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Weekly news from UK

So, what has been happening in the world this week?

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A 13-year old Cambodian girl, whose mother stopped her from going to a party by nailing her foot to the floor! Mao Savoeun, 36, from central Cambodia, told police she was angry with her daughter for going to a party at a local pagoda during last week's Water Festival. On the girl's return, and after she went to sleep, her mother drove a 5cm nail through the top of her right foot, pinning it to the floorboards.
  • Prince Charles; the tabloid newspapers in UK have been criticising his extravagant lifestyle. His staff comprises 85 servants, including 4 chefs, 9 gardeners, 5 chauffeurs and 4 valets, one of whose tasks it is to squeeze paste on to the royal toothbrush each night. He changes his clothes five times a day, insists on having his shoes polished for up to an hour, and has his socks specially folded to make them easier to put on.
  • A Japanese man, who choked on a ball of sticky rice and was then saved when his daughter sucked it out with a vacuum cleaner. The 70-year-old man was chewing a piece of mochi, a traditional rice cake, when it went down the wrong way. After failing to dislodge the food with her fingers, his daughter grabbed the Hoover, stuck the hose in his mouth and switched it on to 'High'.
  • The Police in South Africa; the work is so dangerous that even the police dogs now wear bullet-proof vests. The dogs wear 2kg jackets, tough enough to turn knives and stop small arms bullets.
  • The residents of a Brazilian home, when bones, coffins and crosses crashed through their kitchen wall. Torrential rain has washed out part of a neighbouring cemetery
  • A Montenegrin family, who thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg -- until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal.
  • A Malaysian snake charmer, who apparently lost patience with his lazy cobra and was killed after he pulled the snake out of its box and was bitten. A witness said the victim was having difficulty getting his snake to come out of its box. "When the snake refused, he pulled its tail and placed the cobra on the floor," he said. "However, without warning, the snake bit his left hand." The victim was taken to a hospital but died three hours later.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Heinz Mueller, from Germany, whose wife is going to send his ashes into space on a Russian rocket to fulfil his last wish. The rocket is scheduled to blast off from Kazakhstan in January 2003, and will jettison the capsule of the man's ashes into orbit where it will circle the earth for about 5 years.
  • Cornish (the language of Cornwall, the region near Plymouth), which has been granted protection under a new EU charter. The language, which is spoken fluently by only 100 people, may now be taught in schools.
  • A Serbian travelling musician, who is claiming a record for having married 17 times. Milutin Stojkovic, 62, wed his first wife when he was a teenager. "Afterwards, it was one right after another," he told a local newspaper. "Women loved me and I loved them."
    Former Baptist minister Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe of the USA holds the world record however with 28 monogamous marriages.
  • A man in Rajasthan, who has been attracting huge crowds by chain-smoking through his ears. Dharmendra Singh can smoke up to 20 cigarettes in a row using his ears. 'Initially I thought he was doing something wrong,' says his father Amar. 'But after reading about him in the newspapers I feel that he has done something good. He smokes through his ears. That's a big thing.'

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:

British scientists won 13 Nobel Prizes in the 1970's, 4 in the 1980's and just 2 in the 1990's.

So, that is the news for this week. How did you find last week's HOLIDAYS homework:

PART A:

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

PART B:

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

And the riddles?

Riddle 1: What are the next 3 letters? o t t f f s s _ _ _

The answer is "e.. n.. t"

They represent the first letter when writing the numbers "one" to "ten". (one, two, three, four, etc.)

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?

The answer is "startling". Then we have …

starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

This week's homework is about "Computers and the Internet":

PART A: Match the words in the first column with the examples / definitions in the second column.

software the memory available for temporary use on a computer
modem the address where you can find information, e.g. about a company
scanner programs you use on your computer
spreadsheet for example, a computer, a printer, a screen
website it makes it possible for one computer to communicate with another
virus a unit of measurement for storing information
RAM you can use it to transfer pictures to your computer
hardware a program that destroys data and damages computers
hard disk a series of linked electronic addresses all around the world
megabyte a program for doing mathematical calculations
the Web the place in your computer where information is stored

PART B: Choose the correct answer:

  1. Some people spend hours serving / serfing / surfing the Web.
  2. I can e-post / e-mail / e-letter you tomorrow and send you the information.
  3. I managed to download / downput / downtake an interesting program from the Internet the other day.
  4. Have you ever seen the Mayflower College's own page / home page / net page ?
  5. Ivan spends hours in those speak / chat / talk rooms on the Internet?

Have a good weekend and I will write again next Sunday with more news and homework!

Best wishes

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