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Weekly news from UK

Good morning from Plymouth!

The sunshine and 25° C of the last few weeks have left us and we are now back to 12° C, cloudy and showers – much more like typical British weather!

Monday was a national holiday and I think we have all decided we quite like 4-day weeks!

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

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Vietnamese prostitutes, who have been taking English classes to improve their chances of finding clients. The prostitutes have been learning sentences like: 'One hundred dollars', 'I want to be your wife' and 'Give me your watch',
  • Prostitution is officially illegal in communist Vietnam but it is estimated that there are 37,000 "working-ladies" in the country.
  • A golden retriever in New York which has been named "Dog Hero of the Year". Sixteen-year-old "Bullet" barked, jumped and raced around in order to alert the mother of a 20-day-old baby that the baby had stopped breathing. With the help of paramedics the baby made a full recovery.
  • British soldiers in Iraq, with the news that Pizza Hut and Burger King have opened restaurants on a British military base near Basra.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A prominent Iranian actress, who has been given a suspended sentence of 74 lashes for kissing a young film director during an awards ceremony. Physical contact in public between unrelated or unmarried men and women is taboo in Iran.
  • IKEA, the Swedish furniture company, after launching a range of children’s beds called "Gutvik" in Germany (named after a small Swedish town). Unfortunately "Gutvik" means "Good F**k" in German.
  • A dog called Dosha in California, USA; Dosha was hit by a car and then a police officer shot her in the head to put her out of her misery. Presumed dead, she was put in a freezer at an animal control centre. Two hours later, when a veterinarian opened the door to the freezer, she was shocked to find Dosha, standing upright and alive! Dosha is now on the way to making a full recovery.
  • Hua Mei, the first giant panda born in the Western Hemisphere in a decade, which will not be sent from San Diego, USA to China as planned because of the SARS outbreak.
  • A German couple, who have been given a lightning divorce on the grounds of "gross infidelity" after the wife moved in with her new lover just four days after her wedding. Normally couples in Germany must be separated for a year before a divorce can be granted.
  • An Indian groom, who is in a coma in hospital after he was accidentally shot in the head by a friend who was celebrating the wedding by firing into the air. Tapesh Kumar Singh, 22, was sitting next to his bride when his friend shot him with a revolver at the wedding near New Delhi.
  • A group of Russian train conductors, who have been hospitalised after repeatedly banging their heads against a train window. To pass the time on a 4500km journey from Novosibirsk to Vladivostok, the conductors held a competition to see who had the strongest head. However, halfway through the journey the crew stopped the train and requested medical help.
  • A diner at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, who found a 3cm-long worm in her noodles. When she sent the meal back the manager of the restaurant picked up the worm, put it in her mouth and wrote on the customer’s bill: "The worm is edible".

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

  • The most popular computer password is "password".
  • On average American men cry 1.88 times per month. Bulgarians cry only 0.43 times per month

That is the news. Now here are the answers to last week’s "Owning, giving and lending" homework:

PART A:

estate all the things and money you leave after your death
wealth having a lot of money
a property a house and the land it is on
belongings small items you carry with you (e.g. your bag, coat, wallet, camera)
a tenant a person who pays rent to live in a house or flat
possessions everything you own

PART B:

  1. What do we call the person you pay rent to if you live in their house or flat? The landlord (or landlady)
  2. What is a rather formal word for the person who owns a shop or restaurant? The proprietor
  3. What is a general word for anyone who owns something (e.g. a bicycle, a house, land)? The owner
  4. What is the noun form of the verb "to lend"? Loan
  5. What verb beginning with "d" can we use to mean to give something (often a large sun of money or some valuable items) to an institution? Donate

PART C:

  1. Can you lend me Ј10 please, Ivan? I’ll give it back to you tomorrow.
  2. Jane asked if she could borrow my camera for a few days.
  3. It would be fun to rent / hire a car and have a holiday in Cornwall.
  4. How expensive is it to rent a flat near the Mayflower College?

PART D:

  1. The teacher gave out the IELTS exam papers 5 minutes before the exam began.
  2. I haven’t got my cricket bat any more; I gave it away.
  3. Ivan asked if I would sell that old 1955 car I’ve got, but I don’t want to let go of it.
  4. The mugger made her hand over her cash and credit cards.
  5. This picture has been handed down in my family for generations.

And the riddles:

Riddle 1: If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

The answer: a Secret.

Riddle 2: You have four 9's and you may use any of the (+, -, /, *) as many times as you like. I want to see a mathematical expression which uses the four 9's to = 100

For example: 99 + (9/9) = 100

(99/.99) = 100
(9/.9) * (9/.9) = 100
((9*9) + 9) /.9 = 100
(99-9) /.9 = 100

Riddle 3:

It's black when it's not in use, it's red when it's in use, and it's grey when you’ve finished using it.

What can this be??

The answer: charcoal or coal

This week’s homework is about Movement and Speed:

PART A: Put the following words into 2 categories: "slow" words and "fast" words.

dawdle hurry tear creep
trundle shoot plod rush

PART B: Use these words to complete the gaps.

speed rate pace velocity
  1. This gun fires a high-_____ bullet which can penetrate metal.
  2. The birth-_____ in Europe has decreased in the last thirty years.
  3. Japan has some of the best high-_____ trains in the world.
  4. The lesson went at a very slow _____ and the students got bored.

PART C:

  1. What sort of child is a toddler?
  2. What sort of person is a slowcoach?
  3. What type of person is a plodder?
  4. If someone was called a drifter, what sort of person are they?
  5. Is fast an adjective, an adverb or both?
  6. Are rapid and swift similar in meaning or opposite in meaning?
  7. Which is the more typical collocation, a fast car or a quick car?

PART D: Connect the words in the first column with an appropriate verb in the second column and an appropriate sentence-ending in the third column.

The car stirred across the sky
The river swayed directly over our house
The ferry drifted slowly along the busy motorway.
The traffic fluttered away at high speed with 4 people in it.
The train travelled in the breeze.
The clouds drove to avoid a cat.
The flag moved across the channel
The leaves flowed in the gentle breeze.
The trees flew at high speed along the new track.
The lorry sailed through the valley
The plane swerved in the strong wind.

And now two riddles for you to solve:

Riddle 1:

A woman goes into a hardware store to buy something for her house. When asked the price, the clerk replies, "the
price of one is twelve cents, the price of forty-four is twenty-four cents, and the price a hundred and forty-four is thirty-six cents.

What does the woman want to buy?

Riddle 2:

What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps?

Have a great weekend and "see you" next Friday.

Best wishes

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