Teenagers & entertainment
The school was celebrating the 50th anniversary.every grade could select an item to show their parents some special thing about the school.They had to make some money towards the school funt too.
Grade Eights selected useful Hobbies.
Grade Nines selected An Exhibition.
Grade Tens selected Entertainment.
they prepared a programme of entertainment ane called it Teen entertainment.
One item was music.were studentswho could play instruments.the frieds talked among themselves and decided to from a band.they broughttheir own instruments from home.They met the music teacher.The music teacher helped them to select the music.They selected some old favourites like,'Whispering hope';My bonney lies over the Ocean;'Clementine'and some modern ones:'Country Roads',andd the theme song,from the film The Titanic,"My heart will go on'
Upagupta sl
Upagupta, the disciple of buddha lay asleep on the dust by the city wall of Mathura.
Lamps were all our,doors were all shut,and stars were all hidden by the murky sky of August.
Whose feet were those tinkling with anklets,touching his breast of a light from a woman's lamp struck his forgiving eyes.It was the dancing-girl,starred with jewels,clouded with a pale-blue mantle,drunk with the wine of her youth.
She lowered her lamp and saw the young face,asterely beautiful.
SINHARAJA RAINFOREST FROM SRI LANKA.
The Sinharaja foresit is the only undisturbed rainforest left in Sri Lanka. It is about 9000 hectaares in extent.Many of the plants are very rare.Over 60% of the tree species are found only in the lowland wet zone of Sri Lanka.if these species of trees were allowed to get destroyed,the world would lose them altogether.So it important that much offort is made to conserve this rich,valuable and fragile habitar.
The siharaja Rainforest is the largest rainforest reserve in Sri Lanka.In 1840 Sinharaja became a crown property.In 1988 the Sinharaja was made a National Wilderness area.in 1989 UNESCO include the Sinharaja Forest in the World Heritage list, as the first National Heritage og Sri Lanka.
The Sinharaja forest is a home to many animals,birds,butterflies,insects,reptiles and trees.Ferns and mosses grow well as the climate is humid because of heavy rainfall.
RAINFORESTS
The Importance Of Rainforests
Tropical rainforests are located around the equator.The temperature around the equator is high.Hence the rate of water evaporation is high.As a result there is frequent rain in rainforests.They are found in South and Central America,Africa,in the islands around Australia and Asia The rainforest are important to human existence and the surroudings.Rainforests are a rich source of medicinal plants,food and useful forest products.They maintain about 50% of the plant,animal,bird,repitl and insect species of the world.These forests help to maintain a regular rainfall.They also stand as a buffer against floods,droughts and erosion.These forests produce a significant amount of the world's oxygen.
THE ANIMALS AND THE BIRDS
Sinharaja provides a habitar for animals.The plants provide them with food.There are large mammals as well as small ones living there.The purple faced monkeys can be observed easily.They move about in groups.There are herbivores,carnivores as well as mixed feeders.The wild boar,the sambur,the mouse-deer and the barking-deer are some that you find in Sinharaja.There is also evidence of the presence of the leopard.Among others are the rusty many other varieties of small mamals.
Studies have recorded 147 species of birds.Some threatened species of birds are found in the Sinharaja.Among them are the ash-headed babbler.
A dictionary is a book
A dictionary is a book from which people can find out what words mean, how they are spelt and pronounced. The words are arrenged in alphabetical order. Thus abroad comes before absent. because 'r' comes before 's' and so on. The order of every letter is taken into consideration.
The pronunciation is given is signs that stand for various sounds. These signs are explained in the dictionary. Then an abbreviation or a short from will show the part of speech, e.g (n) stands for noun. (adj.) stands for abjective and so on.
The dictionary improves people's use of language. you can select the right word to use. If you are not sure of the meaning of the word. refer to the dictionary; you will learn whether to use it or not to use it in that place.
Dr. Samuel johnson is the father of the English Dictionary. He wrote it in 1775. He was very concerned about the English Language.
Teenagers & entertainment
The school was celebrating the 50th anniversary.every grade could select an item to show their parents some special thing about the school.They had to make some money towards the school funt too.
Grade Eights selected useful Hobbies.
Grade Nines selected An Exhibition.
Grade Tens selected Entertainment.
they prepared a programme of entertainment ane called it Teen entertainment.
One item was music.were studentswho could play instruments.the frieds talked among themselves and decided to from a band.they broughttheir own instruments from home.They met the music teacher.The music teacher helped them to select the music.They selected some old favourites like,'Whispering hope';My bonney lies over the Ocean;'Clementine'and some modern ones:'Country Roads',andd the theme song,from the film The Titanic,"My heart will go on'
Science And Technology
Science And Technologyhas helped people to again control over nature. the first people had little control nature. they had to depend on nature for their living. they had only simple tools they did not know how to raise animals or plants.they had no permanent homes.animal skins were their only protection against the cold.the sun was their only source of light. with the passage of time,people discovered how to make fire and learnt to raise animals and cops.with the development of farming they began to build settlements, then they discovered new methods to make their work easier and to increase their comforts through the ages technology has helped people to build a more comfortable way of life......
some students grade 10 toput upasell for teen fashions. they collected sample designs from fashion magazines. they had clothes for both girls and boys they wrote to some well known stores asking them to display their at a display their wear.the dealers very pleased,and even offerd the clothes at a discounts were very happy...Nalani brought some of her own designs.her mother was a good seams trees,she had helped Nalani withthe designs,she had provided samples of different types of collars they were so good that people thought she had got them tailored .The stall also provided information on fabric types and designs.they also provided information on how to select clothes,such as the colours most suitable for different occasions and times of the day.........
"FOR AN AFRICAN WOMAN OF HER AGE AND CIRCUMSTANCE"
For an african woman of her and circumstance,Mama was very progressive in her thinking.Even today,as we appoach the end of the twentieth century,there are still countries ain Africa,where woman are ina such total dependency on the men that they do not have a right to a pension."Her husband will look after her" is the thinking of offcialdom,and this is reinforced by law.Despite an a abundance of evidence to the country,the myth persists that for every woman there is a man out there,who will always be able and willing to provide for her every need.And so in places where resources are scarce,it is the girl child who misswes out on an education.She is condemned to drop out school at an arly age;to remain blind or"unsighted" in the morden world.
GIRL DIES OF SNAKE BITE...
An ten year old girl died due to a snake bite.This was revealed at an inquest help by the Kurunagla City Corner,in to the death of D.K Chandranie of Diddeniya.the father of the decccased,testfling at the iquest said that his wife had gone to the Middle East for employment.it was three years since she lest, He said"She hasn't yet come back. she didn't send me any money,so i had to goto Rajanganaya in search of a job. i got this sad news about my daughhter while i was tree.A snake had bitten her leg when she was on the way back from the temple with her grandmother.'The auropsy was conducted by the J.M.O,Kurunagala Teaching Hospital.
Email/Email/Email.....
Electronic mail,called e-mail was Started in the late 1960's by the armed forces of the United States of America.The army or military officers were looking for a way communications could be carried out in the event of a large-scale nuclear war.They needed a system that would be very decntralized,relible,and fast in case centralinstitutions were destroyed.They came up with e-mail.
In the early 1970's,e-mail was limited to the United States military, defense contractors and universities doing defense research.By the 1970's it had begum to spread more broadly within university communities. The early 1990's saw an explosion of the use of e-mail and other computer networking tools for a wide range of Professional,academic,and personal purposes.Whereas a few thousand people were using e-mail in the 1980,it was estimated that in 2000,more than 25 million people thoughout the world were using it..
E-mail is a way of sedding a message from on computer to one or more computers around the world.First,you write down the e-mail address of the person you're sedding the massage to.Then you compose the massage,either by writing it directly in a special e-mail softwere. You psh button to issue a simple command to send the message. The computer System you're connected to will break the message up in to tiny pieces and send them electronically to the destination,usually over common telephone lines.The pieces might travel through different routes to various computers on the way. Then,usually within two tree minutes, the pieces will all arrive at their destination,where the receving computer will re-assemble them in to a message that can be read. the person receiving the massage can them log into his or her computer account at a convenient time and read the mail.
Today, in Sri Lanka, many professionals,especially those in urban areas, use e-mail.it's very useful and cheaper than making telephone calls.While overseas telephone calls are very expensive,e-mail messages can be sent to the same people at a fraction of the cost.Of course,both parties must have access to computers and telephones.The main problem with e-mail is that it's so dependent on telephone lines and electricity,that in developing countries like ours,it's not totaly reliable because you never know when the telephones will be out of order,or when there'll be a power cut.But as far as personal messages are concerned,e-mail is quicker and cheaper than methods such as the telephone or"Snail Mail"
