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Hi! So, what has been happening in the world this week? BAD WEEK FOR: The Queen, who missed a royal fly-past in her honour when she got stuck behind a learner driver. The driving instructor said: "We noticed the Queen behind us but we were observing the correct speed and there was no where to pass". Prince Philip, the husband of the Queen, who has put his foot in it again, with a joke about dogs and anorexics. Speaking to the blind Susan Edwards, wheelchair bound and accompanied by her guide dog, he remarked: "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" Earlier this year on a trip to Australia, the prince asked Aborigines if they still threw spears at each other. Peter Filandia, an Australian Rules sportsman, who has been suspended for 10 matches after pleading guilty to biting an opponent's testicles during a game last week. Hong Kong teenagers, who prefer to spend their money on karaoke and movies while their counterparts in other Chinese cities spend more on books, according to a new survey. 69 percent of teenagers in Hong Kong go to the movies once a month compared to 43 percent in the nearby city of Guangzhou and 30 percent in Macau. 69 percent of teenagers in Guangzhou prefer to spend their money on study materials and books but in Hong Kong only 32 percent spend their money on books. Linda Lovelace, who has died at the age of 53. Lovelace was the star of "Deep Throat", one of the most successful "blue" movies ever made. Anna Kournikova, after topless photos of the Russian tennis star are due to appear in the June issue of Penthouse magazine. However, Kournikova's agent has said that the photos are fake. "Magic" mushrooms, after Japan's Health Ministry said it would outlaw hallucinogenic "magic" mushrooms from June. Due to a bizarre legal twist, psilocybin, the chemical that gives the fungi their "magic" properties, is illegal in Japan, but the mushrooms themselves are not. GOOD WEEK FOR: Jon Muir and Eric Philips, who have become the first Australians to walk unassisted across Siberia to the North Pole. The two adventurers sent a simple satellite telephone text message: "Arrived at North Pole. Require pick-up." British football fans, with the news that the government has advised employers to give their employees time off to watch key world cup games. Rats, with the news that rats steered by a computer could soon help find buried earthquake victims or dispose of bombs. The remote-controlled "roborats" can be made to run, climb, jump or turn left and right through electrical probes implanted in their brains. Movement signals are transmitted from a computer to the rat's brain via a radio receiver strapped to its back. Bald people, after a San Francisco company has launched a new underground hair storage service. Hairogenics will preserve hair samples in its special underground vault, keeping it fresh until science can devise a way to "clone" hair from DNA. A Bangladeshi snake charmer, who was called in to find two snakes in a suburban home but unearthed over 3,000 deadly cobras and hundreds of eggs. The find, however, triggered panic among neighbours who fled their homes. Nudists in Brazil; More than 1,000 people stripped naked in Sao Paulo to pose for a series of mass nude photographs by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick. Tunick's volunteer models, men and women of all sizes and colours, posed on Saturday for at least six different shots in three locations around Sao Paulo's central Ibirapuera park. STORY OF THE WEEK Florida has banned the sport of dwarf-throwing, but not everyone approves. Local little person Dave "the dwarf" Flood, who is only 1.0m tall, has sued, saying it deprives him of his income. "This is a free country. If I want to allow drunks to throw me through the air, then that's my business". WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK? 18 percent say that they sympathise with the Israelis in the present conflict in the Middle East. 37 percent sympathise with the Palestinians. STATISTIC OF THE WEEK 22 percent of the world's population watched the 1998 World Cup Final. So, that was the news for this week. How did you find last week's pronunciation homework? Well, here are the answers: PART A: ARM - PALM, BEND - FRIEND, BLUE - THROUGH, CHALK - FORK, DROVE - STOVE, DOVE - LOVE, FIEND - LEANED, HURRY - WORRY, LORRY - SORRY, THOUGH - TOE PART B What are the country's main EXports? They have conFLICTing ideas about their roles. The children have made a lot of PROgress with their maths. The value of property usually inCREASes every year. Will they perMIT you to work here? Although he is Russian, Vladimir has a UK permanent residence PERmit. The highest April temperatures ever were reCORDed in Plymouth last week. I'll never deSERT you, the poet promised his love. There is going to be an organised PROtest about the new by-pass. What an INsult! You have no right to speak to me like that! PART C Psychology, comB, chrisTmas, casTle, Hour, Knots, waLk, tomBs, wouLd, Honest, indeBted, comB And the riddle: What am I? I have a face, two arms and two hands, but I cannot walk. I count to twelve , but I cannot speak. I can still tell you something everyday. The answer is A CLOCK This week's homework is called "Onomatopoeic Words: Onomatopoeic words are words which sound like their meaning. For example: Cows MOO Bees BUZZ PART A Choose the most appropriate word to complete the sentences. For example WHISTLES / CLASHES / GROWLS The dog always ???? when it sees the postman The answer is GROWLS 1) SMASH / MASH / CRASH Please can you help me ???? the potatoes? 2) SPRAYING / SPUTTERING / SPLASHING Children love ???? through puddles. 3) CLICK / CLINK / CLANK She heard a ???? at the end of the phone as he hung up. 4) GRUNTED / GROWLED / GROANED The wounded soldier ???? in pain. 5) CLINKING / CLANGING / TINKLING Can you hear those church bells ????? ? 6) SPRAYED / SPLASHED / SPRINKLED ????? herbs on the fish and called the family to eat. 7) WHIRR / DASH / TRICKLE Sorry, I can't stop now. I've got to ???? 8) WHISTLE / GIGGLE / GRUMBLE Can you ???? this song? 9) CLANKED / CLINKED / CLASHED They ???? glasses and drank to the success of their project. 10) GRUNTED / SPLASHED / TRICKLED When she asked him to do the washing-up, he just ?????. PART B Choose the verb from the list below that bets fits each sentence: CLINK, GARGLE, GASH, GROWL, MOO, RUSTLE, SPIT, WHACK, WHEEZE, WHIP, WHIRR 1) The autumn leaves ????? as I walk through them. 2) I ????? with salt water if I have a sore throat. 3) Don't ???? the ball so hard. 4) I hate it when fierce dogs ????. 5) Camcorders ????? as the bridal couple emerge from the church. 6) The attack left a ???? in her arm. 7) Let's ???? glasses and drink their health. 8) It's rude to ???? in public places. 9) Horse-riders carry a ?????. 10) People sometimes ???? back when cows make a noise. 11) People with asthma tend to ?????. That's the news and homework for this week Best wishes Gennadiy English language courses in UK |
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