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Football Crossword

The game of football certainly is exciting. Try this crossword based on the sport!

How much of a football fan are you? Challenge yourself to this crossword!

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  • 1-9 :Legendary footballer Diego Maradona belongs to this country. (9)
  • 27-33 :If a cricket match has an umpire, a football match has a ________ (7)
  • 46-50 :The goalkeeper is the only player who is allowed to touch the ball with his/her _______ (5)
  • 72-77 :What is the first name of footballer Messi? (6)
  • 92-97 :The duration of every football match is _________ minutes. (6)
  • 111-116 :This name is given to a variation of football with five players per team. (6)

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  • 3-69 :This country is currently the football World Champion, having won the title in the World Cup 2014. (7)
  • 27-49 :If a player commits an offence, he/she is shown a card of this colour indicating that he/she should leave the match. (3)
  • 32-87 :How many players does a football team have? (6)
  • 63-96 :The Golden _____Award is presented to the player who scores the maximum number of goals in the World Club. (4)
  • 82-115 :The international governing body of football is called ______ (4)

Swinging at the Park

Swinging at the park can be fun and exciting! Did you know that it could also help with fitness?

Swinging is so much fun! Scroll right to read about how it could help in staying fit.

The Big Cats

Roar! Try this crossword based on the names of the big cats in the wild. How many can you guess?

Here is a crossword based on big cats in the wild!

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  • 1-7 :Bagheera in The Jungle Book is a black ________.
  • 25-31 :This cat is the fastest land animal, accelerating faster than most cars.
  • 45-48 :One of the reasons this species is not classified as a ‘big’ cat is that it cannot roar. A well-known sports footwear brand is named after this cat.
  • 57-63 :This big cat has dark spots called ‘rosettes’ on its fur.

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  • 4-36 :This is the largest wild cat in the world. It can weigh almost as much as 10 ten-year-old children put together!
  • 22-62 :This big cat shares its name with a brand of luxury cars.
  • 43-67 :The name given to a group of this type of cat is a ‘pride’.

Globescan – January 20, 2017

Switzerland, Kenya, Malaysia, South Korea… Here is the latest news from countries across the globe!

Let’s take a look at the important happenings around the world last week! Click on the hotspots to read more.

Run for Ridleys

You can help save endangered Olive Ridley turtles! Read on to find out how you can make a difference.

Water Colour Painting – Brushes

Let’s continue our journey through the colourful world of water colour painting!

Painting is a wonderful hobby! Indulge in it in your free time, unleash your creativity, and watch as colourful and vibrant paintings emerge.

Let’s continue our journey through the world of water colour painting. Identify some types of brushes! Match pairs of identical images and learn quick facts about them in the process.

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Image: By Vinegartom at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https:// commons.wikimedia.org /w/index.php? curid=2191794

Make your own mesh lampshade

Here’s how you can give a refreshing new look to your room by making your own lampshade using mesh!

Follow these steps to make your own lampshade out of garden mesh! It’s easy, quick and will give a refreshing new look to your room! Scroll right to move on to the next step. Make sure to use equipment in the presence of an adult!

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Equation Puzzle

Here is an interesting drag-and-drop puzzle for you, based on Math equations! Try this now!

Try this number puzzle! Scroll right to move on to the next puzzle.

Tennis Quiz

That’s an ace! Are you game for this quiz based on terms used in tennis? Try this out now!

What’s that Idiom – 2

The cat’s out of the bag! These idioms based on animals are really fun! You’ll have a whale of a time.

An idiom is a word or phrase that means something different from its literal meaning. Here are some commonly used idioms involving the animal kingdom. Can you complete them correctly?

1. When you have ‘a ____ in your bonnet’ it means you are preoccupied or obsessed with an idea.
2. When you are like ‘a _____ in a china shop’, you are very clumsy in the way you move or behave.
3. When you shed ‘___________ tears’, it means you are pretending to be sorrowful when you are actually not sad or sorry.
4. The expression ‘_____ days’ refers to the hottest period of summer.
5. When you say that there is ‘a/an ___________ in the room’, you mean that there is an obvious problem that people do not want to talk about.
6. When someone says that ‘the world is your _______’, it means that the world is yours and you can do anything you want to with your life.

Great going! We’ll be back with more idioms soon!

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