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In this issue we cover:• past simple• question words

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Julia

The largest water reserve in the

world is in Kiribati in the Pacific

Ocean. Kiribati is a small area

made up of 33 little islands.

In Kiribati there are many species

of coral, fish, sea birds and turtles.

The reserve is called Phoenix

Islands Protected Area.

It is an area of outstanding*

beauty where the views are

breathtaking*. There are

beautiful white beaches, crystal*

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wildlife*.

The world’s largest water reserve*

One of the islands is calledButaritari. Can you guesswhat it is famous for?

The answer is on page 15

A ■ coconut treesB ■ bread treesC ■ cherry trees

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Celebrity newsGeri Halliwell 4

The Clacsons 5

The big issueGoogle! 6

PosterFamous buildings 8

You’ve got mailBack to school 10

Stars in your eyesJessica Alba 11

Learn and play in the UKCooking 12

Brain teasers 14

Did you know ...? 16

Welcome to Tot Contents

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Good news for the environment*

glossary*breathtaking: somethingthat takes your breathaway because it is verybeautifulcrystal clear: very clear,

transparentenvironment: natureoutstanding: incrediblereserve: a protected areawildlife: animals andplants that live in naturefreely

glossary*ambassador: (here) Geri represents the

United Nations’ (UN) work in different

countries. This means that she talks to young

people about children’s rights and problems.

aka: also known as

author: a person who writes books

autobiography: a book about your life

brainwaves: (here) intelligence

career: work, job

ex: not any more

launched: started

sassy: fashionable and clever

spice up: make exciting

successful: very good

Ex*-Spice Girl, UN* ambassador and now children’sauthor*, Geri certainly knows how to spice* up her life.Read Geri’s biography and match the headings to each section.

Geraldine Estelle Halliwell, aka*Geri Halliwell or Ginger Spice, wasborn on 6 August 1972 inWatford, Hertfordshire, UK. In 1996, Geri joined an all-girl popband called The Spice Girls. Beforebecoming a member of The SpiceGirls, she was a club dancer inMajorca, a TV presenter in Turkey,an aerobics instructor, a cleanerand a barmaid. The other Spice Girls were EmmaBunton (aka Baby Spice), MelanieChisholm (aka Sporty Spice),Melanie Brown (aka Scary Spice),and Victoria Beckham (aka PoshSpice).

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In 1998 Geri Halliwell split fromThe Spice Girls and launched* asuccessful* solo career* with fournumber ones. Her image changedand she became a UN Goodwillambassador. She published herautobiography* If Only. In 2008, Geri Halliwell publishedanother book called UgeniaLavender, a children's book aboutthe adventures of nine-year-oldUgenia and her friends.

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Here is a summary of Ugenia Lavender.Use the words in the box to complete it.

Thoughtful, ___________and sassy*, Ugenia Lavender is anamazing________. With loads of energy, tons of attitude and brainwaves*, Ugenia leaps into ___________that are aspacked with personality as their____________, Geri Halliwell.Each book in the series contains three __________ plusUgenia's Big News, Top Tips and extra Brain Squeezer puzzlepages.

The answer is on page 15

KID BRAVE CREATOR

STORIES ADVENTURES

Caught in the WebDoing a web search

is easy.It’s dad’s birthday tomorrow.Are you sure you know whatpresent you’re looking for?

Of course I am. There’s a web site here

with gift ideas.

SPECIAL

Look, it says there’s a special offer here.

A fishing kit!

Shall I order?Can I have the credit card?

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Uhmm! I think they like the cake, too.

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Google is an Internet searchengine. It is the most popularsearch engine on the Web*. It is 10 years old and millionsof people all over the worldare googling right now! Let’s find* out more.

Google!

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Who invented Google and when?Larry Page and Sergey Brin arethe inventors of Google. They were two university studentswho loved computers and wholoved the Internet. They were alsovery good at maths. Larry andSergey wanted to invent a systemwhich classified* information on the Web. They wanted users*to be able to search* for specificinformation, like images or musicor books. One day, in 1998, Larryand Sergey invented a complex*system which is now so easy for us to use.

What does “google” mean?The word “google” comes fromthe word “Googol” which MiltonSirotta invented. Sirotta was the nephew of a famousmathematician called EdwardKasner. “Googol” is the name of a very large number whichdoesn’t actually exist: it is 1followed* by one hundred 0s.

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navigate: surf, use,

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search: look for

spreads across: covers

Stock Market: a list of

the richest companies

in the world

users: (here) people

who use the Internet

Web: the Internet

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True or false?

1 Google Story is a book by David Vise and Mark Malseed about the history of Google.

2 The word “Google” is associated with “goggles” which protect our eyes.

3 Google is the name of a planet.4 “Google” is a form of magic used in Africa

before going on a hunt.

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What else can google do?The google “family” is now verybig. There’s GoogleAlert whichallows you to send information to an email address; there’sGoogleMaps and there’sGoogleEarth which allow you tofind any place in the world usingsatellite technology; there’sGoogleCalendar which remindsyou of important dates. And there’s lots more!

When did it become successful?In 2000, Larry and Sergey came*up with another great idea. They created AdWords, anInternet search programme whichmatches words to ads*. This meant that every time a usersearched for a word, an adpopped* up. By 2004, Google wason the Stock* Market. It won theMarconi Fellowship Award whichawards* excellence in businessand communication.

What is Google like now?Google has more than 6 millionweb pages. Every day, users domore than 200 million searches inmore than 80 different languages.You can download, save and printbooks, films and music as* well as photos, lessons on any subjectand gossip about every celebrity.Google allows* us to navigate*for information in a way that wasnot possible before.

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Can you guess whatthis building is?

It is London’s national gallery of international modern art. It is located on Bankside, on theRiver Thames. It is one of a familyof four galleries. The othergalleries are in Liverpool, St Ivesand another one in London.This famous gallery was createdin the year 2000 from a disusedpower station in the heart ofLondon. Now, millions of peoplefrom all over the world visit it

every day. It contains art from the 1900s to the present day. It has a permanent art collectionwhich includes these very famousEuropean artists: Picasso, Matisse,Rothko, Warhol, Magritte and Dali.You can walk from here to St Paul’s Cathedral over the Millennium Bridge.

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Have you ever felt likeSimon? Do you have any advice for him? Send us your thoughts and ideas.

It’s that time of year again when we all have to go back to school. Some of us don’t like goingback because we dread* certain subjects and can’t* face our teachers and our friends. We arepublishing Simon’s letter because we are sure that many of you feel the same way as him.

Dear Simon,what you feel is not nice, but it issomething that most of us feel at somepoint in our lives. Art, like music, is veryhard when you are not particularlyartistic: some people seem* to be ableto draw anything, quickly andaccurately; others take* ages to drawsimple shapes! Your teacher doesn’twant you to feel like this and isprobably trying to give you new thingsto try and improve*. Why don’t you findout about the history of art? You canread about some famous artists thatyou like. Your teacher will appreciatethis and you can begin to enjoy art inyour own way. Good luck,

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Celebrity quotesPablo Picasso was a very famousSpanish painter, but not everybodythought he was very good. Canyou put this famous sentence byPicasso in the right order?to Picasso | “I wish they were!”. | Aman said | Picasso answered: |that his drawings were like a 5-year-old’s. |

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Dear Tot,my name is Simon and I’m 13 years old.I’m writing to you because I am dreadinggoing back to school. The reason is that I absolutely hate art. I can’t draw andevery time our teacher gives us homework, I just stare* at the blank* sheet of paperand freeze*. The worst thing is that I’ve gotloads of ideas, it’s just that I can’t draw.Our teacher is also giving us more andmore complicated things to draw and I am getting* left behind. Please, please give me some advice!

Thank you,

Simon

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blank: white, nothing on itcan’t face: don’t want to do something dread: feel frightened at the idea of doing somethingfreeze: (here) stop because you can’t do something getting left behind: staying behind everybody else improve: get better seem to: look likestare: look at something for a long timetake ages: take a long time

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Jessica’s childhoodWhen Jessica was little, she livedin many different cities inAmerica. Her father was an airpilot and the family had to movea lot because of his work. Shewent to drama* school when shewas 12. She got her first actingbreak* at 13 with the film CampNowhere. She then becamefamous when she played SueStorm in the Fantastic Four series.

Acting is hard workIn 1996, Jessica played Maya inthe TV series Flipper. Maya was a mermaid who befriended somedolphins. Jessica had to move to Australia for two years to filmFlipper. She also had to learn to scubadive.

Stars in your eyes

bashful: shy blushes: goes red in the facebreak: opportunity, chancedrama school: a school where youlearn to act

martial arts: a sportmassive: huge, very bigpaid her much attention: talked to her or looked at her training: (here) exercise for your body

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In 2000, she played a part inanother TV series called DarkAngel. She had to spend elevenmonths training* in a gym, shehad to learn martial* arts and shealso had to learn to ride amotorbike! For the part sheplayed in The Eye, Jessica had tolearn to play the violin, too.

Bashful* beautyNot only is Jessica a very talentedactress, but she is also verybeautiful. When people tell herthat she is very pretty, sheblushes*. When she was at school,nobody paid* her much attentionand she had to wait for agesbefore anybody invited her out.

Did you know that ....

- Jessica is a massive* football fan?- Jessica loves playing golf?- Jessica’s nickname is Sky Angel?- Jessica’s got two dogs, Sid and Nancy?

Biography

Place of birth: Pomona,

California, USA

Date of birth:

28 April 1981

Star sign: Taurus

Father: Mexican

Mother: French-Danish

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Jessica AlbaJessica Alba is an actress. She started acting when she was 13 years old.

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Which of these films alsobecame a videogame?

1 The Fantastic Four2 The Fantastic Four: Rise

of the Silver Surfer3 Sin City

The answer is onpage 15

The flavours of Herefordshire

Herefordshire is an area of England near the Welshborder. It is an area rich in pastures* and riverswhich produce the natural ingredients for the mostdelicious food: Wye salmon, Hereford beef andHerefordshire apples.

Food festival

The Herefordshire Food Festival takes placebetween October 25-26. This is where famous chefsshow you how to cook with pride* and passion intheir Food Theatre. You can learn more about beesand how they produce honey. You can go on a FoodTrail and learn to carve* pumpkins, press fresh applejuice or try apple bobbing. The Herefordshire foodfestival is also where you can learn about edible andpoisonous mushrooms, how to catch fish and howto make ice-cream with local milk and cream.

Learn and play in the UK

Here at ELI, we believe that learning is funboth in the classroom and outside theclassroom. This is why we’ve decided to takeyou on a trip* around the UK to see whatlessons we can learn outside the classroom.Our first lesson is cooking and it takes place in Herefordshire, in the Wye Valley in England.

Seasonal food

Seasonal food is food that grows naturally andlocally* at certain times of the year. October is themonth in which you can find apples, mushrooms,pumpkins, beetroot, lamb, mussels and courgettes.Seasonal food tastes nicer and is better for youbecause it grows naturally.

Monkland Cheese Dairy

Hereford is famous for its Little HerefordshireCheese, a local cheese made by hand. At theMonkland Cheese Dairy you can watch and helpfarmers make this delicious cheese which uses local,fresh milk.

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Seasonal recipe

carve: cut and make into a shapelocally: near where you livepastures: fields where animals can grazepride: happiness about something you can doscratch up: (here) use a fork to break the icetrip: journey

glossary*

The answer is on page 15

Here is a recipe for apple sorbet.

Use the verbs to complete the instructions for making it.

Ingredients

1 litre of freshly pressed apple juice

a little icing sugar

lemon juice

Method

1. __________ a little icing sugar and lemon juice into your apple juice.

2. ___________into plastic dishes 2cm deep and___________them in the freezer.

3. Take them out of the freezer when the mixture is just frozen (but not hard)

and scratch* up into a soft sorbet with a fork.

4. ___________

SERVE WHISKPUT

POUR

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Brain teasers

UK traditions.

Complete the following sentences using the comparatives

and superlatives below.

Larry and Sergey were __________with a passion for maths. When they were 25 years______, they founded Google. They wanted to find a system for classifying _________on the Web because they wanted to help people to find information________. Google doesn’t advertise. It makes money because other people _________on Google. People who work at Google spend 20% of their time thinking up new___________.

1. Carving a pumpkin is __________ than carving a turnip.

2. The _______________ pumpkin in the world weighed 513 kilos.

3. The _________ pumpkins can weigh just 1 kilo.

4. You can get blue pumpkins orange ones.

5. Pumpkins can weigh _________1 kilo.

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ANSWERS: p. 3: Good news: bread trees; p. 4: Match the heading?: A. Geri’sbackground; B. Going solo; Fill in the gaps: brave, kid, adventures, creator, stories; p. 6-7: True or false?: 1.T, 2.T, 3.F, 4.T; p. 8-9: Famous buildings: The Tate Modern inLondon; p. 10: You’ve got mail: A man said to Picasso that his drawings were like a 5-year-old’s. Picasso answered: “I wish they were!”;p. 11: Which film: Sin City; p. 12-13: Seasonal recipe: 1. whisk, 2. pour, 3. put, 4. serve; p. 14: Fill in the gaps:students, old, information, quickly, advertise, ideas; UK traditions: 1. easier, 2. thebiggest, 3.smallest, 4. as well as, 5. as little as; p. 16: Did you know ...: number 7 isfalse: you can restore it by soaking it overnight in water, not olive oil.

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de-worming: a disease where

worms go into your body

relieve: (here) make better

shrivels up: become dry and

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soaking: leaving in water

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Here are 10 interesting pumpkinfacts. Which one is false?

1. Pumpkins come from the same family as thecucumber.

2. You can grow pumpkins all over the world - except in Antarctica.

3. The pumpkin capital of the world is the USA.Morton, Illinois is the place to go for your pumpkins.

4. Pumpkin’s are easier to carve than turnips.

5. There are over 50 different types of pumpkin.

6. The smallest pumpkins can weigh as little as 1 kilo,whilst the largest can weigh over 70 kilos.

7. If your pumpkin lantern shrivels* up, you can restoreit by soaking* it overnight in olive oil to rehydrate it.But remember to take out the candle, first.

8. Did you know that you can get blue, green andwhite pumpkins, as well as the traditional orangeones?

9. Gerry Checkon of Altoona in Pennsylvania, US, grew the biggest ever in 1999. The monster vegetableweighed in at 513kg.

10. Pumpkins are medicinal, as well as fun and tasty.The seeds are used for de-worming* and the pulp is often used to relieve* burns.

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