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Why do people live in Favelas (Brazilian slums)?

by Georgina Loring Most people wouldn’t dream of living in a Favela but other people actually wouldn’t mind. A Favela is a slum in Brazil with houses usually built of plastic, cardboard and other cheap materials. Living in a Favela is illegal because the people don’t pay tax and the Authorities keep trying to clear them but if they do poor people won’t have anywhere to live. In Brazil there are a lot of Favelas such as: Grotado Surucucu in Rio de Janero, Vila Nova Gaguare in Sao Paulo and Acaba Mundo in Minis Gerais; in fact there are over 60 Favelas in Brazil. Most people wouldn’t like to live in a Favela because they think they’re unsafe, poor and dirty. However, some people really don’t mind. One of the safest Favelas is Rocinha (Rio de Janero) so long as you use your common sense and treat other people with respect but others are quite dangerous because of the organised crime. Some of the not so safe ones are: Botafogo (Rio de Janero) and Lapa (Sao Paulo). The most common reason people live there is because they’re cheap but another reason why people might not want to is because of how dirty and un-sanitary they can be with little clean running water, few proper toilets and no proper sewage system. Organised crime is a problem in the Favelas. This is crime related to drugs and gangs. Government doesn’t help the Favelas so organised criminals do. In a city such as Rio de Janeiro where assaults and violence can be common, there is no crime in the Favelas – as long as people look the other way when the dealers are doing their business. Although nobody should have to live in slums, not everybody in Brazil can afford good housing. You might not choose to live in a Favela but they are much better than having nowhere to live! Acknowledgements: Wikipedia Live in Brazil http://lilyantebi.wordpress.com/crime/

Edition 64 Team B 4th July 2014

Founded by Ben Owen

Editorial Hello, fantastic readers of TT, unfortunately this is the last paper EVER for me and all the other year sixes because some of us,

like me or Addie are leaving and the rest of us hopefully, well SHOULD go on to the next paper (team A) but that’s up to Tom Ms Case and Lucy to decide not me!!! So

as I said before this is our last paper as our team at the moment so I think that, well

actually I am completely sure I can tell you that this paper is going to be AWESOME!!!

So read it!!! But as you have probably guessed, by the title, that the theme is

football!!! All you boys are probably excited because you play it “ALL THE TIME!” But I reckon girls can enjoy it as well, or even as

much as boys. Who knows??? Now for people who are collecting “Rio balls” read Rachel’s article and those of you who are

looking for famous monuments read Poppy’s article. Enjoy reading!!!!!!!!

Editor

Helena #lol

What’s in the paper this week? P 2 Paul the Octopus p 4 Rio Balls p6 Do Girls

Like Football Books? p 8 Weird but True p9 Avoiding watching the World Cup on TV

p 11 Quiz

All drawings by Ellie Parker

By Ellie Parker

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PAUL THE OCTOPUS by Ben Jacobi

Octopuses are sea creatures. They have 2 eyes and 8 arms with suckers. They have no skeletons so they can squeeze through tight spaces. All octopuses are venomous but usually protect themselves from danger by squirting ink or camouflage. Their lifespan is quite short. They live only between a few months and just 5 years. In 2010 one octopus was made famous during the World Cup when he correctly predicted the results of 11 out of 13 football matches. His name was ‘Paul’ and he lived in a German Sea Life Centre. Paul used to predict the results by choosing food from two identical boxes, each representing a different country. The first box which he ate from was his chosen prediction. Sadly Paul died in October 2010 so he couldn’t predict England getting kicked out of this World Cup!

Paul the Octopus

2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL

by Alex Jacobi

Most people love football, and the World Cup brings countries and nations together. But now bring your family together with the all new 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL. As this game was created by EA sports, it has high standards to follow, as they were the creators of all the FIFA games, NBA games; the list just goes on and on. Lead your country to glory, be the best…win. Experience the great fun, the end to end games, the close draws, the epic wins and the drama in the greatest football event ever! The game includes 10 different game modes such as Road to Rio and the online journey. Play with 1-4 players on the same console or try the 2 online multiplayer modes. Every team is authentically represented in the 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP BRAZIL game. The game is so realistic it feels like you’re in the stadium not only watching the game but controlling it too. Beginner or expert this game is for you! The game costs around £45 THE VERDICT: it is an amazing game suitable for all ages with so much realism it’s unbelievable. Great fun and I really recommend you buying this. ENJOY!

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Who Will Win the World Cup?

by Iona Campbell

I asked some of the teachers who they thought might win the World Cup. This is what they said. Mr Glanville: Holland, because they are going to score more goals then the other team. Mrs Gooch: Holland, because their bright orange kit will dazzle the other team. Mr Perez: France, because they are playing really well. Miss Case: Nigeria because they are a strong team, and they deserve to win. Mrs Baron: Argentina or Portugal; I don’t know which one.

The First World Cup

by Talia Curtis

The World Cup was first held in 1930, when an organisation called FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) decided to arrange an international football tournament. It was held in Uruguay with only 13 teams invited by the organization. Since then, it has grown and now has a 32 team final chosen after 2 years of qualification. Uruguay won the first competition.

Since the first World Cup, two trophies have been used - The Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, followed by the The World Cup Trophy. The Jules Rimet Trophy was named to honour the President of FIFA who was President in

1930.

Brazil Is The Fifth Country To Host A

World Cup For The Second Time

First there were the countries Mexico (1970, 1982),

Italy (1934,1990), France (1938,1998) and

Germany (1974,2006) which hosted a World Cup

for the 2nd time. Brazil will be number five after

having hosted the 1950 World Cup.

Information found on the website :

http://www.worldcupbrazil.net/

It’s The 2nd Time Brazil Will Host A

World Cup

Yes, after 64 years, the 2014 World Cup will be the

2nd World Cup to be hosted in Brazil. Brazil hosted

the 4th World Cup in 1950, from 24th of June to

16th of July. The stadium Maracanã in Rio de

Janeiro was specially built for the 1950 World Cup,

and is the only stadium which will be used again

for the 2014 World Cup.

Information found on the website :

http://www.worldcupbrazil.net/

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PELE By Archie Symonds

Lots of people think that Pelé is the world’s best footballer. Here are some Pele facts:

In 1999 he was voted ‘World Player of the Century’ by International Federation of Football History & Statistics.

Pelé is the most successful league goal scorer in the world, with 541 league goals.

In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games, for which he was listed in the Guinness World Records for most career goals scored in football.

When he played, Pelé was the best-paid athlete in the world.

Pelé is from Brazil and played for Brazil in 4 World Cup tournaments; 1958 (Brazil won), 1962 (Brazil won), 1966 (England won) and 1970 (Brazil won).

He scored his first goal for Brazil aged 16 years and 9 months.

In the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Pelé became the youngest player to play in a World Cup final match at 17 years and 249 days. He scored two goals and Brazil won the World Cup.

Pelé always wore a number 10 shirt

Pelé is now a UN ambassador for ecology and the environment.

RIO BALLS by Rachel Shutt

If you are a keen footballer, you will be collecting the Rio Balls that can be found free in boxes of Children’s Kelloggs cereals. There are 10 Rio balls to collect. There were not many Brazil Balls made, so this is the hardest to collect. If you collect 3 codes from the cereal box and log onto the Kelloggs website you can claim a free Golden Ball. Ollie has ordered his which takes up to 28 days to deliver. Will it be worth the wait? Have you learnt any tricks with your Rio balls? Using the website (with parent permission) you can teach yourself the catch, Knee bump, toe trick, inside and outside kick and Combos kick. Even though England has got knocked out of the World Cup, I think children will still want to collect the balls.

Christ the Redeemer Statue

The Christ the Redeemer statue (a photo of which

you can see in Poppy’s article) is a statue of Jesus

Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and was once the

largest Art Deco statue in the world from 1931 until

2010 when it was topped by the Christ the King statue

in Poland. It is 30 metres tall, not including its 8

metres pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres wide.

The statue weighs 635 tonnes and is located at the

peak of the 700-metre Corcovado mountain in

the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. A

symbol of Brazilian Christianity, the statue has

become an icon for Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. It is

made of reinforced concrete and soapstone, and was

constructed between 1922 and 1931.

Information provided by Wikipedia

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by Poppy Carter

There are many beautiful places to visit in Brazil, apart from the football stadium. Here are just a few…

Rio Carnival

The Amazon Rainforest

Fernando de Norah

Teatro Amazonas

Iguaçu Falls

Christ the Redeemer

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TT Do Girls Like Football Books?

by Tabitha Huby

Secret FC by Tom Palmer This book, which you can find in our library, is set in a city, so the only place Lily, Zack and Khal can play football is the school playing field. But when a new headmaster comes and bans football from the school grounds what will they do? This book is a very easy read and is in quite big writing. So do girls like football books? This book was a bit predictable, but it can be read by anyone, not just football fans. However, the characters in this book were football mad. I did like this book so not only boys can like football books! I give this book 3 out of 5 footballs

How to Make Chocolate Islands

by Amy Horler

As it is the World Cup at the moment, and is taking place in Brazil, I thought that I should do a Brazilian recipe. So, I looked and I looked and found the perfect one. And it is chocolate! For the chocolate sauce, you bubble 200ml of fresh single cream and 100 ml of double cream, then add in 200g of dark chocolate in little chunks and wait until the chocolate has melted. You can do this is a saucepan. For the chocolate island, you put the oven on at 180 degrees, Then grease 6 muffin tins with butter. Then melt 225g of dark chocolate (graded at at least 70%), You do this in a bowl sat in a saucepan with boiling water in it. Add 100g of unsalted butter to the melted chocolate, along with 150g of caster sugar and 40g of flour. Carefully whisk 3 egg whites (ask your parents to show you how to separate the whites from the yolks – it’s a good trick!) When they are stiff, fold them into the melted chocolate mixture. Put in the muffin tins and bake for only 10 mins. Serve hot or cold with the delicious chocolate sauce. You are in for a treat!!

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Spot The Ball Competition This is a classic competition from newspapers of yesteryear. What you have to do is mark on the picture where you think the football should be. The winner is the person who gets the ball in the position nearest to the one drawn in on a duplicate picture by Beth. So mark the picture with an X where you think the ball is, cut out the picture and give it to one of the TT team (the box has gone!) The referee’s decision is final!! Name : __________________________________

This Will Be The First World Cup Ever With Goal-Line Technology. Finally!

Fourteen cameras will be set up around the rim of each host stadium. Seven of these cameras will focus

on one goal, where the other seven will focus on the opposite goal. They are connected to a central

mainframe computer which analyses each shot on goal. When the match ball crosses the goal line,the

referee will feel a vibration and receive a visual sign stating: “Goal”. How does he feel the vibration

and see “Goal”? Simple, by wearing a special watch connected to the mainframe computer.

The technology was used for the first time during the Confederations Cup 2013 in Brazil. Many of us can

remember at least 1 unfair decision during a World Cup match. The Lampard shot in South Africa 2010

for example; the whole world witnessed a beautiful goal except for 1 person, the referee. So it seems

those days of pure anger and frustration (or happiness and relief, depends how you look at it), are finally

over!

Information found on the website :

http://www.worldcupbrazil.net/

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Musical Moments by Annabel Sheppard

Hello and welcome to another article of musical moments! Today the theme is football, so I will be showing you some football anthems which are sung to raise the team’s spirits. England's football team has a lot of songs that they sing for the team. Here is a list of songs which you hear at football matches: ● World cup Willie ● Back Home ● This time We'll Get it Right ● We've Got the Whole World at Our Feet ● All the Way ● All Together Now ● World In Motion ● Three Lions ● Vindaloo ● How Does it Feel to be On Top Of the World? ● Jerusalem ● We're On the Ball ● All Together Now 2004 ● World at Your Feet ● Sing 4 England ● Noble England Out of all of these songs, none really reached the top on its own. Back Home, World in Motion and Three Lions got to No. 1 on the charts, so they must have been great songs. World Cup Willie was the first played, and Noble England the 'last'. Despite England not qualifying for the World Cup (1974, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1994 and 2008), some people were still creating songs for England. My favourite is World Cup Willie­ What's yours? Find out by looking for these anthems on Youtube.

Weird but True Facts About Football

by Isabelle Preston

In Madagascar, as a form of protest for losing the title, a football team scored 149 own goals into their own net at the next game.

Women were banned from playing at English and Scottish Football League grounds in 1921. They had got so good playing during World War 1 the men got scared no one would watch them! (Girls Rule!)

The first king to ban football was King Edward II as it was too noisy. You could go to prison! Other kings also tried to ban football including King Henry the VIII (eighth) even though he ordered the first pair of football boots ever!

For five years in the Ivory Coast the north was held by the rebels and the south held by the government loyals. Didier Drogba got a cease-fire between the rebels and the Government in his home country of Ivory Coast because they had both heard of him. He suggested a football game which brought the whole country together for the first time in five years. The Ivorian Elephants beat Madagascar 5-0.

In 1998 a team of 11 football players in the Democratic Republic of Congo were all killed when lightning struck them. The opposition wasn’t harmed, but people thought it happened because the team were cursed.

In a Thai village by a lake, surrounded by mountains, the kids made a floating football pitch out of old bits of wood to float on the lake. They got really good at playing in slippery conditions.

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10 Ways 2 Reclaim the TV from the World Cup!

by Helena Brain

Isn’t it really frustrating (girls in particular) when your Dad or brother is watching the “World Cup” and you want to watch the TV but you can’t get near it? I mean, who would ever want to watch that rubbish?!! So I’ll give you 10 ways on how to change the channel: Say your dad asked for a cup of tea, you can ask him if he can put the hot water in the mug.

Therefore you can run into the living room and change the channel.

If your dad goes to the loo, you can quickly change the channel and hide the remote control.

Do puppy-dog eyes at your dad or even your brother.

Go on to BBC iplayer?

Say to them “Let’s have a movie night.”

Pay them to change the channel (it might work).

Distract them, then change the channel.

Ask them annoying questions.

Hoover the sitting room (otherwise make loud noises).

Turn the TV off!!! (And face the consequences!).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

If you can’t get enough of all the coverage of the World Cup, Wimbledon and the Tour de France, and you would like to know more, much, much more, then go to this wonderful

website, where you will find out all sorts of very interesting facts, see and hear interviews and get distracted by lots of other articles too.

If you want to be well-informed, dazzle your friends, family and teachers, then you MUST

visit this website.

And, if that’s not enough for you, check out the First News newspaper for children – it is great! You can get it from your local newsagent’s or supermarket, or you can subscribe

and have it delivered to your door. You can also read it in your local library!

Get wise!

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A Poster to colour, add more detail to, pin up on your wall, make into a flag – use your imagination! Drawn by Ellie Parker.

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Kick-Off Quiz

by Ryan Hann

In the rush for the World’s greatest footballers (past and present) to get the coach to Brazil for the World Cup 2014, the letters on their t-shirts have been muddled! Can you help to solve the mystery?

1. NVESET RDREGAR ____________________________________

2. WYAEN YORONE ____________________________________

3. DVIAD HBECAMK ____________________________________

4. KFAMR MPARALD ____________________________________

5. OEIBRB OFWREL ____________________________________

6. LEEP ____________________________________

7. SUIL RAUEZS ____________________________________

8. ZDININEE ZDINAE ____________________________________

9. OADNREFN SORRET ____________________________________

10. NALRONDO ____________________________________

11. NVA ISERPE ____________________________________