Tasmania has problems with fires
Tasmania is part of Australia. It is an island. Tasmania has problems with fire. There are 40 fires in Tasmania. The weather is very hot. The temperatures are 40 degrees. It is why the fires are there.
The fires took 85 homes. Some people are lost. People cannot find 100 people who were lost in the fires.
Interesting words: degree (unit for temperature), find (see again).
Very clever young man from France
One fifteen year old boy found new information. The new information is about one galaxy. The name of the galaxy is Andromeda. Andromeda is very near our galaxy. He found that Andromeda is made of 13 small galaxies.
The school boy is from France. He found the information at the astronomical observatory. His father works there. He found the information with a new program. He says that he was lucky.
People in the world know the boy now. One day he can be an astrophysicist but he doesn’t know if he wants to be an astrophysicist or not.
Interesting words: found (discovered), astronomical (for stars), observatory (place where you watch stars), astrophysicist (expert who understands stars).
Man has a new hand
Mark Cahill is from England. He is the first person in England who had a hand transplant. He lost his hand because he had a bad illness. He has a new hand now.
The operation took eight hours. It was done on the 26th of December. The first hand transplant was done in Lyon, France in 1996.
Interesting words: transplant (change, illness (problem with a body).
Players went to a concert
Basketball and classical music usually don’t go together. People from one team in Turkey went to a concert of classical music. At the beginning they weren’t happy there. They looked at their watches. One player was sleeping. And then things started to change.
The music changed into a Turkish pop song. Some people stood up. They started to sing the song. Cameras filmed the whole situation. The players didn’t know about it. They were shocked. The video about this situation will help the team. More people will go to their matches.
Interesting words: classical music (music for example from Beethoven or Mozart), pop (popular).
Volcano Mount Etna erupts
Mount Etna is in Italy. It is an active volcano. It sent a lot of smoke into the air today. It did it many times. The mountain is 2900 meters high. There was a lot of ash in the air too. People stayed in their towns and villages.
Etna is near the Sicilian town of Catania. Mount Etna is active very often, but it isn’t very dangerous.
Interesting words: volcano (big mountain which explodes sometimes) ash (grey and white material after fire).