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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Moira O'Herlihy, 45, who set a new world record with the birth of her 28th child! O'Herlihy had her first child when she was 18, and has given birth once a year for 27 consecutive years.
  • A 90-year-old Austrian, who has remarkably survived after being stung by a thousand bees.
  • Brazilian football, after the news that a zoo in Switzerland has named two recently-born giraffes "Ronaldo" and "Rivaldo" -- top strikers at World Cup champions Brazil.
  • Divorces, after the Church of England lifted its ban on remarrying in church.
  • A blind German psychic, who claims he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's bottoms have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny. "An apple-shaped, muscular bottom indicates someone who is charismatic, dynamic, very confident and often creative. A person who enjoys life," he said. "A pear-shaped bottom suggests someone very steadfast, patient and down-to-earth."

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A Dutchman, who removed his shoes in a university library and has been fined US$245 by magistrates. The local newspaper said the magistrates "decided his sweaty feet smelled so bad he was a public nuisance."
  • The first national lottery to be held in Afghanistan in more than a decade, after organisers failed to hand over the prizes on time. The top prize was a Corolla car, followed in descending order by a motorcycle, a Japanese TV, a heavyweight Chinese bicycle and a top cash prize of about US$30, almost a month's pay for many Afghans
  • People who live in London, with the news that London is the most expensive city in the EU. The good news though is that London is only the 8th most expensive city in the world, behind Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Oslo, Moscow and Harare. Tehran is the cheapest.
  • A French woman, who has died after using a new weight-loss procedure that constricted her stomach with a silicone band. The device slipped off and blocked her esophagus. The band squeezes the stomach into two parts, like a balloon constricted in the middle, and the upper part signals to the brain that it is full after small portions of food are consumed. As a result, patients eat less and lose weight.
  • Japanese couples, who are buying fewer engagement rings and instead wearing watches and other love tokens, according to industry researchers. Only 60% of the couples now buy diamond engagement rings, compared with 85% in 1995.
  • Chinese health, with the news that one in six Chinese people (nearly 17%) say they had never heard of the disease AIDS. Of those who had heard of AIDS, nearly 75% did not know its cause and almost 90% did not know how it could be detected.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK (taken by Reuters photographer Desmond Boylan in Pamplona, Spain) - click here!
Each year several people are gored or trampled by the bulls as they run through the streets of the Spanish town. Since record keeping began in 1924, 13 runners have been killed and hundreds more injured by the bulls.

STORIES OF THE WEEK:

  • Novice climber Leonardo Diaz got stranded in a blizzard 3800 metres up in the Andes. The Colombian tried to call for help on his mobile phone, but discovered his pay-as-you-go credit had run out. Just when he resigned himself to freezing to death, he received a call from a telemarketer at his phone company, wondering if he would like to buy more minutes. Diaz explained the situation and the saleswoman alerted the emergency services.
  • The first divorce directly related to the September 11 terrorist attacks has been filed in New York. A man with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centre spent the morning at his girlfriend's apartment with his phone turned off. He wasn't watching TV either. When he turned his phone back on at 11.00am it rang immediately. It was his hysterical wife saying, "Are you OK? Where are you?". He said, "What do you mean? I'm in the office of course!".

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

"It's good to do nothing, and then to rest" - Spanish proverb

That is the news for this week. And now, here are the answers to last week's homework:

PART A

  1. I can't open the door; the handle is lying on the floor. I can't open the door; the handle has come off.
  2. The bathroom was full of water this morning. It was terrible. The bathroom was flooded this morning. It was terrible.
  3. All the lights are not working. There has been a power cut.
  4. The batteries are not working in my Walkman. The batteries have run out in my Walkman.
  5. Our washing machine stopped working last week. Our washing machine broke down last week.

PART B:

 

leaking

chipped

dented

stained

bruised
car bumper    

Э

   
water-pipe

Э

       
forehead        

Э

dinner-plate  

Э

     
tablecloth      

Э

 

PART C:

  1. What the difference between a cut and a graze? A cut is a clean break of the skin, usually with bleeding and a graze is a rough break of the skin, with redness but usually no blood.
  2. Which is more serious, twisting your ankle or breaking it? Breaking it. When you twist it you strain a muscle, but do not break a bone.
  3. What's another way of saying that the water will not run away in a sink? The sink is blocked.
  4. Why might you run to the kitchen to get a cloth? Somebody has spilt some milk.
  5. Why might you ring your flatmate and ask him to meet you outside the flat with his keys? Because you are locked out.
  6. Would you be pleased if your car had a flat battery? Explain. No. It means the battery is dead and the car will not start.
  7. If your watch was fast, would you be more likely to arrive too early or too late for an appointment? Too early.
  8. What is a more polite / indirect way of saying that you lost a letter. I'm sorry, I mislaid the letter.
  9. If your clock is slow do you need to turn the hands forward or back? Forward
  10. Can you say "I banged my head" or "I bumped my head" with more or less the same meaning? Yes

And the 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?

As light travels faster than sound, and sound, faster than a bullet, the man who saw the smoke knew of it first. The man that heard the report second and the man who saw the bullet strike the water was last

This week's homework is called "Global Problems":

PART A - Choose the correct answer.

  1. A volcano erodes / erupts / erases.
  2. An epidemic spreads / sprouts / sprays.
  3. War can break up / break through / break out.
  4. A hurricane can swerve / sweep / swipe across an area.
  5. An earthquake can quake / rake / shake a city.
  6. People who have no food may strive / starve / hunger to death.
  7. It was a very bad accident. There were 150 causalities / casualties / casualities.
  8. Thousands of children were victims / victors / victories of the civil war.
  9. Only ten people surveyed / revived / survived the accident.
  10. Thousands of refusees / refugees / rescuees are living in the emergency camps.

PART B - Give the name of ….. (the first letter is given)

a disease that can be caught by a bite from a cat, dog or fox that has it. R_____
a disease associated with a colour as part of its name. Y_____ F_____
a disease that can be caught from a bite from a mosquito M_____
a terrible skin disease that leaves the skin deformed. L_____
two diseases often caught by consuming infected water or water. C_____ or T_____
a disease that has spread throughout the world since the 1980's. A_____

Have a lovely weekend and I will do my best to write to you again next Week.

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