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So, what has been reported in the UK newspapers this week?

GOOD WEEK FOR:
Drinkers of the Irish beer Guinness; bar-staff at selected Irish pubs
around the world will be wearing green contact lenses this "St. Patrick's
Day" weekend. Guinness said it had decided on this subliminal marketing
campaign after research showed that more than half of British drinkers had
not decided what to order by the time they reached the bar.

People who use chewing gum; a new study shows that chewing gum could in
fact make us more intelligent.

London diners, as a leading London chef known for his love of offal dishes
is now offering grey squirrel on the menu. The squirrel will be "gently
braised with wine, mushrooms and wild garlic leaves."

Germans, who are bored with sausages and sauerkraut; they can now try
insects at a new Berlin restaurant. If cockroach pasta does not sound
tempting then there is always grasshopper and locust couscous or sauteed
maggots with green leaves.

John Major, who has just bought a GBP3m apartment in London. Major, who
earns more than GBP1m per year from directorships and speeches, is about to
overtake Margaret Thatcher as Britain's richest former Prime Minister,

BAD WEEK FOR:
Ravindra Nath Halder, who has been invited for an interview at an Indian
labour office 34 years after applying for a job. He sent in his application
in 1968 and has just received a letter offering him an interview in March
2002.

A woman from Colorado, USA who is divorcing her husband after she
discovered that he had pretended to be deaf and dumb for the past two
years. The husband admitted that he had pretended he could not hear or
speak to escape "the constant nagging from his wife".

House prices in Afghanistan; property prices are soaring as exiled Afghans
return home after years away and foreigners from aid workers to journalists
seek acceptable places to stay.  If you want to rent an average villa in a
relatively posh district, where many government ministers live and foreign
missions are housed, then you can expect to pay US$8,000 a month! Before
the Taliban's hurried exit from Kabul, the price was $300.

Japanese men; a new study found that Japanese men do only 4 hours of
cooking, cleaning and other housework a week, compared to the 16 hours
American men spend a week on such tasks.  At the other end of the scale,
Swedish men spend on average 24 hours per week. The study also found that
leisure time is greatest in Japan, Sweden and the United States and lowest
in Hungary, for both men and women. Television viewing time is
substantially greater in Japan than in the other countries studied,
especially among women.

France, which went on full hijack alert because an air traffic controller
misunderstood a warning message in English from a pilot. The pilot said
"fire on board" in English, the international language of air
communications, but a controller in Bordeaux understood "five men on
board," concluded a hijack was underway and called for high alert. Two
French air force jets scrambled and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin raced back
to his office from his election campaign headquarters in case a terrorist
attack was underway.

A 28-year old thief, who was escaping from a robbery at a wildlife
sanctuary near Johannesburg, South Africa. He made the fatal mistake of
climbing a high fence and found himself in the tigers' den. "They grabbed
him and first played with him. He died of a broken neck and a fractured
skull," a police spokeswoman said.

An elderly German woman, who was sent to a morgue while still alive only to
die there later from cold.

STORY OF THE WEEK
When a fishing-boat sank near Japan recently, the crew claimed that it had
been damaged by a cow which had fallen out of the sky. No one believed
them, except the Russian military. That day, the pilots of a Russian
military jet had found a cow wandering on a Siberian airfield and loaded it
onto the plane. While flying at 30,000 feet, the cow become terrified and
was expelled from the plane.

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK
Britons throw away 8 billion plastic bags and 500 million plastic bottles a
year.

WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK?
45% of Britons would support the deployment of British troops in an
American-led attack on Iraq. 43% would oppose British involvement.



This week's homework is about Feet !
PART A
Use FOOT or FEET to complete the following expressions.

1) Students at College often ask the most unexpected questions.
To work here you need to be able to think on your ????.

2) When I get home from work, the first thing I do is have a cup of tea,
put my ???? up and read the newspaper.

3) I'm having my flat decorated at the moment. They're supposed to finish
it today but they've been dragging their ???? so it'll probably be next
week now.

4) You can't live with you parents forever. You're twenty-six.
It's time you were standing on your own two ????.

5) The French goalkeeper played brilliantly. He didn't put a ???? wrong.

6) I don't mind my son having fun with his friends but I had to put my ????
down when he came home drunk at 3.00 am.

7) I get on well with my flatmate now but we got off on the wrong ????
because she used to play her music so loud. It was fine after we talked
about it.

8) I know you're on holiday, but you still need to help in the
kitchen. I'm not going to wait on you hand and ???? the whole time.

9) I worked for 13 hours yesterday. I was dead on my ????? when I got
home.

10) I like the idea of an office party but who is going to ???? the bill.

PART B
Complete the sentences below using:

GOT COLD FEET
GOT ITCHY FEET
LANDED ON HER FEET
RUSHED OFF OUR FEET
SET FOOT
FIND MY FEET
PUT MY FOOT IN IT
KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND

1) Paul: Have you had a busy day? You look exhausted.
Gennadiy: Yes, we were so busy today. We were ????.

2) Paul: You've lived in many different countries, haven't you Gennadiy?
Gennadiy: Yes, I can't stay in one place for too long. You could say I've
????.

3) Paul: Did you see Patrick over the weekend? Did you call him?
Gennadiy: I wanted to phone him but at the last moment I ?????.

4) Paul: Has your sister found a job yet?
Gennadiy: Yes, she's got a great new job in London. Big salary, car,
bonuses. She's really ?????.

5) Paul: Oh dear, me and my big mouth. I've just ???? again. I asked Andy
about his girlfriend and I'd forgotten that she's just left him for his
brother!

6) Paul: So you had a good time in London then?
Gennadiy: Yes, but I hope I never ???? in another museum again. We spent
hours walking round them because of the rain.

7) Paul: How is the new job, Gennadiy?
Gennadiy: It's all very new. I think it'll take me a few weeks to ????.

8) Paul: It's my first job and they are giving me a company car. Also, the
salary is double what I was expecting. What do you think of that, then?
Gennadiy: Just ????, Paul. That's all I can say!

Have a great week Gennadiy and I will do my best to send you some more
interesting, amusing news and homework next Friday.

Best wishes
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