The Week Junior UK – 03 August 2019

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3August 2019•The Week Junior 23

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uzzle game Dr MarioWorld is the latest Nintendo

game to bereleased for mobile phonesrather

than thecompany’sown gamesconsoles. Likepast

games in the series, it turns Mario and some of his

famous friends into white-coated doctors, matching

colourful viruses to cleareach level.

The game is free to download and play for owners

of iPhone and Android smartphones, but makes its

money from in-game purchases of virtual

diamonds. Thesecanbespent whenaplayer

runs out of energy hearts, allowing them to

play onrather thanwaiting torefresh.

Mobile games arequite anew thing for

Nintendo,which used tokeep its

games for its own devices.

Miitomowasits first

smartphone game in 2016,

and has been followed

by games likeSuper

Mario Run and Animal

Crossing:Pocket Camp.

MarioKart Tour is still

to come in 2019.

VIRALVIDEO

WEBSITE WEEK

OF

THE

THE HOME OFSWIMMING

swimming.org

This is the online home for all things swimming

in England. It has everything from news about

elite swimmers to information about the health

benefits of going paddling. It even hasahelpful

tool to findapool or swim club near you.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

tinyurl.com/TWJ-Queen

Wait, isn’t the video to Queen’ssongBohemian

Rhapsody44 years old? It is, but tocelebrate it

reaching one billion views onYouTube,abrand

new remastered version has beenreleased for

fans of all ages to headbang along to.

SECRETS&HACKS

REX SHUTTERSTOCK

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A

survey asking young people which jobs they’d

likewhen they’reolder has sparkedadebate,

because the surveyrevealed that beingaYouTuber

wasfar morepopular than being an a

Athousand eight to 12-year-olds i

and US weregiven achoiceoffive job

would most liketohave as theircare e

Beingavlogger orYouTuberwaspicke

by 30% of young people in the UK

and 29% in the US, which made it

the most popular answer.Int he

UK, itwasfollowed by teacher

(25%), professional athlete (21%), musician (18%)

and astronaut (11%).

The orderwasthe same in the US, but when

China wereasked the same question,

ut came top;56% of those young

e chose it. Just 11% of young people

China chose vlogging.

Across the threecountries, 86%

of those surveyed said they are

interested in spaceexploration, and

90% of them said theywanted to

earn moreabout it.

Dr Mario gets

mobile patients

YouT ubers beat astronauts in survey

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Beingavlogger

is very popular.

LIFT OFF

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eople born in

the UK ha

vebeen

to

space.

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trecent

wasTim

Peake.

TAKE ASPACE QUIZ IN GOOGLE EARTH

goo.gle/spacequiz

How’syour

knowledge of

giant telescopes

and animals in

space? Google

Earth hasaquiz

that will test

your knowledge

of spacefacts

–and tell you

the answers if

you’renot sure.