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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • St Paul's Cathedral, after Sir Paul Getty donated ё5m for the cleaning and restoration of the building.
  • A single lychee fruit from a tree that once produced fruit for Chinese emperors, which has sold for a record 555,000 yuan (US$65,000) at a weekend auction in China's southern province of Guangdong.
  • Visitors to Paris, who this summer will discover a new attraction: palm-fringed beaches. A road on the northern bank of the River Seine will be closed and covered with sand to create two beaches.
  • San Francisco, after news plans have been announced to ban public urination and defecation. There will be fines of up to $500 for violators after growing complaints that the city was becoming a public toilet. Many homeless residents say the proposal would unfairly punish them, since most restaurants and businesses ban them from using their facilities. "When you gotta go, you gotta go," homeless resident Bill Mullins told the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Louis Day, a 14-week-old baby who was attacked by a fox as he lay in his home in Kent, England. The fox bit Louis on the head and tried to drag him outside.
  • British Airways, which is about to lose its title as the world's "favourite airline". The German airline Lufthansa is on course to transport 32m passengers on international flights this year, compared with BA's 31m.
  • A Thai man, who was drugged and robbed after sucking the sedative-coated nipples of 2 pretty women. Nontakorn Pearsontea, 27, was waiting at a bus stop when the women approached him, removed their tops and invited him to suck their breasts. "I could not refuse but I woke up and I found I had lost everything", he said.
  • 30 people, who were arrested in Macedonia when a meeting about how to stop football hooliganism ended in a fight. The meeting was going smoothly until talk turned to which players were the best, at which point they began throwing plates, smashing windows and firing guns.
  • The London Eye, after Shanghai, China's commercial hub, announced plans to build a giant Ferris wheel, unseating the London wheel as the world's largest. The new Ferris Wheel in Shanghai will be 200 metres high.
  • Marin Zdravkov, a Bulgarian football fan; two years ago the 38-year old changed his first name to Manchester in honour of his favourite club. Now, after a long legal battle to change his family name as well, Marin Zdravkov has succeeded in becoming Manchester United. Manchester United lives in the small town of Svishtov, in the north of the country, with his mother and David Beckham (his cat!).
  • Arthur Melin, the man who introduced the Hula Hoop and the Frisbee to America, who has died in California.
  • Rapists, after a top Italian politician has called for the castration of rapists in the wake of a series of rapes in northern Italy. "Once upon a time one spoke of chemical castration, but personally I prefer simpler methods: scissors, and ones that are not necessarily sterilized," Calderoli, a member of the rightist Northern League, said.
  • German police, who have launched a manhunt for a convicted murderer who escaped from prison in a cardboard box. The 27-year-old Yugoslav outwitted guards by concealing himself in a box he had been given to assemble at the Waldeck prison in eastern Germany.

WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK?
Less than 33% of Britons think Tony Blair is "basically straight and honest". 67% think he "twists things to tell people what they want to hear".

OK, that is the news for another week. Now, here are the answers to last week's "At Home" homework:

PART A:

What do we call the flat area at the top of the stairs in a house? the landing
What do you use to change the TV channel without moving from your chair? the remote control
What do we call a large cupboard or small room you walk into, where food is stored? a larder or pantry
What do you call a bedroom mostly for guests who come to stay? a spare room or a guest (bed)room
What's the difference between a "cellar" and a "basement"? a cellar usually means a place where things are stored; a basement can also mean a place where someone lives (e.g. a basement flat)
Where would you find the "loft" or "attic"? in the roof of the house
What do we call a room used for reading / writing / studying? a study
What do we call something you can put under a dinner-plate to protect the table surface? a table mat
If you want to iron clothes, what is the thing you need most, apart from an iron? an ironing board
What could you use to protect the kitchen work-surface if you wanted to cut vegetables? a chopping board
What do you look for if you want to plug in your hair-dryer in a hotel room? a power point (or an electric socket or a plug)

PART B:

What do you use a tea-towel for? Drying dishes
When would you need a dust-pan and brush? If the floor was dusty or if someone dropped a glass and it smashed.
What are bin-liners for? Putting inside a dustbin or waste bin, so that the contents can be lifted out easily when it is full.
What's a cork-screw for? Opening bottles with corks (e.g. wine bottles)
In which room would you be most likely to find a grater and what is it used for? Kitchen. It is for making small pieces of food by rubbing against it (e.g. cheese)
Is a coaster a person who lives near the coast? Explain your answer. No, it's a small table mat for putting under a glass, to protect the table surface.

And the two riddles:

A pearl necklace was broken. One third of the pearls fell on the floor. One fourth fell on the chair. 20 pearls remained on the string. Find the total number of pearls.

The answer:
Number of pearls fell on the floor 16
Number of pearls fell on the chair 12
Number of pearls remained on the string 20
Total Number of pearls 48

Two dogs met on the street. One of them sat down and began to scratch his ear. "If one of your fleas jumped onto me, we would both have the same number," he said. "But if one of yours jumped onto me, I'd have five times as many as you," said the other. How many fleas do each of them have?

The answer: One dog has two fleas the other has four fleas

This week's homework is called "Everyday Problems"

PART A

Rewrite these sentences using the words and phrases in the box:

  1. I can't open the door; the handle is lying on the floor.
  2. The bathroom was full of water this morning. It was terrible.
  3. All the lights are not working.
  4. The batteries are not working in my Walkman.
  5. Our washing machine stopped working last week.

PART B:

Put a tick (Э ) in the box for the most likely collocation:

 

leaking

chipped

dented

stained

bruised
car bumper          
water-pipe          
forehead          
dinner-plate          
tablecloth          

PART C:

Answer these questions:

  1. What the difference between a cut and a graze?
  2. Which is more serious, twisting your ankle or breaking it?
  3. What's another way of saying that the water will not run away in a sink? The sink is b______.
  4. Why might you run to the kitchen to get a cloth? Somebody has s_____ some milk.
  5. Why might you ring your flatmate and ask him to meet you outside the flat with his keys? Because you are l_____ o_____.
  6. Would you be pleased if your car had a flat battery? Explain.
  7. If your watch was fast, would you be more likely to arrive too early or too late for an appointment?
  8. What is a more polite / indirect way of saying that you lost a letter. I'm sorry, I m______ the letter.
  9. If your clock is slow do you need to turn the hands forward or back?
  10. Can you say "I banged my head" or "I bumped my head" with more or less the same meaning?

And here is this week's riddle:

Three men were standing on the bank of a river. A shot was fired on the other side. The first of the three men saw the smoke from the gun. The second saw the bullet strike the water. The third man heard the sound of the shot. Which one first knew of the shot?

Have a lovely weekend and "see you" next Week.

Best wishes

Gennadiy
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