The document provides information on various current affairs topics in 3 sentences or less: 1) It announces a booth for winners of a quiz and journal in the school canteen on Wednesdays and provides a link to the school's current affairs blog. 2) There are brief summaries on support for disabled athletes in Singapore, government efforts to keep Singapore clean and green, symptoms of stroke, and facts about wild macaque monkeys. 3) The final section notes that physicist Albert Einstein was born on this day in history.

1. Current
affairs
Little Red Dot
Winners for Quiz and journal

2. BOOTH IN THE CANTEEN
(AVAILABLE EVERY WEDNESDAY ONWARDS)

3. http://blog.beaconpri
.sg/currentaffairs/

4. Beacon Current Affairs
Term1 Week 10

5. Who am I?

6. Names in the News Places in the News
Lawrence Wong (Pg2) Asia(pg20)
Laurentia Tan (Pg2) North Africa (pg20)
Words in the News
(Pg8) (Pg19) (Pg20)
Lush greenery stroke Macaques
Campaign symptoms Prehensile tails
Shrubs Artery Hierarchy
Corrective circulates nuisance
Work Order
(CWO)

7. Bonus article: What is a Sinkhole?
 A hole that opens up
suddenly in the ground
 Water underground
erodes the soil
underneath
 As the soil dissolves in
water, giant holes
appear in the ground
 May appear suddenly
with no warning
 Dangerous to people
and buildings

8. Support for
disabled
athletes
 More support for
disabled athletes
 Announced by
Lawrence Wong
(find out who he
is)
 Look up about
Laurentia Tan’s
achievements

9. Clean and
Green
 Half of Singapore
covered with
greenery
 Known around the
world as “Garden
City”
 Discuss
government’s
efforts to keep
Singapore clean

10. Brain Attack
 Stroke occurs
when blood is cut
off to the brain
 Causes paralysis
and even death
 How can you
prevent stroke?

11. Wild and Wonderful Macaques
 Monkeys native to
Asia and North Africa
 Have prehensile tails
 Live in groups of 20s
 Are ominvores
 Help keep forests
healthy by spreading
seeds
 Do not feed them!

12. This day in history –
Albert Einstein born