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Twilight

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Kid on the road

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It’s so hot out here today!

Yes, Jeremy?

Here dad. I’ve copied a CD of old hits for you.

Why don’t you ever think of something like “my poor little child?”

Well, put on a thinner top!

Hi mum.

I don’t know how to pass the time until you come home.

I don’t know…

You can stay sitting there, immersed* in your thoughts.

Thanks Jeremy.

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Well, cut the grass then.

It’s boring!

“The middle” by Jimmy Eat World, “Superman” by Five for Fighting.

“Here is gone” by Goo Goo Dolls. “Drive” by Incubus…

Hello, thoughts.

What’s up?

These old hits are still too new for me.

Mmh.

(Uff…) (oooh…)

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Is anything wrong, Jeremy?

Nobody has said anything interesting yet to write on my blog!

I promise that from now on I’ll try very hard to be more worthy* of a blog.

EDITORIAL

CONTENTS

2 Cartoon strip Zits

4 Kid Lit Twilight

Report Open museums

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Hi everyone! We’ve got a fun-packed issue for you full of surprises and interesting things to read and do. Do you like playing jokes on your friends?

Then don’t miss our pull-out booklet – it might give you some ideas for your next joke! And for all you Twilight fans out there you must read Kid lit which speaks about the book by Stephenie Meyer.

We continue our journey in Kid on the Road as we visit another important part of England and there’s a lot more too! So, happy reading!

Pull-out booklet 8 Spring Jokes

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12 Kid on the Road The North-East of England

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16 Famous faces Milla Jovovich

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Water for Elephants

Grammy. In this number you’ll come across: Common European _ Passive forms Framework _ Present perfect Intermediate level _ Conjunctions (B1 – B2) _ 2nd conditional _ Infinitives and gerunds Page 3: lemonade; completed sentence: “thanks to Robert Pattinson the popularity of my sons at school has increased because all the girls are crazy about him! Page 4-5: The missing words are: drove, degrees, blue, wearing, farewell. Page 6-7: a 7; b 8; c 5; d 6; e 4; f 1; g 3; h 2. Page 12-13: first answer B; second answer A. Page 14: A Museums: 1 were created (false) 2 was built (false), 3 is located (false), 4 has been opened (true), 5 be found (false), 6 are collected (true). B a. Edward, b. Forks, c. father, d. legend - blood, e. vampire, f. gloomy, g. bite, h. dream, i. Eclipse.

Everyone at the circus with Robert Pattinson’s new film!

The film Water for Elephants by the film director Francis Lawrence who also directed I am legend and Constantine, is set in the world of the circus in 1929, the period of the Great Depression* in the United States.

The story is dramatic and exciting - Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) is a veterinary student at Cornell University, whose parents are killed. Jacob leaves everything behind and ends up* in a travelling circus. He finds a job there as a vet and makes friends and falls in love with the beautiful acrobat Marlena, played by Reese Witherspoon. But he also discovers dangerous secrets! To discover them as well – you’ll have to go to the cinema!

Do you know....?

Rosie, the kind elephant The film is based on the book of the same name written by the American writer Sara Gruen.

The title refers to the circus elephants, Rosie, an enormous, pacific female elephant.

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KID LIT

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Welcome back to another issue of Kid lit. In previous editions, we’ve taken a look at some classic novels from the past that have left their mark on young people.

Today, however we’re going to jump forward to the present day and take a look at one of the books from the most successful series that has been written recently.

What’s it about?

The story begins with 17-year old Bella who leaves her home in Arizona to live with her father in a small, gloomy* town called Forks. She doesn’t want

to go and live there and doesn’t expect to like it, but once she’s there she settles in* and makes friends.

However, there’s one of her classmates who seems to dislike her and who tries to ignore her. Bella can’t understand why and remains intrigued* by this extremely attractive boy named Edward Cullen. This all changes, when one day, Edward saves her life and prevents her from being knocked over*.

They become friends and gradually begin to fall in love with each other. However, Bella still thinks that there’s something strange about Edward. She hears about a local legend about a tribe of people who drink animal blood and she gradually realises that Edward is a vampire.

Edward himself is tormented* by his love for Bella and his attraction to her blood. Their relationship is put in danger when another tribe of vampires arrive in the town and one of them, called Jack, tries to kill Bella. He bites her hand and she risks becoming a vampire herself, but again Edward saves her by sucking the poison from her hand.

The story finishes at the school dance where Bella tells Edward that she wants to become a vampire but Edward refuses to let her.

Where the idea came from

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The writer, Stephenie Meyer, says that the idea for the book came to her in a dream. She dreamt of a meadow* with two distinct figures – a pretty girl and a vampire. The dreams continued and she hurried* to write down everything she could remember. She sent the manuscript* to lots of different publishing houses but was rejected by many. Eventually* one of them accepted her and she became an instant success.

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What a success!

The book became the biggest selling book in 2008 and by then had sold 17 million copies all over the world.

The book has even been translated into 37 different languages. And of course, that was only the beginning.

Since then, the first book in the series has been followed by the rest of the saga – New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. In addition, films of the second and third book – New Moon and Eclipse – have been made and the film Breaking Dawn is expected to be released this year.

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“My mother ________ me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five ___________ in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless ______. I was __________ my favourite shirt.

I was wearing it as a ________ gesture.”

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What would you think, if a friend said to you “There’s a great museum.

It’s open”,? Probably, that you can go ’inside’ the museum and visit each room. Or, that it’s a museum completely … in the open air!

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Where they are found

Italy - ‘Campo del sole’ and its columns

Open air museums are found in areas that offer wonderful natural views. They allow* the beauty of art and nature to be discovered together.

“Campo del sole” is not only without walls but it doesn’t even have a road! To get there, you have to take a boat as the museum is on a small island in the middle of Lake Trasimeno. It’s situated on a beautiful, green and sunny plain* full of ... columns! 28 artists have created unique* works of art on each tall, stone column.

• http://www.musei.it/umbria/perugia/museo-all-apertocampo-del-sole.asp

The original idea.

The first open air museums were created in Scandinavia towards the end of the XIX century by a clever music scholar, Sten Rentzhog, in order to open new spaces for art.

Soon the idea spread* and open-air museums of all kinds were born: village-museums, farm-museums, historical, archaeological and contemporary art museums. ... Let’s take a look at some of them around the world!

Australia - the green park In Victoria, in the McClelland Sculpture Park, you can admire sculptures of all kinds made by more than 70 artists.

• http://www.mcclellandgallery.com

Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the most important architects of the Renaissance period, convinced the citizens of Florence to play a terrible joke on Manetto Ammanatini. The citizens began calling the man by another name (Matteo) and in the end the poor man believed himself to be mad! When he found out the truth, he was so ashamed that he left for Hungary where he became rich and started a new life.

1409, Florence. Brunelleschi and the man without an identity.

One evening, Raffaele Mormone, the owner of the biggest theatre in Naples in the 1800s returned home from work ‌ but was unable to find his house!

In fact the door had been hidden by a newly-built wall.

It was one of the many jokes carried out by Antonio Petito, the greatest actor in the 1800s. His victims were often theatre owners, the prompter* or other friends, who never knew what might happen!

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April the 1st is a traditional date for playing jokes - here’s a trip into the past to remember 8 of them!

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Egypt - back in time You can take a step back in time in Cairo, Egypt, thanks to the true to life reconstruction* of a village from the time of the Pharaohs. Small boats allow you to reach and visit houses that look like those of the past.

Japan - at the foot of the ‘art’ mountain The first Japanese open air museum, Hakone Open air Museum, was opened in 1969. Here, in the enormous space (70,000 square metres) at the bottom of mount Fuji, you can admire more than 100 works of art by artists from all over the world.

• www.hakone-oam.or.jp/english

South Africa, mosaics* in the park In Bloemfontein, in South Africa, at the Oliewenhius Art Museum, you can find an extraordinary collection of huge cement sculptures and mosaics*.

• www.nasmus.co.za/museum/satellite/museums

If you could crea te a museum to save an object, which object wou ld it be?

Why? Ask your fr iends the same questi on and talk about your ch oices together!

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KID ON THE ROAD

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Hadrian’s Wall So, where are we today? I can see a long, long wall in front of me that stretches* for miles and miles! Is it the Great Wall of China? The former Berlin Wall? No, impossible! We’re in the north of England so this must be Hadrian’s Wall, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in the year AD122 to stop invaders taking control of the Roman empire in Britain. Although it doesn’t exactly follow the same line as the English-Scottish border, it runs from the East coast to the West coast of Northern England.

Today you can walk along it on foot and in 1987 it became a World Heritage Site*.

Newcastle Leaving the wall behind us, we head towards the biggest city in this area, which is the city of Newcastle. In the past, the city was famous for its shipbuilding and coal mining and it played an important role in the industrial revolution. Nowadays, it’s an important place of culture and entertainment. It also has a well-known football team ‘Newcastle United’ which play in the premier division.

Whitby Would you like to have a look at the sea? Then let’s go to Whitby, a fishing town situated on the east coast. It’s a small but very interesting place and has lots to see and do. The town of Whitby has appeared in many works of literature and probably the most famous was ‘Dracula’ by Bramstoker. The book was set* in Whitby.

Probably because the town has something mysterious about it and the symbol of Whitby is the ruins of the impressive Abbey* built above the town. One of Whitby’s famous inhabitants was Captain James Cook who was one of the first Europeans to make contact with the eastern part of Australia in 1770. You can visit the Captain Cook Memorial Museum and visit the house where he lived for a period. Another important symbol of Whitby is a huge* whalebone* arch which represents the large whaling industry that took place in the sea near Whitby.

York Just an hour’s drive from Whitby is the picturesque* town of York.

It has pretty cobbled* streets with medieval shops and houses.

York is a city with Roman and Viking origins. In fact, here you can visit the famous ‘Jorvik museum’ where you can go back in time to AD975 and visit a Viking settlement* and experience the tastes and smells from that period. Make sure you get there early though as it’s really popular and there’s always a long queue*! For all you train lovers, you can spend a few hours visiting the National Railway museum where you can see 100 different types of locomotives and discover the history of the railway from its creation to the present day. And finally if you like being scared why not go on a ‘ghost walk’, which is a guided tour around the ‘haunted’ streets at night.

Hull Our final destination for today is the city of Hull. It’s home to one of the world’s most spectacular aquariums and contains over 40 sharks and more than 3,500 fish. It’s also the place where lots of marine biologists carry out research into sealife.

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4. The first Open Museum in Japan ____________ since 1969 (open).

5. Hakone Open Air Museum can ____________ at the foot of Mount Kiso (find).

6. In the Oliewenhius Museum sculpture masterpieces ____________ (collect).

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FAMOUS FACES

Milla Jovovich

The beautiful Ukranian actress, who became famous after the science fiction series Resident Evil, is now Milady De Winter in The Three Musketeers. A step back into the past in 3D! From the novel to the cinema

Milla Jovovich has gone back to the 17th century – she interprets Milady De Winter in the new film version of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas written in 1844. It’s the first version made in 3D, by the director Paul Anderson. Milla said “Fantastic.

I’m a fan of the book! It’s always been an extrordinary story”.

The Musketeers were guards that protected the King of France.

Milady, a beautiful but evil* woman, worked for the powerful Richelieu and put the Queen and the Kingdom in danger.

The Three Musketeers is a costume drama. Milla said: “If I could go back to that era, I would immediately change the clothes - they were really beautiful but very uncomfortable! She spent hours trying them on and has put the photos on Twitter. Milla adores fashion. When she was 12 years old she began her career as a model and if she had more time, she would do more fashion shows.

She also designs clothes and has created a collection for the Japanese brand Ich and together with Carmen Hawk, has created some clothes for Resident Evil.

A passion for adventure Milla loves Twitter and she uploads* news about her life but also useful information such as the campaign against spina bifida, a genetic disease.

Her favourite hobbies are music, parachuting and underwater diving.

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She acted for many years before becoming a star: The last train for Kathmandu, Return to the blue lagoon, Kuffs… The turning point came in 1996 when she was chosen by Luc Besson for the film The Fifth Element (1997). It was a big success and was followed by other films such as Ultraviolet (2006) and the four films of Resident Evil. These took their inspiration from famous videogames and were set in the imaginary Raccoon City where Alice and her friends defend the world from the powerful multinational company called Umbrella.

The fifth film has already been announced for 2012!

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In reality she has also made historical films (Joan of Arc, 1999) and dramatic films (The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders with Mel Gibson, 2000). She said “a science fiction film and a historical one are similar. In both of these an unreal world is created in which the audience is immersed”.

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