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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Michael Fournier, 58, from France who is planning to make mankind's biggest jump with a 40km free-fall from the edge of space. Fournier will reach a top speed of Mach 1.68 (1680 kph) and pass through temperatures as low as 110° C.
  • Paranoia, after the Bush administration announced that it is recruiting 11m Americans (4% of the population) to work as spies. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Tips), will be launched next month.
  • John Pollack, a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton, who has completed a 17-day voyage up one of Portugal's most famous rivers in a boat made of 160,000 wine corks. Pollack spent 30 years collecting corks for his project.
  • A wild pig, which was orphaned when hunters killed its mother. The pig has now found a new family, a herd of cows! The young boar, about 10 months old, was taking milk but the cows had to lie down to make sure he could feed.
  • People who love chocolate; new research shows that humans developed a fondness for chocolate about 2,600 years ago when the Mayas used earthenware teapots to prepare cacao drinks.
  • Australia's swimming team, led by world champion Ian Thorpe, who will fly to Europe this weekend armed with masks to reduce jet lag. The special masks called 'humidflyers' allow the swimmers to breathe in their own moisture in order to reduce dehydration during the 24-hour flight.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • The Trentonian, a newspaper in New Jersey, USA, which was forced to issue an apology after running a story about a fire in a psychiatric hospital under the headline "Roasted Nuts".
  • Boris Becker, who was charged with evading US$4.8m in taxes in Germany. The former tennis star could face up to 4 years in jail.
  • An Iranian man, convicted for raping and killing his 16-year-old nephew, who will be executed by being thrown off a cliff in a sack. If the man survives the fall down a rocky precipice, he will be hanged, legal experts said. Under Iran's Islamic law, applied since the 1979 revolution, homosexuality and adultery are among a long list of crimes punishable by death.
  • Police in Manchester, who are appealing for information after a gang of men dressed as clowns carried out an armed raid on a wine bar.
  • A London bank, which has apologised to a man after sending a letter to his dead wife that began "Dear Mrs Deceased".
  • Six Japanese high school students, who were ejected from a judo tournament because they had shaved their eyebrows. "We have banned thin eyebrows because they are intimidating to opponents and cause displeasure," a tournament organiser, said.
  • A German man, after it was discovered that he lived in an apartment with his dead father for at least a year to avoid eviction. The unemployed son, 42, had not notified authorities of the death because he feared he would be kicked out of the apartment, which was rented in his father's name, police said.
  • Ukraine's police, who have arrested three men and a woman on suspicion of murdering five people and then eating their flesh. "During the last case they killed a young woman in a forest and then cut out fleshy parts of the body and ate them. This is horrible," a spokeswoman for police in central Ukraine said.

STORY OF THE WEEK:

A 17-year-old girl stunned customs officers at Manchester Airport, England when she walked off a flight from United Arab Emirates wearing a chameleon on her head. The girl said she could not bear to be apart from her pet and so pretended it was a hat.

OK, no more news for this week. Here are the answers to last week's homework:

PART A

  1. A volcano erupts.
  2. An epidemic spreads.
  3. War can break out.
  4. A hurricane can sweep across an area.
  5. An earthquake can shake a city.
  6. People who have no food may starve to death.
  7. It was a very bad accident. There were 150 casualties.
  8. Thousands of children were victims of the civil war.
  9. Only ten people survived the accident.
  10. Thousands of refugees are living in the emergency camps.

PART B

a disease that can be caught by a bite from a cat, dog or fox that has it. RABIES
a disease associated with a colour as part of its name. YELLOW FEVER
a disease that can be caught from a bite from a mosquito MALARIA
a terrible skin disease that leaves the skin deformed. LEPROSY
two diseases often caught by consuming infected water or water. CHOLERA or TYPHOID
a disease that has spread throughout the world since the 1980's. AIDS

This week's homework is about "Education":

PART A:

The items below relate to types of education in Great Britain. Group then in the second table according to the age at which people go through them:

junior school

college

comprehensive

play-school

grammar school

secondary

primary

nursery

sixth form

further

university

  

 

2-5 years old

5 - 12/13 years old

12/13 - 18 years old

18+ years old
junior school

PART B: True or false?

  False True
In Britain, if you say, "She went to a public school", you mean a private school.    
Degrees can be obtained from schools, colleges, or universities.    
If you are a post-graduate student, you have normally already done your first degree.    
To enter a "grammar school" in England, you normally have to pass an exam.    
In Britain, A-levels are normally taken at 16 years old.    
Teachers at schools and universities are called "professors".    
In a university, a tutorial usually has fewer students than a seminar.    
In Britain, "junior school" means school for children under five.    

PART C: Fill the gaps. The first letter is given.

  1. I failed my exam first time around, so I am going to r______ it next month.
  2. I've got to d_______ an exam next week, so I'll be r_______ every evening till then.
  3. Paul: Hi, did you p______ your geography exam?
    Gennadiy: Yeh, I did quite well. In fact I got 75%.
    Paul: Oh well done! So they give you a percent. I thought they gave g_______.
    Gennadiy: Yes, they give both. Mine was an "A". So how about you?
    Paul: Well, we don't have exams, we have c_______ a_______, so you have to do coursework, and you get a m_______ for each essay.
  4. Gennadiy: Why did you s______ classes yesterday?
    Paul: Don't tell anyone but I was out till 3.30 the night before, so I just stayed in bed all day.
  5. I d_______ well in my exams. I was pleased, and so were my parents.

And finally a riddle for you to solve:

"My first master had four legs,
My second had two.
First in life,
Second in death.
Women delight in my touch."

I hope you have a relaxing, sunny weekend. Until next Week …

Best wishes

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