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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 8

Tales From the City Episode 54: Jonaki’s discovery Discovery

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, xxxxx

Love Jonaki

A weekly production of

DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Executive Editor Shahriar Karim Managing Editor Jahangir Hyder Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Treehouse Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Fuad M Hossain Munira Fidai Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Baizid Haque Joarder Rad Sharar Raisa Rahim Solution: Barolli Brother #3 is most probably the bank robber. Being a professional, he would use a stolen car and never his own car. The loot was found in his basement, and he’s now spending the next 20 years behind bars.

Contributor Anka Malik Kyoko Bhuiyan Namira Shameem Khatidja Hussein

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Tahsin Momin Mohammed Mahbub Alam Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Wahid Murad Email treehouse@dhakatribune.com Website www.dhakatribune.com

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2 Discobang’s pad

Meet the artist Captain Planet and the planeteers Word on the street xxx Did you know Football facts

3 Tales from the city Jonaki’s Discovery

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Connect the dots Learn English kids

5 Speedy’s Zone

Book The adventures of Tom Sawyer Movie Up! Art tutorial Toy Pyraminx

DIY Trophy

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Magic Red and black Trivia Awesome facts Fiction The old goat Fun science Paperclips defying gravity

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Discobang's Pad Meet the Artist

DID YOU KNOW?

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The highest recorded final score in a football match is 149-0. This was a result of the players being upset and thus all of these were own goals.

Didier Drogba of Chelsea is known to end a five year war in Ivory Coast, his home country.

The venue he wanted for one of his games caused the entire nation to come together, the first time in five years.

Ronaldinho, now a Brazilian football star, first caught the media’s attention after playing a match where he scored all the goals. The final score was 23-0.

An entire 11-man football team was killed in 1998 when a lightning struck them.

A referee’s call during a football game between Argentina and Peru caused the people to behave violently, killing 300 people. Khatidja Hussein

Captain Planet and the Planeteers “Captain Planet, he’s a hero, gonna take pollution down to zero!” Who doesn’t know this song by heart?

Our very own Captain Planet comes alive through five rings, which are worn by the planeteers, who come from all around the world. These are the elements that make the planet, earth, fire, wind, water and heart!

This show was created by Ted

Turner and Barbara Pyle. They created this show to teach our generation about the environment, how we can save the earth and be kind to each other. They taught us, and continue to teach us how to make the world a better place. They both donate and are involved in charities that are trying to change the world. Kyoko Bhuiyan

word on the street

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Sweet dreams Kids shout, playing cricket on the worn dusty field With the ringing of rickshaws and hard midday heat The street dogs seek shade, use a tree as a shield And a little boy’s eyelids feel heavy with sleep.

The ringing of metal where welders are working Chatter as sellers spread the word on the street Walk past the rubbish, with rotten smells lurking My dear, close your eyes, and take comfort in sleep.

So find peace and quiet, abandon the day Escape honking traffic and rest your tired feet Lie down your head, let your cares slip away As thoughts ebb from your mind, and you drift off to sleep. suhadha Afrin

Alex Durham

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Treehouse Comic

3 Created by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Story by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy

Tales From the City

Episode 54: Jonaki’s discovery

The story so far

Jonaki finds out why D is upset.

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Bhootum's Classroom

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.

Find lots more fun things to do at www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

Š British Council 2013

connect the dots

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Speedy's Zone

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer When Mark Twain wrote about Tom Sawyer, he could not have imagined that this character would be so popular even 138 years later. A must read for everybody, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” tells a story of a mischievous and intelligent young boy, who lives with his equally intelligent aunt. Crazy about action novels Tom compares himself to the heroes he reads about and creates his own group, making up fantastic stories about adventures

Diy

What you’ll need: • Two plastic cups • Acrylic paint • Chart papers • Pencils • Brushes • Cellotape • Art Scissors • Glue Instructions: Take two plastic cups and stick them at the end of each other with cello tape.

Then, take your pencil and draw out circles on a chart paper. Inside the circles, draw another circle.

Then, using your art scissors, cut them out and use cello tape to stick them at both ends like handles. Finally, paint the whole thing. Use glue to stick some nice buttons or cut out alphabets from the chart paper, colour them and stick them on the trophy. Gift it to your dad, rewarding him as the best dad ever!!! Anka Malik

Movie

Dreams do come true Carl finally got the courage to fulfill his wife, Ellie’s lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. 78-year-old Carl sets out with his companion, Russell, a wilderness explorer, 70 years younger, what becomes an adventure.

Carl and Ellie, both are wilderness fans, and their favourite idol is Charles.

F Muntz. Both have a dream to explore

the wild, and make a home at Paradise Falls. After Ellie’s death, Carl begins his journey, so he ties 1000 gas balloons to his house and flies UP! His not- soinvited companion, Russell accompanies him through his journey and teaches him a lot of things. How does Carl reach way up there? Watch to find out.

Anka Malik

Toy

Triangle of mystery Gone are the days when kids used to play with the Rubik’s cube! It’s Pyraminx time. This pyramid shaped game is almost like a Rubik’s cube except that it’s in the shape of a pyramid. The same old rules to match the colour on each side.

So what’s new about it? Well, if you’re up for challenges, this one will be great.

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they would have. Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn go to a graveyard one night and witness an event that scares them and causes them to run away! Soon one thing leads to another and Tom is caught up in an adventure much like the ones he read about in his books. You will laugh at what the boy gets up to and be charmed by someone whom everybody would want as a friend.

Kyoko bhuiyan

ART Tutorial

Trophy

This game will keep you occupied for hours.

Don’t consider the small number of pieces to be a piece of cake because it’s the shape that will be a problem for you.

So challenge your friend to a Pyraminx challenge rather than a racing challenge, this time. Anka Malik

Book

drawing tutorials

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Dr Meow's Lab Fun

trivia

Science

Paperclips defying gravity

What you’ll need: • Clean dry paper clips • Tissue paper • A bowl of water • Pencil with eraser How to do it: • Fill the bowl with water.

• Tear a piece of tissue paper about half the size of a Tk50 note.

• Slowly and carefully place the tissue flat on the water.

• Then, place a dry paper clip flat on top of the tissue (make sure you don’t touch the water or the tissue while doing so).

• After you have done that, use the eraser at the back of the pencil and carefully poke the tissue (not the paper clip, mind you) until the tissue sinks.

• If you have followed the instructions properly, after you have managed to get the tissue paper to sink, the paper clip should be floating!

Kyoko Bhuiyan

1. The world’s tiniest television can be worn on your wrist - it has a 3.5cm screen.

2. The tops of tall buildings like skyscrapers move as much as 1m on a windy day.

3. Some rocks on earth can act like magnets! They are called lodestones.

4. In 1997, Andy Green became the first person to ride a car, which went faster than sound!

5. When Galilieo found Saturn, his telescope was not powerful enough to show the rings, so he wrote “Saturn has ears.”

6. In 1903, a German company made a chocolate disk. At first, you could play it like any other disks, then you could eat it.

7. If the sky is clear, you eye sees about 2,000 to 3,000 stars at night!

8. One-fifth of the oxygen you are breathing is coming from the Amazon Rainforest in South America!

Namira Shameem

magic

Fiction

Red and Black What You’ll Need: • Deck of cards How to do it: • Separate the deck into two by colour, i.e. one black deck and one red deck. After that, put the separate piles back together (but don’t mix them).

• Separate the decks again and put them face down on a flat surface in front of your audience.

• Have a person from the audience

The old goat It was a sunny day. The old goat was feeling very hot so he started looking for some water. He found a puddle where he could drink water peacefully.

Suddenly, a tired kitten came to him and asked if she could drink water from the puddle first.

“Mr Goat, can I drink some water from the puddle first? I am really thirsty,” she said.

The grumpy goat shouted: “Go find yourself another puddle, I found

Awesome facts

choose a card from each pile at random, and tell them to remember the cards, and then place each card into the opposite pile.

• Have the person mix each deck separately and then put them back together and give it back to you.

• After he/she has done so, you can look through the deck and find the two cards that don’t match the colour of that pile of cards.

• Voila! Kyoko Bhuiyan

it first and so I will drink first.”

The sad little kitten went away crying. The old goat felt really proud and he drank all the water.

After a week, the old goat fell sick. The turtle doctor checked him and said: “Mr Goat, it seems like God was very angry at you and so he gave you the water disease.”

The old goat realised that it was very unfair of him to send the poor kitten away.

Anka Malik

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