News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 468
5th – 11th June 2015
Headlines : Crossword
Read the Headlines story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword.
All the answers to the crossword are words in the article. These words are underlined for you.
The book that can turn into a tree
FCB Buenos Aires via YouTube
INSTEAD of letting books you’ve read collect dust in your bedroom,
why not plant them and watch them turn into a tree?
That won’t work for most books, but plantable book My Dad Was In The Jungle
does just that.
Books are wonderful things but, the truth is, creating them requires a lot of
paper, which of course comes from trees. Now it seems an Argentinian
children’s book publisher has come up with a wonderful means of recycling
a book once it’s been read – give it back to the Earth.
The project is called Tree Book Tree. Once My Dad Was In The Jungle
is read, it can be planted and then grown into a tree.
The book is made from “recycled acid-free paper and biodegradable inks” and
the cover contains seeds, which allow it to grow once it’s been planted. Planting
the book is very easy, too, as instructions are included in the book.
My Dad Was In The Jungle is the first book of its kind, but will
it be the last? Talk about the publishing world turning over
a new leaf…
1
ACROSS
3) Something you can plant (adjective 9)
5) This kind of paper is also called alkaline paper because it does not
have acid in it. It takes fewer chemicals to make it than paper with acid
in it, so it is better for the environment. This kind of paper can also be
recycled. (compound adjective 4,4)
2
3
7) From the country of Argentina in South America (adjective 11)
10) Includes (verb 8)
4
5
DOWN
1) A company, or person, that turns the stories authors
6
write into books to sell (noun 9)
2) Information, a guide (on how to plant the book)
(plural noun 7)]
7
8
4) Compostable, can decompose (break down) safely in
the ground (some inks have toxic chemical
inside them, so they are harmful to the
earth but the inks used for the words and
pictures in the plantable book are made
with vegetable oils, so it’s compostable.)
(adjective 13)
6) Needs (verb 8)
8) Making (a book) into something
9
10
else, reusing (verb 9)
9) Way, method (noun 5)
Learning through news
www.FirstNews.co.uk/forschools
News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 468
5th – 11th June 2015
Headlines
: Crossword
be
Read the Headlines story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword.
All the answers to the crossword are words in the article. Underline these words as you go.
The book that can turn into a tree
FCB Buenos Aires via YouTube
INSTEAD of letting books you’ve read collect dust in your bedroom,
why not plant them and watch them turn into a tree?
That won’t work for most books, but plantable book My Dad Was In The Jungle
does just that.
Books are wonderful things but, the truth is, creating them requires a lot of
paper, which of course comes from trees. Now it seems an Argentinian
children’s book publisher has come up with a wonderful means of recycling
a book once it’s been read – give it back to the Earth.
The project is called Tree Book Tree. Once My Dad Was In The Jungle
is read, it can be planted and then grown into a tree.
The book is made from “recycled acid-free paper and biodegradable inks” and
the cover contains seeds, which allow it to grow once it’s been planted. Planting
the book is very easy, too, as instructions are included in the book.
My Dad Was In The Jungle is the first book of its kind, but will
it be the last? Talk about the publishing world turning over
a new leaf…
1
ACROSS
3) Something you can plant (adjective 9)
5) This kind of paper is also called alkaline paper because it does not
have acid in it. It takes fewer chemicals to make it than paper with acid
in it, so it is better for the environment. This kind of paper can also be
recycled. (compound adjective 4,4)
2
3
7) From the country of Argentina in South America (adjective 11)
10) Includes (verb 8)
4
5
DOWN
1) A company, or person, that turns the stories authors
6
write into books to sell (noun 9)
2) Information, a guide (on how to plant the book)
(plural noun 7)]
7
8
4) Compostable, can decompose (break down) safely in
the ground. (Some inks have toxic chemical
inside them, so they are harmful to the
earth but the inks used for the words and
pictures in the plantable book are made
with vegetable oils, so it’s compostable.)
(adjective 13)
6) Needs (verb )
8) Making (a book) into something
9
10
else, reusing (verb 9)
9) Way, method (noun 5)
Learning through news
www.FirstNews.co.uk/forschools