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Beacon Current Affairs 2014

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Lee Hsien Loong (9) Batam / Japan / China (pg12)

Words in the News

(pg2)!full bloom!

various flowers (peony, bauhinia,

narcissus, frangipani)

(Pg4)!bile!

gall bladder!prohibited!epilepsy

(Pg9)!rural!

gambier!diarrhoea!skeptical

(pg18)!quadrupedal!

scutes!osteoderms!

frilly

Floral lantern spectacle (pg2)❖ If you visit Chinatown during

Mid-autumn festival this year, you will see streets lit by over 3000 lanterns!

❖ They took 36 craftsmen 1.5 months to complete!

❖ Will stretch from New Bridge Road to Eu Tong Sen Street!

❖ There will also be nightly performances and bazaars!

❖ Lasts till 28 September

Fighting the bear-bile trade (pg4)❖ Singapore is a trade route for

illegal bear bile products!❖ People will kill the bears, take out

their bile and sell them in other countries!

❖ This is illegal as it targets endangered Asian black bears and Sun bears!

❖ Singapore had 23 cases reported in 2011; other countries involved are Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Russia

Journey to the west (pg9)❖ During the National Day Rally, Lee

Hsien Loong outlined his plans to develop Jurong!

❖ Called Peng Kang in the past, or gambier plantation!

❖ Jurong came from “Je-rung”, meaning sharks (but there were no sharks in the area, only crocodiles)!

❖ Jurong Island houses many factories and refineries!

❖ Today, it is filled with factories, shopping malls and industries

Defensive Dinos (pg18)❖ Meet the Marginocephalia and

Thyreophora - two sub-groups of herbivorous dinosaurs!

❖ Thyreophora - quadrupedal, covered with plates / spines, have relatively small brains!

❖ Example - Stegosaurus!❖ Marginocephalia - fringed-head

dinosaurs!❖ Had heads with frilly combs or horns!❖ Example - Triceratops!❖ Google these names to see what they

look like!

-Mr Ng

Look forward to hearing from all of you on the Current Affairs Blog, and have a great September

holidays :)