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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • British Hindus and Sikhs, who may be able to scatter the ashes of their dead relatives over a river in Yorkshire, North England, thereby saving a trip to the river Ganges in India.
  • The economy of the Costa del Sol in Spain, as King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has arrived at his holiday home. The King arrived in his private 747 jet at Malaga Airport, accompanied by 3 other aircraft. A fleet of 50 black Mercedes then took the 350-strong entourage to his palace. King Fahd is expected to spend up to $6m a day during his day.
  • Families, after new research in the New Scientist magazine shows that family members do not like the way they smell. Mothers particularly did not like the smell of their children, and children had a strong aversion to the smell of their fathers. Children of the same sex were not offended by each other's smell, but children of opposite sex were. Scientists say that this may be nature's way of discouraging incest.
  • Alcohol, as a study of 120 male and female students at Glasgow University has found that drinking up to four units of alcohol (about one litre of beer or four glasses of wine) increased the perceived attractiveness of members of the opposite sex by about 25%.
  • An American man, who has devised a clever plan to ensure that his relatives visit his grave after he dies. An ATM cash machine will be installed into his headstone. The machine will be programmed to dispense $300 once a week to each of his heirs.
  • Rolf Eden, a 72-year-old Berlin disco owner; Eden is famous in the German capital for his countless number of sex partners. He has now come up with an unusual offer to lure women into his bed by promising the last woman he sleeps with an inheritance of 250,000 euros. "I want to pass away in the most beautiful moment of my life. First a lot of fun with a beautiful woman, then wild sex, a final orgasm -- and it will all end with a heart attack and then I'm gone." Eden said "applicants" shouldn't wait long because of his advanced age. "It could end very soon," he said. "Maybe even tomorrow."
  • Elephants in Thailand; Thailand is to ban elephants from city streets in an effort to prevent maltreatment by their owners, who make a living selling food for passers-by to feed the animals. Elephants suffer badly in Thai city streets, particularly in traffic accidents in Bangkok. Road vehicles hit about 20 a month. Click here for a photo
  • Les Seales, a one-legged 88-year old British war hero, who has become the world's oldest "wing walker" after he spent over an hour in mid-air strapped to the top wing of a biplane.
  • A Canadian man, who paid less than a dollar for a used suitcase at an auction house only to find when he got home that it was crammed with nearly 11 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $180,000.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • An Argentinian housewife, who has been arrested for holding a washing-machine repair man hostage. Terra Populares, 44, was so angry with her faulty washing-machine that she held a gun to the repair man's head and forced him to sign a statement swearing that the machine would never break down again.
  • Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, and her boyfriend, Brian Florence, 37, from Virginia USA, who have been arrested for having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral while parishioners worshiped nearby. A third person, Paul Mercurio, 42, of New York, was also arrested for engaging in a live radio commentary on the sex act.
  • A seal that rode the flood waters in an escape bid from the Prague Zoo, died on Tuesday after being captured in Germany.
  • Air France, after one of its planes made an emergency landing in Belgium after a naked passenger tried to force his way into the cockpit.

WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK?
36% of Britons would vote YES in a referendum on the Euro. 49% would vote NO.

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:
Yasser Arafat has built up a personal fortune of $1.3bn.

STORY OF THE WEEK:
Nigerian police are investigating a claim that a boy has been turned into a yam (a type of vegetable) by a witch doctor. Three schoolboys claim that their friend was changed into a yam before their very eyes. A large yam has been taken into custody for further investigation.


So, that is the news. How did you find last week's homework about "The Arts"?

PART A:

performing arts

literature

fine arts
country and western
opera
ballet
rock		 fiction
novel
poetry
biography		 sculpture
ceramics
painting

PART B:

  1. The government is increasing the amount of money it gives every year to the arts.
  2. Paul was trained in ballet and modern dance.
  3. We've got some tickets for the theatre. Would you like to come with us, Paul ?
  4. The art of writing a biography is to try to imagine the world in which the person lived.
  5. I prefer modern poetry; it's easier to read than the classics.
  6. He was very good at art at school. He now works as a book illustrator.

PART C:

We went to see a new production of "Romeo and Juliet" last week. The sets were very atmospheric and realistic and the costumes were wonderful, with a good cast, and the acting was excellent. Paul gave a marvellous performance. It got some rave reviews in the newspapers the next day.

And the two riddles?

Riddle 1: What am I?

Three eyes have I,
all in a row,
when the red one opens,
all freeze.

The answer is a traffic light.

Riddle 2:

A man is asked what his daughters look like.
He answers, "They are all blondes, except two, all brunettes, except two, and all redheads, except two."
How many daughters did he have?

The answer is three: one blonde, one brunette and one redhead.

 This week's homework is about MUSIC:

PART A:

Match the word in the first column to the correct definition in the third column:

album   individually released song
arrangement   music supporting the lead singer
backing   sing a tune with closed lips
cassette   notes going up at equal intervals
chord   CD with a number of tracks
hit   make sound by blowing air through the lips
hum   particular adaptation of a piece of music
muzak   very successful song
scale   3 or 4 notes played together
single   recorded light music played in public places
whistle   magnetic tape you can record on

PART B:

Can you identify these styles of music? Each dash( __ ) represents a letter.

Example: p __ p Answer is pop

  • j __ __ z
  • b __ __ __ s
  • f __ __ k
  • c __ __ __ __ __ y
  • s __ __ l
  • r __ __ k
  • c __ __ __ __ __ __ __ l
  • o __ __ __ a
  • d __ __ __ o
  • h __ __ __ y m __ __ __ l

And finally, this week's riddle is:-

What unusual property do the words FLOUR, TERN, THIRSTY and HEIGHT have in common?

Have a great weekend and "see you" next Friday.

Best wishes

Gennadiy
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