Issue 182, Dated 18th October, 2012 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities

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Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize (Page 1)

Instructions: Read the article ‘European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize’. Answer questions 1-14.

1. Who was Alfred Nobel? A wealthy Swedish chemist who invented dynamite; died in 1896; arranged for some of his fortune to pay for Nobel Prizes.

2. Why did some people think it strange that Barack Obama was awarded the Peace Prize in 2009? Because he had only recently been elected as the president of the USA and America was involved in two wars at the time.

3. For what are Nobel Prizes awarded? Peace, medicine, literature, chemistry and physics.

4. Who is José Manuel Barroso? President of the European Commission.

5. How many countries are members of the European Union? Which were the last two to join and when did they become members? 27. Bulgaria and Romania. 2007.

6. List the six countries that formed the European Coal and Steel Community. Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, West Germany.

7. Who or what selects the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize? A group of five people selected by Norway’s parliament.

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Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize (Page 1) continued

8. How are the winners of the Noble Prizes other than the Peace Prize chosen? They are selected by a group, or committee, of academics from Sweden.

9. What is the European Council? How many people are members and who are they? The elected leaders of each of the EU members. 29; the 27 member country leaders plus the president of the Council (Herman Van Rompuy) and the president of the European Commission (José Manuel Barroso).

10. Why do some people complain about the EU? They dislike federalism; complain that the EU is taking away many of their own elected governments’ powers.

11. What is the eurozone and how many countries are part of it? A group made up of all the countries that use the euro as their currency. 17.

12. For what reason was the EU given the Nobel Peace Prize? Because it has kept the peace in Europe (between EU member countries) since 1945; it has encouraged democracy in many Eastern European countries.

13. Why do some people think it odd that a group from Norway selected the EU as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize? Because unlike nearly all other European countries Norway is not a member of the EU; people in Norway have twice voted against membership.

14. To who or to what is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year? The person/ people/ or organisation that is thought to have made the greatest contribution to world peace.

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Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______Obituary - Norodom Sihanouk (Page 8)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Obituary - Norodom Sihanouk’. Tick either true or false for the following statements.

TRUE FALSE

1. Indochina is the capital of Cambodia.  

2. Norodom Sihanouk spent many years living in China.  

3. Cambodia invaded Vietnam in 1978.  

4. Cambodia is a former colony of .  

5. The Khmer Rouge controlled China for four years.  

6. During the Vietnam War Sihanouk sided with the USA.  

Even though Sihanouk had supported the Khmer Rouge in 7. the past he was still popular in Cambodia.  

8. In his lifetime Sihanouk twice abdicated from the throne.  

9. Sihanouk became the King of Cambodia in 1941.  

10. The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the ‘killing fields’.   Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______Lenin statue taken down (Page 5)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Lenin statue taken down’. The answers to the questions are given for 1-8. Write the questions.

1. Q. To which country did Lenin move after it became unsafe for him to stay in Russia? From which country did Lenin return soon after the Tsar abdicated? A. Switzerland.

2. Q. In what do the nomadic people of Mongolia live? A. Yurts.

3. Q. In the past by what name did schoolchildren in Mongolia call Lenin? A. Teacher Lenin.

4. Q. What is the capital city of Mongolia? From which city was the statue of Lenin removed? A. Ulaanbaatar.

5. Q. What was the city of Petrograd renamed after Lenin died? What was the city of St Petersburg (Russia’s second largest city) formerly called? A. Leningrad.

6. Q. During the First World War which countries did Russia fight alongside against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire? A. France and Britain.

7. Q. In what year did the Russian-led Soviet Union begin to break apart? After what year did Mongolia introduce democratic elections? A. 1990.

8. Q. Why have many cities in countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union removed/ taken down statues of Lenin? A. Because most did not want to be reminded of the time they were under communist control. Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______Cuban Missile Crisis anniversary (Page 15)

Instructions: Read the article ‘Cuban Missile Crisis anniversary’. Draw a line to connect the correct links. The first is done for you.

Havana Revolution

American missiles American warships

John F Kennedy Capital city

Fidel Castro Turkey

Russian missiles Spy plane

General Batista USA

Nikita Khrushchev Cuba

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Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______‘Event horizon’ star discovered (Page 3)

Instructions: Read the article ‘‘Event horizon’ star discovered’ and fill in the spider diagram below with the details.

SPEED OF LIGHT BLACK HOLES roughly 300,000 kilometres space object with very strong (186,400 miles) per second; gravitational field from which the distance light travels in one nothing can escape; even light year is known as one light year. and other radiation cannot escape; black holes cannot be seen directly; can be detected EVENT HORIZON by the movements of stars and the distance from a black hole other space objects around them where it is not possible to get believed to be at the centre of any closer without being sucked most spiral shaped galaxies. in.

S0-102 AND S0-2 two recently discovered stars SAGITTARIUS A-STAR that are not far from the event the name (Sagittarius A*) given horizon of the black hole at to the black hole in the centre the centre of the Milky Way of the Milky Way Galaxy; Galaxy; S0-102 takes about named after the constellation, 11.2 years to go round the or group of stars, in which it is black hole (Sagittarius A*); S0-2 located. takes about 16 years to orbit the black hole. Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______No 2012 Africa prize (Page 6)

Instructions: Read the article ‘No 2012 Africa prize’. Answer questions 1-7.

1. Who is Mo Ibrahim? A wealthy businessman who made a lot of money by selling his mobile telephone company.

2. For what is the Mo awarded? For peacefully handing over power to a successor after making a good job of running a country in Africa.

3. Why did Mo Ibrahim set up the prize? He thinks many people in African countries are still very poor because of bad leadership and a lack of good democratic government; to encourage better and more democratic leadership in African countries.

4. Who won the prize in 2011 and why? Pedro Pires, a former president of ; he helped to set up a democratic government; was prime minster and president; during this time the economy improved, more people leaned to read and write; health and life expectancy improved; stepped down after second term as president when he was 77.

5. Why was there not a winner this year? In which other years have there been no winners? Because Mr Ibrahim said there were no suitable candidates. 2009 and 2010.

6. List the three people who have won the prize so far and from which countries they come. Pedro Pires, Cape Verde: , Botswana: , Mozambique.

7. What does the winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize receive? A payment of US$5 million (£3.1 million) plus US$200,000 (£123,700) every year for the rest of his or her life. Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______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 extra letters form another anagram. The answer is a mystery country. One is already done for you.

1. A U S CB S C U B A

2. LGUEMBIB B B E L G I U M

3. AAMIDOCNB N C A M B O D I A

4. EERETGC T G R E E C E

5. ZLEEEVANUA A V E N E Z U E L A

6. SEPNIPLPOHII O P H I L I P P I N E S

7. KAINASAPT A P A K I S T A N

8. RUEKWTY W T U R K E Y

Mystery country = B O T S W A N A Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______Issue 182 Elimination

Instructions: Read issue 182. Now eliminate from the list 13 pairs of words or phrases that go together. You will have one word or phrase left over. That is the answer. One pair is already done for you.

Speed of sound (1) Ankara (2) Einstein (3)

Fidel Castro (4) Ibrahim Prize (5) Bulgaria (6)

Khmer Rouge (7) Event horizon (8) Bamboo (9)

Great Barrier Reef (10) Australia (10) Pakistan (11)

Swat Valley (11) Japan (12) Stonehenge

Turkey (2) Venezuela (13) Black hole (8)

Toyota (12) General relativity (3) Africa (5)

Oil (13) Mach 1 (1) Cambodia (7)

Giant panda (9) Romania (6) Cuba (4)

Odd one out = STONEHENGE Issue 182 Newsademic.com™ – British English edition Activities Answer Key

Name: ______Class: ______Date: ______Issue 182 multiple choice quiz

Instructions: Read issue 182 and circle the correct answers for questions 1-10.

1. In which European capital city is the 6. What unusual thing is the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year? softshell turtle able to do? a. Oslo a. Sense in advance that there will be an b. Stockholm earthquake c. Paris b. Stay still for over four days d. Warsaw c. Climb trees e. Budapest d. Breathe underwater e. Turn its shell inside out 2. Which South American country has just re-elected Hugo Chávez as its president? 7. What is Sagittarius A*? a. Colombia a. A type of rare earth b. Uruguay b. A newly-discovered element c. Argentina c. A black hole in the centre of the Milky Way d. Venezuela d. A Russian nuclear missile e. Brazil e. A type of vitamin 3. Where is Mindanao? 8. Who was the last person to be awarded a. India the Ibrahim Prize? b. Myanmar a. Pedro Pires c. Thailand b. Joaquim Chissano d. Philippines c. Desmond Tutu e. Japan d. Barack Obama e. Festus Mogae 4. Who has just become the first person to free-fall supersonic? 9. What do crown-of-thorns starfish feed on? a. Mickey Gilbert a. Crustaceans b. Jerry Comeaux b. Other starfish c. Felix Baumgartner c. Dead whales d. Rick Sylvester d. Seaweed e. Yakima Canutt e. Coral

5. Who is the prime minister of Turkey? 10. Who or what is the ‘troika’? a. Antonis Samaras a. Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau b. Bashar al-Assad b. The Sun, the Moon and the Earth c. Lakhdar Brahimi c. Apollo, Mars and Zeus d. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan d. The UN, WHO and UNESCO e. Abdullah Gül e. The IMF, the EU and the ECB