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Weekly news from UK

I hope this email finds you well and that you have had a good week. As promised I am pleased to send you this newsletter with some light-hearted stories I have found in the British newspapers.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Katherine Norfolk, a former A-level student who won ё30,000 compensation from her school in West Sussex, England for its poor teaching. Norfolk blamed the school for her lower-than-expected grade in Latin.
  • Singapore, which may partially lift its ban on chewing gum as part of a new trade deal with the United States. The import, sale and manufacture of chewing gum was banned in Singapore in 1992 after leftover gum disrupted subway operations.
  • British pub-goers, with the news that pubs will no longer have to close at 11.00pm. New legislation will bring in 24-hour opening. The laws have not been changed since World War I.
  • British readers, with the news that 60% of Britons aged over 15 bought a book last year, and 21% bought at least ten books - more than any other European nation. The value of the book market in Britain rose 40% between 1997 and 2001 to ё2.7bn, fuelled partly by best-sellers such as Harry Potter.
  • The mother of the president of Turkmenistan. Saparmurat Niyazov has named buildings, streets and towns after his long-dead mother, Gurbansoltan-edzhe. He has renamed the month of April in her honour and decreed that henceforth bread, traditionally called 'chorek', should be known by her name. In addition, adolescence now begins at the age of 25 in Turkmenistan, and there are only eight months in a year, each of 45 days.
  • Sir Winston Churchill, who is England's favourite choice to appear on the back of a ё100 note if one is introduced. With 37% of the vote in the survey Churchill was the clear victor. The runner-up was John Lennon with David Beckham in third place. Other choices to go on a ё100 note included Margaret Thatcher, Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien and Princess Diana.
  • NATO, which has agreed to admit 7 former communist new members (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania).

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • McDonald's, which announced the closure of 175 stores in ten countries, reversing 20 years of global expansion.
  • An Iranian man, after his wife cut off his ear after he dared to query why she was late coming home. "My husband pokes his nose in my business, so I cut off his ear to teach him a lesson," she told the court.
  • Superstar Michael Jackson, who has apologised for dangling his baby son from the balcony of his fourth-floor hotel window in Berlin. Click here for a picture!
  • Singer Madonna, who had to borrow money in a London restaurant after finding herself short of cash to buy a slice of cake for her son. Madonna borrowed ё2 in order to pay her ё5 bill. Madonna has an estimated annual earnings of ё36 million.
  • 5 Iranian vandals, after a court ordered them to ride around their neighbourhood on donkeys, facing backwards. Public humiliation of criminals is a common punishment in Iran's Islamic legal system.
  • A ten-year-old American boy, after a doctor discovered a frog in his throat - literally. The boy had been camping beside a Louisiana swamp. 'It must have hopped into his mouth while he was sleeping,' said the doctor.
  • Kylie Minogue; she may be one of Britain's biggest sex symbols but the diminutive pop star still gets mistaken for a child. The singer was recently boarding a flight from London to Sydney, when she was approached by a BA staff member and told to stay put. She was then escorted as 'an unaccompanied minor' to her first class seat, where she was handed a kiddie's pack full of games and sweeties.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

A bird lies on a beach near the town of Arteixo in northern Spain covered in oil from a stricken tanker. Click here


So, that is the news for another week. How did you find last week's TRAVEL exercises? Well, as promised, here are the answers:

PART A:    
cabin        a bedroom on a ship
bunk        a bed in a ship
crew        people who work on a ship
flight        a journey by air
brakes        use these to stop a car
aisle        a corridor in a plane
supersonic    travelling faster than sound
runway        a track where planes land and take off
starboard    right on a boat (not left)
overtake        to pass another car
back        another word meaning to reverse a car

PART B:
"Last year my uncle went on a very interesting travel journey in South America. He took a fly flight to Chile. There was fog when the plane arrived to at the airport and the driver pilot found it very difficult to land. Eventually, he succeeded and the voyagers passengers all got off and went into the airport. A lot of them had to exchange change planes there."

And the riddles ….

Riddle Number 1:
I am the owner of a pet store.
If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many.
If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many.

How many cages and canaries do I have?
The answer: I have 3 cages and 4 canaries.

Riddle Number 2:
The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed.
How old could they be? (there are 3 possible solutions).

The answer: 51 and 15, 42 and 24 or 60 and 06.

This week's homework is about HOLIDAYS:

PART A: Match the holiday words / expressions below with the definitions 1-10:

B & B    camp-site        caravan             guesthouse         holiday camp
cruise    self-catering        package holiday        time-share         youth hostel
  1. almost everything is paid for in advance
  2. place where you sleep and have breakfast but no evening meal
  3. buying an annual right to holiday accommodation for part of the year
  4. place where you can pitch your tent to sleep in
  5. holiday on a ship calling in at different ports
  6. simple, cheap accommodation aimed largely at young people
  7. a convenient way of taking your own holiday accommodation with you and parking it where you wish
  8. you rent a flat or house and do your own cooking or cleaning
  9. a simple hotel, usually family-run
  10. a place offering accommodation and lots of entertainment and activities for all generations

PART B: Match the holiday brochure words in the first column with their synonyms in the second column.

breath-taking  famous
exhilarating luxurious
exotic   natural
glamorous heavenly
legendary  unrivalled
mighty stunning
picturesque unusual
sublime  invigorating
unspoilt powerful
unsurpassed pretty

RIDDLES OF THE WEEK:
This week I have two good (but difficult) riddles for you:

Riddle 1: What are the next 3 letters?                o t t f f s s _ _ _
Riddle 2: There is an English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter.
What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

I hope you have a good weekend and I look forward to writing to you again next week.

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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