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BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Actor Richard Gere, who has been declared 2002's worst celebrity "waffler" (someone who speaks nonsense) by the Plain English Campaign. In a newspaper interview Gere said: "I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe"
  • The King of Swaziland; the U.S. may ban the king of Swaziland from landing on U.S. soil if he buys a $45 million private luxury jet while the poor of his tiny African kingdom go hungry. 25% of Swazi people depend on foreign food aid, and a third of adults have HIV or AIDS.
  • An 80-year old Italian man, who was found aimlessly wandering around the city of Como. The man turned out to be carrying some $30,000 in his pockets. He has now been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
  • Residents of a Japanese rural town, where a simian monkey has bitten 23 women over the past two days. Asked why the monkey's victims were all women, an official said: "I believe that monkeys attack things that seem weaker than they are. It wasn't, of course, because it liked women."
  • Cyclists, with the news that men who ride 3,000 miles or more a year on their mountain bikes suffer scrotal damage that could reduce their fertility.
  • A Siamese cat, which has been freed after a terrifying hostage ordeal. The cat was kidnapped from its owners' front garden in Cosquin, Argentina. The owners received a phone call asking for US$150, but the kidnappers eventually settled for US$30 and a coffee machine.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Swedish pensioners, who could be in for some excitement. Thirty nursing-home staff in the town of Orebro are demanding more money from the council to pay for new uniforms. If they don't get it, they have threatened to perform their duties in the nude.
  • McDonalds, after 10 overweight teenagers and their parents launched a court case in New York. The suit alleges that McDonald's deliberately markets itself at children and failis to admit the health risks associated with its products. The mother of one of the children, Gregory Rhymes, 15, says she would never have allowed him to eat McDonald's food if she had known the truth. Gregory, who has eaten Big Macs almost every day since he was six, weighs 180kg, although he is only 1.65m tall, and now suffers from diabetes.
  • Arachnophobes, after three shoppers in England found deadly black widow spiders in grapes bought from their local supermarket. The supermarket Tesco said that cutting back on the use of pesticides had made it more difficult to stop creepy-crawlies making their way into Britain in imported fruit.
  • Orangutans, after a large population of about 2000 was discovered in the jungles of Borneo. The find raises the number of known orangutans in the world by 10%, and increase the chances of saving the species from extinction.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK:

Tourists watch the sun being blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in Australia. Click here!

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

  • Young Americans may soon have to fight a war in Iraq, but most of them cannot even find that country on a map. Only 13 % of Americans between the age of 18 and 24 could find Iraq and only 17% could find Afghanistan on a world map.
  • Since September 11, there has been a 70% increase in gun sales in America.
  • The typical British employee spends 55 minutes a day gossiping, 16 minutes flirting, 14 minutes surfing the net and nine minutes emailing friends.

QUOTATIONS OF THE WEEK:

  • "Classical music is like sex: you never know how long it will last and it's embarrassing if you clap in the wrong place"
  • 'Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts.'

    • And how did you find last week's "Computers and the Internet" homework? Easy? Well, here are the answers:

    PART A:

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

    PART B:

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

    This week's homework is about the Press and the Media:

    PART A: Match the programme in the second column to its most likely programme type in the first column:

    chat show Inspector Ivan Investigates
    current affairs programme Win a Car
    detective story Tomorrow's Weather
    documentary Brain of Britain
    game show Dallas's Dynasty
    music programme The World This Week
    quiz Talking to Oprah
    sports programme Match of the Week
    soap opera The Secret Life of Turtles
    variety show The Week's Top CD's
    weather forecast Saturday Night at the Music Hall

    PART B: Each of these people can be found in either a newspaper office or film studio. Where is each person most likely to be found?

    actor camera operator cartoonist
    columnist continuity person critic
    foreign correspondent make-up artist sub-editor
    censor editor  

    PART C: Choose the correct verb from the table and put it in the correct form to complete the sentences.

    broadcast change come out cut edit lay out
    pick up print publish shoot show  
    1. Some of the best books for learning English _____ by Cambridge University Press.
    2. A remote control allows you to _____ channels from your arm-chair.
    3. This film _____ on location in Cornwall, England.
    4. Can you _____ Radio Plymouth on your radio?
    5. They _____ "Titanic" on TV again tonight.
    6. Sunday newspapers _____ once a week.
    7. Censors sometimes order films _____ .
    8. Some very good news programmes _____ on the radio.
    9. It's a sub-editor's job _____ the pages of a newspaper.
    10. Sub-editors are also often required _____ articles which are too long.
    11. Many British books _____ in Hong Kong.

    That's it for another week.

    Best wishes

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