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Weekly news from UK

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Two pilots, both men, at Southwest Airlines in USA, who have been sacked after flying a plane naked. The pilots have appealed against the termination, saying they had spilled coffee on their uniforms.
  • British Police, after a new report shows reasons why people have called the emergency 999 number. In one instance, an angry husband made an emergency call to police -- because his wife refused to cook him his dinner. In another, a woman phoned police to say she couldn't find her glasses and needed them to cook her potatoes.
  • Anglers, with the news that scientists say that after years of debate, they now have proof that fish feel pain. Animal activists are on the warpath after a study released this week showed how trout react to discomfort. They condemned fishing as cruel and demanded an end to the sport -- but anglers themselves dismissed the study.
  • Irish smokers, with the news that smoking in pubs is to be banned across Ireland from January.
  • Etiquette, with the news that tennis players at Wimbledon will no longer have to bow or curtsey to the Royal Box.
  • Security at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, after a suspicious bag was left on a US plane. It was feared that the bag could contain a deadly poison and was sent to a laboratory for analysis. Fortunately the bag contained nothing more than powdered garlic.
  • Eleven tiger and two leopard cubs, who were found barely alive in a California home among nearly 100 cubs that had not survived. Animal wardens raided the house and found 58 tiger cubs inside freezers and the bodies of dozens of dead leopard, tiger and alligator cubs. In addition to the collection of live and dead exotic animals, there were also numerous cats and goats wandering around the property.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • The German port of Hamburg, which has been offered 10,000 Euros to change its name to "Veggieburg" by animal rights activists who are unhappy about the city's association with hamburgers. The city name "Hamburg" comes from the old Saxon words "ham" (bay) and "burg" (fortress).
  • A four-year-old British golfer who has achieved a hole-in-one - beating world No 1 Tiger Woods by several years. David Huggins holed a tee-shot on a 105-yard hole. Huggins has been playing golf since the age of two.
  • J.K. Rowling, who is now richer than the Queen. The author of Harry Potter has amassed Ј280m over a decade.
  • Drug-users in India, with the news that in India's wealthy state of Gujarat, drug-users, bored with mundane drugs, are turning to the sting of a scorpion to get "high". For a fee of US$3, a scorpion is placed on the body of the thrill-seeker, who is then viciously stung. Users say after the initial pain the venom produces an illusionary, floating feeling.
  • Germany's "super minister" Wolfgang Clement, who has showed off an unusual talent by winning a beer-drinking contest, downing a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds.
  • Stamp collectors, who can now have a letter posted to them from space for a cost of US$20,000. Letters bearing postage stamps can be launched to the International Space Station where the stamps will be franked and returned to Earth, announced a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency.
  • India, with the news that India exports human hair worth US$33 million every year to 10 countries including China, Hong Kong and the United States. Every year tens of millions of Indian Hindus shave their heads at temples in a ritualistic sacrifice they believe can bring prosperity and luck.

EXPRESSION OF THE WEEK:
"Some people love football, but it's not my cup of tea. I prefer rugby." Is football your "cup of tea"?
DEFINITION: If something is "not your cup of tea" then it means you do not like it, or you do not like to do it.

POLITICALLY CORRECT OR MADNESS?
Trainee teachers in the UK are being told to avoid the word "brainstorming" for fear of offending people with epilepsy. Instead they are advised to say "word storm" or "thought shower".

OK - enough of the news. Here are the answers to last week's Movement and Speed homework.

PART A:

Fast: hurry, tear, rush, shoot

Slow: dawdle, trundle, plod, creep

PART B:

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

PART C:

  1. What sort of child is a toddler? A child who has only just learned to walk.
  2. What sort of person is a slowcoach? A person who does everything too slowly.
  3. What type of person is a plodder? A person who does everything in a slow, very detailed way, and who only makes slow progress.
  4. If someone was called a drifter, what sort of person are they? A person who does not want to settle down in one place or one job.
  5. Is fast an adjective, an adverb or both? Both (a fast journey or Ivan drove fast)
  6. Are rapid and swift similar in meaning or opposite in meaning? Similar.
  7. Which is the more typical collocation, a fast car or a quick car? A fast car.

PART D:

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

And the two riddles???

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?
The answer is house numbers

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?
The answer is a river

This week’s (very difficult!) homework is called "Success, failure and difficulty"

PART A: Correct the mistakes in these sentences. The part to correct is in bold.

Example: We managed finishing the project a week in advance. managed to finish

  1. I succeeded to persuade him to come with us.
  2. I’ll jog with you, but I don’t think I can succeed ten kilometres. Can we do five instead?
  3. We have accomplished to do a great deal this year.
  4. I’m not sure her plan will come away, but I hope it does, for her sake.
  5. The company has not achieved to reach its targets for this year.

PART B: Put a tick (ь ) if the word in the vertical column normally collocates with the word in the horizontal column.

For example, one possible collocation for ‘dream’ is ‘fulfil a dream’.

You should end up with 10 ticks of your own.

 

reach

attain

secure

realise

fulfil

achieve
An ambition        

 

  
A dream        

ь

 
An agreement            
An obligation            
A compromise            

PART C: Fill the gaps.

  1. Our plans went w…… and we had to think again.
  2. Their plans back……and disaster resulted.
  3. The local nature society f…… after only six months through lack of members.
  4. The project has f…… a couple of times, but I think it will succeed in the long term.
  5. The proposal to build a new town hall came to n…… in the end; most people were quite happy with the old one.
  6. I f…… it difficult to read very small print. I need glasses.
  7. I’ve had a lot of t……with this camera; I’m very disappointed with it.
  8. Can you c…… with my three sisters coming to stay? I hope it won’t be too much work.
  9. We’ve experienced some d…… in contacting her, but we’ll keep trying.
  10. The new exam system has caused a lot of b…… for everyone; I think we should have stuck with the old one.

PART D: Complete the table. Do not put anything in the shaded boxes.

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB
  Succeed    
  Accomplish Accomplished  
Attainment      
  Achieve    
  Fulfil    

And finally a riddle for you to solve:

They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone.
Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own.

What are they?

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

Best wishes

Gennadiy
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