we can do it. Roald Amundsen
“This is an awful place!” It was found on November 12, 1912 – the tent of Captain Robert Scott and his two companions. It was half buried in the snow. Inside was the body of Captain Scott squeezed tightly between his two companions, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson. They lay in their sleeping bags as if they were asleep. But they had been dead for eight months. They were the last surviving members of a five-man British team returning to their home base from the South Pole.
The very last diary entry reads: Thursday, March 29, 1912 Since the 21st we have had a continuous gale from W.S.W. and S.W. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling snow. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. Scott
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Jessica Watson sailed alone around the world – at the age of 16.
Ocean Adventurer Jessica’s dream of sailing single-handed round the world before her 17th birthday was almost broken before she even started. When on a sea trial with Ella’s Pink Lady, her 34-foot yacht, she collided with a 63,000 ton cargo bulk carrier and Ella’s Pink Lady lost her mast. This accident only strengthened the criticism of her project. There was a lot of debate in Australia: What were her parents thinking? Should a 16 year-old be allowed to sail so far alone? She’s too young, too inexperienced, and too immature!
But Jessica, who had always been a quiet but determined youngster, ignored the discussions, got her boat fixed, and sailed off. Some of the journey was plain sailing, but she met storms and high seas as well. In one storm the boat rolled over four times. As Jessica says in her blog, “We experienced a total of four knockdowns, the second was the most severe with the mast being pushed 180 degrees into the water. Actually pushed isn’t the right word, it would be more accurate to say that Ella’s Pink Lady was picked up, thrown down a wave, then
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forced under a mountain of breaking water and violently turned upside down. There wasn’t a lot I could do, except hunker down, hold onto anything and everything – and stand on the ceiling!” It took her 210 days to sail round the Southern hemisphere and tens of thousands of Australians turned out – on land and in boats to cheer her home. Many more millions watched on TV. Thousands followed her every day in real time on her blog.
And what’s Jessica doing today? Well, she still sails a lot and takes part in many races in Australia and other countries. She travels often to exotic places like Nepal. She is a Youth representative in the United Nations World Food Programme. One of the ways she raises money for this is by taking part in the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars. Oh, and just so she won’t get bored; she also studies sociology at university. The adventures continue for Jess!
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The Final Frontier – Adventures in Space “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.” tar Trek, the adventures of the starship Enterprise and its crew as they boldly explore new galaxies and meet new creatures and peoples, has been a cult TV series since the late 1960s. There have also been several Star Trek movies, the latest in 2013 Star Trek into Darkness. The Enterprise has a rather big crew, led by Captain Kirk (born in 2233) and his second-in-command, Mr Spock (born in 2230) – a scientist with the typical pointed ears of androids from the planet Vulcan. Life on the Enterprise seems really comfortable; there's lots of room, the crew look quite well-fed, and their colourful, casual uniforms always look as though they have just been newly washed and ironed! They mostly wear the same clothes when they explore new planets – no need for special equipment or protective clothing in the fictional world of Star Trek.
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“A small step for a man one giant leap for mankind” These were the words US astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke when he – as the first human ever – put his foot on the moon on July 21st 1969. Later, he was joined by Buzz Aldrin. They planted the US flag and spent 21 hours doing scientific research. Real life (so far) is rather more uncomfortable than on the Enterprise. Astronauts travel in very small spaces and need special clothing and oxygen tanks to go outside the space capsule. Man has not managed to land on any other planets than the moon, but unmanned space probes from planet Earth have reached Mars, Saturn, and beyond. So far, there are no signs of Vulcans with pointed ears!
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Micro adventures! Of course, you don’t need to sail single-handed round the world or go to the moon to explore, to discover, to have adventures. You just need to be creative – there are lots of things to explore on your own doorstep. Why not plan and do a microadventure?
Alastair Humphreys is a well-known adventurer, writer, and film maker. He started adventuring early; at age eight he completed the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge, a 26 mile race up three mountains. When he was 14, he cycled offroad across England. Among other adventures, he has cycled round the world, raced a yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, and canoed 500 miles down the Yukon River. He has collected money for charity, once dressed as a rhino in the London Marathon! He was chosen as one of National
Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year in 2012. In fact – a maxi adventurer! However, one year Alastair decided to stay in the UK to encourage people to seek out adventure and wilderness closer to home and have microadventures. This is what Alastair says: “This is the year of the microadventure, a whole year when, instead of exotic foreign adventures, I am committed to trying to
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Here are some suggestions: TrY SOMETHING NEW Look for a new sport to try in your area. Try playing a different kind of computer game than you usually do. Ask your teacher to challenge the class with something new to learn.
DO SOMETHING DIffErENT Do you always take the same route to school? Do you always cycle to school? Take a different route. Get up earlier and walk. Go “parkour” to school. You’ll see different things – and see things differently. encourage people to get outside, get out of their comfort zone, go somewhere they’ve never been, go on a microadventure. An adventure that is close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective. You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to go on an expedition. You do not need to be an elite athlete, expertly trained, or rich to have an adventure. Adventure is everywhere if you look for it.”
GO SOMEWHErE SPEcIAl There is somewhere interesting and new to you within two kilometres of your home or school. Find it, go there, explore, and report back.
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Our Own Microadventure Year seven at Gordon school had a microadventures week. Here are some of the adventures they had.
dave and stella chose a microadventure called “Grab a map. Close your eyes. Point. Go.”
Ivan and hIs famIly were part of a social experiment.
sheIla decided to earn some extra pocket money.
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Jim and Oliver had an adventure without even leaving their school! “Our school is dead old – antique even. We had even heard that there is a ghost in the cellar. But when we asked, nobody had been in the cellar, or even knew how to get in. Careful investigation led us to our janitor, eddie. eddie was not very helpful, but at last we persuaded him to show us the door, let us have the key, and One HOUr for our adventure. We took a torch and a mobile phone – both to take photos and in case we got locked in down there. Then we went down into the dark. We needed the torch because there were only a couple of lights. The cellar was huge – lots of corridors and rooms full of dead blackboards and last century computers. Oh, and rats. We mapped the cellar and took photos of everything – and got back before eddie had a fit. We made a presentation of our findings on the school intranet. now we’re thinking – what can the cellar be USed for?”
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