Radiant Reading - Lesetrening i engelsk 4

Lene Syversen

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Radiant Reading

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Lesetrening i engelsk 4

GAN Aschehoug

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Radiant Rookie Reading

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Lene Syversen

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Lesetrening i engelsk

GAN Aschehoug

Chapter 1 Sleepover

Granny’s Stew Chapter 3 A Couple of Silly Rhymes Chapter 4 Ski Practise Chapter 5 Around the World in… What?

Chapter 6 King of Plasticland?

Chapter 7 A Fancy Christmas Star Chapter 8 Six Silly Poems Chapter 9 Seeding Clouds Chapter 10 Meerkats Chapter 11 Fingerprints Chapter 12 The Tempest Chapter 13 Don’t Follow Leaders Chapter 14 Use Your Brain!

Chapter 15 Crag – The Dwarven Thief Chapter 16 Harry Houdini – The Handcuff King

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Contents

Bright Ideas Chapter 18a Going Underground Chapter 18b Going Over Ground

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Glossary – Chapter by chapter

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Read the text on the left-hand page carefully.

Main idea

What is the text about? Read carefully and choose the best answer.

Questions

Answer the questions. There is only one correct answer.

New words

Put the four words from the text into other sentences.

Do it!

Different tasks for you to do alone, in pairs, groups or as a class.

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The text

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Instructions

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Sleepover

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Chapter 1 Zoe loves sleepovers with her friends! Through the years, they have had plenty of sleepovers. Now Zoe is planning on hosting one this coming weekend.

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She hasn’t yet decided if she is going for a special theme this time, like Pop Diva Lookalike, a Karaoke Party, a Make-up Party or a Pyjama Party. No matter what, it’s going to be fun! It always is!

Like all the other times she has had a sleepover, she has to follow a few rules set by her friends and all their parents;

Sleepover rules

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- Ask the parents if it is okay to host a sleepover.

- Make sure the invitation is sent in a ‘safe’ zone. Maybe even with snail mail!

(Then you need to have your plans set really early). Like Zoe’s dad says: ‘Snail mail is cool! It’s old school!’ (He is daft!)

- Decide on what kind of food you are going to serve: junk food or a healthier option?

- Are you splitting the bill or do you pay for everything?

- Will you serve a dessert? Bake a cake or muffins?

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- Make sure you have all the equipment you need for watching a film, like cords, PC/TV, passwords and so on.

- Plan things that are fun for everyone!

No one should feel left out!

- Are you allowed to use your mobiles or should they be placed elsewhere?

- Do not be the first person to fall asleep at your own sleepover party! Your friends might need you as a guide to find something, like a new roll of toilet paper.

- Have fun! Until the late hours of the night! Or until your parents tell you to be quiet! (Then just lower your voices and carry on!)

a) Get ideas about how to sleep at night. b) Get ideas about how to annoy your parents.

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Main idea Choose the right answer.

c) Get ideas about what to do and how to host a sleepover. d) Get ideas about what not to do for hosting a sleepover.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1 What is Zoe planning to host?

a. a dinner party b. a birthday party with all her friends c. a party with her friends where they stay the night

2 Zoe, her friends and all their parents have made a set of rules.

Why is that, do you think?

a. The rules are made to ruin everybody’s fun. b. The rules will make it easier to plan and everyone knows what to expect. c. The rules are made so that everybody will have something to argue about.

3 Why should the host be the last person to fall asleep?

a. to clean the toilet b. to help the guests if they need anything c. to annoy your parents

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New words Choose the right word. theme

equipment

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1 There has been a break-in! All the expensive _____________ is gone!

2 He wasn’t ____________ into the cinema because he had lost his ticket.

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3 The king and queen were ____________ a dinner party at the royal palace.

4 She couldn’t make up her mind about the _______________ of her party.

Brainstorm I magine you are hosting a party of some kind. Make a column list over the things you need to remember, things you have to organise and rules to follow. Show your list to your learning partner. Share good ideas!

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Granny’s Stew

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Chapter 2 ‘What would you like for your tea, Zoe?’ asked her mum. Zoe thought about it briefly before she answered. ‘Actually, I think I would like my granny’s stew.’

Ingredients (about 4 portions) 2 tablespoons butter 6–8 potatoes Salt and pepper 3–4 carrots 500–600 g tough 1 small celeriac 1–2 parsley roots meat (beef) A drop of caramel 1 leek 4 dl water

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It had been ages since she last tasted it.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t eaten her granny’s stew since she was a little girl and her granny was alive. Now, Zoe’s gran had been dead for several years and Zoe thought it would be a good idea to learn how to make it ­herself. Keeping an old r­ ecipe alive, so to speak.

As the thought of her granny’s stew settled in her mind, an imaginary smell of ­simmering vegetables, meat and spices hit her nose. Mmmm, yes, it would have to be her ­granny’s stew for this evening’s tea!

Zoe looked through the recipes they kept in the kitchen drawer. There it was!

She spotted her granny’s neat handwriting at once. She took a picture of it with her phone, asked her mum for some money, and went to the local supermarket.

The recipe was very simple and she didn’t need a lot of fancy stuff. All she needed was a handful of very ordinary vegetables and some tough meat. (The tough meat was the cheapest, so that suited her perfectly). ‘I’m on a mission’, Zoe thought to herself.

A stew tradition mission!

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What to do Cut the meat in small dices (2x2 cm or thereabout). Melt some butter in the pot, put the meat in, add salt and pepper and fry the meat until it is brown on all sides.

Cover the meat with water. Let it simmer until the meat is nice and tender. (This takes a little while, depending on how tough the meat is).

Peel and cut all the vegetables in bits. Let them simmer with the meat until soft. You can mash the vegetables and meat so it all blends nicely and the stew gets thicker. And If you want your stew darker in colour, add some caramel. Have a taste! Enjoy!

a) Learn how to make a cup of tea. b) Learn how to follow a recipe.

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Main idea Choose the right answer.

c) Learn how to make a fancy and expensive dinner. d) Learn how to clean up after making tea.

1 What would Zoe like for dinner?

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Questions Choose the right answer.

a. She would like some nice, tender beef. b. She would like a cup of tea with milk and two sugars. c. She would like beef and vegetable stew.

2 Why was the recipe written by hand, do you think?

a. Nobody used computers when Zoe’s gran was young. b. Zoe’s gran had run out of printer ink. c. Her gran’s computer was broken.

3 The tougher the meat is…

a. …the more expensive it is. b. …the less time it must cook. c. …the longer it must simmer.

New words Choose the right word. neat

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1 He showed his arts and craft teacher his ______________ cross stitches.

2 The soup is ________________ and will be ready in a few minutes.

3 They were making dinner and looked for a new ________________ on the Internet.

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4 You must cut and wash the ________________ before you use it. There might be dirt hidden between the layers.

Do it!

ake an ‘Odd one out’ task for your partner. Use words that have something to M do with food.

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A Couple of Silly Rhymes A Moose on the Loose

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‘Let me introduce the Moose on the Loose!’ said the man on the news.

‘A loose moose, trotting the streets of Toulouse! What can it be looking for?’ asked the man on the news? ‘Grape juice? Tom Cruise? Or simply a friendly little goose? Or, is it simply totally out of use, that loose moose?’

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Then Bruce, who produced the news, pulled his hair, thick with mousse, shouting ‘Excuse!

A moose on the loose, here in Toulouse? I don’t produce fake news!’

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Thor, the thick thief, thirty-three years of age, thought he could thump the crown off of the throne-holder’s head. (A thrilling idea Thor had thought a thousand times or so).

‘Easy’, the thief thought in his thievish way. (And Thor was quite theatrical!) ‘One thorough thump would do! A genius theft! A thrilling thought!’

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Theodore, the thin little throne-holder, kept a thread through the crown attached to his thumb! Thor did not know. ‘I think of everything’, Theodore thankfully thought.

No thief in the world was a threat to the throne, as long as the crown was thoroughly tied.

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Main idea Choose the right answer. a) Learn some facts about French animals and English kings.

c) Practise some sounds used in the English language.

b) Learn about life in Toulouse.

d) Learn how to keep a crown on your head.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1. What walked around in Toulouse?

a. a mouse b. Tom Cruise c. a moose

2 Who produced the fake news?

a. Bruce b. Nobody. Everything was true. c. the weather reporter

3 Theodore was…

a. … thick. b. … a thief. c. … a king.

New words Choose the right word. out of use

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1 He got a ____________ in the back of his head. It hurt!

2 He studied the instructions _________________. No mistake could be made!

3 Oh, no! The lift is _________________! And I’m going to the tenth floor! Argh!

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4 Last summer we were ______________ around all the parks in London.

We walked for hours every day!

Sort the words Find the words with the long ‘o’ sound and the ‘th’ sound. Make a two-column note. How many words did you find for each column? Read them to your partner. Try to think of more words to add to the columns.

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Ski Practise

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Zoe’s family from Manchester are visiting Norway. It is February and they are going to go skiing in the mountains. Zoe has promised to teach them how to ski cross-country. This will be their first time skiing, and Zoe knows she has taken on quite a challenge! But hopefully it will be a laugh as well! Zoe wants to give her family a real Norwegian ski experience!

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As Zoe starts planning, she realises there are quite a lot of words and ­expressions she doesn’t know in English: Are they called ‘sticks’? Or ‘poles’? What about ‘bindings’? Is that the correct word? And what do you call the plastic thingy at the ­bottom of the sticks?

Zoe has to look up a lot of words!

First, words for how to dress for a ski trip. Second, the gear. Third, what to bring in the backpack.

Clothes: A woollen sweater, ­t­hermal underwear (or is it ‘long johns’?), woollen socks, a fleece top, a jacket, trousers, a scarf, a ­woolly hat (is it really called a hat? It looks more like a cap?) and mittens. (Mittens keeps your fingers a lot warmer than gloves.)

‘That should be it, more or less’, Zoe thinks.

They will not be going very far, so they won’t need an extra set of clothes in the backpack.

Gear: Cross-country skis, of course, and ski poles – make sure both skis and poles are the correct length. The strap around your wrist – show how to put your hand through it, from underneath, grab the pole and feel how the strap supports your hand. Bindings – you put the tip of the ski boot into it and listen for a

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‘click’. You might even lift one leg off the ground to make sure the boot is stuck to your ski properly. Then ski wax! Zoe must avoid snow piling up underneath their skis as well as the opposite, when the skis keep slipping, which makes it difficult and exhausting to move forward.

Backpack: a thermos flask with hot chocolate, or coffee for her aunt and uncle; a lunch box with sandwiches, ­oranges, and a chocolate bar; and a cold drink, juice or water. She must also remember the homemade sit pads for them to sit on as they have a break. And of course the spade and the first-aid kit.

‘Well’, thought Zoe, ‘my ski trip word bank has the content it needs. I’m all set for a ­successful ski trip.’

Oh, she nearly forgot one thing, rules in the ski track! One: You must keep to the right (probably unusual for an English person).

Two: If you need to stop, step out of the ski track so people behind you can pass easily.

Three: Say hello or nod your head to other skiers! Many Norwegians like to greet people they meet in the track, even though they are complete strangers!

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Main idea Choose the right answer. a) Instructions on how to do cross-country skiing.

b) Instructions on how to do downhill skiing.

c) Instructions on how to knit your own mittens to keep you warm .

d) A text to help you in case you need to talk to somebody in English about skiing.

1. Zoe makes a list of…

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Questions Choose the right answer.

a. … clothes to wear, gear to use, and things to bring along. b. … places where they can go skiing. c. … where to buy all the things they will need to go skiing.

2 Zoe’s family are visiting in February; which season is that?

a. spring b. winter c. autumn

3 Why would it be strange to an English person to keep to the right on a ski track?

a. Because they don’t use the words right and left in England. b. Because people drive on the left side of the road in England, so they are used to keeping to the left. c. Because it is difficult to remember what is right and what is left when you are outside.

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1 She was no _______________. She often came to visit so they knew her well.

2 He was very upset when he realised he had lost his _____________ watch.

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It was very expensive.

3 She wanted to wait for the sales before she bought new sports ______________.

4 My granny gave me some ________________ slippers. They are so warm!

Make a list Make a cartoon showing: • Zoe preparing and packing for the ski trip.

• How Zoe’s family are doing while skiing.

• What to do when meeting someone in the ski-track.

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Chapter 5

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Around the World in … What?!

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Have you heard people say ‘It’s a Small World’?

That is a lie, because it really isn’t. It’s huge! You’ll know as soon as you try to travel around it.

As long as people have known that the earth was round instead of flat, people have wanted to travel all the way around it, to ‘circumnavigate’ the globe.

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The first expedition to succeed was Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition in 1522. This was certainly not an easy job: Of the 270 men who began the journey, only 18 survived and returned to Spain three years later. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines over a year before they reached home.

In 1580 Englishman Sir Francis Drake became the second man to circumnavigate the globe. He also spent three years on his expedition, even though he took time off to attack and rob Spanish ships along the way.

(England and Spain were at war at that time.)

300 years later, Thomas Stevens (another Englishman) decided he wanted to travel around the world on a bicycle instead of a ship. He set out from San Francisco in 1884 and returned two years later after travelling across America, Europe, central Asia, India and Japan. His bicycle wasn’t really made for this type of cycling, as it was a ‘pennyfarthing’, a bicycle with one large and one small wheel. It was especially difficult to ride downhill as the bicycle easily fell over. In fact, Stevens had to carry the bicycle almost as much as he rode it!

At the beginning of the 1900s, people started flying airplanes. The first person to

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fly an airplane around the world was the American pilot Wiley Post. It was in 1931 and it only took eight days.

The first person to walk around the world was an American named Dave Kunst. The whole journey took four years, and by the time he returned home in 1974, he had crossed 13 countries and worn out 21 pairs of shoes!

A lot quicker was the round-the-world journey made by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961: He became the first person to orbit Earth in a spaceship. It only took 108 minutes!

a) Get to know some historical facts about travelling around the globe. b) Learn how most people travelled around the world in the old days.

c) Get some ideas about what you can do for your summer holiday. d) Learn about the history of space exploration .

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1 What does it mean to ‘circumnavigate’?

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a. It means to navigate to the nearest circus. b. It means to travel around the entire planet. c. It means to travel around one continent.

a. The world is small compared to the sun. b. The world is small because it has fewer than 200 countries. c. The world is small because you might meet somebody that knows somebody you know.

3 Thomas Stevens travelled around the world by…

a. … plane. b. … train. c. … bicycle.

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2 Why do you think there is such an expression as ‘It’s a small world’?

New words Choose the right word. circumnavigate

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1 The moon ___________________ Earth.

2 It was an exciting ___________________! And very cold!

3 The ___________________ had one large and one small wheel.

4 To ___________________ means to travel around the whole planet.

Make a timeline ake an ‘Around the world timeline’. Illustrate your timeline. Can you fill in even more M names and expeditions? Ask your teacher permission to use the Internet.

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King of Plasticland?

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Do you want to be a king? Or an emperor? If so, there’s a new land waiting for you – surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. And if you have some garbage you want to get rid of, no problem: just throw it away and that will only make your land grow even more. The problem, of course, is that you’ll be king of garbage and plastic refuse and bottles.

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In the Pacific Ocean there are large floating islands of things that people have thrown away. The garbage also ends up in the stomach of birds, turtles and fish – and that is obviously not good for them.

If we were to gather all this plastic on the shores of the ocean, it would make a big wall between ourselves and the sea. But if we leave all the plastic in the sea and you were King of Plasticland, your kingdom would grow every day!

We throw away about 100 million plastic bottles each day. The use of plastic has increased by almost 2000% in the past 50 years, and in 2050 we will produce three times as much plastic as we did in 2014.

If we don’t change anything, by 2050 there will be more plastic in your empire than there are fish in the ocean.

Every time you breathe, you breathe oxygen that is made in the ocean. The oceans regulate our weather and water is recycled into clouds that give us rain. And the oceans are home to about 80% of all living things on earth. We can’t live without the oceans.

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So being king is perhaps not that great after all?

Better become king of recycling, right?

– Recycle everything and save our planet instead!

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Main idea Choose the right answer.

b) Learn how to claim a new piece of land.

c) Learn a bit about plastic waste and the damage it does to our planet.

d) Learn how to create a new and healthy way of living.

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a) Learn how to become an emperor or a king.

Questions Choose the right answer.

1 What can you find floating around in the Pacific Ocean?

a. plastic waste b. Captain Jack Sparrow c. nothing, just clear blue sea all around

2 People throw away about 100 million plastic bottles …

a. … a year. b. … a month. c. … a day.

3 Where does a lot of the plastic waste end up?

a. on the shores b. in recycling factories c. in the stomach of birds, turtles and fish

New words Choose the right word. increase

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1 Could you please carry out the ____________ from your room? It’s starting to smell quite awful!

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2 There were ____________ of ice cream on his t-shirt! He had made quite a mess eating it!

3 Their class were getting good at _______________ their waste.

4 The opposite of decrease is _______________.

Do it!

Put the letters in the correct order and you will find five keywords from the text. caneo caltsip bagraeg chatpse tofilang Pick out another five words from the text, jumble the letters and make a friend unjumble them. Good luck!

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A Fancy Christmas Star You need: 6 pieces of A4 paper ruler pencil

scissors glue clothes pegs a piece of string

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The first time I saw this star, I thought to myself ‘no way!’ It looked far too complicated to make! But with a bit of encouragement, I made it! I think you should give it a go too!

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Instruction: 1) You start out with six pieces of square

paper. Fold each piece of paper into a triangle. Make a firm crease. Then fold your six triangles one more time into an even smaller triangle. And again, a firm crease.

2) Lay a triangle in front of you, with the 90-degree angle pointing away from you.

Use your ruler and pencil and draw four The pieces are ready to be glued into a star! (or more) parallel horizontal lines, starting 4) Lay one piece in front of you, vertically. Put at the folded crease (where the triangle some glue on the bottom part (the centre of can’t be opened). Stop the line a couple of the star), glue the next piece to it. Put some centimetres before you reach glue on the two parts that come together, the other side. Then cut along nearly at the top. Glue all six pieces together the lines. Pay attention! It in the same way. Use clothes pegs to hold is important to do this part the connecting points together. Leave to dry correctly! If you do not, the for a little while. Put on a string and hang it rest of it will not work. in your window. It is quite impressive!

Good luck!

3) Unfold all the triangles into squares again.

Now, the gluing part. Start gluing the tip of the two middle bits together. Turn the paper and glue the next two edges of paper together. Continue until all the edges are glued together.

Do this with the six pieces of paper.

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Main idea Choose the right answer. a) Learn how to understand and follow instructions.

b) Learn how to waste paper.

c) Read instructions on how to get your fingers sticky.

d) Read instructions on how to become a superstar.

1 How would you start reading instructions?

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Questions Choose the right answer.

a. Wait for someone else to start and copy what they do. b. Read all of the instructions before you start and study the pictures carefully. c. Call for help. a. In fact, it will increase the risk of getting a paper cut, so don’t do it! b. The firm creases will help you draw straight lines. c. Without the firm creases you will not be able to go through with the rest of the instructions. The paper will just unfold and lay flat

3 Which word is a synonym for ‘horizontal’?

a. horizontal = flat b. horizontal = vertical c. horizontal = tilted

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2 Why is it important to make firm creases, do you think?

New words Choose the right word. horizontal

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1 All the computers in the world are_________________ through the Internet.

2 She couldn’t believe her grandma had made a _________________ in her jeans! She couldn’t wear that!

3 He drew a _________________ line from the top down.

4 Then he drew a ________________line from side to side across the paper.

Draw and describe Ask your teacher for the things you need and make the star.

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Six Silly Poems

By Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Norway, Who casually sat on a doorway; When the door squeezed her flat, She exclaimed, ‘What of that?’

This courageous Young Lady of Norway.

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There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!’

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There was an Old Person of Dover, Who rushed through a field of blue clover; But some very large bees, Stung his nose and his knees, So he very soon went back to Dover.

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There was an Old Man in a boat, Who said, ‘I’m afloat, I’m afloat!’

When they said, ‘No! you ain’t!’

He was ready to faint, That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes; So she hired an Old Lady, Whose conduct was steady, To carry that wonderful nose.

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There was a Young Lady whose eyes, Were unique as to colour and size; When she opened them wide, People all turned aside, And started away in surprise.

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Edward Lear (1812–1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and especially his limericks, a form he made very popular.

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Main idea Choose the right answer. a) Learn facts about poems.

b) Learn how to write lyrics for a song.

c) Enjoy nonsense poems and maybe learn some new words.

d) Learn how to make a funny drawing.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1 Edward Lear was a multi-talented artist. He was an…

a. … artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet. b. … singer, author, athlete and poet. c. … illustrator, author, dramatist and song writer.

2 Edward Lear became famous for…

a. … his plays. b. … his nonsense in poetry and limericks. c. … his drawings.

3 What ended up in the man’s beard?

a. six birds and an old man b. seven birds and a boat c. eight birds and their nests

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1 Being an _______________ demands a lot of discipline and hard work!

2 ‘What _________________ is this?’ asked the teacher. ‘Stop it at once!’

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3 _______________is another word for brave.

4 The crows had made a big _______________ in the tree in our garden.

Find and make

Underline the words that rhyme. Make a list of more words that rhyme with the ones you have found. Compare and share with a friend and fill in even more words.

Write your own limerick.

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Seeding Clouds

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Chapter 9 What would it be like to have sunny weather every day? Only sunshine and no clouds! It wouldn’t be necessary to watch the weather forecast, would it?

Or check the weather app? Sounds nice, doesn’t it?

And there are some very important questions to be asked as well when interfering with nature: Will cloud seeding have any negative effects on ecological systems?

Will the use of silver iodide harm humans, wild animals, livestock or fish in the ocean?

Will it produce stronger winds and change the climate? Seeding clouds is not a risk-free activity, some scientists say. And remember, you need a cloud to start with. Without one, no cloud seeding!

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In fact, too much sunshine has its downsides.

Drought, for example. Drought is bad for all living things because nothing can grow and live without water. It is as simple as that.

So what can we do when it doesn’t rain?

Can rain be created?

Scientists have been thinking about how to squeeze rain out of clouds for decades. They call it ‘seeding clouds’. Scientists thought that if they dropped particles of silver iodide into the clouds, it would trigger rain. The silver iodide is flown or shot into a cloud where it attracts water vapour and becomes larger drops. Finally, the drops become so heavy that they fall to the ground as rain.

Despite many cloud seeding programmes throughout the years, including some that are still ongoing, scientists don’t all agree on the benefits of seeding clouds.

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1 Silver iodide is shot into the clouds.

2 It attracts

water vapour, which turns into larger drops.

3 Water droplets

become heavy and fall as rain.

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Main idea Choose the right answer. a) A fairy tale about a magician creating rain.

b) A story about a scientist learning how to fly a small plane.

c) A theory of how to create rain.

d) A theory of how to create sunny weather.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1 How does the silver iodide get into the cloud?

a. It comes in from space, through the atmosphere, and gets caught up in the clouds. b. It gets shot out or flown and released into the cloud. c. Silver iodide peels off the plane’s surface while the plane is flying.

2 Who is trying out the theory of cloud seeding?

a. scientists b. farmers c. plane enthusiasts

3 To seed clouds you need…

a. … a cloud. b. … the sun. c. … rain.

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silver iodide

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1 She wanted to go for a walk ____________________ the rain.

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2 ______________________ darkens on exposure to light and is used in photography, rainmaking, and medicine.

3 Being around cats will ____________________ her allergy.

4 A _______________ is a very small bit of something.

Make an illustration Make a cartoon/an illustration of the cloud seeding process. Ask your teacher for permission to use the Internet for more information on cloud seeding.

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Meerkats

FUN FACT The character Timon in Disney’s animated film The Lion King is a meerkat.

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Meerkats are small mammals that look a bit like otters or weasels. They are very social animals and live together in large family groups (‘clans’) in the deserts of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Their homes consist of tunnels and ‘rooms’ with several entrances.

Meerkats have long thin tails that they use to keep their balance when standing upright.

They have curved claws at the end of their fingers used for digging in the ground when working on their ‘homes’ or looking for food.

They can close their ears when digging to keep the sand out. (A good idea when you live in a desert!)

Meerkats only go outside during the daytime. Each morning, as the sun comes up, the clan comes out of the tunnels and begins looking for food. Back in the tunnels, several babysitters will stay behind to watch over new-born pups. The babysitters’ main job is to protect pups from meerkats from other clans, who will kill the babies if they can. The babysitting duty is shared between

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Scientific name: Suricata suricatta Habitat: deserts of southern Africa Life span: 12–14 years Weight: 620– 969 grams Height: about 50 centimetres long, including their tail

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the different members of the clan and that is probably for the best, as the babysitters often have to go all day without food.

While most of the clan members are looking for food, one or two usually stand guard and watch for predators (e.g. jackals or eagles). If there are no predators in sight the meerkat will make a peeping sound, but if danger is near, it will bark loudly or whistle. Lookout duty usually lasts for about an hour before another meerkat takes over.

Meerkats like to eat insects, snakes, spiders, scorpions, lizards, eggs and plants.

They are able to kill and eat venomous snakes and scorpions without being hurt.

Even though meerkats are mostly immune to some types of venom, including the very strong venom of scorpions, they sometimes die from snakebite after fighting with snakes.

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b) Facts about a type of cat called a meerkat.

c) A story about a little meerkat and its clan, living in the desert.

d) Facts and information about meerkats.

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a) Facts and information about otters and weasels.

Questions Choose the right answer.

1 Where do meerkats live?

a. in Europe b. in Asia c. in Africa

2 What do meerkats do when they are looking for food?

a. One meerkat watches out for danger while the other meerkats look for food. b. They all hurry and dig for food underneath the sand. c. They all watch for danger, so they rarely get to eat.

3 Meerkats are immune to…

a. … certain types of venom. b. … all types of snakebites. c. They are not immune to anything.

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2 _____________ is another word for poison.

3 There are many ______________ out there, so be careful!

4 A ___________ is a place where it almost never rains and the ground is very dry.

Make a list Make a list of names of all the mammals you can think of in three minutes. Compare with a friend. Add names to your list.

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Fingerprints

by the police for more than a hundred years to prove both who’s guilty and who’s innocent of a crime. Fingerprints can also help us in our everyday life: they can open your phone, be the keys to your house and start your car. And the best thing about fingerprints? – You will never forget them at home!

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You need: • An ordinary pencil (the softer type is best) • White paper • Clear tape

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How to do it: 1. Use the pencil to colour an area about the size of the end of your thumb on a sheet of paper. Colour the area very dark.

2. Lay the upper part/top of your right thumb down on the coloured area. Slowly roll your thumb from left to right. Make sure to get colour all over the tip of your thumb.

3. Stick a piece of clear tape onto your thumb. Then pull off the tape and lay it on another sheet of paper. Do you see your print?

4. Label the print ‘right thumb’.

5. Repeat the process with all your other fingers.

Make sure to label each print correctly.

6. Now study your fingerprints. Are all your prints of the same pattern?

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b) Learn some facts about fingerprints and how to follow instructions.

c) Learn how to make up your own instructions.

d) Learn how to leave your fingerprints on things.

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1 Why are fingerprints so useful to the police?

a. Fingerprints can prove who has touched something. b. Fingerprints are a fun party game! c. Fingerprints can prove when something happened

2 Why do you think a softer pencil is better to use when making fingerprints?

a. Soft pencils are less dangerous. b. Soft pencils are cheaper. c. Soft pencils leave more colour on the paper, which sticks better to the tape.

3 Which strategy is the most useful when you read instructions?

a. Skim quickly through the text and call for help. b. Read the text bit by bit, following the instructions. c. Don’t read any of the instructions, just copy what your classmates do.

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1 The police knew the thief was _________. He had left his fingerprints on the window.

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3 Bill and Bob look exactly the same! They must be________________.

4 It is difficult to pick up a pencil without using your_______________.

Find out

Work with a partner and search the net or look in a library. Choose one of these questions: a. Who was the first person to classify prints for use in solving crimes and identifying p ­ eople? b. How did the ancient Chinese use fingerprints?

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b) Facts about Italian dukes.

c) A story about revenge, forgiveness and love.

d) Instructions for how to survive storms.

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a) A story about some men who live on an island.

Questions Choose the right answer.

1 Who lived on the island before the storm?

a. a sailor b. a magician c. a weatherman

2 Who creates the storm?

a. Prospero b. Ariel c. Miranda

3 Who wants to kill the king of Naples?

a. Prospero b. Antonio c. Ferdinand

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1 If you want to catch a mouse, you can use a mouse ____________.

2 All his enemies started ______________ against him.

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4 _________is another word for bad person.

Act it out

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Don’t Follow Leaders ‘Don’t follow leaders, watch the parking meters!’

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On 13 October 2016 the Nobel Prize committee announced that the prize for literature was awarded to the American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan.

This was quite a surprise because the Nobel Prize in Literature usually goes to poets, dramatists or writers that write thick books and not to someone who writes 3-minutelong songs and sings them on stage.

Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota in the United States in 1941. His real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, but he changed it when he went to New York to become a musician. To begin with, Dylan wrote and sang alone, with just a guitar and a harmonica. He wrote songs like ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’. Many young people felt he was expressing what they were feeling:

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Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand

Bob Dylan has changed his musical style many times over the years. He’s played rock, country, gospel and all kinds of other styles.

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60 years later. Many people say that Dylan brought meaning to pop music. But in the lecture he gave accepting the Nobel Prize, he said, ‘If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important. ... I’ve written all kinds of things into my songs. And I’m not going to worry about it – what it all means.’

It is not always easy to understand what Dylan sings about, but perhaps this is what makes his songs so interesting.

Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows

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b) Tips for you on how to become a better poet.

c) Facts about a famous American poet and singer.

d) Facts about all the Nobel Prize winners.

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a) Tips for you on how to become a better singer.

Questions Choose the right answer.

1 Who is Bob Dylan?

a. a famous singer and songwriter b. a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize c. a famous writer and dramatist

2 Why were people surprised when the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was announced?

a. because the winner was completely unknown b. because the winner was an American c. because the winner was a songwriter

3 What does Dylan say is the most important thing about a song?

a. that it wins a prize b. that it moves you c. that it is easy to understand

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1 The policeman wore ___________ so people didn’t notice him at all.

2 She was _____________ for her hard work. She got an excellent grade!

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4 Shakespeare is the world’s most famous ___________.

Choose a song Choose a Dylan song and play it to the rest of the class.

You can choose to play Bob Dylan’s own version or somebody else’s.

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Use Your Brain!

Try to solve these two puzzles on your own or with a friend.

Easter Egg Puzzle

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‘That’s easy’, he replied ‘It’s just .....’

Then the telephone rang and he had to answer it.

How much does zoe’s favourite egg cost?

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What if I say that yesterday was two days before Monday? What day is it today?

– Yes, you’re right again. Today is a Sunday.

Now let me give you a real puzzle and see if you can solve it: Three days ago, yesterday was the day before Sunday. What day will it be tomorrow?

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b) Three puzzles to make you prepare for Easter.

c) A story about Easter eggs.

d) Instructions on how to paint Easter eggs.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

a. eggs with squares on them b. eggs with stripes on them c. eggs with dots on them

2 Is it possible to buy just one egg?

a. No, you have to buy three boxes. b. No, you have to buy a box with three eggs. c. Yes, you can buy just one egg if you like.

3 What happened when Zoe wanted to know the price of the Easter egg?

a. The shopkeeper was her math teacher and wanted Zoe to figure it out for herself. b. The shopkeeper got an important phone call. c. The shopkeeper was about to close the shop and didn’t bother about Zoe’s question.

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2 No one was _______________ until after lunch.

3 She thought it was an excellent ____________________ to the problem.

4 You could see the fear and ________________ on his face.

Do it!

Now solve the puzzles! (You can work alone or with someone else) (The key is on the last page, but don’t look before you’ve tried to solve the puzzles!)

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Zoe has a visitor from England: her cousin Fiona. She wants to show her how she likes to spend her spare time.

– Alright. And who will I be?

– You can play Crag, the dwarven thief. She’s really Martin’s character but he couldn’t play today. You’re very good at blending into the shadows and sneaking up to enemies to stab them in the back. You can see her stats here on her player sheet – I’ll explain those as we go along.

– OK, I’m ready. Watch out you evil monsters!

– Right. We’re actually revisiting Paduri the witch. Her small cottage is on an island in the Surly Swamps. You’ve arrived there, but to get to the cottage you would have to wade through the murky swamp water. You also seem to see movement under the surface … what do you do?

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A couple of times a month Zoe meets up with her friends Mia and Jakob to role-play.

– I’ve never tried role playing before. You have to explain it to me, says Fiona.

– Sure, there’s nothing to it, really. I’m the DM, the dungeon master. That means that I run the game, I tell you the adventure and what the situation is. Each of you will get a character, and as long as we play you’re not yourself but that character. You play that role, so the character can speak and do whatever you like.

– Cool. Can I swear?

– Sure. If that’s what you like …

– And who are you, Mia? – I’m McGood, the Paladin. After I lost my sister in an orc raid, I swore to fight evil whenever I can. I can bless people and always have to rush at monsters to strike them with my holy sword, Incalibur. I’m an annoying do-gooder, really, that always has to tell the truth and never bend the rules. All brawn and no brain.

– And you, Jakob?

– Meet Walter the Wizard, a cursed magician!

The witch Paduri cursed me the last time we played and now everything I do has a chance of failing and I might end up doing the opposite of what I thought.

– Right. But how do you know if you fail?

– Like most things when you role-play: you throw the dice. I have to throw a twenty-sided die and if I get a 1 or 2, I fail. It’s quite inconvenient when you want to throw a fireball in the ugly face of a troll and you get flowers instead …

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b) Learn facts about historical persons.

c) Learn a technique for acting.

d) Learn how to make costumes and props for a theatre play.

1 The Paladin has a holy…

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a. to blend in and to scream loudly b. to blend in and to sneak up behind the enemy c. to blend in and to pat her enemies on the back

3 What do you think is fun about being in a role play?

a. You get to see your friends make fools of themselves.

It’s a laugh! b. You get to act out a role and not be yourself. It’s liberating and fun! c. You get to participate on stage and play in front of a huge audience.

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1 His strength is his ______________, not his brain, I’m afraid.

2 It can be quite annoying having to deal with a _____________ all the time.

3 __________ is a short version of the word statistics.

4 A dark and scary cellar used as a prison is sometimes called a_______________.

Draw

Draw one (or several) of the characters in the role play. Ask your teacher for access to the Internet to get inspired!

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During his career, Houdini did many things that brought him fame: • In 1910, Houdini was the first man to fly over Australia in his own plane. (After that, he never flew again!)

• One of his most famous tricks was “the Chinese Water Torture Escape”. For this trick, he was placed handcuffed, head first, upside down into a tank filled with water.

The lid was closed and he escaped.

• Another of Houdini’s tricks was to escape from a closed box after it had been lowered into water. Houdini was locked in handcuffs and chains, then nailed into the box, which was roped and weighed down with two hundred pounds of lead. The box was then lowered into the water. He escaped in less than one minute.

• In 1926 he broke a world record when he lay under water in a sealed box for 90 minutes.

• Houdini also became an actor and made several popular films.

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Harry Houdini‘s real name was Erich Weiss. He started working as a 9-yearold trapeze artist in a circus and called himself “Erich, Prince of the Air”.

He later started calling himself Harry Houdini and performed magic tricks in different theatres in the United States.

His most famous trick was to escape from chains and handcuffs. He used to challenge the audience to give him handcuffs he couldn’t escape from. If anyone could come up with such handcuffs, he would win $100. Nobody ever won the money and Houdini became known as “The Handcuff King”.

He travelled around America and Europe.

In each city, Houdini challenged the local police to put him in chains and lock him in their jails. He always escaped.

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Harry Houdini died at the age of 52 from a stomach infection. This was only a few days after he had been punched hard in the stomach by a fan who wanted to prove that nothing could hurt the great Houdini!

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b) A story about a famous magician.

c) An instruction on how to do some magic tricks.

d) An instruction on how to escape from a box under water.

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Questions Choose the right answer.

1 What was Houdini’s real name?

a. Harry King b. Handcuff King c. Erich Weiss

2 Why was Houdini called “The Handcuff King”?

a. He used handcuffs in most of his magic tricks. b. He sold handcuffs in his spare time. c. He used to be a policeman

3 How did Houdini die?

a. Probably from old age b. Probably from drowning in a box under water c. Probably from complications following a blow to his stomach

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1 The box was both locked and _____________. Impossible to open!

2 The tiger managed to ___________from his cage in the zoo.

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3 I’m a great__________ of Harry Potter. I just love his courage!

4 After the show, the ______________clapped and clapped.

Do it!

Imagine that Harry Houdini is coming to your home town.

Make a poster as an advertisement. Make people want to see the show!

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Solar panels in your schoolbag Many families in rural parts of the world don’t have electricity in their homes. So what do they do after the sun sets and night falls?

Many families use kerosene lamps, but not everyone can afford the fuel. Therefore, it is a great solution to have a solar panel on your schoolbag. With a glowing lamp, children can do their homework after dark. This simple invention has helped pupils improve their grades at school and their future looks brighter. Literally!

Flashing lights to scare lions Can you imagine looking after your family’s livelihood in an area with hungry lions?

Many places in Africa, families keep cows, sheep and goats. Many young boys must herd their family’s cattle.

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That is just what Richard Turere, a young Masai boy from Kenya, has to do. He has to keep the lions away.

Richard loves to play around with electronic gadgets, like his mum’s radio. He takes things apart and puts them together again. He invents things using garbage and stuff people throw away. He builds inventions for his parents as well as his neighbours in his community.

At the age of 13, he discovered that lions are afraid of moving lights. After making this observation, he fitted a series of flashing LED bulbs onto poles around the cow enclosure.

The lights were wired to a box with switches and to an old car battery powered by a solar panel. The lights flickered on and off, scaring the lions. Since Richard rigged up his ‘lion lights’, his family has not lost any animals to the lions.

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b) Learn that a good idea, imagination and hard work might solve a problem.

c) How to attract lions when being on a safari, so that you can take selfies with them.

d) Instruction on how to use solar panels.

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a) Learn what life can be like for children in big cities in other countries.

Questions Choose the right answer.

1 Which two inventions are mentioned in the text?

a. a blinking lamp and a car battery b. a solar panel bag and blinking lights c. a solar panel cow and a moving lamp

2 Which natural resource is needed for both inventions?

a. the sun b. the wind c. the moon

3 Richard gets the parts he needs from…

a. … the local hardware shop. b. … his neighbours. c. … the garbage.

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3 The opposite of _____________ is urban.

4 They installed a _____________ on the roof of the cottage to get electricity.

Be an inventor Work with a partner and design an invention that can solve a serious problem. Make a drawing and write an explanation of the different parts of your invention.

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Going Underground

Daniel: Let’s see. We are here at Bayswater Station. We could take the Circle line to Notting Hill Gate and change to the Central line, the red line going straight through London. But then we have to get off at Holborn.

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Zoe and her family have been to London several times. They have seen a lot of ‘touristy’ sights like the Covent Garden Market, the London Zoo, the Sherlock Holmes Museum (her dad loves Sherlock!) and Madame Tussaud’s. Zoe feels quite at ease with getting around in London, even though it is the third largest city in Europe, with millions of people.

Zoe and her family usually travel by tube when visiting London. What a great underground system! All you really need is a tube map and an Oyster card. Then, find the station where you get on and the station where you get off. Look for the tube line you need; the lines are even colour-coded!

Brilliant! You can get from A to B in no time. (Well, it depends on how far you need to go. London is huge!) And, if you were to get lost, there are always plenty of helpful London transport staff ready to guide you in the right direction. They know the London underground like the back of their hand.

Today, Zoe is in London with her cousins Daniel and Fiona.

They are going on the tube to Covent Garden to visit the London Transport Museum.

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Zoe: We’re going to Covent Garden, right?

It’s this blue line here, isn’t it?

Daniel: Yes. Do you see a faster route?

Zoe: Well, couldn’t we go south to South Kensington, change for the blue Piccadilly line and then take that all the way to Covent Garden?

Daniel: Well, I suppose so, but it looks to be just a short walk from Holborn and that’s just 8 stops. Your plan is 10.

Fiona: But you can’t trust the distances shown on the map, Daniel. The stations might be far apart even though they look close on the map.

Daniel: That’s stupid.

Fiona: No, it isn’t. Look at this brochure here about the development of the Tube map.

To begin with they had underground maps superimposed on a real map. Look at this from 1908:

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But then, in 1932, a man called Henry Beck made a new map that was easier to read.

He said that Underground passengers were not concerned with geography, but more interested in how to get from one station to another and where to change trains.

Daniel: Ok, very interesting but I still vote for Holborn.

Zoe: So do I! Two against one. You lose, Daniel!

Fiona: You’re as stubborn as a mule! It also says here that all lines on Beck’s map are either straight or they turn exactly 45 or 90 degrees to make the design look better. I vote for Zoe’s plan!

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Going Over Ground

with an Oyster card. And did you know, if you don’t have enough credit on your Oyster card to get home, you will be able to make one more bus journey! After this you will need to top up the credit on your card before you use it again. That is great service!

Some bus routes are especially good for sightseeing – try routes 9, 14, 15 and 22. And if you’re looking for a special bus experience, the cool new Routemaster bus (you may have seen it in the James Bond film Skyfall) runs on routes 9, 11, 24, 38 and 390. Have a good trip!

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You get a fantastic view from the top floor!

Zoe got hold of a brilliant bus map, with the same classic design as the Tube map (not the old one from 1908!) The map shows places of interests as well! Excellent!

Bus rides are cheap and an easy way to travel around in London. The buses run from early morning to past midnight. Some buses even operate a 24-hour service. But mind you, it is not possible to pay for your London bus fare in cash. Instead you can pay

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a) A practise in reading a road map of London.

Then you and the driver will easily find your way around by car. Remember to keep to the left side of the road!

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c) A text telling you that there are several ways d) To learn the rules of good to travel around in London, depending on behaviour when travelling on public what you wish for: fast travelling underground, transportation in London. or a good street view of a busy city.

Questions Choose the right answer.

a. … geography. b. … where to change trains and how to get from one station to another. c. … pretty colours in straight lines on a map.

2 What do you need to be able to travel on one of London’s double decker busses?

a. your passport b. a plate of oysters c. an Oyster card

3 What do you miss seeing travelling ­underground compared to over ground?

a. people b. views of the city c. tunnels

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1 The new shop near the city centre wanted to hire some new ______________________.

2 There were no seats available on the bus. There were just too many_________________.

3 He picked up a ___________________ to read while he waited.

4 It’s a long ________________from London to Hong Kong!

Discuss

Ask your teacher for access to the Internet. Search for a tube map of London or a bus map.

Plan a route for your learning partner. Have a nice ‘trip’!

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allow / tillate annoy / irritere cord / ledning / leidning daft / dustete, tullete equipment / utstyr healthier / sunnere / sunnare to host / å holde, å være vertskap / å halde, å vere vertskap junk food / hurtigmat, «søppelmat» old school / tradisjon, gammeldags / tradisjon, gammaldags option / valg, alternativ / val, alternativ plenty / mye, mange / mykje, mange pyjama party / pysjamasfest safe zone / sikker sone to serve / å servere sleepover / overnatting “snail-mail” / «sneglepost», vanlig post / «sniglepost», vanleg post splitting the bill / dele på regningen, spleise / dele på rekninga, spleise theme / tema

to mash / å mose melt / smelte mission / en misjon, et oppdrag / ein misjon, eit oppdrag mum / mamma neat / pene, pyntelige / pene, pyntelege parsley root / persillerot peel / skrelle recipe / oppskrift settled / her: la seg til ro simmer / her: småkoke spice / krydder to spot / å få øye på / å få auge på stew / gryterett tea / te, men også «middag» (i Storbr.) thereabout / omtrent tough (meat) / seigt (kjøtt)

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«come to think of it...» / «når jeg tenker meg om …» / «når eg tenkjer meg om ...» «it’s been ages» / veldig lenge siden / veldig lenge sidan «so to speak» / «for å si det sånn» / «for å seie det sånn» at once / med en gang / med ein gong briefly / raskt, et øyeblikk / raskt, ein augeblink caramel / her: sukkerkulør celeriac / sellerirot dice / terning, kube drawer / skuff fancy stuff / her: spesielle ting fry / steke / steike gran, granny / besta, bestemor imaginary / innbilt, i fantasien leek / purreløk

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crown / krone «excuse (me)» / «unnskyld (meg)» / «orsak (meg)» fake / falsk genius / genial goose / gås grape juice / druejus moose / elg mousse / her: hårskum on the loose / på frifot produce / produsere, lage theatrical / dramatisk theft / tyveri / tjuveri thief / tyv / tjuv thorough / grundig thread / tråd a threat / en trussel / ein trussel thrilling / spennende / spennande “throne-holder” / «trone-holder» = konge el. dronning / «trone-halder» = konge el. dronning thump / dunk to tie / å knyte to trot / å trave, å småløpe / å trave, å småspringe

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“penny farthing” / “veltepetter” (sykkel med ett stort og ett lite hjul) / “veltepetter” (sykkel med eitt stort og eitt lite hjul) to orbit / gå i bane, sirkle the Philippines / Filippinene / Filippinane to reach / å nå, å rekke to ride (– rode – ridden) / å ri Russian / russisk to set out / å dra av sted, å legge i vei / å dra av stad, å leggje i veg to spend / å bruke to succeed / å lykkes / å lykkast to travel / å reise to wear out / å slite ut

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Chapter 5 Around the World in…

an airplane / et fly / eit fly certainly / absolutt, sikkert circumnavigate / seile rundt jorda / segle rundt jorda cosmonaut / kosmonaut (russisk romfarer) / kosmonaut (russisk romfarar) expedition / ekspedisjon globe / her: jordkloden huge / kjempestor in fact / faktisk journey / reise

Chapter 6 King of Plasticland?

emperor / keiser / keisar empire / imperium, keiserrike / imperium, keisarrike garbage / søppel gather / samle “get rid of ” / «bli kvitt» to increase / å øke / å auke islands / øyer / øyar kingdom / kongerike obviously / selvsagt / sjølvsagt oxygen / oksygen recycle / gjenvinne, resirkulere refuse / avfall, søppel regulate / regulere stomach / mage surround / omringe, omkranse the Pacific Ocean / Stillehavet

Chapter 7 A Fancy Christmas Star

90-degree / 90 graders (vinkel) clothes pegs / klesklyper connect / knytte sammen / knyte saman correctly / korrekt, nøyaktig crease / brett, fold / brett, fald edge / kant encouragement / oppmuntring fancy / her: flott, utover det vanlige / her: flott, utover det vanlege firm / stram, skarp

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«give it a go» / forsøke seg på / prøve seg på glue / lim horizontal / horisontal, vannrett / horisontal, vassrett impressive / imponerende / imponerande parallel / parallell “pay attention” / «følg med» square / rute, firkant stick together / holde sammen / halde saman string / tråd triangle / triangel, trekant unfold / brette ut vertically / vertikal, loddrett

Chapter 8 Six Silly Poems

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afloat / flytende / flytande ain’t / er ikke / er ikkje artist / kunstner / kunstnar author / forfatter / forfattar beard / skjegg clover / kløver conduct / oppførsel courageous / modig doorway / døråpning / døropning especially / særlig / særleg exclaim / utrope faint / besvime / svime av lark / lerke (fuglen) limerick / limerick (= type tulledikt med spesiell rytme) literary / litterær nest / reir nonsense / tøys to start / her: å skvette, å sprette opp steady / stødig unique / unik, spesiell wren / gjerdesmett (fuglen)

Chapter 9 Seeding Clouds

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Chapter 10 Meerkats

babysitter / barnevakt to bark / å bjeffe clan / klan (familiegruppe) claw / klo consist of / bestå av / vere samansett av curved / bøyd / bøygd desert / ørken digging / graving duty / her: oppgave, jobb / her: oppgåve, jobb eagle / ørn entrance / inngang ground / bakken, jord guard / vakt immune / immun (kan ikke smittes) / immun (kan ikkje smittast) jackal / sjakal lizard / øgle look-out / utkikk meerkat / surikat new-born / nyfødt / nyfødd otter / oter peeping / pipende / pipande predator / rovdyr pup / unge several / flere / fleire venom / gift weasel / røyskatt to whistle / å plystre

trap / felle villain / skurk worry / bekymre seg / uroe seg

Chapter 13 Don’t Follow Leaders

accept / godta announce / kunngjøre / kunngjere to award / å utnevne / å utnemne career / karriere committee / komité dramatist / dramatiker, skuespillforfattar / dramatikar, skodespelforfattar to express / å uttrykke / å uttrykkje harmonica / munnspill / munnspel lecture / leksjon, forelesning / leksjon, forelesing literature / litteratur plain clothes / sivile klær (= ikke uniform) / sivile klede (= ikkje uniform) poet / dikter / diktar prize / pris, utmerkelse / pris, utmerking stage / scene

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even / til og med everyday life / hverdagslivet / kvardagslivet fingerprint / fingeravtrykk guilty / skyldig / skuldig identical twins / eneggede tvillinger / einegga tvillingar innocent / uskyldig / uskuldig to label / å merke / å merkje ordinary / vanleg particular / spesiell / spesiell, særeigen pattern / mønster to prove / å bevise / å prove size / størrelse / storleik thumb / tommelfinger useful / nyttig vary / variere

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Chapter 14 Use your Brain!

brain / hjerne Easter / påske key / fasit puzzle / her: problem, mattenøtt reply / svar separately / atskilt, hver for seg / åtskilt, kvar for seg shopkeeper / butikkeier, kjøpmann / butikkeigar, kjøpmann solve / løse, finne ut / løyse, finne ut

Chapter 15 Crag – the Dwarven Thief adventure / eventyr annoying / irriterende / irriterande to blend / å blande (seg) bless / velsigne brawn / muskler / musklar character / karakter, person cottage / hytte curse / forbannelse / forbanning die – dice / terning – terninger / terning – terningar

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magician / magiker, tryllekunstner / magikar, tryllekunstnar to nail / å spikre of all times / gjennom alle tider to perform / å opptre to place / å plassere probably / muligens, kanskje / kanskje, kan hende to rope / å binde fast sealed / forseglet / forsegla several / flere / fleire stomach / mage tank / tank, stor beholder / tank, stor behaldar trapeze artist / trapeskunstner / trapeskunstnar upside-down / opp ned to weigh down / her: å holde nede / her: å halde nede

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do-gooder / en som bare vil gjøre gode ting, en idealist / ein som berre vil gjere gode ting, ein idealist dungeon / fangehull / fangehol dwarven / som en dverg (også «dwarfish») / som ein dverg (også «dwarfish») evil / ond / vond to fail / å mislykkes / å mislykkast inconvenient / ubeleilig, brysomt / uhøveleg, brysamt murky / mørk, dyster opposite / motsatt / motsett paladin / en slags ridder / ein slags riddar raid / angrep, overfall revisit / besøke på nytt / vitje på nytt roleplay / rollespill / rollespel to run (something) / her: å lede (noe) / her: å leie (noko) spare time / fritid to stab / å stikke, dolke stats (= statistics) / statistikk, poeng surface / overflate swamp / myr, sump sword / sverd thief / tyv / tjuv to wade / å vasse

Chapter 16 Harry Houdini

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Chapter 17 Bright Ideas

afford / ha råd til bright / lys bulbs / lyspærer cattle / kveg community / lokalsamfunn discover / oppdage enclosure / innhegning flashing lights / blinkende lys / blinkande lys flicker / blafre fuel / drivstoff gadget / dings, duppeditt to herd / å gjete improve / forbedre / forbetre invention / oppfinnelse / oppfinning kerosene / parafin literally / bokstavelig, faktisk / bokstavleg, faktisk livelihood / levebrød neighbour / nabo rural / landlig, på landet / landleg, på landet school-bag / skoleveske / skuleveske to set / her: å gå ned solar energy / solenergi solar panels / solcellepanel stuff / saker og ting switch / bryter, knapp / brytar, knapp useful / nyttig

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brochure / brosjyre colour coded / fargekodet / fargekoda concern / her: bry seg om degrees / grader (vinkler) / grader (vinklar) development / utvikling direction / retning distance / avstand at ease / slappe av far apart / langt unna (hverandre) / langt unna (kvarandre) like the back of their hand / som sin egen bukselomme / som si eiga bukselomme map / kart mule / muldyr Oyster card / navn på reisekortet i London / namn på reisekortet i London route / rute several / flere, mange / fleire, mange staff / ansatte / tilsette stubborn / sta stupid / dum superimpose / legge oppå / leggje oppå the tube / tunnelbanen, T-banen touristy / besøkt av mange turister / vitja av mange turistar to trust / å stole på

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Chapter 18a Going Underground

Chapter 18b Going Over Ground

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Three days ago, yesterday was the day before Sunday, so three days ago was itself Sunday.

That means today is Wednesday, so tomorrow is Thursday

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Radiant Reading will help you improve your reading skills and learn new words in English.

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In Radiant Reading you will find 20 texts with questions that will help you understand what you read.

There are all sorts of texts in Radiant Reading: Stories, facts, cartoons, tongue twisters, instructions and food recipes.

Use Radiant Reading and become a better reader!

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