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  • The New Element






    If you are in middle school, you have probably been asked BE/ASK

    to memorize the 118 elements that make up the periodic table.

    Now you may have to make room for one more - Element 115! MAKE

    Nicknamed Ununpentium until it gets official approval and GET

    a permanent name from the International Union of Pure and

    Applied Chemistry, it is one of the heaviest man-made elements HEAVY

    created so far. When the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev first CREATE

    invented the periodic table of elements in 1869, he populated it POPULATE

    with the fifty-nine natural elements that were known to scientists KNOW

    then and left room for thirty-three in anticipation of new finds. LEAVE

    By 1939, all the boxes had been filled up. 115 or Ununpentium FILL

    was first made in the laboratory by Russian physicists in 2003. MAKE

    However, the International body requires that another laboratory REQUIRE

    should recreate it. It took a decade, and on August 26th, scientists TAKE

    from Sweden's Lund University finally announced that they FINAL

    successfully had managed to replicate element 115. MANAGE

    Schoolchildren Choose Their Career

    Ten-year - old Courtney Oliver knows exactly what she wants EXACT

    to be when she grows up - a veterinarian. She is qualified

    to be a registered Veterinarian Assistant who supports ASSIST

    a Veterinarian Doctor in their daily tasks. They could DAY

    include feeding and exercising animals. Students can FEED/EXERCISE

    receive training on how to follow directions, look TRAIN/DIRECT

    after animals, talk to animal owners and juggle a lot of OWN

    things at the same time. Courtney is lucky to have LUCK

    a teacher like Dr. Shoemaker who says that Courtney TEACH

    is an amazingly smart girl. AMAZE

    A Chess Prodigy

    Twelve-year old Daniel Naroditsky is the winner of the WIN

    World Youth Chess Championships held in Antalya, Turkey. CHAMPION

    When Daniel entered the competition, he was ranked the13th COMPETE

    in the International boys’ division. Daniel played a match NATIONAL

    every day, he won nine games. This amazing performance AMAZE/PERFORM

    ensured him a place in the finals. Daniel started playing chess

    at six. Soon he started playing in competitions, beating out COMPETE

    first graders easily, and a chess prodigy was born. GRADE

    12.

    Most 11-year-olds are just happy to survive their first year MANY/SURVIVE

    of middle school. However, Moshe Kai Cavalin is not like

    most kids. He skipped elementary, middle and high SKIP

    school and went straight to college at the age of eight. GO

    While Moshe's parents knew he was smart, they had never expected KNOW/EXPECT

    to put him in college this young. However, when

    they tried to enroll him in a private school at the age TRY

    of 6, he was turned down, because he was so smart TURN and the school was afraid he would be bored. BE BORED

    The parents realized that he was ready for some real REALIZE/BE

    high-level courses. East Los Angeles College agreed

    to take him in. He could take only two courses: TAKE

    Maths and Physical Education. Moshe did not disappoint. NOT DISSAPOINT He got A-pluses in both and hasn't looked back since. GET/LOOK

    Soon he will graduate with an Associates Degree in GRADUATE

    Liberal Arts. In fact, the young lad was so smart that

    he helped to tutor his fellow maths students, some of HELP

    whom were a decade older than him. OLD

    Moshe now is planning/plans to take a little 'break' PLAN

    to pursue his other passion - Martial Arts (боевые искусства),

    where he has won quite a few medals. WIN






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