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When there’s a crisis, you need agenius! One genius had a plan toset fire to enemy ships usingmirrors. Who was it? The AncientGreek inventor, Archimedes, whoused mirrors during the seige* ofSyracuse in 212 BC.Coming back to today, a Spanishfirm, AlSol, has used Archimedes’idea as inspiration for a new solar-
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What’s New?
Brits in Space!
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India – A Perfect Mix of Youth andWisdom
Pop People
The Sparkly World of Lady Gaga
Green Cities
Copenhagen – EcoCity of the Future
UK Today
Transition Towns –Making A Difference
Playstation
Teen People
Ben Affleck
What’s in your firstissue of Teen?Welcome to a new year with“Teen”. This issue is will takeyou to outer space, to thestrange world of Lady Gagaand the new world oftransition towns. We have anin-depth report on the countrythat everyone is talking about– India and go to the Congowith Ben Affleck. We hope youwill enjoy the magazine asmuch as we do. Happy readingand happy learning.
Liz
In this issue of Teen,look out for:
• the present perfect, the passive and the future• the vocabulary of ecology and space exploration
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Cat Biscuits - Yummy!
Come on, little one, eat a spoonful for your friend Magali.
Thank youlittle one,
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He won’t eat anyting. I don’t know what to
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Let me do it! I’llget him to eat
Hey, little one, look what I have got for you..
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I’ll do it. There must besome way to makehim eat something.
Look, little one, if you wantto grow up big and stronglike me, you have to eat...
Do you really not want to eat
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What do you think he would like?
Cake? Ice cream?
Dindins!
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Do you thinkit’s serious?
Do I need to callthe doctor?
I am really worried about hislack of appetite.
powered cooker. How does it work?A large aluminium dish is used toconcentrate* the power of the suninto a single point. The cooker is sopowerful it can boil a litre of waterin 8 minutes. AlSol want to make usthink about the amount* of energywe use every day and to get us touse renewable energy sources*.
True or False?
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cat biscuits: food you give catsdin dins: children’s language for food (from dinner)lack: something which is not there, absentspoonful: the amount that a spoon can hold, a small quantityyum!: (informal) word to describe how delicious something tastes
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Early DreamsAs a boy, Timothy Peake always dreamed of flying andgoing into space. He says ‘My earliest space memorywas watching documentaries about the Apollomissions and the Hubble telescope.’He did not have too long to wait, Peake started flyingin 1994, later became a helicopter instructor, mostlyflying Apaches, and then fulfilled his dream tobecome a test pilot in 2005. He has done more 3,000hours of flying and says he has flown in more than 30types of aircraft. He certainly does not lackexperience.
The ESA ExperienceWhen he discovered that the ESA were looking for newastronauts, he immediately applied, along with 800 otherBritish people! His selection was a little unexpected as theBritish government has only funded* robotic and notmanned* space exploration in recent years. One ESAofficial says that the choice was not about politics, ‘He wasreally one of the best candidates...even if he was British!’
Walking on the MoonThe six will start their 18 months of training at thebeginning of September and it will be at least 3.5 yearsbefore they go into space. They will almost certainly workon the International Space Station, but, with newinternational interest in lunar exploration, Major Timcould be going to the moon. He says, ‘That would be theultimate dream!’And the scariest thing? ‘Training will includebecoming fluent in Russian, that is definitely thescariest part for me.’
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announced: told officiallyapplicants: people who apply/askto be part of somethingcraters: deep areas created byimpact from meteors
In Space!Earlier this year, the European SpaceAgency (ESA) announced* it hadchosen six new astronauts, one ofthem is British army major, TimothyPeake. The six, one woman and fivemen, were chosen from over 8,400applicants*. Let’s find out more aboutESA’s first British trainee*.
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We all know who the first man on the moon was, but who was the second? Answer the following questions to find out!
1. The name of a powerful space telescope2. Of or relating to the moon (adjective)3. The only South American country involved in the ISS4. Name of a Russian spacecraft used to take astronauts
to the ISS5. The European Space .........................6. Timothy Peake was chosen out of 8,400 .........................7. Timothy Peake was one of the best .................................8. What language do the new ESA astronauts have to learn?9. The acronym of the International Space Station
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Lunar Facts1609 Galileo makes first serious study of lunar surface using a
telescope he made1959 First man-made object on moon is Soviet probe* Lunar 2 1966 Soviet Luna 2 sends back first pictures of the moon’s surface1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong first man to walk on the moon1972 Last man to walk on moon was Eugene Cernanmid 60s to mid 70s 65 landings on the moon, most unmanned2004 President Bush announces NASA plans for manned moon
landings by 20202009 US Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scheduled for launch which
will try to see if there is water in one of the moon’s craters*.
International Space Station (ISS)• In-orbit construction of ISS started in 1998, it is the largest man-made
satellite in Earth orbit• The ISS is an international project and includes NASA, ESA as well as
the Japanese, Canadian, Brazilian and Italian space agencies• The ISS is in a ‘low Earth orbit’ (approximately 350 kilometres above
the Earth’s surface) – it can be seen from Earth• It travels at an average speed of over 27,000 kilometres per hour and
completes 15.7 orbits of the Earth per day• A Russian Soyuz spacecraft took the first crew to the ISS in 2000,
there is always a Soyuz spacecraft at the ISS in case of emergencies• Construction of the ISS should be completed by 2011• The ISS will continue to be used until at least 2015
Useful Websiteswww.timothypeake.comwww.esa.intwww.spaceflight.nasa.gov
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Things are changing so fast in India that if youblink*, you miss it! In order to understandwhat is happening there, we need to look at afew statistics*. They will help us begin tounderstand a complex situation. Seventy per cent of the population of India isunder 35: there are 600 million young peopleunder the age of 25, and 58 million youngpeople are of working age. These youngpeople are well educated, competitive* andsuccessful. They are the power behind thechange, behind a more diverse* India whichlooks as much to the cultures of Britain andthe US as to its own.The traditional view of India as a place ofgreat spirituality, full of contradictions andgreat inequality is changing. Young people arehaving a big effect on the whole country. TheIndian Technology Institutes (ITT) take only thebest students and train about 70 per cent ofIndia’s engineers. They are contributing to awhole new class in Indian society: the young,educated and motivated*.
India on the NetThe next generation of Indians is dynamic,forward-looking and techno savvy*, alwayslooking for the latest ideas. A huge number ofpeople surf the web in India; over the last yearthe number of people using social networkingsites has increased by 50 per cent, Facebookhas seen its use grow by 150 per cent. Thereare over a million bloggers, with an averageage of between 25 and 30. Many of these webusers explore the rich architecture and historyof India and then post their photos on Flickr,they talk about their experiences in theirblogs, post comments on Twitter and uploadtheir CVs on Linked’In.
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Vox PopHere are some extracts from blogs written by young people in India. Read what they really think.
Slumdog Millionaire“I have seen this film andI loved it. Lots of peopleare saying it gives anegative picture of Indiawith its poverty andchaos. I would like us allto stop being so insecure*about our country, all wewant the rest of theworld to see are oureconomic growth, ourdevelopment andBollywood, but India isstill a complex country,full of contradictions,difficult and young.”By: Girl102
INDIABack to the FutureThe new generation have a thousand years of historybehind them, a Masters Degree from Columbia University(or maybe from the universities of Bangalore, Mumbai,Delhi...) in their pocket and a belief that they can changethings. They watch MTV, go to McDonald’s, but also cooktraditional Indian dishes like chai and chapattis, they wearjeans and T-shirts, but the women still have their saris*.A large percentage of India’s 22-25 year-olds work for theworld’s big multinationals, have a good career ahead ofthem, live away from their families and earn good money.Their tastes are the same as young people all over the world– music and film. The success of Bollywood and of films likeSlumdog Millionnaire, which won 8 Oscars, are further proofof the power of the Indian dream.
A Perfect Mix of Youth and Wisdom
The biggest democracy in theworld has just had a generalelection*, it now has a newparliament and one of theyoungest populations in theworld. India, with its ancientculture, sits between traditionand innovation. But, what is lifelike for young Indians? What aretheir dreams, their thoughts?
Traveller“So much happened tome in 2008. I got reallylow* but I got back upagain. It was the yearwhere I lost a lot but I alsogot a lot back, it changedme. The best thing aboutlast year? Travelling. Frombeing someone who hadnever set foot out ofIndia, I suddenly startedto explore the world. Imet some great peopleand learnt a lot from eachone.”By: Gogo
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| India’s national sport, | to the history of thecountry. | and its development is closelylinked | Cricket is |
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Training With IBM“I got called up by IBMfor a test. I packed mybags, boxed my booksand left immediately. I didthe test and I passed:when they told me I wasworking for IBM Icouldn’t believe it! Thefreedom and the workculture here are fantastic.I never want to give thisjob up. This job is cool!”By: Mysore
Work Ethic“I don’t work only for themoney...I love my job andthat is why I do it! I amhoping to get marriednext year, but whether ornot that will happen is adifferent matter. Maybe Ineed to set up a blog,write a diary, spend a yearwriting it! In the end Ihope I find someonespecial that my parentsget on with.”By: Smart
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Pop ConnectionsThese are some of the people that Lady
Gaga says have influenced her music
and her performances.
The criticsThe answer to that question is ‘definitely not’. Althoughsome critics have questioned just how original her lookand her music are, they all agree, she is a talentedmusician and songwriter who always finds a memorablemelody or catchy* chorus. She is also unusual in the popworld because not only does she write most of her ownsongs, she also plays the piano and synthesiser*.
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Think of Lady Gaga and you think ofthe word ‘Fame’. Lady Gaga has shot*to fame all over the world in the lastyear, her debut* album, called ‘TheFame’, which was released in 2008 isall about ‘how anyone can feelfamous,’ she says. So is Lady Gaga astalented and original as she says sheis? Or is she simply famous for beingfamous?
Pop People
Early LifeLady Gaga was born Stefani Joanne Germanotta in 1986 ofItalian-American parents in Yonkers, New York. She wasalready playing the piano by the time she was four and hadwritten her first songs by the time she was 13. She studiedmusic at New York University, but left before finishing herdegree.
FameWhen she was 20 she got her first job as a songwriter. She wasso good at it that she went on to write hits for the PussycatDolls, New Kids on the Block and Britney Spears. It was whenshe was writing for R&B artist Akon that he noticed what afantastic voice she had. She got a record deal* and her firstsingle ‘Just Dance’, reached number one in many countriesaround the world. And not only that, she is a famous DJ in hernative New York and works closely with her team to designher costumes and clothes and her stage sets*.
Asked how she thought she would live with her new level offame, she replied, ‘I’ve felt famous all my life, but this is awhole other level of fame.’
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catchy: a piece of music you remember easilydeal: contractdebut: firstglam rock: style of popular rock music where musicians’costumes are extravagant provocative: (here) someone who uses their behaviour orthe way they look to get a reaction from other peopleshot: (here, figurative) moved very quicklystage sets: the costumes, background and scenery of ashow eg at the theatre, a concertsynthesiser: artificial, electric ‘piano’
Over to you...
Who are your favourite pop stars or bands?What is it that makes them so special? Discussyour ideas with your classmates. Do you allhave the same opinions?
One of Lady Gaga’s biggest influences, a leader of the PopArt movement. She says ‘I consider what I do to be more ofan Andy Warhol concept: pop performance art, multimedia,fashion, technology, video, film. And it’s all coming together,and it’s going to be traveling museum show.’
Lady Gaga says her music and style have been heavilyinfluenced by the glam rock* of Bowie and Queen and bythe constantly changing styles of Madonna and MichaelJackson. All of these stars are very theatrical in their popperformances.
Lady Gaga describes Donatella Versace as ‘iconic andpowerful... She’s definitely provocative*’. A number ofpeople have seen similarities between Lady Gaga andDonatella Versace both in the way they look and their style.
Lady Gaga has written hits for all of the above, she joinedthe Pussycat Dolls on their recent European tour and hasperformed with New Kids on the Block.
Lady Gaga says her mum was one of her earliest fashionicons, because she was always smartly dressed.
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In this new feature, each issue of “Teen” will take
you on a tour of the world’s top places for the
environment and sustainable development.
COP15From the 7th to the 18th of December 2009,governments from around the world will meet inCopenhagen for the United Nations’ fifteenth ClimateChange Conference* (COP15). It will be the mostimportant climate change conference yet.Participants* will have to decide if they are going tocontinue how to make reductions in carbon emissionsor, if they are going to continue with policies agreedat the previous conference in Bali, which have notmade any real change. COP15 will show us how muchour leaders will do and how much more there is to do.
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COP15Solar panels, wind turbines*, bicycles...all good, but Copenhagen is goingmuch further than that to reduce itsimpact* on the environment. It usessea water for heating, hopes to have90 per cent of its food producedorganically*, and even makes use ofthe body heat of people going to thetheatre! At the end of this year, thecapital of Denmark is hosting* the UNmeeting which will help decide thefuture of the planet.
A. The Copenhagen Climate Change
Conference is taking place in 2015
B. Copenhagen the capital city of Denmark
C. The last Climate Change Conference was
held in London
D. Copenhagen is the world’s most liveable city
E. Copenhagen has a lot of cycle tracks
True or False?Now that you have read the article on Copenhagen, see if you can answer the questions below!
Up to now, governments around the world have notdone much to stop climate change. Our leaders havedecided to continue to put business first. But what isthe cost of this inaction? It might take our planet to acrisis never seen before in the entire history ofmankind.According to scientists working at the Met Office in theUK there could be an increase in global temperaturesof between 5.5 and 7.1 degrees by the year 2100. Inorder to make sense of this, it is enough to know thatwith a temperature rise of just 4 degrees a fifth of allspecies on this planet would be at risk* of extinction,and it would leave up to 2 billion people withoutenough drinking water. With this type of increase intemperature, scientists believe that the planet’s abilityto absorb* carbon would be reduced even more. Withmethane being released from the permafrost* and sealevels rising as a result of ice melting in the polarregions, the situation could get even worse.
So, what do the scientists think should be done tostop all this happening? Simple, from 2010 we have toachieve a big reduction in carbon emissions or we willreach what they call the ‘tipping point’ where it is too
late to do anything. They say that if we all dosomething now, we can keep the global temperaturerise to 2 degrees. This is why COP15 is so important, ithas the power to change the future of the planet.
CopenhagenWith good ecological policies over many years andsome great architecture, Copenhagen was named bestcity in the world for quality of life by Monoclemagazine. The city has won a number of internationalawards because of its commitment to eco policies bothin tourism and in the food sector. It is the ideal host forthe UN’s conference.Copenhagen is ambitious about its green future. It hasrecently started the Environmental Metropolis 2015Project where everyone in the city will be able to walkto an open, green space in fifteen minutes. It alsohopes to make 90 per cent of the food served in itsinstitutions, such as schools, government offices andhospitals, organically produced.Copenhagen has also been using more energy fromrenewable resources, trying to make big cuts in theircarbon emissions and increase the use of clean modes
of transport (50 per cent of the city’s inhabitantsuses a bicycle and there are many cycle trackswhere each lane is three metres wide.)In Denmark the green economy sector grew by 17per cent in 2008 and it is predicted* to grow by afurther 23 per cent in 2009.
Green GurusDR Byen (meaning literally DR city), is the newvisionary* and ecological home of Danish nationalradio and tv. It uses solar panels for heating, but italso makes use of the heat generated by studiolights from its three television studios, and the airconditioning system uses water taken from under theground.Sea water is being used to keep the Skuespilhuset,Copenhagen’s new arts and culture theatre, cool inthe summer, which, with the Copenhagen OperaHouse, also uses water from a nearby canal andenergy generated by an incinerator* which burns thecity’s rubbish. Every year since 1991, the incinerator has burnt 420thousand tonnes of non-recycable waste, or 20% ofthe city’s rubbish, producing electricity and heatingfor over 70,000 houses.The new theatre is square and not rectangularmaking it more efficient to heat in the winter, thetheatre gets 40% of its heating from the studio lightsand from the heat produced by the studio audiences.
Walking along the streets of Copenhagen you seethe flashing of Reelights. These are self-powered bikelights which are always on. This little innovation wona Eurobike Award in 2008, because while it is good tobe green it is even better to be safe.
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advice: help and informationdependency: something which you haveto have, cannot live well withoutextraction: taking out, removing (here)from the groundin harmony: in a balanced waymakes sense: is a good idearate: amount, levelresilient: stronger, (here) able tosurvive big changes on a global andlocal levelresponsibility: having control ofsomething yourself, make decisions foryourselfself-reliant: looking to yourself toprovide what you needtransition: the time when something ischanging from one thing to another
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BrixtonIt isn’t just villages and rural towns that are gettinginvolved. Brixton is an area in London which hasalways had a reputation for gang culture andproblems relating to drug use, but by joining theTransition movement they are making a realdifference to the way and quality of life of thepeople who live there, for example, people arebeing helped to reduce their carbon footprint withadvice* on insulating their homes, growing theirown food in small spaces and buying a largenumber of solar panels to get a better price. Theseprojects help the environment but also buildcommunity spirit.
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is overseeinga tree-planting scheme and has promised to plantfruit and nut trees in waste areas, increasingbiodiversity and people will be able to go and pickthe fruit!
Transition CultureThe science of climate change cannot be 100 %accurate, the future hasn’t happened yet, but livingin harmony* with our environment and not takingout more than we put in, makes sense* whetheryou can see into the future or not. Transition Townsare showing us the way and more and more peoplein the UK are getting involved.
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Transition* TownsMAKING A DIFFERENCE
Answer on page 15
In the sentence below, some of the lettershave got mixed up. See if you can work outwhat Transition Towns want to do.
The HistoryA few years ago no one had heard of TransitionTowns, now there are 200, with over 600 morecommunities in the world working towards‘Transition’. The movement has spread from Irelandand the UK to North America, South America,Australia, New Zealand and Italy. According to theTransition Towns website (TTI), ‘It all starts off whena small group of people within a community cometogether with a shared concern: how can ourcommunity respond to the challenges, andopportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?’
Peak Oil‘Peak oil is the point in time when the highest levelof global petroleum extraction* is reached, afterthat the rate* of production starts to go down,’ saysthe TTI. In the West we use a lot of oil, but the priceof oil can go up dramatically, eventually it will runout and we know that burning oil produces most ofthe greenhouse gases. For a variety of reasons itmakes sense for people to gradually change from oilto renewable energy sources and to takeresponsibility* for their energy use.
Practical ChangeSo, what are Transition Towns? Well, they are towns,villages, parts of cities, even forests, where practical
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Want to find outmore? Maybe helpset up your ownTransitioncommunity?www.transitiontowns.org
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policies are leading to concrete results. In a village nearOxford, everyone has decided to use electricitygenerated by wind power, they are working to buy solarpanels for the local primary school, and are planning acar-free day. In other examples in the UK, individualstreets are organising car-sharing schemes, turningwaste ground into community gardens and encouragingpeople to buy food and other goods produced locally intheir local shops. A few towns are even using publicgardens to plant fruit and vegetables.
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Past and PresentDo you know whothese famousIndian people are?Match the names to the pictures.
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Answers:Page 3:True or false? :T.Page 4:1.Hubble,2.lunar,3.Brazil,4.Soyuz,5.Agency,6.applicants,7.candidates,8.Russian,9.ISS,10.NASA.Buzz Aldrin.Pages 6-7 Cricket is India’s national sport,and its development is closely linked to the historyof the country.Pages 10-11 Copenhagen True or False?A.F,B.T,C.F,D.T,E.T.Pages 12-13 Adapt,change and become resilient.Page14Playstation:India,Past andPresent:1.b,2.a,3.d,4.c.Lady Gaga 1.David Bowie,2.Radio Gaga (1984) by Queen,3.clothes designer,4.Pussycat Dolls,Britney Spears,New Kids on the Block,Akon.Page 16:Ben Affleck’s wife:A.
Have you read our article on Lady Gaga?How much can you remember? Try to answer the questions below.
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5. Apart from being a musician, songwriter andsinger, Lady Gaga is also a
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b. [ ] talented darts player
c. [ ] crime writer
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Ben Affleck has recently directed* adocumentary called Gimme Shelter. Usingthe film, he hopes to help the UNHCRraise* 23 million dollars. This money willbe used to provide clean, safe drinkingwater and essential medicines for 250,000refugees in the Democratic Republic ofCongo. The soundtrack* to the film is the
famous Rolling Stones hit GimmeShelter, which was written in 1969 as aprotest against the American war inVietnam. The documentary was filmedin the province of North Kivu, centre ofmuch of the recent fighting in thecountry. The Rolling Stones gave theirsong for free to help the campaign.‘We decided to make this film,’ saysAffleck, ‘in order to draw attention to
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Who is Ben Affleck?Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was bornin Berkeley, California, on 15th August1972. He graduated from CambridgeRindge and Latin High School, and hisfirst film was Richard Linklater’s Dazedand Confused (1992), the 1997 film GoodWill Hunting, which he co-wrote withMatt Damon, made him famous both asan actor and as a scriptwriter. The filmwon two Oscars in 1998, including BestScreenplay Written for the Screen.Affleck confirmed his status inShakespeare in Love (1998),Armageddon (1998) and Pearl Harbor(2001). In 1999 he starred with MattDamon in Dogma. In 2006 he won theVenice Film Festival’s Best Actor awardfor his part in Hollywoodland.
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