Creative Writing Activities

NEWS CONTENT
Give the content of the News Headings
Provided

• A film in space – level 2 (Team 1,2,3,4,5)

• Supermarkets go green (Team 6,7,8,9,10)

• New ways to bury people (Team 11,12,13,14,15)

 A film in space – level 2

• Russia sent an actor and director to the International Space Station.

• Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko joined a cosmonaut on a
flight to the space station. It took the film crew four months to prepare for the
flight, and the two women will spend 12 days on the station. They will film
parts of a movie called ‘The Challenge’. The film is about
a surgeon who rushes to the space station. She must save a cosmonaut
who has heart problems.
• Hollywood actor and director Tom Cruise said that he wanted to make a
movie in space, too. He wanted to work with NASA and Elon Musk. Now it
seems that Russia will be the first country which will make a movie in space.
 Supermarkets go green

• Supermarkets are trying to be more environmentally friendly, but it is not an easy

task. Customers do not want to pay more money, and investors do not want
lower profit.
• Tesco is Britain´s biggest supermarket, and the company has a plan to be carbon
neutral by 2035. It is very difficult, as only a few customers care about the
environment, and they will pay more money for environmentally-friendly products.
Most people care only about the price and not about the environment. Investors
believe that it is important to go green, but they do not want to lose money.
• Tesco believes that it is possible to reach its goal. The company uses less plastic,
uses farming which needs less water, and sells unwashed potatoes which last
longer on shelves.
• Difficult words: investor (a person or organization which puts money into a business
to make money later), profit (money from a business activity), carbon neutral (an
activity which does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).
 New ways to bury people

• When someone dies, there are two ways that people usually follow for what to do with the
dead body. One way is cremation, which means burning the body. The other way is burying
the body in the ground.
• Neither way is good for the environment. Cremation makes a lot of emissions, and burning
in the ground takes up a lot of space. It also puts dangerous substances in the ground.
• Natural Funeral is a US company which does water cremation and green burial. Water
cremation is a process when workers put a dead body into water, and they mix it with some
other substances. When the process ends, the body turns into a natural fertilizer.
• Green burial is similar to composting. Workers put a dead body inside a special container
with straw in it. They add some chemicals to help the composting. Both ways are legal in
three US states, and the ways help the body return to nature where it came from.
• Difficult words: emission (a gas or other substance which gets in the air and makes it dirty), 
fertilizer (a thing which people put in the ground to make plants grow better), compost (old
plants, vegetables, or food which people put in the ground to help plants grow).
NEWS HEADERS
• On Tuesday, NASA´s spacecraft performed a complex maneuver to drill into the
Bennu asteroid for five seconds. In the historic operation, the spacecraft collected a
sample from an asteroid in space, over 160 million kilometers from Earth.

• Asteroids are among the leftover debris from the solar system´s formation 4.5
billion years ago, and scientists believe that the asteroid could hold clues to the
origins of life on Earth. Scientifically, it is a very exciting event because it is the first
time that humans have touched the surface of another solar system object in order
to get a sample of it.

• The spacecraft´s journey to the asteroid began in 2016, and it has been in orbit
around the asteroid for almost two years. According to NASA, there is a 1 in 2700
chance that the asteroid will hit Earth late into the next century.
• Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered a 37-meter-long cat etching in a little
explored area of the country´s celebrated Nazca Lines UNESCO heritage site.

• The site is home to hundreds of gigantic geoglyphs that date back more than

2,000 years.

• The geoglyph was drawn on the side of a fairly rocky hill on the Nazca plain, and it
was made by forming lines or furrows of 30 to 40 centimeters wide which outlined
the figure. Some parts, such as the eyes and mouth, were formed by piling up
rocks.

• The figure was in the process of disappearing because erosion had been very

strong on the hill, and this allowed it to remain hidden for many years.
NAME THE PRODUCT
1. “A diamond is forever.” –

2. "Coffee at its best" –

3. "Finger lickin' good" –

4. "Because I'm worth it" –

5. "We bring good things to life." –

6. "The world's local bank" –

7. "The happiest place on Earth" –

8. "Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it." –

9. "Sheer driving pleasure" –

10. "Keep that schoolgirl complexion." -

11. "Let your fingers do the walking " –

12. "Keep that schoolgirl complexion." –

13. "No more tears." –

14. "Don't dream it. Drive it." –

15. "Snap! Crackle! Pop!" –

16. "Eye it. Try it. Buy it." –

17. “Connecting People” –

18. “Obey your thirst.” –

19. "Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it." –

20. “Because you’re worth it”-
ANSWERS
1. A diamond is forever.” – DeBeers

2. "Coffee at its best" – Nescafe

3. "Finger lickin' good" – KFC

4. "Because I'm worth it" - L'Oréal (old)

5. "We bring good things to life." - GE (General Electric)

6. "The world's local bank" – HSBC

7. "The happiest place on Earth" – Disneyland

8. "Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it." - Thomas Cook

9. "Sheer driving pleasure" – BMW

10. "Keep that schoolgirl complexion." - Palmolive soap

11. "Let your fingers do the walking " - Yellow Pages

12. "Keep that schoolgirl complexion." - Palmolive soap

13. "No more tears." - Johnson’s Baby Shampoo

14. "Don't dream it. Drive it." – Jaguar

15. "Snap! Crackle! Pop!" - Kellogg's Rice Krispies

16. "Eye it. Try it. Buy it." – Chevrolet

17. “Connecting People” – Nokia

18. “Obey your thirst.” – Sprite

19. "Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it." - Thomas Cook

20. “Because you’re worth it”- L'Oréal (new)