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Issue 274, Dated 28th April 2016 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activiti es

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Issue 274 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities

Name: __________________________ Class: ______________________ Date: ________________

Crisis in Brazil (Page 1)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Crisis in Brazil’.

Answer questions 1-16.

1. What is impeachment?

2. When and where are the 2016 Olympic Games being held?

3. What is Petrobas?

4. Who is Dilma Rousseff?

5. What is the Workers’ Party?

6. If Ms Rousseff is impeached for how long will her Senate trial last?

7. Name the two houses or chambers in Brazil’s Congress.

8. What is Brazil now experiencing?


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Crisis in Brazil (Page 1) continued

9. Traditionally the host country’s head of state declare the Olympic games ‘open’

during a special ceremony. Why might this be a problem in Brazil this year?

10. What is Microcephaly?

11. What is inflation?

12. Of what is Ms Rousseff being accused?

13. Which language is spoken in Brazil?

14. What do police and lawyers believe about the corruption scandal?

15. Who is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva?

16. How is the Zika virus spread?


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Volcano and Maya (Page 12)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Volcano and Maya’.

Tick either true or false for the following statements.

TRUE FALSE

1.The Maya had an impressive knowledge of the planets,the stars and how the Sun seems to move across the sky.

2.

Today, many ancient glyphs have not been deciphered,

or decoded.

3. The Maya constructed impressive wooden buildings.

4.Some of the biggest cities were called Palenque, Tikal,and Chichen Itza.

5. The Maya civilisation was in South America.

6.Some still speak Mayan languages and follow Mayacustoms.

7.They believe that the Maya decline was caused by a bigvolcanic eruption in Central America.

8.The Dutch researchers found volcanic ash above theground where the Maya lived.

9.The Maya created a system of writing that used symbolscalled glyphs.

10.Big eruptions throw small amounts of volcanic ash high intothe atmosphere.


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Petro Poroshenko Contributor

Sarcophagus Pripyat

Statue of Liberty Chernobyl

‘Ghost town’ Decay

European Union Radiation

Belarus Exploded

Reactor Saint Paul’s Cathedral

Cancer Russia

Chernobyl anniversary (Page 3)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Chernobyl anniversary’.

Draw a line to connect the correct links. The first is done for you.


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POLIO ERADICATIONPOLIO

EDWARD JENNERFRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

Polio vaccine switch (Page 15)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Polio vaccine switch’ and fill in the spider diagram

below with the details.


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Earth Day signing (Page 7)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Earth Day signing’.

Answer questions 1-8.

1. When and where did industrialisation first begin?

2. What is the new five-year campaign launched this year by the Earth Day Network?

3. Name two greenhouse gases.

4. Who organised the first Earth Day? When was this?

5. Why are trees so important?

6. What is the Paris Agreement?

7. Why are special events held all over the world on Earth Day?

8. What are fossil fuels?


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World Map (Page 13)

Instructions: Solve these anagrams. Each answer is a country that appears on the

World Map. Each anagram has one extra letter. Together the extraletters form another anagram. The answer is a mystery country. One isalready done for you.

Mystery country =

I

1. EKA I R N I U I

U K R A I N E

2 . S E R L U A S B

3 . N A Z E E E A L U V

4 . O D M A B C D A I

5 . A A T N I N Z A I

6 . R U N N E F A I G H A C E

7 . D U O C R O A E

8 . I U R O O T N C E P R

9 . K S A N O A L V I


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Odd one out =

Issue 274 Elimination

Instructions: Read issue 274. Now eliminate from the list 13 pairs of words or phrases

that go together. You will have one word or phrase left over. That isthe answer. One pair is already done for you.

Sahel Free France Copernicus

El Salvador Dilma Rousseff Chernobyl

Baktun Hugo Chávez Shore

Petro Poroshenko Palenque Mitsubishi Motors

Calendar East India Company Petrobras

Paris Agreement Capybara Oil company

Axis powers Sentinel-1B Nicolas Maduro

Sikh Empire China Tetsuro Aikawa

Tikal Honduras Beaver


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Issue 274 multiple choice quiz

Instructions: Read issue 274 and circle the correct answers for questions 1-10.

1. Who had the Koh-i-Noor re-cut to improveits ‘sparkle’?

a. Queen Elizabeth the Second

b. Prince Albert

c. King George the Sixth

d. Shah of Persia

e. Queen Victoria

2. Which of the following did not take place

during the Great American Interchange?

a. Sabre-toothed cats moved south

b. Armadillos went north

c. Deer and horses moved south

d. Monkeys moved to North America

e. Sloths went north

3. Who wrote the story about the statue andthe rope?

a. Herodotus

b. Cylon

c. Plutarch

d. Thucydides

e. Phaleron

4. Which of the following does not have aborder on Lake Chad?

a. Nigeria

b. Cameroon

c. Niger d. Chad

e. Sudan

5. Who tradit ionally keeps the keys to theChurch of the Holy Sepulchre?

a. Coptic Monks

b. A local Muslim family

c. Christian pilgrims

d. Ethiopians

e. The pope

6. Which of the following was the last tobecome ‘polio free’ in 2015?

a. Afghanistan

b. Western Pacific

c. Nigeria

d. Europe

e. South East Asia

7. What position did Dilma Rousseff holdbefore becoming president of Brazil?

a. Sports minister

b. Energy minister

c. Vice-president

d. Chief of Staff

e. Health minister

8. Which of the following did not win aGoldman Environmental Prize?

a. Leng Ouch b. Edward Loure

c. Máxima Acuña

d. Edward Jenner

e. Zuzana Caputová

9. Where is the Sahel?

a. Africa

b. On the Moon

c. South America d. India

e. At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

10. Where was the most powerful earthquakeever recorded?

a. Japan

b. Tibet

c. Chile

d. Alaska

e. Ecuador

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