Superland 6: 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Exercises and revision sheets

General Revision on module 3

1- Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets:

1- No, I have never gone jogging. (Have) ……………………………………………………………………………

2- He has been studying English since last week. (for)

……………………………………………………………………………

3- She has been sitting in this class since 10 o'clock. (How)

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4- Mona plays tennis 3 times a week. (How)

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5- I have been playing tennis for two hours. (since)

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6- Ahmed started drawing a picture in the morning. He is still drawing now.

(been) …………………………………………………………………………………

7- I have been in the club for two hours. (Where)

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8- Tom's father has been a policeman for twenty years . ( How )

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9- Sally drank tea a short time ago. (just)

……………………………………………………………………………..

10- We have never been to Marsha Matrouh . ( Have )

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11- This is the first time for me to travel abroad . ( never )

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12- She hasn't had a day off since 1999. ( for )

……………………………………………………………………………

13- No, I have never eaten lobster before . ( Have )

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14- I have been in Italy for two years . ( since )

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15- She has lived in Alexandria for one year . ( last year )

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16- I finished my homework five minutes ago. ( just )

……………………………………………………………………….

2-Underline the correct answers between brackets :

1- Have you ( saw – been seeing – seen ) that fantastic new comedy on TV ?

2- Ann ( has just gone – has only been – has been going ) to Paris once .

3- The neighbour 'dog ( barked – was barking – has been barking ) for the last half hour .

4- John ( has been living – is living – lives ) in this neighbour since he was a child.

5- John ( played – was playing – has been playing ) on the computer for an hour now.

6- They have been married ( since – for – when ) twenty years .

7- John has been a student here in our school ( since – for – when ) March .

8- How ( long –much – many ) have you been studying English ?

9- Maya has been a professional singer ( for- since – while ) 1998.

10-The children ( didn't eat – haven't eaten – hasn't eaten ) anything since lunch and they are getting hungry .

11-have you ( never – ever – ago ) met anyone famous ?

12-How long ( did you know – have you known – are you knowing ) about it ?

13- I have lived in Cairo ( for – since – ago ) ten years .

14- She has been in France ( since – for - ago ) 1999.

15- She has had a digital camera ( since – for - yet ) six months .

16- I have known my friend Ali ( for – since ) I was six.

17- We haven't played tennis ( for – since - ago ) August .

18- Mrs samira has never ( visited – visiting – visit ) Australia .

19- She ( shopped – peeled – slices ) the potatoes before cooking .

20- The food cooked in oli is ( peeled – steamed – fried )

21- We cook the chicken in a ( kettle – frying pan – saucepan )

22-I have been working ( since – for – at ) ten hours .

23- The food cooked by the mist of water is called ( bolied – steamed – fried )

24- The ( broccoli – lobster – lettuce ) is a kind of sea creature .

25- We ( melt – peel – fry ) thye chocolate before adding it to the milkshake .

26- We ( boil – steam – chop ) the vegetables in the water .

27- We ( fry – dry – cry ) the fish in the frying pan .

28- They have ( invited- invite – invites ) their friends to the party .

29- The ( lobster – broccoli – lettuce ) is a vegetable with green leaves .

30- We like ( scrambled- boiled – steamed ) eggs as they are mixed in a frying pan.

31- We like ( poached – scrambled – steamed ) eggs as they are cooked in boiling water without their shells.

32- She likes ( boiled – scrambled – steamed ) food on vapour.

3-Do we use for or since with the following time references?
We've been here ………………nine o'clock.

I have worked for International House ………..more than eight years.

I haven't visited my home town ………….I left school.

I haven't been to the cinema ………….ages.

I have studied non-stop ……………..9.15.

I have had a driving licence …………….I was eighteen.

She hasn't had a day off ……………1999.

Johan has been in England …………..more than two weeks now.

Peter has been my best friend …………we were nine.

Mona has tidied the flat ………this afternoon.

Tarek has been working in this factory ……….years.

I have lived in Assuit ……………..I was one .

The tourists have been staying in Egypt …………a week.

Marie Curie was born in Poland when that part of the country was under Russian rule. She was the youngest of five children. She had a brother and three older sisters.

Her sister invited her to come to Paris to live and begin her studies. Manya changed her name to a French name, Marie. At the Sorbonne, the university, she chose to study mathematics and physics. While studying there she lived in a cold apartment and survived on very little food, but when she graduated she had the highest grades in the class. She had a master's degree in physics. Then she was awarded a scholarhip and was able to study further to get a master's degree in mathemetics. She would also later receive a doctorate in physics.

She met Pierre Curie and they married in 1895. With the money a cousin gave her for a wedding present, Marie bought two bicycles, one for herself and one for Pierre. They pedaled through the French countryside on their honeymoon.

Pierre and Marie began experimenting together and discovered two new radioactive elements. She named one of them *polonium** to honor her native country Poland, and the other they named *radium** . They worked four years preparing a very small quantity of radium in order to prove there really was such an element. They had to work with a ton of pitchblende* uranium ore to accomplish this. The Austrian government had provided the ore, and they only had to pay for transporting it. Marie worked hard carrying very large jars of liquid during those years of experimenting.

In 1903 Pierre and Marie received the Nobel Prize in physics for their work and their discovery of radioactivity . The money they received made life a little easier, and they also used some of it to help friends and family members. In 1911 she was again awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of the two new elements polonium and radium.

The Curies had two daughters, Irene and Eve. They were good, loving parents. Pierre was offered a professor's job at the Sorbonne. Life seemed to be getting easier for them.

Then the unthinkable happened; Pierre was killed when he stepped out in front of a wagon being pulled by horses. Marie was in shock. What would she do without him? She felt like only half a person with Pierre gone, but she was strong and able to continue their work. They let her start teaching his classes at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to teach at the university. Pierre's father, Dr. Curie lived with the family and helped to raise the girls. Four years later, he too died.

During the First World War Marie determined she could best serve by outfitting some cars with x-ray machines which could be taken to the battlefield hospitals. Bullets and shrapnel could be located with x-rays to help the doctors treat the wounded soldiers. Irene, who was seventeen years old, helped her mother by becoming a nurse and working with her on the battlefield. Marie trained 150 women to become x-ray technicians.

In 1923 the French government gave her a pension of 40,000 francs a year in recognition of her lifetime of work in France.

She became ill and died from all her years of exposure to radium. Today doctors identify the disease as leukemia.

After Marie's death her daughter Irene and her husband Frederic Joliot received the Nobel prize for their work in atomic research. She followed in her mother's footsteps to also become a great scientist.

Many people have benefited from the discoveries made by Pierre and Marie Curie. The radiation which burned their skin as they worked with it, eventually came to be used to kill cancer cells in patients suffering from the disease.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Top Achievers of Primary Six

It is with great pleasure to honour the top achievers of grade six and

we would like to thank them for the great effort they exerted all the time during the scholastic year.

Obento, or boxed meal, is an art form in Japan. Japanese mothers spend an enormous amount of time and energy constructing the perfect obento—balancing taste, color, and texture. In fact, there are monthly magazines devoted solely to obento making. Readers learn how to magically transform rice into popular cartoon characters. Or how to make carrot roses, apple-slice bunnies, and other miniature works of edible art. Another reason for obento boxes: They cut down on waste. Japan has some of the strictest garbage/recycling rules in the world. Japanese children routinely carry to school a plastic obento box, a pair of chopsticks, a thermos, and a cotton napkin. Nearly zero waste! Just think if your child’s classroom did the same.

What about the main charaertistics of this meal ?