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Your Proofness: Sarah Munir Master Storyteller: Sundar Waqar Creativity Analysts: Jamal Khurshid, Essa Malik, Samra Aamir, Talha Ahmed Khan, Munira Abbas and Umar Waqas

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Enter the world of chocolate The book which has also been adapted into a movie features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Charlie is a young boy who lives with his ill grandparents and parents. His Grandpa Joe often tells him stories to him about the famous chocolate factory in his hometown and its owner, Willy Wonka. One day, an ad in the newspaper reveals that Willy Wonka has hidden a Golden Ticket in five chocolate bars being distributed to locations worldwide and whoever finds the Golden Ticket will get the chance to visit the factory and get a lifetime supply of candy. Charlie along with a greedy boy named Augustus Gloop, a spoiled brat named Veruca Salt, a recordbreaking gum chewer named Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee, who is obsessed with television finds the ticket. And so the adventure begins with introduction to Oompa Loompas, from Loompaland, who have been helping Wonka operate the factory. Children keep getting elimninated from the factory because of their misbehaviour and for not following instructions. The factory has chocolate pipes and chocolate rivers and candy rooms which bewilder the children. You must read the book for a delicious adventure and its chocolaty details. Charlie is the only one who does not get thrown out of the factory for misbehaving and thus wins the prize — the factory itself. Wonka had distributed the Golden Tickets to find an heir, and Charlie was the only one who passed the test.

Did you know?

The story was inspired by Roald Dahl’s experience of chocolate companies during his school days. Cadbury would often send test packages to the school children in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time Cadbury and Rowntree’s were the largest chocolate makers in England, where Roald Dahl is from. The two rivals would often try to steal each other’s recipes and thus were very secretive about their processes.

It was a combination of this secrecy and the machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.

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Charlie Bucket Charlie Bucket is the main character of the book. He is a kind hearted boy who is curious and interested in Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory. He gets one chocolate bar a year for his birthday which he keeps in a wooden box to save it so it lasts about a month.

Charlie is honest, giving, sincere, and is willing to keep his family safe and cares about them.

Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is the mysterious owner of a famous chocolate factory — a factory that workers are never seen to enter, but truckloads of chocolate and candy exit. In the book, Wonka is described by Roald Dahl as having a goatee, bright eyes and is sharp, clever and full of life.

Augustus Gloop Introduced in the opening pages of the book as ‘a greedy boy’, Augustus Gloop is the first person to find a Golden Ticket. Augustus is the first child to be removed from the tour: while drinking from the Chocolate Room’s chocolate river, he falls into the river and is sucked through a pipe to a room where he is manufactured.

Violet Beauregarde Violet Beauregarde, ‘a girl who chews gum all day’, is one of the Golden Ticket winners. Violet is the third child to find a Golden Ticket and the second to be ejected from tour.

Mike Teavee Mike Teavee, ‘a boy who does nothing but watch television’, is the fourth Golden Ticket finder.

ILLUSTRATION: QUENTIN BLAKE

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Veruca Salt Veruca Salt is a selfish, bratty girl who is spoiled by her parents. She is the second person to find a Golden Ticket, and lives in England.

Oompa Loompas Oompa-Loompas are tiny beings who originate from Loompaland. Wonka invited them to work at his factory and are paid in their favorite food, cacao beans, which were extremely rare in their island.

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Activity

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Flowery Clothes Peg

This week, ToffeeTV.com’s Talea Zafar teaches you how to make a Flowery Clothes Peg.

Step 1

Step 2

Take a silver rectangular piece of glittery paper and cut it the same size as a clothes peg.

Cut two small rectangles of glittery blue paper.

Supplies needed: •Clothes peg •Flowers cutting •Glue stick

Step 3

Step 4

Glue the silver strip and the blue rectangles on the peg.

Glue the flower to the bottom of peg.

•Some glittery fomic sheet

Step 5 Your flowery clothes peg is ready. You can hang your photographs, artwork and many more things for display.

Want to watch a video guide for this?

Log onto Toffeetv.com and check out the activities section!

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

White tigers A zoo in Austria has given the public its first glimpse of a brood of striking white Bengal tigers which were born a month ago. Their mother, Burani, gave birth to her litter at the private White Zoo at the Kameltheater Kernhof in Lower Austria.

Powerful photographs of Burani show her grasping her tiny cubs by the neck, and give a vision of what the babies will one day look like. Zookeepers have named the cubs — four females and one male — Lali, Lela, Lila, Lulu and Obama. The babies are the first litter Burani has given birth to since her last pregnancy in 2012. Having monitored the young big cats alongside their mother since they were born, zoo director Herbert Eder confirmed they are all healthy. The tigers have since been photographed playing with each other in their pen at the zoo, and displaying their adorable, toothless mouths to the cameras.

The cubs’ debut comes just a month after Buenos Aires zoo in Argentina unveiled their own brood of adorable Bengal tigers — the second litter to be born to mother Cleo and father Rhiano. INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

Youngest Everest climber A 13-year-old Indian schoolgirl has become the youngest female to summit Mount Everest. Malavath Poorna, reached the top of the world´s highest peak on after climbing from the Tibetan side of the mountain along with 10 Nepalese guides. The climb was made possible after the teenage girl was sponsored by a government-run social welfare organisation in southern India. “She was strong and determined to climb Everest. We are very proud,” her guide said. Mingma Sherpa, a Nepalese guide who has climbed all 14 of the world´s peaks over 8,000 metres, called Poorna´s ascent a rare accomplishment. “It is an achievement for someone so young to scale Everest.

It is not easy to achieve such a record,” Sherpa told AFP. Prior to Poorna´s climb, Nepal´s Nima Chemji Sherpa claimed to be the youngest woman to summit the mountain at the age of 16 in 2012. AFP

World wide weird

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Live in a bubble

Yes, you really can now live in a permanent bubble thanks to a couple of French designers who’ve created a bubble-shaped inflatable tent that can withstand all types of weather. The CasaBubble, which retails at between £4,000 (Rs400,000) and £9,300 (Rs9,300,000) depending on size, can be set up in less than one hour in your garden, letting you feel at one with nature all year long. French design duo, Pierre-Stephane and Frederic Richard, were inspired to create the pods, which are kept permanently inflated by a special turbine, by childhood dreams of sleeping under the Milky Way. There are three different types of bubble available: the Bubble Room, which is part opaque, the Bubble Drop, almost fully opaque, but with a circular clear window in the roof to allow a view of the sky and stars, and the Cristal Bubble, which is fully transparent.

The pods are also produced in different materials — all 100% recyclable — for different geographical locations and weather. You could have your very own garden room, home office or a brilliant playroom for the kids. METRO.CO.UK

Treasure island A treasure trove of rare gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog is set to go on sale. Don Kagin, whose firm is handling the sale, says most of the 1,400 coins found will go on sale on Amazon.com and Kagins.com. The coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at $11 million.

The couple, whom Kagin declined to identify, found them last year buried under the shadow of a tree on their rural Northern California property. Kagin says there have been numerous theories about the coins’ origins, but it is not certain who they belong to or who buried them. INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

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6 Word Origins Coin a phrase For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘to coin a phrase’ means ‘to create a new phrase’.

Unfortunately, no one is certain who first coined it but there are some clues as to how the phrase evolved. The verb ‘to coin’ first came about when referring to the actual process of making money. Around the 14th century, the noun ‘coin’ referred to the wedge-shaped dyes that were used to stamp the disks that were then coined and made into official currency. Since then the verb ‘to coin’ started to refer to anything that was made into something new. By the 16th century, coining new words became quite popular, though it wasn’t always considered a positive, innovative thing. Though up until this point, the term coining words was used rather than coining phrases. ‘To coin a phrase’ popped up quite late and the first known documented use of it is in The Southport American, a newspaper in Wisconsin, in 1848.

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Fun & games

Notable Entries for the Liberty Books Card Competition

Arwa Yousuf

Zainab Nasir Winner

Laiba Hussain

Arwa Yousuf Ahmed Yousuf

Arwa Yousuf

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You will need: • 1 large bottle • 1 permanent marker • 1 measuring jug/ cup (dl)

Good stamina is vital for most sports. This experiment will let you test how much air your lungs can breathe in.

What to do: 1. Use a measuring jug/cup of 1 decilitre volume to add one cup of water at a time to your bottle. Make sure that you mark the level of water on the bottle between every addition. Keep adding water till the bottle is completely full.

2. Next pour some water in your bowl.

• 1 straw with a bend • 1 bowl

3. Now cover the opening of your bottle with your thumb and place the bottle upside down in the bowl. Remove your thumb once the bottle is under the water surface.

4. Now try placing the straw in the neck of the bottle. Ask someone to help you by lifting up the bottle slightly, so that the straw doesn’t get pinched.

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5. Fill your lungs with air and blow through the straw so that water bubbles out of the bottle. How many deciliter air did you manage to blow? You may need a bigger bottle perhaps?

6. Note down the results and repeat the experiment at least thrice.

Word of the week: Volume Scientist Factory is offering a two week science summer camp at Haque Academy.

You can contact them at lalah@scientistfactory.com or call at 3 525 1511-3 for further details’’

Volume is the space taken up by something and we often measure volume in litres and decilitre . When we calculate volume, we must know the length, width and height of the container.