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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 16

Tales From the City Episode 60: More of Doctor doctor meow

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, This week, get to know the most famous Bangali painter, Zainul Abedin (pg 2) and learn about intersting facts on mobile phones (pg 6). Take your friends by surprise by turning bones into rubber with our fun science this week (pg 6). Fill in colours that you

like and make the Bangladesh flag look different and interesting (pg 4). If you like to draw, write poetry and etc. send it to treehouse@dhakatribune. com because we LOVE reading every bit of it!

Love Jonaki

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DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Executive Editor Shahriar Karim Managing Editor Jahangir Hyder Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Asst Magazine Editor Tahsin Momin Treehouse Team Fuad M Hossain Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Baizid Haque Joarder Rad Sharar Raisa Rahim A perfect hiding place would be the walkman without batteries. And just think - Inspector Danger’s hunch proved to be right.

Contributor Anika Jannat

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Mohammed Mahbub Alam Tahsin Momin Colour Specialist Shekhar Mondal Kazi Syras Al Mahmood 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

4 Bhootum’s Classroom

3 Tales from the city

5 Speedy’s Zone

Quiz Word on the street Unlimited fun

More of Doctor Meow

Amazing facts Colour it Learn English kids

Writing Contest 2014 Writing tips Connect the dots

6 Dr Meow’s Lab Fun science Bendy bones Magic Magical toothpick Fiction A smile Trivia Mobile phones

Discobang's Pad

2 Profile of Bangladeshi painter

Who is the artist of this picture?

A Bangali painter who is famous for his Famine Series paintings of 1943. He was known as the founding father of Bangladeshi art. He is also known as Shilpacharya (great teacher of the Arts) in Bangladesh for his artistic and creative skills.

word on the street

Unlimited Fun

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

The day was hot, sunny and tiring. But nothing could keep these kids from happiness.

As if a gift from God himself, they found a muddy puddle, and jumped right in! Watching them made it seem like there was no playground in the world that can beat their tiny puddle. But after you joined them, no playground could!

Rad Sharar

Jannatin Tazrin

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Treehouse Comic

3 Created and story by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Colour by Rio Shuvo

Tales From the City

Episode 60: more of doctor meow

The story so far Jonaki takes Speedy to take a tour of the Meow family Museum.

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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

Colour it

The National flag of Bangladesh Designed by Shib Narayan Das in 1970

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Speedy's Zone

Writing tips

Read before you write, and then read again!

Nothing helps you write better than reading books. Every book is written in a different way. Different styles and words are used to describe things, which help you learn to be much more creative with your writings.

Start with story books. We all know school text books are...well, boring!

Here’s a tip, you can only become more creative with your stories when you read creative stories yourself. Go through them, and mix it up, make

your own world, and write them in your style.

Okay, you may think that good essays have hard words and difficult sentences that force you to take a look in the dictionary. Actually, no. The best language is the easiest language.

Why? The point is to make the people who read your writings understand what’s happening easily. Using simple language makes that possible, and very enjoyable to read as well!

Bigstock

Connect the dots

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Dr Meow's Lab

A smile

Fiction

It was a very tiring day. The long traffic made it even worse. I was playing Temple Run and listening to music. I lost the game and pressed “Try Again.” I looked around and that’s when I saw her.

She was an old lady of around 50 years old. She sat on the footpath without saying anything. There was a bowl in front of her. Many people passed by without noticing her. She looked very tired. I asked my driver to wait for me and got out of the car. I walked towards her and took out the emergency money my mother gave me. It was only Tk20 but the smile she gave me when I put it into her bowl was something I will never forget. Anika Jannat

trivia

Mobile phones • The first phone call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973.

• The first phone with touch screen and email was released in 1993 by IBM. • Voicemail was invented by Scott Jones, 26 year old research student at MIT in 1986.

• The bestselling electrical gadget in history is Nokia 1100.

• Headaches can come from the the radiation from mobile phones.

• Out of the 6.8 billion people Bigstock on the planet, 5.1 billion use a mobile phone whereas 4.2 billion use a toothbrush.

Magical toothpick

Magic for Kids

What you’ll need?

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A tinfoil pan Water Six flat wooden toothpicks Liquid dishwashing soap

What to do?

Before you begin your tricks, take one of the toothpicks and dip it into dishwashing soap. Clean your pan properly and fill it with water. You are good to go now.

Place your soapless toothpicks in the shape of a pentagon on top of the water.

Start acting like you are saying out spells.

Dip the toothpick in the centre of the pentagon and watch the five toothpicks fly away. If your audiences seem doubtful then hand them the same toothpick and ask them to do the same. They will fail.

Anika Jannat

• In 2013, 340,000 phones were sold by Apple per day.

• 90% of phones in Japan are made waterproof as people use them in the shower as well.

• Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.

• The computing power of mobile phones are hgher than those used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Anika Jannat

Fun

Science

Bendy bones

What you’ll need?

• A jar • A chicken bone • Vinegar

What to do?

Take a chicken bone and wash it properly with water. Make sure the bone does not have any meat on it. Fill the jar with vinegar and dip the bone into it. Take the bone out after three days. The bone will not be as hard as it was earlier. The bone will be more like a rubber now.

Calcium makes bones strong. When it was dipped in vinegar, the calcium melted away making the bone softer.

Now you know why your mother forces you to drink milk (full of calcium) everyday! Anika Jannat

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