Wednesday 22 October 2008

Football

Football

These games will be held on the Barclays Cup in England. The Barclays Cup is one of the biggest cups followed by Serie A, the Italian cup, La Liga , the Spanish cup. UEFA Cup is held in Europe. UEFA has Europes top teams. To be with in UEFA Cup you have to win the country cup e.g Manchester won Barclays Cup so they qualify to the UEFA Cup. This weekend there is an amazing match, Manchster Utd agaist Everton at 12:00 on Saterday.
25 Oct 08 - Sat
fixtures for Oct 2008
Fixture summary Add fixture to calender Fixture date Fixture day Start time
Everton v Manchester United
12:00 Barclays Pr...
Barclays Premier League
• Everton
• v
• Man Utd
Manchester United

Report By/ Adrian Ovin

Sports Zone

Sports Zone


Basketball:

Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. After serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. James Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball.

Soccer No one knows for sure when or where soccer was invented, but many researchers have ideas. One place that many people think soccer was invented is China. People think that soccer was invented as a distraction for soldiers in war. Ancient Chinese Texts say that the Chinese Emperor invented soccer 5,000 years ago, but modern Chinese Historians say that their country invented soccer around 500 B.C. but the modern soccer we know today is created by the English.

Match on Friday

Match on Friday
The match on Friday was hard. The juniors won one of the two matches and the seniors lost both matches. Juniors won 7 Р0 against Lund and then they lost by a lot against Helsingborg. The seniors lost both matches but never gave up. We came back to Malm̦ Central station at about 16:00.

3-1 seniors lost
4-1 seniors lost

7-0 juniors won
11-1 juniors lost

Adrian

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Criticising the world

CRITICISING THE WORLD

In this issue of CRITICISING THE WORLD, you will read about the TV shows and reality shows of today’s TV.

Shows such as Hell’s kitchen, Idol, Top Model etc. are the shows I will be discussing. Lets start with Hell’s Kitchen. First of all, you can see the show is fixed, it might be interesting for an episode or two, until you realize that the same thing happens over and over and over again, the wrong things with it is that they swear in the kitchen, which gives bad energy to the food, and could actually poison someone, the food is always late and the restaurant always has to close down. Idol is a terrible show because it promotes music that is not what people should be listening to, the show might be fixed or acted out, but I’m not sure, the content is repetitive and with each season it’s the same thing, Simon, the critic is always mean and so on. Top model is a show that very many women across the world watch, they think it is interesting, perhaps it is for the females, but the thing about it is that with every season it’s the same thing and it gives women the impression that being beautiful is everything, while brains is actually what matters, all these shows are very repetitive, and I say this not to insult anyone that likes these shows: these shows are for stupid people.
Of course Hell’s Kitchen isn’t the only show that makes me angry, but most of the shows on MTV, clearly they are all acted out even though they are “reality shows’’ They are so over exaggerated and soap operaish, that no smart or bright person would watch them, shows such as Tila Tequila, X effect and some other dumb shows. And now to end the issue on the brighter side, there are some shows that are in fact real, and provide some variety and quality, but those shows might perhaps be boring for the younger audience, most shows on discovery and other such channels show good shows and should be viewed instead of the shows I listed.

Interview with Richard

Interview with Richard (Science teacher)

Where in England where you born?
Bradford (Yorkshire)

How long did you live there?
7 years

Why did you move to Sweden and how long do you plan on living here?
My girlfriend’s job (4 years)

What do you like most about England?
The humors + the pubs

What do you think is worst?
The weather + the complaining

Which of the English football clubs do you support?
Leicester City

Do you play any typical English sports?
Football

What are the places I have to visit while being in England?
Bath, Lake District, Yorkshire, Cambridge, London, all the castles

Tuesday 14 October 2008

Sport Zone


Hockey (NHL)
The pro hockey league has already started. They have actually played a game here in Sweden. It was not played in Malmö but in Stockholm.
We all wonder who will win the whole thing. So please comment and share your opinions.

Basketball (NBA)
The pro basketball league starts in 20 days. Please comment on what you think will happen this season!

Football (NFL)
The pro football league has started. We have a few football fans here in school among all the teachers and students.

Australia News

Plane Crash
When a plane was trying to lane in foggy weather near Mount Everest, it crashed and caught on fire. It was a Yeti- airlines 19 seat plane. It crashed at Lukla airport, about 60 km. from Mount Everest. It had taken off from Kathmandu.

Missing Backpacker
A 21 year old girl is still missing from three weeks ago. Her family doesn’t think that the police are putting enough effort into the case. Her name was Britt Lapthorne, and she was last seen in the coastal city of Dubrovnik.

Milk Scandal
Four babies in Australia have died and ten thousands have been made ill from a product of milk powder that has been tainted with the organic compound melamine, which is a health hazard at high levels. This product was made in China, and has been like this since the contamination crisis in China. Fonterra Australia has reported an increase in demand from Asia for its milk powder products after the contamination.

Wednesday 8 October 2008

Motorstorm Pacific Rift

MotorStorm Pacific Rift

Motorstorm Pacific Rift is coming out for Playstation 3, between October and December 2008. The developer is Eleven Studios, publisher Sony. This is a racing game. It is 1-4 players offline in splitscreen mode and 1-16 players online. Media type blu-ray HD resolution 720p.

I think this is going to be a very, very good game because the first one was the best selling Playstation 3 brutal off road racer. This game is on a pacific island and the tracks go over swamps dense jungle towering peaks and steaming volcanoes. This time your opponents are much more aggressive and artificial intelligence. There are 16 multi-route tracks to tear up with all the vehicle classes from the first MotorStorm: ATVs, rally cars, buggies, motorbikes, race trucks, mudpluggers and Big Rigs, as well as the newly arrived monster trucks that climb, sprint and roll over any vehicle in their way.

As it hasn’t come out yet I am not sure what could be better or what they could have improved.


By: Luis Ordonez

Country of the Week - England - London

Hot spots

London, England:

One of the best cities in the world to visit, with some of the most interesting sites, is London.
For example, The Big Ben is one of the most exciting sightseeing buildings. Or the London Eye, you can go into a capsule and when you get to the top you can see a marvelous sight of the whole city. There is also The National Historic Museum which is one of the best museums in the whole world. In there you can find a section of dinosaurs which are very interesting and many other animals that are displayed for people to see. And last but definitely not least The London Bridge, one of the coolest bridges to walk, cycle or drive across.

Nicolas Tenorio

Leopard Gecko

Leopard Gecko
(Eublepharis Macularius)

Leopard Gecko is a lizard living in some countries in Asia. They have lots of happy owners all over the world, including me. The diet depends on what you decide to feed them with. The most popular are crickets, but people feed them sometimes with other bugs like butterworms. They can grow from 18-25 cm and can live for about 25 years! They are very curious. Once when I took mine out of his cage he was so interested in the computer that he didn’t want to go back to his box.

There is a weird thing about his skin, some people think it’s fascinating, some think it’s just cool and some think that it’s disgusting. He throws it away each month. First he is very colorful, and then he gets a little bit lighter, then lighter, then white, then he gets so white that his small skin breaks off. This might be a little bit disgusting but that is just what he does, he eats his own skin. He eats it very quickly. Mine has eaten four already, the first one was when I went to a friend for a couple of hours and when I came back he was all colorful again. I thought there was something wrong with him but there wasn’t. Next time I was home and I watched everything from beginning to end and I was amazed, by the fact that he ate it in less than an hour. The next two I missed when I was at school and when I was sleeping… bad luck.

A leopard gecko is a good pet. He is not aggressive and he bites only when you force him by squeezing, not being delicate etc. As I said they have lots of owners and it is a very interesting and fun animal.

By: Pawel Kornacki

Good Books

If you are looking for good books to read here are some we would recommend:
• Walk two Moons – in our library
• Thief – in our library
• Storm Catchers – in our library
• The Twilight Series (four books)
• Catcher in the Rye
• Six steps to a girl
• Feeling Sorry for Celia (the life of Bindy Mackenzie)

You can find reviews on some of these books below!


Bethan Mott

Karolinska; 'BEST' university in Sweden



Stockholm's medical university, Karolinska Institutet, has been named the best university in Sweden by a new international survey. At the top of the international list came Harvard. Eight out of the top ten universities were in The United States.

By Nicky Behshad

Wednesday 1 October 2008

Soccer Matches

Soccer Matches

There is a soccer match on Friday. You can only participate if you are good in school and that you have showed that you can behave. If you do not do this you are not allowed to come to the soccer matches against Lund and Helsingborg. Wear appropriate clothing and shoes.

Team :
Jeremy MYP5
Simon MYP2
Adrian MYP2
Charlotte MYP2
Simon MYP4
Jonas MYP4
Eetu MYP4
Dainel PYP6
Miko MYP4
Maria MYP5

Date: Friday 3rd October
Time: 08:00-14:00
Location: Helsingborg International School

Adrian Ovin

Tom Clancy's End war




This is a 3rd person strategy game. It’s Developer and publisher is Ubisoft. It is coming out for PS3 and maybe for Xbox360 too. It is coming out between October and December 2008. It is for 1 player on 1 console and can be multiplayer online. Media type blu-ray, HD-resolution 1080i, 720p. Sound Dolby 5.1.
I think this is going to be a very, very, very good game, because you can access voice commands. A relevant storyline pits superpower against superpower in all-out war with you in command. You'll take control of the US-led Joint Strike Force, the European Enforcers Corps, or the Russian Spetsnaz Guards Brigade in a single-player campaign or online against friends in a constantly evolving Theatre of War mode.


By: Luis Ordonez

Book Review- Girl Missing

Girl Missing- Sophie McKenzie


Fourteen-year-old Lauren knows that she's adopted but she doesn't know anything about her birth family. Then a search on the Internet leads her to suspect that she might be a missing child - a child snatched from an American family when she was three. Suddenly nothing in her life makes sense anymore. Could her adoptive parents have anything to do with her kidnapping? Together with her friend Jam, she sets out to solve the mystery of her past. But there are people who are prepared to do anything to hide the truth, and soon Lauren and Jam are in serious trouble...
I think it was a great book with lots of excitement. It was very interesting and after a few pages, you don’t want to put the book down. I think Sophie McKenzie described the book well and made it feel like we were in the book. I would give this book five stars because it was faultless.

Nicky Behshad

Book Review- Twilight

Twilight

Twilight is the best book I have ever read. It is about a vampire named Edward and a girl named Bella that fall in love. Bella gets put in danger when she hangs out with Edward and his family, since she is human. It is filled with excitement and romance. I recommend it for girls but boys may enjoy it too. Twilight is the first book of four. The others are just as good.

1st book- Twilight
2nd book- New Moon
3rd book- Eclipse
4th book- Breaking Dawn

I enjoyed every single book to the very last page. Also Twilight the movie is coming out on November 21, 2008! I am very excited about that. I give the Twilight series 4 ½ stars, because New Moon was not as good but I still enjoyed it a lot! I hope you enjoy the Twilight series as much as I did!!!

-Charlotte Mannerstrale

Sports Zone

SPORTS ZONE

There has been a lot of things has happened this week sports wise. The soccer leagues are up and running:



By: SiMoN DaHl


PSP Lite

Sony wanted to do something new with their popular console, PlayStation Portable. Sony released the PSP in May 2004 it had a tough fight with the Nintendo DS. Nintendo was more popular but there still are lots of fans of both of them. Later Sony released a version called PSP Slim… which had absolutely no difference, except the slim figure and the way of putting in UMD’s (Universal Media Disc). Since it was new, people bought it instead of the old one but it still didn’t beat the DS.

Now came out the PSP Lite which has a memory stick on the side, speakers high (before they were low) a slight new design and…. actually nothing more! If those changes will be so “advanced” than they will have to forget about beating DS. Sony already beat Nintendo in importable consoles. PlayStation 2 and 3 are the most popular consoles in the world and Wii will have work for years to beat them but in portable consoles Nintendo is leading. The PSP is OK but people want some changes instead of moving the memory card place for additional money!

By: Pawel

Rock band 2

Rock Band 2 is the 2nd game from the Rock Band series. It came out in the U.S. on September 15th 2008 for the console Xbox 360. This game is a 4 player game. One person sings; one plays the bass one the guitar and one plays the drums.
This game can be played online. There are several ways of Gameplay, these are some of them, battle of the bands, you can challenge everyone on your friends list. Tour challenges, in this you play increasingly hard songs to unlock the next level. World tour, the new and improved tour mode allows solo acts in over 59 venues and 24 cities, full flexibility play solo or in a band with your friends, opportunity gigs, play for the big playoff, like recording a music video on a soundstage.

I think it is going to be successful since it has over 80 songs!!
And it is taking a long time to send rock band 1 all over the world which means it is running out where it already is.

By: Luis Ordonez

Hot spots in America

Since America is the country of the week, it’s always good to know the most popular places to visit if you ever happen to be in America on vacation.

“SOME OF THE BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD ARE IN AMERICA.”

New York City: It’s an exciting place to visit. There are many attractions there, for all ages. For those who like art there is the museum of modern art, and the Whitney museum of American art. For those of you who like Musicals and theatre performances there is always Broadway! On Broadway you can see many different shows, for example the very well known “Wicked” show. Tickets have been sold out in every show for the past six years that it has been showing. It is truly an amazing show!!! Also there is Legally Blond the Musical, or Spamalot.
You can also go to the Empire State building. You can go all the way to the top, which is extremely high. Or there is the famous Statue of Liberty. If you want to see some nature, go to the Central Park and experience the beauty! Also for those History lovers there is the American Museum of Natural History. That’s about it for New York!

Orlando, Florida: One of the best cities to have fun!!! Disney World, one of the best fun parks for children. There are many rides. One of the best things of the park is that you get to meet all the Disney characters. There are 4 different parks in Disney world. They are called Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and MGM studios. They are all very popular. Also there is Universal Studios. It is not a part of Disney world, but it is still a wonderful experience. Go there and see it your self!!!

Nicolas Tenorio