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Weekly news from UK

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Two 9-year-old Florida boys, who were arrested at their elementary school after bringing 15 small bags of marijuana to class. The boys admitted their intention to sell the drugs.
  • A Berlin traffic policeman, who has been suspended from duty for allowing an attractive 22-year-old blonde to pay off her speeding fine by kissing him for an hour.
  • A Texas man, Steven Brasher, who has been sent to prison for life after he shot and killed a long-time friend he accused of drinking the last beer in his refrigerator. "There was only two beers left, so I took one, and I told Willie not to take my last beer," Brasher said in a taped statement that was played during the trial.
  • German police, who are watching home videos made by a sex cannibal who apparently shared a last meal of flambeed penis with his willing victim before carving him up and freezing the man's remaining body parts to eat later. Prosecutors said that the 41-year-old homosexual, who has confessed, was not being treated as insane.
  • A vicar in London, who has reduced young children to tears after he said Santa Claus and his reindeer would burn to a crisp while delivering presents at supersonic speed. The vicar joked in his carol service sermon that Santa and his reindeer would burn up doing 3,000 times the speed of sound as they delivered gifts to 91.8 million homes.
  • A New Zealand police officer, who handcuffed a sheep after it attacked his colleague. Two policemen were called out to deal with a loose sheep at a Dunedin farm, but when they arrived the ewe panicked and attacked one of the policemen. The other officer wrestled the sheep to the ground, cuffed its legs together and called for backup. Sergeant Andrew Bardsley said that the sheep is now facing charges of assaulting a police officer.
  • Smokers; new research shows that most smokers in Europe would find it easier to give up sex for a month than cigarettes and many view even bungey jumping or parachuting as less difficult than stopping smoking.
  • A headmaster at an Arkansas elementary school, who has been charged with battery against a minor for allegedly handcuffing an unruly 9-year-old student as a punishment.
  • Ben Affleck, who did not know what he was letting himself in for when he asked Jennifer Lopez to marry him. The diva has drawn up a pre-nuptial agreement which includes the following demands: sex at least four times a week; a US$4.5m fine if Affleck has an affair; as many children as J.Lo wants; access to his film set whenever Affleck is filming love scenes; a US$1m fine every time he is caught lying; and to be surprised with gifts on a regular basis.
  • A Gambian man, who was not used to Germany's winter weather and woke up to find his car had gone completely white overnight. He called the Police to complain vandals had painted it! Police in the central German town of Hildesheim discovered the man had mistaken snow on his car for paint when he looked down from his apartment window.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Diners in Shanghai, China, with the news that China plans to put a restaurant on the world's tallest Ferris wheel (200m) that will grace the city's skyline by 2005.
  • Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London; England's biggest night-club, The Ministry of Sound, has asked for planning permission to move the column for a short period to look down on a rave at the Millennium Dome for 55,000 clubbers welcoming in the 2003 New Year.
  • Colchester Zoo in England, where a baby elephant has become the first in Britain (and only the fifth in the world) to be born using artificial insemination.
  • A pet shop in Chile, which has opened a car wash for dogs. Dirty dogs enter a tunnel on a conveyor belt, which takes them through a wash and rinse cycle, then past groomers who do their ears and nails, and finally through a blow-drying tunnel. 'We have had an excellent response,' said the owner of Dogwash, Javier Fresard, who pipes classical music into the tunnel to help dogs relax. 'On hot days we take in around 30 dogs.'
  • The world's first fish farm devoted to the commercial production of beluga caviar, which is shortly to open on the banks of the Ural River in Kazakhstan. The price of beluga caviar has risen to US$12,000 per kilo, making it in some ways more valuable to smugglers than cocaine.

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:

The average Briton has 14 close friends.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:
'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damn fool about it.' - W.C. Fields

So, that is the news for this week. How did you find last week's Press and the Media homework?

PART A:

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

PART B:

Newspaper Office: cartoonist, editor, foreign correspondent, sub-editor, columnist

Film Studio:  cartoonist, camera operator, actor, censor, critic, continuity person, make-up artist

PART C:

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

This week's homework is about "Politics and Public Institutions":

PART A: Make a word that fits the sentence from the word in brackets.

For example:
The political system in UK is said to be democratic. (democracy)

  1. India gained its _____ from Britain in 1947. (depend)
  2. People vote for their representative in an _____. (elect)
  3. I'd hate to live in a _____. (dictate)
  4. Some people feel the British _____ will soon be abolished. (monarch)
  5. An MP is the _____ of his or her constituency. (represent)
  6. The US has a system of presidential _____. (govern)
  7. In the UK the system is _____. (parliament)
  8. _____ are elected for a fixed term. (senate)
  9. Ivan, would you like to be a _____? (politics)
  10. The Prime Minister selects his top _____. (office)

PART B: Divide the words into those used in the USA and those used in the UK.

Congress House of Commons House of Lords House of Representatives
Monarch MP President Prime Minister
Representative Senate Supreme Court  

PART C: Fill in the gaps with words from the table

marginal monarch general majority
by(e)-election chambers votes overrule
ballot candidates policy  
  1. One word meaning the King or Queen of a country is the _____.
  2. In a _____ election , every constituency chooses an MP but in a _____ only one MP is being elected.
  3. The party which gets the most votes is called the _____ party.
  4. If an MP only just wins his or her seat it is called a _____ seat.
  5. In many systems of government there are two _____; The USA has both the Senate and the House of Representatives for example.
  6. Voters cast their _____ by marking a cross on their _____ paper.
  7. Voters chose from a list of _____.
  8. The government has to decide the country's economic _____.
  9. Although the judiciary is independent, it can't _____ the Prime Minister's decisions.

Have a great weekend and I look forward to writing to you again next Sunday.

Best wishes

Gennadiy
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