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Weekly news from UK

Good morning from a sunny Plymouth. Spring finally seems to be coming to our little corner of the world.

And what else has been happening in the world this week?

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • The UK owner of a winning Lotto ticket from September 2002. The Ј3m prize (US$4.5m) has still not been claimed. If the man / woman does not present the ticket before 11pm today then the money will be given to charity.
  • Car thieves in Colombia; auto industry chiefs want to build a "concentration camp" for car thieves, complete with barbed-wire fences. The plan also includes forcing thieves to grow their own food. "It's not right that many people go to jail and then we Colombians have to support them with our taxes," a spokesman said. "They will have to support themselves, and they will pay for their wrongdoings. I think this will clean up a lot of the country."
  • A 12-year-old German boy, who has accidentally burned down a pool-house and a summer pavilion with a paper aeroplane, causing more than $40,000 in damage. The boy lit his paper aeroplane which then ignited a hedge next to the swimming pool building and summer house in the Bavarian town of Oberasbach. By the time the fire services put out the blaze, both buildings and two garages were destroyed.
  • A thief, who stole a businessman's laptop; the Judge has agreed that the thief’s punishment should be to dig a new swimming pool for his victim. The work must be completed within 3 months.
  • A man who died in 1997in Massachusetts, United States, who has received a telephone bill addressed to him at the cemetery where he is buried. A spokesman for the Cemetery said: "Our clients here don't usually get mail".
  • French cuisine, with the news that the restaurants in the U.S. House of Representatives are replacing "French fries" and "French toast" on menus with "Freedom fries" and "Freedom toast." This action is in protest at French action over the Iraq crisis.
  • The guards at Buckingham Palace, London, with the news that their bearskin hats may soon be replaced with synthetic fur because of the anti-fur lobby in the UK.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • The chief executives of two New Zealand telecommunications companies; they resolved a US$112,000 dispute over access to a mobile radio network by a best-of-three arm-wrestling match. The losing chief executive said: "Sure, losing hurts but not nearly as much as paying lawyers bills".
  • Balloonist Steve Fossett, who will attempt to set a record for the highest altitude achieved in a glider. Fossett
  • made history last year by successfully completing the first solo, non-stop around-the-world balloon flight. The current record height for a non-powered flight is 49,009 feet (15,000 metres).
  • A 58-year-old Israeli woman, who has given birth to twins. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest woman to give birth was an Italian, who had a baby boy in 1994 at the age of 63.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero, the Roman orator (106 B.C.–43 B.C.)

That is the news for this week. And now the answers from last week's "Big and Small" homework.

PART A:

Big: Gigantic, Vast, Huge, Sizeable, Considerable, Enormous
Small: Minuscule, Minute, Tiny, Insignificant, Meagre

PART B:

  1. Even a tiny amount of dust can damage a computer disk.
  2. She’s had a huge amount of work recently. She looks so tired.
  3. There was tons of food at the party. I’m sorry I had dinner before I went there.
  4. It takes a considerable of money to set up your own company.
  5. An excessive amount of fat in his diet put him at risk from a heart attack.

PART C:

  1. Do you have much work to do, Ivan? Shall I help you?
  2. Only a very small number of students failed the IELTS exam, so Paul Stevens was very happy.
  3. We don’t need to hurry, Ivan. There’s heaps of time. The train doesn’t leave till six.
  4. The government has put a good deal of effort into reducing unemployment.
  5. There was a small amount of oil on the surface which we had to clean off. It wasn’t serious.

And the riddles?

Riddle 1:
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?

The answer is "a match"

Riddle 2:

A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

The answer: It was day time!

This week’s homework is called "Time":

PART A: Fill in the gaps with a suitable word. The first letter of the word is given.

  1. During the Stone A_____, humans developed new tools and instruments.
  2. We had a very hot s_____ of weather in April and no rain at all.
  3. When the war ended a new e_____ of peace and prosperity began.
  4. We lived in New York for a t_____ when I was a child.
  5. For a p_____ of 6 months, I had no contact with Ivan whatsoever.
  6. Ivan, you look tired. Why don’t you go and have a lie-down for a w_____?

PART B: Choose one of the phrases to complete the sentences.

for the time being at times by the time one at a time
just in time on time time and time again  
  1. I got to the airport _____ to say goodbye to Ivan.
  2. Ivan, I warned you _____ to make copies of everything in case the computer crashed.
  3. All the students arrived _____, so we were able to start the lesson at exactly 09.00h.
  4. The new computer is arriving next week. Can you use the old one _____?
  5. The teacher saw the students _____ to tell each one their exam results privately.
  6. I get very lonely _____.
  7. The traffic was terrible. _____ I got to the station, the train had gone.

PART C: Say whether these statements are true or false:

 

True

False
"Ten years have elapsed" is more formal than "ten years have passed".

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"It lasts 10 hours to fly from London to Singapore" is correct English.

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The verb elapse is used with a wide variety of tenses.

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"The batteries in my Walkman last about 10 hours" is correct English.

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We can say "This video tape will run for 3 hours".

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"The meeting went on for 3 hours" means "I was actually expecting it to last for 5 hours".

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"Take your time" means "Hurry up!"

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The verb pass is used with a wide variety of tenses to talk about time.

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"Time elapsed quickly" is correct English.

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"Time passed slowly" is correct English.

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And finally an easy riddle for you to solve:

What are the next two letters in the following series and why? W A T N T L I T F S

Have a great week and I look forward to writing to you again next Friday.

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