Free Time Activities and Fun Facts: Pocket Money, Eco Boats, Cheerleading and WWF

Help Around the House!

Help around the house! - 10 euros a month, because I study.
I buy chocolate - 30 euros a month. When we do something well, I buy a present too.
I buy books - 20 euros a month. Pocket money is cool.
We buy sweets and clothes - 5 euros every week. We buy lots of sweets.
No pocket money - My parents didn't give me pocket money.

A Boat or a Plane

Earthrace, a boat with a mission. It uses renewable energies and can reach speeds of 90 km/h.

A White Wedding Dress

A woman married in a dress made of toilet paper in a competition. What if the day is rainy?

Bottle Fashion

A woman protects the planet from pollution by recycling plastic bottles to make a dress. xD

Fun Paper Shredders

A thing to destroy paper, shaped like animals.

Fun in the Park

A dinosaur in a park in Sydney: a herbivorous dinosaur.

Bicycles Are the Best

A lot of cyclists put up bicycles in Hungary to show that they are important.

Fake Newspaper Articles

Write your own articles on a website and publish them on the Internet.

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

It's the beginning of the summer and, for the first time since they met, four teenage girls are getting ready to say goodbye to each other for the summer break. Before they go, they decide to share a pair of second-hand jeans that will help them keep in touch with the others until they are back home again.

Characters

Carmen: I go to South Carolina with my father and my girlfriend.
Bridget: I go to Mexico to attend a sports camp.
Lena: I'm going to Greece with my grandparents.
Tibby: I stay at my parents' shop, helping and working.

Each girl wears the pants on a different occasion. They send them to one another, and later the pants arrive back home with Carmen, Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen again.

Britain's Young Photographers

Every year the RSPCA organizes a competition for young people to take photos of animals. Here are the winners (Be Kind to Animals, 200 Years Helping Animals, Young Photographers):

• 12 years old - Megan McCubbin: Megan was in a boat and took a photo of hungry gannets. Megan says it was difficult to take the photo.
• 10 years old - Alex Worthington: The overall winner, a chameleon in an English park. The chameleon was looking at the camera.
• 13 years old - Isabella Williams: In the garden of her grandmother's house, a plant site in the USA, a cat is camouflaged.
• 11 years old - Sophie Livesey: She was taking a photo of flowers when a frog came in. The frog interacted with the camera's focus. Good eyes!

Cheerleaders in the USA

The first cheer took place in 1880 at a football game. Glamorous sport is the dream of many teenagers. In the 1940s, many boys were cheerleaders, like George Bush. Pom-poms were invented in the 1930s and were made of colored paper strips. Many cheerleaders in America consider it a sport, as it involves physical activity and a lot of movement.

WWF

Chi-Chi, the panda, was created in Switzerland to save animals for the WWF. The WWF is always saving the planet and still exists today. Everybody knows the panda in the WWF symbol. The WWF stands for World Wide Fund for Nature, and it is the biggest conservation organization in the world.