April 2024

English 

     English is the main language in the whole world, and also the main language in YYPS. English is very important in communication and education. It is the world's most widely used language in international business and telecommunications, newspaper and book publishing, scientific publishing, mass entertainment, and diplomacy. It is very essential, crucial, and critical to learn English. English is spread into 4 main groups: grammar/Reading comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening! Fun fact: YYPS is one of the few primary schools in the New Territories that uses English as a main language in teaching. In YYPS, English is the most important and popular language.

Importance of English 

     You might be wondering why English is so important for everyone to know. It’s the most famous culture and language in the world. Moreover, English is necessary for international traveling and it’s required for education since most of the countries speak English. 

Ways to Learn and Understand English

     You can practice more active listening to improve listening and also speak more English with your friends or parents. You can also use the app Duolingo to learn English and use Raz and Epic to read more English books. Most importantly, you should often have an English conversation with your English teacher. Moreover, you should keep your personal goal of learning English in your brain. It helps you to focus on your goal and it will be easier to accomplish it. You can also try to use some flashcards to boost your English vocabulary. It’s entertaining to use and very essential! Sometimes, watching and enjoying ENGLISH TV shows and movies are also a bit helpful. You can hear other people speaking fluent English and learn from it. Furthermore, changing your phone, iPad  or computer settings to English can also be a great assistant. It’s a convenient way to learn English while having fun. 

Ada Lovelace is famous for inventing the first computer. Ada was born on December 10, in the year 1815. She was born in London in the United Kingdom. She's known to be “history's first programmer”.

She was the daughter of a famous poet, Lord Byron and Isabella Milbanke. She got a scientific education from her mother, she combined their skills and described her work as “poetic science”. 

Growing up, Ada was very clever and curious, but not the adventure kind, she wanted to invent things, like making a flying machine. So she studied birds, she was already curious about them at first, so she merrily studied them. When she studied, she would always put her research in a tidy notebook. For example, she called her research of flying, “flyology” She was always curious about random things, she would try to even build something once in a while, but it never really worked. Ada never thought of being a real inventor. 

That was until one day, she met an old and cranky but likable mathematician, Charles Babbage at a dance. They instantly became friends, they had a lot in common, such as loving mathematics. Charles Babbage even let Ada see a creation he made. It was a machine that could automatically do mathematics calculations, it was efficient too! This inspired Ada to make a machine as well. Since it was long ago then when Ada was born, it was very advanced to create a machine like Charles. But she still imagined all the things possible beyond mathematics, such as things that could do even more than just mathematics calculations. But first Ada had to write a complicated algorithm to order the machine to do certain things. This is what people called the first computer program in the world! This is why on the second Tuesday of October every year, we celebrate Ada Lovelace day.

Ada Lovelace unfortunately died because of uterine cancer at only the age of 36. She died on November 27, 1852, in Marylebone.

Introduction

The Spartan Race is a series of obstacle races. Facing different tests, ranging from 3 miles to an ultra-marathon of 50k+.These races are held in the United States and have spread to 30+ countries, including Canada, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, China, and several European countries. The series includes the Spartan Sprint, the Spartan Super, the Spartan Beast, the Spartan Ultra, and even Spartan Kids! Spartan Race also has a military series that is hosted on military bases. Spartan also holds Winter and team events.

History

The Spartan Race started as the “Death Race”, a 48-hour endurance event founded in 2007. Spartan was founded by Joe De Sena, who intended for it to be a more manageable endurance race for a wider audience. The first Spartan Race event was held in 2010 at the Catamount Outdoor Center in Williston, Vermont, and represented the city of Burlington, Vermont. Roughly 500 competitors had to "run, crawl, jump, and swim" and overcome a variety of obstacles. All finishers received a medal, and prizes were awarded to the top athletes.

In 2012 Raptor Consumer Partners invested in the Spartan Race company. In 2013 Reebok became the event title sponsor, and the races were renamed the "Reebok Spartan Race Series''. On December 7, 2013, Universal Sports broadcast a special on the 2013 Spartan Race World Championships. In. August 2015, parent network NBC then approved a Spartan-based television series, Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, led by the producers of fellow NBW series American Ninja Warrior Later in 2015, Spartan Race founded the "Spartan Agoge'' which is described as a "60 hours physical, tactical, mental and team-based training and testing" event, to be held in Vermont twice a year.ESPN describes the Spartan Race as "a true test of will.

Obstacles

In Spartan, there are obstacles to make it unique, for instance, lifting weights, swimming in mud water, climbing ropes.If you don’t know how to do the obstacles you can do 10+ bungee jumps which is ten times more tiring than doing the obstacles. The award for winning the race is a cash prize.

The Scream is a fairly popular painting created by Edvard Munch in 1893. It is an oil, tempera, pastel, and crayon-type painting on cardboard! It is a 91 cm x 73.5 cm (36 in x 28.9 in) painting, it is bigger than you think! It is also located in the National Museum and the Munch Museum, in Oslo and Norway respectively. Munch created two versions of The Scream in paint and two in pastels, as well as a lithograph stone from which several prints survived. But both painted versions have been stolen, and since recovered. In 2012, one of the past commanded the highest price paid for an artwork at a public auction at the time. 

In Munch’s diary, titledm ”Nice 22 January 1892” the following of his source of inspiration to create The Scream. One evening, he was walking along a path, and suddenly he felt tired and unwell. Then he stopped and realized something was off, the sun was setting, but the clouds were turning blood red. Then, he felt a great ear-piercing scream passing through nature. That was what inspired Munch to paint this picture, painting the clouds as actual bright red blood. And it slowly became The Scream.

Many people think that the picture The Scream, symbolizes the man covering his ears screaming. But the person in the middle of the picture was covering his ears, refusing to listen to the pain the society gave to nature, shocked at how people could do this to their world. The hurt face in the painting has become one of the most classic images in art, seen as representing the anxiety of the human condition.

Interview (comments)

EUM4 Lynette (12)

This piece of artwork is very impressive. The paint used to create this painting is oil paint. There are several ways to protect artwork from direct and filtered sunlight. However, if you don't take precautions before it's too late, your oil painting will be irreparably damaged by light exposure. Now back to the painting, painting by Edvard Munch that became his most famous work. He completed two versions in 1893, another in 1895, and yet another likely in 1910.

PIA5 Anya Sin (22)

This piece of artwork is amazing, it might be a little old and weird of how he is. I think the worker should add some more people to the bridge of the painting to make the bridge more crowded. The sunset is gorgeous. Also, I think that the worker should add some mountains in the background to make it more interesting. The person screaming in there is wiggly.

     Do you know when is games day? Games Day is going to be on the 30th April. Many students and teachers are practicing for the coming events. There are numerous events on the games day, including long jump, high jump, softball throw. Except for those above, there’s also a parent-child event for 4x100m relay. Moreover, P5s and P6s have inter-class relays. 

So, we interviewed a few people about their expectations and to see what event they’ve joined.

The first person is Ellie Yuen in BAO4, let’s see what she replies to us.

“I’m Ellie, and I really hope that there will be no rain. Because it rained, we weren't able to participate in the events. I chose to join the long jump and 60m event. Hope we can join the games day on the coming Tuesday!”

Secondly, we also interviewed Hazel Lam in ASJ6. She replied to us.

“I’m now P6 and because of the COVID, I couldn’t  join the games day events for the past four years. I think I only joined the Games day event at p1 and p2. So I hope to join it this time!”

This it the end of our article, thank you for using you time!

     Muhammed Ali was one of the most famous boxers ever lived. Muhammed Ali also known as Cassius Clay, “The Greatest” and “The Champ”. When Muhammed was small he was a thief on the street stealing things he was noticed by an officer and also the one who encouraged him to do boxing. He started training boxing when he was 12 with his coach Joe E. Martin

Muhammed Ali has won many times before throughout his career. He has 61 total fights, and has won 56 of them, 37 of his wins are KO, lost 5 times. These are the names of the best fights he has had:

Cassius Clay vs. Tunney Hunsaker - Oct. 29, 1960

Ali vs. George Foreman - Oct. 30, 1974

Clay vs. Sonny Liston I - Feb. 25, 1964

Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson - Nov. 22, 1965

Ali vs. Karl Mildenberger - Sept. 10, 1966

Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/other-sports/list/muhammad-ali-greatest-fights-george-foreman-joe-frazier-boxing/15b0w40u8tjab1c0t0zwq3d0jd

Muhammed Ali fought in a way called “rope-a-dope”. In this method of fighting, he did not move around, he chose to fight longer from leaning on ropes to prevent powerful blows.

More About Muhammed Ali

Height: 191 cm

Weight: 107 kg

Death: June 3, 2016

Born:17 January 1942

Born In:Louis, Kentucky, United States

Videos

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1783571931570012396?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1QEQEQC63fM

Quotes

“It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

 “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

“If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.”

 “Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.”

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2016/06/03/muhammad-ali-best-quotes-boxing/85370850/

Continuing

“That was crazy!” 

Said Sarah, 

“I’m speechless!”. 

John mentioned that they were only 21.7% of the way through and they would have to face many, many more challenges along the way. 

“Oh, come on! Why does this take so long?”

 Asked a slightly annoyed Colin. Everybody just stared at him. 

“Oh, now what?!”

 exclaimed Colin.

 “Alright, alright. We’re doing this as fast as we possibly can and we’re also trying to keep you as comfortable as possible. You wanted to join, right?”

John said calmly with a hint of annoyance to his tone.

 “Fine, I’ll try to appreciate this,” Colin mumbled as he rolled his eyes. The next few days (days 2-9) were quite calm and pleasant.

They enjoyed their time in the spacecraft but very soon they would indulge in a great battle with a supernatural being that was the possessor of a cosmic part of the universe.

 “Woah, I think the radars are picking up a weird signal. We aren’t anywhere close though!” Said John.

 “How about for safety purposes we just take out our weapons.” Suggested Malissa, “Make sure the kiddies are out too!”. 

Everyone bursted into laughter since by kiddies she meant turrets. That laughter was immediately struck down by extreme shaking in the main cabin.

 “SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE TO GO OUT AND SEE WHAT IT IS. TAKE THE WEAPONS!” Shouted Alex.

 Immediately, John, Sarah, and Alex put on their special suits, took the weapons, tethered themselves onto the ship, opened the door, and marched out. Malissa and Colin followed even though reluctant to leave. They all marched out with weapons and they all were shocked to see a half Cerberus, half eagle, and half snake creature in front of them. They couldn’t talk in these suits due to them being soundproof but all of them had thought, 

“Oh.. NO!”.

This dangerous being was called a “Rhőþeçħ” and was one of the strongest creatures in the universe. The crew all fired their weapons at the same time but it barely did any damage to the Rhőþeßçħ. They realized that there was no way to do any sort of damage to it and the team would have to ditch the effort of fighting it. Everyone rushed back into the spacecraft and sealed the door shut, leaving the Rhőþeßçħ outside without anything to do again. 

“That was… Crazy," Alex said, his voice merely a whisper as his heart pounded out of his chest, “It was humongous!”.

 “I know right? That was mad!” Sarah shouted, adrenaline pumping through her body.

 “Imagine we had to fight that. We’d be gone in no time!”Collin Hypothesised, his mind full of thoughts. This voyage was a dangerous and life-threatening one and it was all for a singular crystal that was still being guarded by a destructive creature. Paranoia crammed their minds, sending goosebumps down their spine, 

‘What would happen next?’

‘Will we get hurt?”

“How can we prevent it?”

The group decided that they would answer these endless questions as soon as possible. Throughout days 10-20, nothing happened. However, the group was getting tired of their repetitive life on the spaceship that they contemplated quitting. Until one day, another being would soon be found by the crew.

Pt.4 out soon!

     Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born girl who kept a diary documenting her and her family’s life of hiding under Nazi persecution during the German occupation, she is an acclaimed diarist who described the daily life of hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam dam attic.

     Annie was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. In 1934, when she was four years old, she, along with her family moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after Adolf Hilter and the Nazis took control over Germany. By May 1940, the Franks were kept in Amsterdam by the German occupation. Anne lost her German citizenship. Even though she spent most of her life in the Netherlands, Nanie never became a Dutch local. As the arrest of the Jews increased in July 1942, the family went hiding behind a bookshelf in secret rooms in the building where Anne’s father worked. The hiding place was referred to as the “secret annex”, Until the Franks were arrested by the Gestapo on the 4th August 1944, Anne Frank kept and regularly wrote in the diary she received as a birthday present in 1942.

          After their arrest, the Franks were sent to concentration camps. On the 1st of November, 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transit to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they passed away a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31st March as the valid date. Proximate research assumed that they died in late February or early  March from typhus fever.

          Anne’s father Otto, the only survivor of the Franks, returned to Amsterdam following the war to find that his daughter’s diary had been saved by his female secretaries, Meip Gies and Bep Voskuil. He decided to fulfill his daughter’s dreams to become a writer, so, he published her diary in 1947. It was later translated into over seventy languages.