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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • David Beckham; following his transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid Bechkam earned US$8.5 for a 3-day promotional trip to Japan. Beckham and his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria, promoted chocolate and beauty treatments.
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which according to a new survey is the friendliest city in the world. After Rio de Janeiro came San Jose, Costa Rica and Madrid, Spain. The least friendly cities in the survey were Kuala Lumpur, New York, Singapore and Amsterdam.
  • Author JK Rowling, who is expected to become even richer tomorrow with the launch of the 5th Harry Potter book called ""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". The book goes on sale at midnight tonight. 100’s of book shops across Britain are opening at midnight to cope with the expected huge demand.
  • China, which will go ahead with plans to host its first-ever Miss World beauty competition despite the SARS break. China has built a special exhibition centre -- the Crown of Beauty -- at a cost of 14 million dollars for the event.
  • A British man, weighed down by a rubber diving suit , who has broken the world record for the slowest-ever marathon run. The man completed the course in more than 6 days.
  • Briton Robert Garside, who has completed a run around the world that took almost six years.
  • Residents of the UAE (United Arab Emirates), with research showing that one out of every 67 people in the oil-rich country is a dollar millionaire.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • New Zealand farmers, who are being asked to pay NZ$8.4 million a year to help reduce greenhouse effects caused by flatulence of their sheep and cattle. There are 46 million sheep and 9 million cows in New Zealand.
  • An 82-year-old Taiwanese woman, who is suing her 90-year-old husband after he was found having an extramarital affair with another woman, aged 80.
  • British shops, with the news that Britain suffered more losses due to shoplifting over the past year than any other European country. British retailers lost 1.69% of their turnover to theft Across Europe the total cost of retail crime was estimated at 29 billion euros or 1.37% of retail store turnover.
  • A nine-year-old girl, who was married to a dog in eastern India under a tribal custom to protect the child from evil.
  • Police in Arkansas, USA who are searching for two men who allegedly killed a 9kg chow dog, then grilled it.
  • Fidelity, with the news that the modern western woman is now almost as likely to cheat on her partner as a man. In an online survey of 1,427 men and women aged between 25 and 35, 53% of women said they had been unfaithful to their partner, compared with 59% of men.
  • Marseille, France, with the news that city cleaners are spraying the streets with lemongrass perfume to get rid of the stench from piles of rubbish which have been "cooking"" under a hot sun for two weeks. Refuse collectors have been on strike over pension reforms.
  • German workers, after the country’s Economy and Labour minister said that Germans take too many holidays and should work longer hours. Germans have 9-13 public holidays a year (depending on the state they live in), compared to 11 in France and 8 in Britain.
  • Drivers on the A1 road in England, which was obstructed for 12 hours after a truck shed its18-tonne load of peas!
  • A 73-year-old Japanese runner, who was taking part in an "ultra-marathon" over 89 kilometres in South Africa. The man was mugged at the halfway mark and had his running shoes taken.
  • A man from the UAE, who has married for the 12th time in an attempt to ensure his place in the Guinness Book of Records with 100 children. The man currently has 63 children.
  • A US truck driver, who worked for Coca-Cola and has now been sacked after being spotted drinking a Pepsi.

So, that is the news for this week. How did you find last homework? Well, the answers are:

PART A:

  1. rough and ready
  2. prim and proper
  3. give and take
  4. rant and rave
  5. leaps and bounds
  6. part and parcel
  7. wine and dine
  8. rack and ruin
  9. pick and choose
  10. odds and ends

PART B

  1. The hotel was a bit rough and ready, but it was cheap and convenient.
  2. The new boss is very prim and proper. The old one was more informal and easy-going.
  3. The secret of a successful marriage is give and take; being ready to compromise.
  4. Ivan was furious and started to rant and rave at us.
  5. Ivan’s English progressed in leaps and bounds during the course at Mayflower College.
  6. Hard work is part and parcel of learning a language; there’s no other way.
  7. My friends in London always wine and dine me at the best restaurants.
  8. The old house has gone to rack and ruin now. I can’t afford to restore it.
  9. It’s a very flexible course; you can pick and choose which classes you want to attend.
  10. There’s a lot of odds and ends to discuss before we finish the meeting, but there is nothing major or very important.

And the riddles?

RIDDLE 1:

You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the mainland. Every day a tractor gives rides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had arrived onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island.

Explain how the tractor got there?
It was driven over in winter when the lake was frozen.

RIDDLE 2:

A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three.
Break the walls, eat the boarders, then throw away me.
What am I?

A Peanut.

This week’s homework is about idioms describing people

PART A: Fill the gaps with words from the box. The expressions in the left-hand column are more or less opposite in meaning to those in the right-hand column.

TOP ODD HEART COLD MOVER
SLOW QUICK COACH MIDDLE HARD

 

He has a ………..of gold. He’s as ………….as nails.
She was ………….off the mark and got there first. She was a bit ……….off the mark and arrived too late.
He’s a fast…………. He’s a bit of a slow-…………
She’s very …………..-of-the-road. She’s a bit of an ……………-ball.
He’s a bit over the……..when you first meet him. He’s rather a …………fish when you first meet him.

PART B: Now match the completed sentences in PART A above to these sentences with the same meaning.

  1. She’s rather eccentric.
  2. She was not quick enough.
  3. He’s very exaggerated in his behaviour.
  4. He always takes ages to do everything.
  5. He’s a wonderfully kind person.
  6. She’s rather moderate in her views and behaviour.
  7. He is very tough and is not easily moved by anything
  8. She reacted quickly and benefited from it.
  9. He’s very formal and a bit unfriendly.
  10. He always does everything in super-quick time.

PART C: Put a plus sign (+) if the expression is a positive way of describing someone, and put a minus sign (-) if the expression is a negative one.

  • the teacher’s pet (  )
  • top of the class (  )
  • a know-all (  )
  • a big-head (  )
  • a lazy-bones (  )

Now use the expressions to fill in the gaps.

  1. At school she was always ……………………, in fact, in one exam, she scored 100 per cent.
  2. George is such………………..He always has the right answer, or thinks he does.
  3. She’s a bit of a ………………. If she can avoid working, she will.
  4. It’s not nice to be………………All the other students make fun of you.
  5. What a ……………………….She really thinks she’s wonderful, doesn’t she!

And finally I have two riddles for you to solve:

Riddle 1:

I saw a man in white,
he looked quite a sight.
He was not old,
but he stood in the cold.
And when he felt the sun
he started to run.
Who could he be?
Please answer me.

Riddle 2:

If you have six men and they each had six baskets. Each basket has six cats inside and each cat has six kittens. Assuming all are whole and healthy, how many legs are there?

Have a lovely week

All the best
Gennadiy

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