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So what has happened in the world this week?

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • A man from Oregon, USA, who has ended a 2,000 km swim after spending 13 months in the icy waters of the Columbia River to raise awareness about its pollution. Christopher Swain, 35, began the journey in Canada more than a year ago. He battled six ear infections, three bouts of shoulder inflammation, two episodes of swollen lymph nodes, colds, sunburn, and chafed skin.
  • Visitors to Alcatraz, who can now buy chunks of concrete from the walls of the famous prison. A piece of the historic rubble about the size of a golf ball costs $4.95.
  • A villager in South Africa, who saved a young boy's life after wrestling a leopard to the ground by jamming his fingers in the beast's mouth. The 52-year-old is recovering in hospital after his arms, hands and feet had been savaged.
  • A German housewife, who found a small fortune hidden in the back of a second-hand stereo system she had just bought. The 43-year-old was cleaning the equipment when she found two savings books from accounts worth more than 75,000 euros (US$85,000 dollars). She had bought the stereo system for 50 euros from a second-hand shop.
  • A Swedish woman, who hopes to climb Mount Everest on a motorcycle in a bid to beat the unofficial world record for the highest altitude on a bike.
  • German car drivers, after a court ruled that a man who had sex while driving at 100 km / hour down a motorway did not commit an offence.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Nervous swimmers, with the news that man-eating sharks are coming to Britain. Thanks to global warming scientists say it is only a matter of time before Great White sharks make an appearance off our shores.
  • Students of a Christian college in Australia, which has banned J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books because the tales of the boy wizard's exploits are "evil". "The Potter books portray and promote witchcraft as normal and that is not a policy the school wants to promote to young minds," said the principal of the college near Melbourne.
  • Singapore Airlines, which made an unscheduled stop to eject a passenger who became unruly after a heated argument with his girl friend. The Australian man have to pay the A$25,000 bill.
  • A man from New Hampshire, USA, who has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend after she beat him in an arm-wrestling match and called him a "wimp." The woman mocked her boyfriend after winning the contest and he responded by grabbing her by the hair, dragging her down a set of stairs and punching her several times in the head.
  • An Oklahoma man, who was arrested on suspicion of beating his wife and faced a year in prison. However, when he spat in an arresting policeman’s face, he received a life sentence instead. The 36-year-old man was convicted with "placing bodily fluid upon a government employee."
  • A Finnish man, who killed his wife and then cut the corpse in half so it would fit into a single plastic bag. He turned up for work the next day but left early to confess to police.
  • An escaped circus monkey, who entered a pizzeria in a small German town and vandalised the ladies toilet even though the owner had tried to pacify the animal with salad and rolls.
  • A German man, who woke up to find himself completely naked in the middle of a street after sleepwalking from home. The 37-year-old man called police at around 6 a.m. after discovering he had left his house-keys at home.
  • Employers in Manchester, England; A survey of more than 4,300 businesses across the UK found that "Mancunians" called in sick more than anyone else in the country, an average of 11 days each a year. The most common causes of workplace illness and absenteeism were: food poisoning (24%), back problems (23%) and colds and flu (21%). Not surprisingly, the survey found Friday and Monday were the days most commonly missed because of illness.

POLITICALLY CORRECT OR MADNESS?

A family of asylum seekers is suing a London council for offering them inadequate housing. The Anufrijevas family, who fled Lithuania for Britain, rejected a GBP250,000 house in New Cross, London, because it did not have the "spacious gardens and orchard" of their house in Lithuania.

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

42% of Britons regularly work more than the national average of 48 hours a week. 45% wish they got more sleep. 52% would chose an extra hour of sleep over more sex.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

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

PART A

  1. Ivan was on cloud nine all day. (+)
  2. Ivan was in a really black mood this morning. (-)
  3. Ivan’s been going round like a bear with a sore head all day. (-)
  4. Ivan seems to be in high spirits tonight. (+)
  5. Ivan felt browned off with the situation. (-)
  6. Ivan seems to be keeping her chin up. (+)
  7. You’re looking down in the dumps. What happened? (-)
  8. Ivan had a face as long as a fiddle. (-)
  9. Ivan’s as happy as the day is long. (+)
  10. Ivan was over the moon when she heard the news. (+)

PART B:

Gemini: You’ll feel (1) as pleased as Punch and you’ll be (2) on top of the world for most of the day. But (3) don’t get carried away, because you could (4) feel a bit down because of something that happens that evening.
Taurus: You’ll (5) be on the edge of your seat most of the day waiting for something big to happen, but (6) keep a cool head. You’ll (7) be in two minds over an invitation, but take your time before you decide.
Libra: Something (8) makes you swell with pride, but in the afternoon (9) you’ll be up in arms over something that happens at work. (10) You’ve had itchy feet for the last week or two, so start planning that holiday now!
  1. You feel very proud indeed. (8)
  2. You must not lose touch with reality.(3)
  3. You must stay calm.(6)
  4. You feel totally elated.(2)
  5. You feel restless and want to travel.(10)
  6. You feel very angry/enraged.(9)
  7. You feel a little depressed.(4)
  8. You are in a state of suspense.(5)
  9. You cannot decide.(7)
  10. You are very pleased with yourself.(1)

PART C:

  1. I’m feeling all in.(very tired/exhausted)
  2. I could see he was scared stiff. (very frightened)
  3. I was almost at death’s door last week; but I’m better now. (very ill)
  4. My uncle is 88 but he’s as fit as a fiddle. (in excellent physical condition)
  5. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse! (very hungry indeed)
  6. I’m feeling a bit under the weather today. (not very well)
  7. Don’t come up behind me like that. You frightened the life out of me! (gave me a fright)
  8. I jumped out of my skin when the explosion happened. (had a very sudden fright)
  9. The poor boy was shaking in his shoes (trembling with fear)
  10. She was on top form in the Olympic Games last year. (at her best performance)

And the riddle:

Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to z=26.
Can you think of a familiar 7 letter word whose letter values total only 21?
HINT: It's edible.

The answer is "Cabbage" (3+1+2+2+1+7+5 = 21)

This week’s homework is about describing problematic situations

Part A: complete the idiomatic expressions using one of the phrases in the box.

take notice end of the tunnel the hatchet a turning point the bottom of things
a grasp act together a dead end the tide under the carpet
  1. The two sides have buried……………….. and have stopped arguing with each other now.
  2. I’m afraid we’ve reached…………………….. I just don’t know what we do now to solve the problem.
  3. I’ve been trying to get ……………. of these instructions but I can’t make any sense of them.
  4. Ivan sent a very strong protest letter. That should make them sit up and …………….
  5. The whole problem has just been swept ……………..Nobody has done anything about it.
  6. We’re going to have a full investigation to get to…………….
  7. At last Ivan can see some light at the …………………… I think we are heading for better times.
  8. ……………………has turned and the economy is growing again now.
  9. It’s time we got our…………. and did something about all the complaints we’ve received.
  10. I think we’ve reached…………. Things are going to be different from now on.

Part B: Arrange these idioms into three pairs of more or less opposite meaning

  1. lay one’s cards on the table
  2. take the bull by the horns
  3. keep one’s cards close to one’s chest
  4. pour oil on troubled waters
  5. stir things up
  6. take a back seat

Now use the pairs in these sentences

  1. I’ve been trying to _____, but you just _____ . Why can’t you leave people to try to get along with one another?
  2. You should _____ and do something about it. It’s no good always choosing to _____.
  3. I _____ for a long time, but then I decided to _____ and tell her everything.

Part C: Complete these three idioms. They all refer to difficult or problematic states or situations

be in a f……………. (in difficulty)
be in a m…………….. (in a state of confusion)
be in a t…………corner (situation that is difficult to get out of)

Part D: Match the six idioms underlined (1-6) with the six explanations (a-f) below.

  1. Ivan had to go back to square one.
  2. Politics and money go hand in hand in this country
  3. I was on tenterhooks yesterday waiting to hear if I had passed the exam.
  4. An apology would go a long way. Why don’t you try>
  5. We’re trying to find a happy medium to satisfy everybody.
  6. Ivan had better learn to toe the line or there will be serious consequences.
  1. be very effective
  2. a compromise
  3. in suspense
  4. behave properly/obey the rules
  5. the very beginning
  6. together

Have a great weekend!

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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