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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Tony Blair, with the news that a giant statue of the Prime Minister is being erected in the Kosovan capital Pristina. A road is also being named Tony Blair Street. "To all Kosovans, Tony Blair is a hero," said a spokesman at the Embassy in London. "He was the saviour of our country".
  • 250 Japanese schoolgirls, who waited up to three hours to see the England captain and fashion icon David Beckham as the England football team arrived at their hotel outside Sapporo. Keiko Tokita, 33, a hotel receptionist, said she had given Beckham a bouquet of flowers. "It is a day I will never forget," she said. "He did not speak to me, but he smiled. I will remember this for ever more."
  • Sheep farmers; Australia has developed a new way of harvesting wool. Instead of the traditional back-breaking method of shearing, farmers simply inject a sheep with a special protein then attach a net to the animal to collect the fleece.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A Hong Kong woman, who has lost her case for compensation against a hair salon which she claimed made her look like Osama bin Laden when she wanted a hairstyle like Hollywood actress Julia Roberts. Chu Ieu complained her hair was seriously damaged by two perms she had done at the New Idol Hair Salon last July and August. "Do you mean you did not get the Julia Roberts look after the perm?" adjudicator Yuen Chun-kau asked her during the hearing. "Not just that. It was like a broom. Every hair struck out and it looked like an open umbrella which could not be shut. It was horrible. I looked like Osama bin Laden," Chu replied.
  • David Beckham, as animal welfare groups have protested about his kangaroo skin football boots.
  • The Euro currency, with the news that the Deutschmark is being re-introduced in Germany. Shops in small towns in the north of the country started taking the old currency after polls showed that 54% of Germans want it back.
  • Swimmers in Dorset, England, who have been warned to stay away from a sexually frustrated dolphin after it tried to lure unwary humans out to sea in order to mate with them. "This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive. He has already attempted to mate with some divers," a marine mammal expert explained. "When dolphins get sexually excited, they try to isolate a swimmer, normally female. They do this by circling around the individual and gradually move them away from the beach, boat or crowd of people."

STORIES OF THE WEEK:

  • A Romanian man has divorced his wife of 30 years because she forgot to cook him a roast lamb for Easter dinner. Florian Paun, 59, launched proceedings because his wife Marioara failed to prepare his favourite dish. "Imagine how I felt when I saw that all my friends had delicious roast lamb on their tables at Easter and I did not," he said. "She ruined my holiday and I cannot continue to live with her".
  • A Slovakian man has pushed a 16-ton tram car 75 metres using his Adam's Apple. Robert Mikula, a martial arts expert, attached a pole to his neck to perform the task. His new goal is to pull a 60-ton boat over the same distance by pulling it on a chain between his teeth.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

  • "It's like trying to carry frogs in a wheelbarrow." Lord Robertson on trying to achieve agreement among the Nato members.

OK, that's the news for another week. Here are the answers to last week's "Weather" homework:

PART A

Cold

Hot

Wet / Dry
Frost,

Chilly

Freezing,

Stifling, Scorching. Close, Heatwave Rainy,

Downpour, Drought, Flood,

 

PART B

A light that flashed in the sky during a storm? Lightening
Deep piles of snow blown by the wind? Snowdrifts
A heavy snowstorm with high winds? Blizzard
Dirty, brownish, melting snow in the streets? Slush
Very light, fine rain? Drizzle
Rain that only lasts a very short time? Shower
Little balls of ice that fall from the sky? Hail
Thunder and heavy rain at the same time? Thunderstorm
A very light fog? Mist
Fog and smoke / pollution together? Smog

PART C:

  1. In the spring the ice melts, the ground thaws and plants start to grow again.
  2. Normally, at that time of year, the weather is very cold, but that day it was very mild.
  3. It snowed last night but it didn't settle, so the roads are clear.
  4. As I looked out to sea, the horizon was hazy, and the sky and sea seemed to be one blue mass.
  5. It was hot on the beach, but there was a gentle b____ that cooled us a little.
  6. The sky was very overcast, but then it poured down with rain.
  7. It was a boiling hot day, but it was also extremely humid, which made us sweat a lot.
  8. There was a violent storm in Plymouth last week. There was torrential rain all day and all night, and the streets got flooded.
  9. The north of the island is usually cold and damp, while the south is warmer and very dry.
  10. The weather was rather muggy yesterday. I found it difficult to concentrate on my work. I just wanted to fall asleep all the time.
  11. There was hail and rain falling at the same time; the garden was completely white for a few minutes.

And the riddle?

Pronounced as one letter but written with three,
Two different letters there are and two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and grey,
I'm read from both ends and the same either way.

The answer is EYE

This week's homework is called "Describing People's Appearance":

Complete the table below:

What is the adjective form of the word waves when it refers to a person's hair? w………….
What do we call the small, pale brown spots some people have on their skin, especially fair-skinned people? f………….
Give an adjective that means a person has red or reddish hair. g ………….
What colour is auburn?  
If someone has a crew-cut is their hair long or short?  
Is stout similar in meaning to slim or plump?  
What is a polite word which means fat? o ………….
If someone is stocky, they are rather thin? True or false?  
If someone is anorexic, they are usually very thin indeed. True or false?  
What word means extremely fat? o ………….
If a person is scruffy, is that normally a positive or negative thing?  
Which is more negative, to call someone slim or skinny?  
How do we describe someone who is losing their hair at the front of their head? We say "His / Her hair is ?????" r ………….
What does it mean to say that someone has a healthy complexion? Is it that their face and skin look healthy or that just their eyes look healthy?  
What should you remember about the adjective handsome?  

And this week I have two riddles for you!

Riddle 1:

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?

Riddle 2:

What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but never in the course of a lifetime?

I hope your weekend is sunny and relaxing!

Best wishes as always

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