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Under The Surface

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Contents

Welcome Hello everyone! Welcome back to TEEN. In this issue we get to know a classical violinist, who is also a model, and go beneath the streets of London. We also learn some cool things, like how to take great photos, and how to make instruments for free, and we pick up some tips on how to be a good friend.

Have fun!

Liz

Around the World Have you ever dreamed about playing football at your favourite club? Well, in the UK you can turn your footballing dreams to reality! Thanks to Football Aid you could play in a charity* match on the pitch*

In this issue look out for: • • • • • • • • •

the gerund idioms phrasal verbs present tense first conditional time phrases and expressions active and passive tenses inifinitive constructions with ‘to’ language of photography, feelings and emotions • language of technology and business

Audio A subscription to the magazine allows you to download for free, in MP3 format, the audio of all the magazines in the resources section of our website www. elimagazines.com. You can do this by inserting the access code found in each issue of the magazine.

website www.footballaid.com, then you pay for a position in the team, and finally, you can choose to play for 45 or for 90 minutes, depending on your level of fitness.

The money raised goes to a variety of charities, including research into a cure for Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes.

“Passion for Football, Compassion for Others”!

Match the Kit* with the Team How well do you know your international football? Match the country with the correct team colours!

Argentina

Wales

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Mexico

Ukraine

Japan

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a. yellow, with three blue stripes on the shoulders

b. vertical blue and white stripes

c. red

Although Charlie is still young, he has already played at many of the world’s most prestigious venues*. He’s recorded three CDs and is currently working on a fourth, which will feature some of his favourite pieces.

What is the secret to being a great violinist? ‘The best players know that they are only a channel for the music,’ he says. ‘If you want to be a great musician you need to learn how to let the music flow* through your fingers.

That is the best way to give an audience the gift of wonderful music.’

Teamwork

Charlie

Charlie has worked on a number of projects with other musicians, such as Will Young, as well as with the Royal Ballet, and Chinese Opera Star, Zhang Jun, who he performed with in front of Queen Elizabeth II. Lady Gaga is a big fan of his, as is Peruvian fashion photographer, Mario Testino. Testino says, ‘Charlie has brought a breath of fresh air to the world of classical music.

He is a rare combination of musical talent and contemporary elegance.’

Charlie has also performed a duet with Bryan Adams in an acoustic version of his hit Heaven.

At 26, Charlie Siem has got it all! Not only is he a world-class violinist, but he’s also a model, and he spends his time doing what he loves best: playing the violin!

‘I’m always on the move,’ he says, ‘I don’t have a home of my own, so I keep all my books and music at my parents’ home. I get on really well with my mum and dad, and my three sisters. We’re a very close family.’

When he’s performing, Charlie wears nail varnish* on the little finger of his left hand. He says it is part of a ritual that helps him to concentrate. The nail varnish used to be red or pink, but now it is more usually gold.

He doesn’t have a favourite designer because he likes to change his look often, but he gets his suits made specially for him by prestigious London tailor, Meyer & Mortimer.

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Live the Dream! of the club you support*. This has been really popular in the UK, and now people from all corners of the planet are joining in. Many of the UK’s top clubs have made their grounds* and changing rooms* available for this great idea. How does it work? First, you have to apply for a place at their

Virtuoso

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changing rooms: room where you put your sports clothes on charity: organisation which gives money and help to people who need it diabetes: disease where there is too much sugar in the blood grounds: area where you play and watch football or other sports kit: (here) clothes and boots/shoes you wear to play football or other sport pitch: field where you play football support: provide help for

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3 Teen People Charlie Siem 4 Under The Surface 150 Years of the London Underground 6 Report Will You Be My Friend?

8 UK Today Tech Future 10 Innovations How to…Take Better Photos 12 Culture and Society Making Music Playstation 14

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Who is Charlie?

US broadcaster CBS has called him the ‘greatest violin virtuoso* in the world’, but Charlie Siem knows that to stay at the top you have to practise for hours, and be totally focussed* on what you do.

Charlie’s father is Norwegian and his mother is English. Everyone says he’s like a ray of sunshine – always smiling, handsome and fun. His good looks and charm have helped to bring classical music to a wider audience, encouraging some young people to listen to classical music for the frst time.

‘Everything that has happened to me in

Private Life

my life feels like a miracle*,’ Charlie says.

‘I think it comes from being at peace with myself, and knowing what direction I want to go in. It’s been great being involved in fashion, but my greatest love is, and always will be, the violin. Playing the violin is what I was born to do, and it’s what I want to do for the rest of my life!’

It All Began When…

Charlie was three years old when he first remembers hearing classical music on the radio in his home. He was immediately captivated*. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was listening to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, and the soloist was famous New York violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who died in 1999.

In a strange twist of fate*, some twenty years later he was loaned* a priceless violin that had belonged to Yehudi Menuhin himself. This violin is very old. It was made in 1735 and at one time was owned by a king of Prussia. It has an exquisite tone, similar to the violins of Stradivarius. Charlie calls it ‘his baby’ and says he feels incredibly privileged to be playing this violin – Yehudi Menuhin was his musical idol.

www.charliesiem.com

Glossary captivated: the music attracted his interest (because it was beautiful) flow: move through you (like a liquid) focussed: concentrating only on one thing loaned: given for a period of time miracle: magical event that you cannot explain (an act of God) nail varnish: colour you paint onto your nails, goes hard when dry twist of fate: unexpected event that was outside his control venues: places where musicians, comedians, actors perform virtuoso: extremely talented at something

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In this series of articles, we look beneath the surface.

This time, we are going underground!

on the Underground, while Waterloo has the most escalators (23). Waterloo is the city’s busiest underground station because so many commuters live south of London. During weekday mornings up to 57,000 people go into Waterloo Tube station.

According to some, the Bakerloo Line was built to take businessmen from the centre of London to the cricket ground at Lord’s, but no one can find any evidence for that!

The Central line is the red one. It was originally called the Twopenny Tube because that is how much a Central Line ticket used to cost.

150 Years of the London Underground

The Oyster Card

If you’ve been to London, you’ve almost certainly travelled around on the London Underground, and even if you haven’t, you are bound to have* seen it in the cinema at least once in your life. Let’s go down the escalator to find out more…

London Underground Lines Each of the 11 lines on the Underground have been given a colour. This makes it easier to get around, and is the basis for the iconic, schematic* map of the Tube designed in 1931 by Harry Beck.

The Central Line is red, the Circle Line, yellow, the Bakerloo Line is brown, the Piccadilly Line is dark blue, and so on. Most lines are divided according to direction of travel. So if you are going from Paddington Station to Liverpool Street Station for example, you will go on the Circle Line eastbound.

Coming back you will go westbound.

North to south lines, like the Northern Line, are divided into northbound and southbound. Check the direction carefully to make sure you are going where you want!

First of Its Kind Did you know that the London Underground was the first underground rail network in the world? In fact, this year it’s celebrating its 150th birthday. That’s right, the first line (between Paddington and Farringdon) was opened in 1863 for trains powered by steam. It was also the first underground network to run electric trains, in 1890.

The Underground, often called The Tube*, is made up of 11 lines and

now covers over 400 kilometres of track and has 270 stations. It carries over a billion people per year, and it’s still expanding*. The Docklands Light Railway, or DLR, in East London was extended for the 2012 Olympic

games, and there are plans to extend* the Northern line in the near future. Crossrail is a completely new underground route across the centre of London, east to west. This is planned to open in 2018.

Underground Stories The Bakerloo Line: this is the brown one and was opened in 1906. It gets its name from two of its most famous stations – Baker Street (home of Sherlock Holmes) and Waterloo. Baker Street has 10 platforms, that’s the most of any station

The London Underground is divided into 6 ‘Zones*’, and your journey is priced according to how many zones you cross.

For journeys in Central London, you will only need to buy a ticket for Zones 1 and 2.

Most Londoners use the blue Oyster Card, because it saves them time and money. It’s a plastic ‘smartcard’ that can be used on trains, buses and the Underground throughout London. You can top it up whenever you want, so you don’t need to queue for a ticket.

Getting onto the trains is quicker too, all you have to do is put the card onto the reader at the automatic gate at the entrance to your line. You will have to pay a £5 deposit* for the card, but you get that back when you have finished using it.

If you are only in London for a day or two, then it’s probably best to get a One Day Travelcard. This lets you travel as many times as you want within a 24hour period. If you get a Travelcard for Zones 1 and 2, just make sure you don’t accidentally go into Zone 3! Tickets are always cheaper ‘off peak’ – that is after 09.30 Monday to Friday, which are the busiest times.

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The London Underground has appeared in a number of big films. Sliding Doors was filmed at Waterloo Station on the Waterloo & City Line. This romantic comedy tells the story of a girl whose life changes depending on whether or not she catches a train!

Bond goes Underground. The Bond film Skyfall was filmed in a disused station. It was one of the biggest filming events in the history of the Tube. Some scenes had more than 450 working either as cast* or on the crew*.

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Secret Code If you travel on the Underground you will sometimes hear a warning.

This three-word phrase was introduced in 1969, and the original recording is still used today! Use the secret code to work out what it is.

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The answers are on page 15.

Glossary bound to have: must have, almost certainly have cast: people appearing in a play or film crew: people working on a film, eg cameramen, lighting technicians etc deposit: money given as security, ie so that you will give something back

expanding: being made bigger extend: made longer schematic: like a diagram, (here) not an exact map but showing the relative distance between stations tube: round pipe, cylinder zones: areas

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Report The secret to being happy is having good relationships* with the people around us. In this Report, we find out what makes a good friendship*, look at ways of improving our friendships, and learn how to be the perfect friend!

The best way to get on with people is to be happy in ourselves! Interacting with those around us and making new friends, can help us grow, changing us in good ways. Friends can teach us a lot about ourselves, and there are plenty of ways we can meet new people – at school, at a sports club, or by joining an after-school activity…

Celebrate Diversity We’re all unique, and our friends aren’t always interested in the same things as us.

There’s nothing wrong with that, in fact it’s a good thing. Can you imagine how boring it would be if we all liked the same things?

A good friend will always accept that you are different from them. They will be open to new ideas and positively enjoy the ways in which people are different from each other.

Friends can show us

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Will You be My Friend? all sorts of new things – a technique for playing better basketball, introduce us to a new videogame, or show us how to make revising* easier. Treating people with respect, however different they are from us, is the only way to create and maintain good relationships.

about it. Instead of saying ‘you’re a liar*!’, you might try to say the same thing in a less hurtful* way, like ‘I don’t think you’re telling the truth’. It’s the best way to avoid upsetting your friend! Remember to look them in the eye when you say it – they’re much more likely to take you seriously.

Friendship Rule Number 1: Listen

Be Assertive

If we want people to listen to us when we talk, then we have to be honest with ourselves and ask, when other people are talking to us, do we always give them our full attention? Do we listen to them? If you want to be a good friend you need to listen to other people. We should also remember that it’s not only what we say that’s important, we also have to make sure the person we’re talking to understands what we’re saying!

Look Them in the Eye It can be difficult telling a friend what you really think, especially if you don’t agree with them or you feel they’ve done something wrong. If you do decide to say something they might not want to hear, then it’s a good idea to be as diplomatic as possible

Of course, the way we say things is also important. Communication is as much about tone of voice, the expression on our faces and our body language, as it is about the words we use. Imagine you’re queuing to buy tickets for a concert or the cinema, when someone pushes in front of you.

What would you do?

If you look at the ground and don’t say anything, then you aren’t standing up for yourself.

If you stare at them aggressively or try to intimidate them, then you might trigger* a violent reaction!

If, however, you look the person in the eye and say what you think calmly and confidently, then you are simply being assertive*. This is often the best way to stand up for yourself, but avoid creating more problems!

The Ten Rules of Friendship 1. Be honest and be yourself.

2. Respect other people.

3. Be thoughtful and considerate.

4. Keep in touch and answer your messages.

5. Be a good listener.

6. Ask questions.

7. Be helpful.

8. Always be ready to say ‘sorry’.

9. Be approachable*.

10. Accept other people for who they are.

Lovemarks Kevin Roberts is an expert in brands and marketing. He believes that the strongest brands make an emotional connection with us. We choose one brand over another, he says, because we identify with it and love it.

Love lies behind a lot of great talent. It’s not enough for a maths teacher simply to be good at maths, for example – to be a great teacher and to share your passion for the subject, you have to make your pupils love it too.

This is what lies at the heart of all good relationships. If we don’t put love into what we do, then we won’t get any love out!

One of the best films ever made about friendship is the classic Stand By Me. The film was adapted from a short story by Stephen King, and was nominated for an Oscar in 1982. Put the pieces of the puzzle in the correct order and find a famous quote from the film!

TWELVE… DOES

ANYONE? LATER ON LIKE THE ONES I HAD

WHEN I WAS I NEVER HAD ANY FRIENDS

The answer is on page 15

Glossary approachable: friendly, and easy to be with/talk to assertive: being strong/confident, but not aggressive friendship: being friends hurtful: something that makes you sad or upset liar: person who does not tell the truth trigger: (figurative) start (in an uncontrolled or violent way) relationships: the emotions/feelings between people revising: learning what you need for your exams

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UK Today

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There are thousands and thousands of new technology ideas and start-up* companies around the world. To make the most of this burst of creativity*, new zones have been set up around the UK to encourage investment and business expansion*. Here are some of the new tech zones in the UK.

Tech Future near Manchester, and focusses on creative industries, especially TV and radio. The area has been redeveloped from an old industrial site and it’s a strange place to visit! The streets don’t have names, but colours. There are also coloured lights in the streets so you know which street you are on.

Tech City UK Tech City is London’s technology centre. It is centred in Shoreditch, in east London, and is now home to some of the world’s biggest names in the internet, media and computer sectors*. In fact, the people who run Tech City say it is the biggest growing tech hub* in Europe. It’s certainly growing quickly. In 2008, there were only a handful* of technology companies in the area, in 2012 this was closer to 5,000!

In honour of California’s famous Silicon* Valley, this area is affectionately known as Silicon Roundabout. Why? Many of the new businesses in Tech City are close to a large roundabout on Old Street!

The area is also providing a home, and access to investment, for some of the newest and smallest start-ups. These businesses might employ only a few people, sometimes they are a team of two, but they could be the Google or the Facebook of the future. One of the areas where the UK is most successful is in the development of apps and games. This combines creative talent, and imagination, with computer and programming skills.

Recruitment* The biggest problem facing the businesses in Tech City at the moment, is recruitment – they say there just aren’t enough young British people with the right skills. To help with this, they have teamed up with Imperial College London, which already helps its technology students turn their

brilliant ideas into businesses.

MediaCityUK

The biggest move to Media City was made by the BBC. The world’s biggest broadcasting company moved 2,500 of its workers there from London in 2011, and many of its programmes are now produced there. Other TV and satellite companies have also opened up offices here, and the area has close links* with Salford University.

Go to techcity.io for a promotional video.

If you are interested, you can read their latest news at http://techcitynews.com

While Tech City is getting more businesses to go to London, Media City is encouraging investment to go north.

Media City is based at Salford Quays

You can book a tour of the BBC’s offices at MediaCityUK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ showsandtours/tours/salford.shtml

Silicon Fen

Match the names

At the Cambridge Science and Business Parks you will find another of the UK’s top technology hubs. Silicon Fen is also named after California’s high-tech centre Silicon Valley, and it specialises in software, electronics and biotechnology.

In the 1970s, an area of hightech businesses to the south of San Francisco became known as Silicon Valley. The UK has three areas that have taken a similar name. Do you know what each of these terms means?

The University of Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, but until the beginning of this century, there were few high-tech jobs in the city – many graduates ended up going to America to find work.

Silicon Fen was set up to keep that talent in the UK. The area is now home to companies specialising in computeraided design, semi-conductors, and the latest generation of computer chips.

There’s a similar area in Scotland – that’s called Silicon Glen.

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3 Flat area of land, which is often wet. There are no hills here.

4 Circular area at the centre of several roads. Traffic goes round it.

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burst of creativity: period of time with a lot of new ideas expansion: the state of getting bigger handful: small number hub: (here) centre links: (here) relationship recruitment: finding the right people for the right jobs sectors: parts of the economy silicon: grey-coloured chemical, often found in sand, used in electronics start-up: (here) new, developing companies

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If you want to see some of the most important and most beautiful photos in the history of photography, go to www. worldsfamousphotos.com. Here you can see an American soldier kissing a nurse at the end of the second world war, or the Afghan girl with the green eyes that went round the world on the cover of National Geographic!

Anagram

The latest version of Instagram lets you take and share videos lasting between 3 and 15 seconds.

Want to make your photos look like they were taken by a professional? Download the latest photo apps onto your smartphone and you can do just that! Read on, to find out how to turn your snapshots* into something special!

How things have changed in the world of photography! Today, most people use the inbuilt camera on their smartphone to take photos rather than a camera. Technology and social networking have got more and more people interested in photography – every single day 300 million photos are posted on Facebook. Incredible but true!

But, let’s face it*, there’s a big difference between a photo taken by a professional and that mugshot* you have taken of your friends.

Let’s not be too hard on ourselves, you can take great photos on your phone, but they’re unlikely to be real masterpieces.

The Professionals Professional photographers have to keep up to date with the latest trends and fashions. They also have to find the best ways of working with the latest photographic technology. Only a few years ago, everyone was complaining that digital had killed the art of photogrpahy.

Now, digital has been accepted, and in fact far from killing photography, it’s opened it up to a lot more people, without the need for expensive equipment.

How To… Take Better Photos

Digital photographic technology has improved so much, that even experts often can’t say, with any degree of certainty, whether a photo has been taken with a digital single-lens reflex* (DSLR) camera, a compact* or a smartphone! The world of photography has started to embrace* the smartphone – American technology magazine, WIRED, recently ran an international competition for photos taken on a smartphone. The media industry is also seeing the advantages of the smartphone camera. Reporters can now take good quality shots wherever they are, recording war zones, disasters, and events making history around the world.

Instagram Instagram is a free smartphone app which lets you apply fun effects to your photos. It also makes it easier to upload them onto the main social networking sites (from Facebook to Tumblr, Flickr and Foursquare). In honour of the iconic Polaroid camera from the 70s, it lets you make your photos square and not the usual rectangular format*. Instagram has about 20 or so filters. These allow you to change colour, tone, and focus, go black and white, as well as scale and crop*.

One of the most popular filters is called

Nashville. This adds a nostalgic feel to your photos, as if they were faded* photos from the 70s.

Instagram was developed by two young design and computer graduates. Last year, Facebook bought the company, and now, only a couple of years later, the app has over 100 million active users – that means 100 million people are using Instagram every month. Wow!

Celebrity Instagrammers The idea of sharing photos through Instagram was an instant hit with celebrities. Justin Bieber for example grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

Only a few days after the launch of a new video function on the app, he uploaded one of his own – it was the first Instagram video to reach a million likes!

The fashion world didn’t waste its time either. Instagram has been used to take photos in the streets of the world’s greatest cities, where some of the most exciting fashion ideas can be found! Arianna Power is just one of the professional photographers who’ve been photographing original fashion ideas they’ve seen on the streets of London.

Lomogram and Hipstamatic For many people, Lomogram is even better than Instagram, though it is less linked in to social networking sites. Lomogram offers 150,000 different effects, filters and borders. It lets you crop photos to any shape and size you want, including the long, narrow shape you need for the Facebook cover photo, it even has a mirror effect. Instagram can’t do any of this!

The first internet site to host* videos in HD (high definition) has been used by artists like Moby, Kanye West and Britney Spears. It’s name is an anagram of the word ‘movie’ (the American word for film). What is it called?

Can you guess?

Lomogram gets its name from a particular style of photography called Lomography. The name is inspired from a Russian compact camera manufacturer called LOMO. Do you know what the philosophy behind lomography is?

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Don’t think, just shoot!

Take your time!

Light, light, light!

The answer is on page 15

Hipstamatic is another photo app. It lets you add filters before you take your photo, and makes your shots look properly retro!

When the app was launched in 2010, people instantly fell in love with it because it copies the washed-out* look of old-fashioned, cheap cameras.

Glossary compact: small, not taking up much space crop: (photography) cut to change the shape embrace: accept (with enthusiasm) faded: colours that are less bright, eg because of the effect of the sun format: (here) size and shape of the photo host: (here) provide space for let’s face it: (idiom) we have to be honest mugshot: (informal) photo taken of

someone’s head (usu. for police records (!)) single-lens reflex: camera with semi-automatic mirror system (you see the photo exactly as it will be) snapshot: informal photo (eg taken quickly with a small camera) washed out: colours that are less bright (like clothes that have been washed a lot)

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Making Music

Life is still tough for these kids, they live in terrible conditions of poverty and pollution, but they have shown the power of music to transform lives.

The Vegetable Orchestra Most people don’t have $5M dollars in their bank accounts to buy a Stradivarius violin. If money is tight for you, you could still play an instrument made from a vegetable! The Vegetable Orchestra, originally from Austria, has shown it is possible to make complex and beautiful music from carrots, onions, even cabbage. The Vegetable Orchestra’s latest album is called Onionoise – say it out loud and see if you hear the play on words.

To continue our musical theme in this issue of TEEN, we thought we would introduce you to two rather unusual orchestras – the Recycled Orchestra and the Vegetable Orchestra.

The Recycled Orchestra

Go to vegetableorchestra.org for a video on how the instruments are made, and what they sound like when they are played.

‘The world sends us garbage*, we send back music.’ This is what Favio Chávez says about the orchestra he set up in a slum* in Paraguay. In this slum, people live on top of a landfill*,

The documentary about the Recycled Orchestra will be released in January 2014. What do you think it will be called?

Slum Life Favio Chávez knows the kind of lives that slum children have – they are surrounded by violence, abuse* and drugs, and just as importantly, there is little beauty in their lives.

Chávez decided to try to introduce music into their lives. So, with the help of one of the men who works on the dump*, he started making instruments from what other people had thrown away.

their houses are made from the rubbish* they find around them, and they make money by sorting through and selling rubbish. It’s a hard life, so how do children growing up in these conditions find the money to buy instruments? The answer is that they don’t! All their instruments are made from rubbish.

The children in this orchestra play instruments made from bits of wood and metal that have been found on the landfill. One young man plays a cello made from an old oil can* and kitchen utensils*. The quality of sound that these young musicians get out of their instruments in amazing.

The effects have been powerful on the children who play the instruments.

‘The Recycled Orchestra is like an island within the community. It’s a place where the children can develop values that are different from what they see around them, and show everyone that their lives are worth something.’

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Jazz Junk Sounds of the Slum Landfill Harmonic Answer on page 15.

Could you do something brilliant and creative with rubbish? Write your ideas in the space below!

It’s had a positive effect on the adults around them too, with some going back into education and training. ‘It’s because

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The internet has helped to tell the story of this group of young musicians. A short video of the Recycled Orchestra was posted on YouTube and became a hit around the world, and a full-length* documentary film about the project will be released next year. The money to make this film was raised through the internet-funding* site, Kickstarter. The film-makers are now trying to raise enough money to send the children on a world tour.

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Glossary abuse: bad treatment, physical or mental can: metal container for liquids dump: where you put things that have been thrown away (synonym of landfill) full length: ‘normal’ length, ie not a short film funding: (here) getting people to give money for projects/ ideas garbage: (American English) = things you throw away landfill: place for things people do not want rubbish: (British English) = things you throw away slum: area where lots of people live in poverty (no clean water, sanitation etc) utensils: knives, spoons etc that you use for cooking

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Wordsearch Find 14 words to do with photography in the wordsearch below, and discover the name of the French photographer who is known as the father of photojournalism.

True or False?

Have you read our Report on friendship? Answer True or False below, and find out some curious facts about hearts and emotions!

1 Strong emotions make your heart beat more slowly.

2 An honest person rarely blushes.

3 The hearts of elephants and whales beat a thousand times a minute.

4 The phrase “falling in love” does not exist in all languages.

5 Our hearts are designed to last around 20 years.

6 Onions produce a chemical that makes you cry.

7 Newborn babies cannot produce tears when they cry.

8 On average, women cry 30-64 times a year; men cry 6-17 times.

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1 Sherlock Holmes goes home on this line!

2 This black line travels north and south through London.

3 This line is dark blue and goes under a famous square.

4 The colour of the line with the busiest commuter station.

5 London is divided into 6 of these.

6 You can get one of these to travel round London for a day.

7 This line is red and goes across London east to west, and west to east.

8 The new line across London …..rail 9 The colour of the Circle Line.

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Answers P. 3 Match the Kit: 1.b, 2.c, 3.e, 4.a, 5.d.

P. 4-5 Secret Code: Mind the Gap. P. 6-7 Puzzle: I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve … does anyone?

P. 8-9 Match: a.3; b.2; c.4; d.1.

P. 10-11 Anagram: Vimeo; Can You Guess: a).

The answers are at the bottom of the page.

P. 12-13 Orchestra Name: c) (from landfill + philharmonic). P. 14 True or False: 1.F, 2.F, 3.F (elephants = 25-30 beats per minute (bpm); whale 1030 bpm), 4.T, 5.T, 6.F, 7.T (because their tear duct hasn’t opened properly yet), 8.T; Crossword: 1.Bakerloo; 2.Northern; 3.Piccadilly; 4.brown; 5.zone; 6.card;

7.Central; 8.cross; 9.yellow; Wordsearch: angle, border, crop, faded, filters, focus, format, frame, journalist, lens, light, reflex, snapshot, video: Henri Cartier-Bresson; Odd one out: 1.b, 2.d, 3.b.

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