‘food for thought’ Issue 19 Your Distraction Pack
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Photos sourced from Pixabay.com Welcome to the 19th issue of ‘food for thought’, your distraction pack. Dictionary definition of
“Something that prevents someone from giving their attention to something else” “An activity that you do for pleasure”
COVID-19 has affected us all in very different ways, but the common adjustment we have all had to make is that of self-isolation and how we each deal with that varies enormously. Some are finding it easy to distance themselves from others, whilst others are finding isolation difficult. We are all responsible for making sure not only we, but others, are kept safe from infection and the only way to do that is to stay where you live and avoid close contact with others. These Distraction Packs offer a variety of quizzes, activities and reading material to help distract you during the long periods of time spent alone. We hope you enjoy them. The answers are given at the back, so if you don’t want to know what they are, don’t look beyond page 27!
Having supported older individuals with convictions (in prisons and the community) for over ten years, RECOOP, part of the BCHA family, recognises the importance of keeping active, both physically and mentally. Our Distraction Packs, 'food for thought' are created with that in mind. www.recoop.org.uk
BCHA is a not for profit, registered Housing Association, that has supported those experiencing homelessness for over 50 years. BCHA help the most vulnerable within our society 'find a way forward’. www.bcha.org.uk
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3 Activity - Dot-to-dot
4 Quiz 1 - Close-up - Can you identify these objects?
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9
5 Activity - Colouring If you don’t have coloured pencils, try using different shades of grey.
6 All about …. Clouds
1. Clouds made by fire One of the ways in which clouds are formed is by the heating of the earth's surface which causes air to rise which condenses water droplets to form clouds. Heating of the earth's surface is usually done by the sun, but wildfires and volca- noes can also cause intense heating which leads to the rapid formation of clouds known as pyrocumulus. If enough water vapour is available, a pyrocumulus can become a thunder cloud which is called a pyrocumulonimbus which can produce dramatic lightning displays.
2. Up in the clouds Feared by paragliders and hand glid- ers, the base of cumulus clouds can be a dangerous place when thermal updrafts contribute to a phenomenon known as 'cloud suck'. In Februrary 2007, paraglider Eva Wiśnierska-Cieślewicz was sucked up into a cumulonimbus cloud rapidly climbing at a speed of 45 mph to an altitude of 9,946 m (32,600 feet) - close to the altitude of an air-liner. Due to hypoxia she lost consciousness and miraculously came around after around an hour to successfully land her paraglider. With temperatures around -50 °C at that altitude, when she reached the ground she was covered in ice with bruising all over her body from the impact of hailstones in the cloud.
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7 All about Clouds…. continued 3. Why clouds are white The reason clouds are white and the sky is blue is all to do with the colour spec- trum of light. Light from the sun starts out white but becomes scattered by parti- cles in the sky. Atmospheric particles in the sky scatter away blue light more than other colours which gives the sky its blue appearance. But as light passes through a cloud it interacts with larger water droplets which scatter all colours of the spectrum of light almost equally. This means that the sun- light continues to remain white making the clouds appear white against the back- ground of a blue sky.
4. The cloudiest place on earth The earth's atmosphere is a very cloudy place. NASA's Earth Observatory esti- mates that at any given time, around 67% of Earth's surface is covered by cloud. Based on observatory data between 2002 and 2015, NASA's Aqua Satellite image clearly shows three zones which are the cloudiest, over the mid-latitudes and over the equator. These zones are created by the interaction of large cells of air which are part of the earth's global circulation patterns.
5. How much does a cloud weigh? While there are many factors that will determine the exact amount of water vapour a cloud holds (e.g. temperature, altitude, pressure etc.) we can work with an average of about 5 g of water per cubic metre of cloud. This means an average size cumulonimbus would weight about 400,000 kg, roughly the same weight as an Airbus A380.
6. The highest cloud of all The title of highest cloud goes to the rare but beautiful but noctilucent cloud. They hover at around 60,000 m (200,000 feet) and are too faint to be seen in daylight. They become visible during twilight when sunlight from below the horizon illuminates them to reveal their faint ghostly outlines. Continued …….
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Source: Metoffice.gov.uk 9 Quiz 2 - Missing Vowels - Sitcoms The following are all names of British sit-coms but with the vowels and punctuation removed. How many can you name?
1. LSTFTHSMMRWN 2. FTHRTD 3. THGDLF 4. NLYFLSNDHRSS 5. TTHMNRBRN 6. BRD 7. HDH 8. JSTGDFRNDS 9. STMGSBY 10. NTGNGT 11. BSLTLYFBLS 12. RDDWRF 13. LLLL 14. PNLLHRS 15. DDSRMY 16. RYBNGSRVD 17. THTHNBLLN 18. WTNGFRGD 19. GMMGMMGMM 20. DTYFR 21. THGDS 22. THFFC 2 23. SMMTHRSDVM 24. DRPTHDDDNKY
25. STPTNDSN Source: kensquiz.co.uk 10 Activity - Shape Up!
Each of the different shapes below has a numerical value. The numbers to the right of the grid are the sum of each row and the numbers at the bottom are the sum of each column. Can you work out the value of each shape? No shape has a value less than 1. Enter the solution into the empty grid.
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Source: www.puzzlechoice.com 11 Quiz 3 - Johnny English This picture round is a selection of ten actors who have appeared in the ‘Johnny English’ films. Can you name them?
Source: readymadepubquiz.com
12 Activity - Number Search
02098, 07871, 08823, 09873, 12313, 27997, 37783, 39234, 39332, 45484, 45943, 49348, 58493, 89039, 90398, 92834
Source: www.puzzlechoice.com
13 Activity - Around the World anagrams Can you work out the name of the country from the following anagrams? Name lengths are shown in brackets. It sometimes help to rewrite the letters in a circle.
1. ULTRA ASIA (9)
2. BIG MULE (7)
3. COLD ANTS (8)
4. NEAR GYM (7)
5. NICE LAD (7)
6. SLENDER THAN (11)
7. ANY ROW (6)
8. A SNIP (5)
9. NEAR GIANT (9)
10. LIZARDS WENT (11)
Source: www.puzzlechoice.com
14 Quiz 4 - Advertising slogans
The following are chocolate bar advertising slogans from the past and present. Can you identify which type of chocolate they are the slogans for?
1. The lighter way to enjoy chocolate.
2. Feel the bubbles.
3. The taste of paradise.
4. Get Some Nuts!
5. Why have cotton when you can have silk?
6. It’s not for girls
7. Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside
8. Take it easy.
9. It’s not Terry’s, It’s mine.
10. And all because the lady loves…
Sources: readymadepubquiz.com
15 16 17 Activity - Mandalas
Mandalas are circular designs with repeating shapes and they often hold spiritual significance. The word “mandala” comes from the Sanskrit word for circle. Many people find drawing mandalas to be a very centring and expressive activity. We give some examples below and then a template on the next page for you to design your own. They can be as simple, or elaborate, as you like. Enjoy!
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Your Mandala template
19 Activity - Blank Word Search Have a go at creating your own Word Search using the grid and words below.
MERCEDES HYUNDAI FIAT PORSCHE ALPHA ROMEO BENTLEY HONDA LEXUS FORD MORGAN DACIA SKODA VAUXHALL CHRYSLER CATERHAM VOLKSWAGEN CITROEN BMW JAGUAR TOYOTA FERRARI AUDI LAND ROVER SMART OPAL ROLLS ROYCE NISSAN VOLVO 20 Health Watch
Self-isolating Top Tips:
Try and change your daily routine as much as is possible.
Talk to neighbours - from a distance of at least 2 metres - as engaging with others is important for mental wellbeing.
Open a window to let in fresh air, particularly if you cannot venture out for your daily exercise.
Try doing some exercises in your room.
Drink plenty of water - it’s important to keep hydrated. It is recommended we drink 2 litres a day.
21 - Breakfast by John Steinbeck Here’s a new feature from ‘The Reader’. The box on the right is the short story (or part of) and the box on the left are thoughts on the passage from ‘The Reader’.
The Reader’s thoughts: Breakfast by John Steinbeck The first lines of this story get me I saw a young woman beside the stove, thinking – what might it be like to really a girl. She was dressed in a faded recall something again and cotton skirt and waist. As I came close I again? saw that she carried a baby in a crook- And also, why does the remember- ed arm and the baby was nursing, its ing bring curious warm pleasure to head under her waist out of the cold. whoever is talking to us in the story? The mother moved about, poking the I’m puzzled by place that’s being fire, shifting the rusty lids of the stove to described too: where might we be make a greater draft, opening the oven and why is this person out there door; and all the time the baby was alone? Why is there a tent there? nursing, but that didn’t interfere with the Just reading this is making me feel mother’s work, nor with the graceful- cold, but then there’s the old rusty ness of her movements. There was iron stove which seems warm… something very precise and practiced Now we’ve thought about the first about her movements. The orange fire page, I’m keen to find out what flicked out of the cracks in the stove and happens next, so let’s read the threw dancing reflections on the tent. section to the right and then we’ll get thinking again. There’s this scene that’s like a family I was close now and I could smell frying - with the young woman looking after bacon and baking bread, the warmest, the stove. I can’t help but wonder pleasantest odors I know. From the east who she is and why she’s out there - the light grew swiftly. I came near the especially after the first page’s stove and stretched my hands out to it description of what sounds a cold, and shivered all over when the warmth empty morning. struck me. Then the tent flap jerked up There’s also theses bits: the grace- and a young man came out and an fulness of her movements and older man followed him. They were that there is something precise and dressed in new blue dungarees and in practised about them. I’m wonder- new dungaree coats with the brass but- ing, what that could say about her tons shining. and her life?
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The next bit is making me hungry! They were sharp-faced men, and I wonder how the character in the they looked much alike. The younger story might feel? had a dark stubble beard and the Also, these two men who come older had a gray stubble beard. Their out from inside the tent, with their heads and faces were wet, their hair new clothes and shiny buttons: dripped with water, and water stood who might they be and what are on their stiff beards and their cheeks they and the young woman doing shone with water. Together they here? I definitely have more stood looking quietly at the lightening questions than I have answers to; east; they yawned together and how about you? looked at the light on the hill rims. As I’m puzzling about them I’m They turned and saw me. also drawn to the very end of this part of the story: what might they make of a stranger outside their tent? How would I feel if it were my tent, or if I was the stranger?
A bit about the author: John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book co-authored along- side Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collec- tions of short stories. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
Source: Wikipedia
23 Spot the Difference Can you find the 10 differences?
Sources: neok12.com 24 Quiz 5 - Reasoning 2. Which box should replace the question mark? 1. Which is the odd one out?
3. Which number should replace Which is the odd one out? the question mark?
4. Which is the odd one out ?
Source: www.treeknox.com 25 Quiz 6 - Words with multiple meanings A number of English words are spelled and pronounced the same way, but have different meanings. Can you work these out?
1. The outer covering of a tree and the sound a dog makes.
2. A sweet paste made out of fruit and a verb meaning to put something into a space that is too small for it.
3. A possessive adjective and a noun for a place where minerals are dug out of the earth.
4. To run very fast and a metal fastener.
5. A noun describing a period of the year and a spice or flavouring.
6. A book and an adjective describing something new/unusual.
7. A version of a document and an obligation to join the military.
8. An indoor sport and a vegetable.
9. The direction and speed of a liquid and an adjective describing something that is modern or happening now.
10. An opening in the floor and a verb referring to the process of a baby bird coming out of its egg.
11. A loud noise and a piece of sports equipment.
12. A mode of transport and to teach.
13. A level surface and lacking emotion.
14. A small rodent and a handheld computer-related device.
26 Activity - Sudoku
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Source: puzzles.ca 27 ANSWERS
Quiz 1 - Close-up
28 ANSWERS - Quiz 2 - Sit-coms
1. Last of the Summer’s 11. Absolutely Fabulous 20. Duty Free Wine 12. Red Dwarf 21. The Goodies 2. Father Ted 13. ‘Ello,’Ello 22. The Office 3. The Good Life 14. Open All Hours 23. Some Mothers Do 4. Only Fools and Horses 15. Dad’s Army ‘ave ‘em 5. To the Manor Born 16. Are You Being 24. Drop the Dead Donkey 6. Bread Served? 25. Steptoe and Son 7. Hi-De-Hi 17. The Thin Blue Line 8. Just Good Friends 18. Waiting for God 9. As Time Goes By 19. Gimme, Gimme, 10. Not Going Out Gimme
Activity - Shape Up! Quiz 3 - Johnny English 1. Rowan Atkinson
2. Gillian Anderson 3. Dominic West 4. Rosamund Pike 5. Ben Miller 6. Greg Wise 7. John Malkovich 8. Emma Thompson 9. Natalie Imbruglia 10. Kevin McNally
29 ANSWERS Activity - Anagrams - Countries
1. Australia 6. Netherlands 2. Belgium 7. Norway 3. Scotland 8. Spain 4. Germany 9. Argentina 5. Iceland 10. Switzerland
Quiz 4 - Advertising slogans 1. Maltesers 6. Yorkie 2. Aero 7. Dime Bar 3. Bounty 8. Cadbury’s Caramel 4. Snickers 9. Chocolate Orange 5. Galaxy 10. Milk Tray
Quiz 5 - Reasoning Spot the Difference 1. D. It contains the letters T V W X Y, which omits the letter U. The rest contain five consecutive letters of the alphabet. 2. A. Each row and column of the three boxes contains two of each of the three different lines, i.e., horizontal, vertical and diagonal. 3. A. Each row and column of three boxes contains two of each of the three different lines, ie horizontal, vertical and diagonal. 4. A. The dot and shaded portion are each in three circles. In the rest they are in two.
30 Quiz 6 - Words with multiple meanings 1. Bark 6. Novel 11. Racket 2. Jam 7. Draft 12. Train 3. Mine 8. Squash 13. Flat 4. Bolt 9. Current 14. Mouse 5. Season 10. Hatch
31 ANSWERS - Sudoku
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