Polo
Polo is a team sport on horseback whose objective is to score goals against an opposing team.
The origin of polo is unknown. Polo was first a training game for cavalry units and was probably first played by nomadic warriors over 2000 years ago. The first matches were played in Persia over 2500 years ago. The name "polo" is said to have been derived from the Tibetan "pulu" meaning ball. It is popular in: Pakistan, Argentina, U.S.A. and England.
The basic equipment includes a protective helmet, a horse, white trousers, and a polo mallet. Optional equipment includes gloves, waist band, kneepads, whip, and face mask.
The playing field is 275 meters long by 145 meters wide. Each team has four players. Each position assigned to a player has certain responsibilities.
N°1 and 2: attacking
N° 3: tactical leader
N° 4: defence
Arthur Gayat
India
India is a country in south Asia and its capital is New Delhi but the largest city is Mumbai. This country is also the seventh biggest country of the world and the second most populous country of our time with 1 billion inhabitants in 2009. People in India mostly speak Hindi and English but there are a lot of other languages spoken in this country.
India is a republic consisting of 28 states with a parliamentary system of democracy. Even if this country is one of the fastest growing economies it suffers from a lot of poverty and illiteracy.
India is ruled by a president who is elected by an electoral college for a five year term. Today the president is Pratibha Patil. She is the first woman to hold this office. The power of the president is symbolic; in fact it is the prime minister, elected by Parliament, who rules the country. Today the Prime Minister is Manmohan Singh.
Alexis Lomet
Horse Riding at the Olympic Games
As everybody know horse riding is now represented in the famous world competition which takes place every four years. It took place with horses for the first time in 1900. In the past the participants were only militaries, but with time, this competition slowly opened to civilians. In 1921, an international federation of horse riding was created. This equestrian sport is composed of 3 disciplines: jumping, cross country and dressage.
Last year in China the French were only represented on the podium by Didier Dhennin. It was commentated by Jean Rochefort, a very famous French actor. He is a horses lover and a real specialist. He said to journalists that he commentated this game for sport passion and without any remuneration. Horse riding is a very good sport because there is contact with an animal.
Marie-Charlotte Coudert
The Commonwealth
After WWII, Britain lost its colonial Empire but maintained a lot of ties through the Commonwealth born in 1949. The British Monarch is the Head of the association, and the Head of States in a few of them. All the countries in this association are independent and English is one of the official languages.
The Commonwealth includes some of the richest countries (Canada, Australia, UK) and many of the poorest (Malawi, Lesotho, Bangladesh). Its 2 billion citizens represent 30% of the world's population. The Commonwealth Games take place every four years, they are very famous. The Commonwealth Day is on the second Monday of March; during this day, the British Monarch delivers a speech: the "Commonwealth Day Message"
Jean-Baptiste Konneradt
Basketball
Basketball is a very popular sport played with an orange ball that bounces also called basketball. The man who invented this sport was a Canadian professor, Dr James Naismith, because on December 1891 he needed an indoor game to keep his students occupied. So he wrote basketball basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10 foot tall pole. The peach basket was used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metals hoops with backboards.
Basketball is played with two teams with five players from each team. You need special equipment: a short, basketball shoes, a basketball T-shirt and of course a basketball. The purpose of this game is to score more points than your opponents. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. In the USA basketball is not only a sport, it's also an atmosphere and a style.
Mélanie Baptista. Image
An ICT Joke
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job."
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded. They did spreadsheets! They wrote reports. They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming: "It's gone! It's all GONE! "I lost everything when the power went out!"
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.. Satan observed this and became irate.
"Wait!" he screamed. "That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?"
God just shrugged and said:
JESUS SAVES.
Student Activities
Don't just sit there doing nothing! If you finish classwork early, you can do this MEGA QUIZ, or try some activities HERE
