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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • The residents of Norfolk Island, a tiny Australian territory in the Pacific, who have voted in a referendum not to have a mobile phone service.
  • Lovers of tomatoes; last week the Spanish village of Bunyol hosted the annual "Tomatina" festival. 35,000 revellers pelted each other with 120 tons of ripe plum tomatoes. Click here for a photo!
  • The neighbours of a Turkish woman in Trabzon who has begun selling the cows she kept in upstairs apartments.
  • Local health and safety officials have ordered the cows to be cleared out of the first and third floors of the building in the Black Sea port city. It said she had kept "a large number" of cows there.
  • People born in the autumn; a new report claims that people born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older.
  • Cairo Zoo, which is throwing a 260th birthday party for what it claims is the world’s oldest tortoise. The zoo thinks its Galapagos Giant was born in 1742.
  • Atletico Madrid football club; their rivals Real Madrid may have captured the headlines by signing Brazilian World Cup star Ronaldo, but Atletico are hoping to sign Ronaldo's wife for their women's team.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Malaysian cabbies, after the country’s tourism minister, Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, said that taxi drivers who are rude to tourists "should be lined up against the wall and shot".
  • London motorists, after a survey revealed that the average speed of vehicles in the capital has fallen to just 2.9 mph (4.6 km / hour) - slower than walking pace.
  • Air Canada, after the news that a couple is seeking $5 million in compensation because the airline lost their cat on a flight from Toronto to San Francisco.
  • An 8-year-old Canadian boy, who has been placed in foster care after he was caught aiding a drug dealer by holding crack cocaine for sale.
  • Pet shops in Hong Kong - the economy is so bad that pet shops are now renting out dogs rather than selling them. Rental charges vary from HK$700 to HK$1,400 (US$90-180) a week, depending on the breed of the dog.
  • A Turkish couple living in Germany, who want to call their child "Osama bin Laden". They have been refused permission by German officials.
  • Easter Island, the most remote inhabited land on Earth, which has reported its first murder case in more than 15 years. Easter Island is 3,800 km away from the South American mainland but is part of Chile. The nearest inhabited land is French Polynesia, 2,200 km to the west.

WHAT ARE THE BRITISH LIKE? (is it really true?)

More than 60% of Britons admit to picking their noses at least five times a day; 34% eat what they excavate. A similar proportion see no shame in burping loudly in public; 29% said they would not hesitate to pass wind indiscreetly.

And, how did you find the MUSIC homework?

PART A:

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

PART B:

jazz / blues / folk / country / soul / rock / classical / opera / disco / heavy metal

And the riddle ?

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

Remove one letter from each word and they all spell a number (Four, Ten, Thirty and Eight)

This week's homework is about FOOD:

PART A: Divide these words into meat, fish and vegetables

carrot   aubergine   cod     veal        mutton

plaice   cauliflower    spinach    venison     salmon    onion

meat

fish

vegetables
. . .

PART B: Match the words in the first column to the examples / definitions in the third column.

bitter   a lot of sugar
sour   no flavour at all
hot, spicy   far too much sugar
sweet   has a good taste / flavour
bland   for example, fruit which is not ripe
salty   like a beautiful, ripe strawberry
sugary   sharp / unpleasant
sickly   for example, a strong Indian curry
savoury   a lot of salt
tasty   rather negative, very little flavour
tasteless   pleasant, slightly salty or with herbs

PART C: Give a word which means…

  1. a dish you have after the main course, for example ice-cream.
  2. very heavy and hard to digest (begins with "s").
  3. cooked with heat coming from above (for example, a sausage or burger).
  4. cooked in the over, with a little fat or oil (for example, a whole chicken).
  5. that something is not cooked enough.

This week I have two more riddles for you!!

Riddle 1:
A clever thief in the olden days was charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king decided to be a little lenient so he let the thief choose his own way to die.

What way should the thief choose?

Riddle 2:
It is in a rock but not in stone,
It is in marrow but not in bone.
It is in a bolster but not in bed.
It's not in the living, and not in the dead.

That's it for this week.

Best wishes

Gennadiy
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