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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • British tap water, after inspectors announced that it is just as good as mineral water, 1000 times cheaper and often considerably fresher.
  • Egle Soll, who has won the "Wife-Carrying World Championships" held in Finland. Other competitions have included: Sauna Sitting, Mosquito Swatting, Mobile Phone Throwing, Air Guitar, Boot Throwing and Swamp Soccer. 12000 people attended the events.
  • McDonald's customers, who can now order their food from computer terminals in the restaurants. Customers make their selections on a touch screen and either pick up their food at a separate area or wait to have it brought to their table.
  • Wrigley’s, with the news that the world's largest chewing gum maker has been given approval to sell its big sugar-free brands, Orbit and Orbit White, through pharmacists in Singapore. Singapore famously banned gum in 1992 after leftover wads were blamed for disrupting subway operations by gumming up doors.
  • Norway, Iceland and Sweden, which have topped a list for the best places to live, in a released UN report. African states occupied all the bottom 25 places. The top three were followed by Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, Canada and top ranked Asian nation, Japan, in ninth place. The United States fell from the sixth to seventh despite its per capita income of (34,320 dollars) being second only to Luxembourg (53,780 dollars), which was 15th. Life expectancy at birth was highest in Japan (81.3 years), the only country where it exceeded 80 years. By contrast, a child born in Sierra Leone today will probably die before reaching the age of 35.
  • Takeru Kobayashi of Japan, who ate 44 and a half hot dogs in 12 minutes, confirming his status as the greatest competitive eater in the world. Kobayashi, is 25 years old and surprisingly only weighs 59kg.
  • Camels in Israel’s Negev desert, which are being fitted with glow-in-the-dark strips to make them more visible to motorists. More than 5000 camels roam the desert. 10 people have been killed and 50 injured in the past 2 years.
  • A school in Beijing, which has banned pupils from farting in public. Children caught breaking wind at Hu Zhuang Elementary school will be fined US$0.75.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • An Israeli woman, who swallowed a fork while trying to catch a fly she had swallowed earlier.
  • A woman, who boarded the wrong plane in Los Angeles and instead of arriving in Hong Kong as she planned, found herself in the Melbourne, Australia. She said the mistake happened because a computerised system used to check boarding passes was out of order and ground staff in Los Angeles missed the error. The woman then sat in an unoccupied seat and did not realise her mistake until minutes before landing.
  • A South Korean man, who was angry with his daughter's use of the internet and so threw the computer monitor out of his 12th-floor apartment. Unfortunately the monitor hit a 4-year-old girl below on the head. Police said that the 49-year-old man got angry when he returned to his flat in Seoul on Saturday. His 20-year-old daughter was playing an online computer game and failed to greet him, as Korean custom requires. The man has now been arrested.
  • A German fireman, who has admitted committing more than 30 acts of arson so he could fight more fires. "The man said he did it because he really enjoyed putting out fires," said a police spokesman.
  • The Eiffel Tower in Paris, with news that police are investigating some Eiffel Tower staff over allegations they pocketed almost 1 million euros by selling fake tickets to tourists.

What do the British and the Germans think about eachother?

A new survey, by the British Council and the Goethe Institute, indicated that nearly half of young Germans have a positive view of Britain -- rating its language, its monarchy and its multiculturalism particularly highly.
81% of young Germans could recall at least one famous Briton -- with pop singer Robbie Williams, the late Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II being most well-known. 11% of Germans have a negative view of Britain, mainly for political reasons such as Britain's "special relationship" with the United States and its perceived scepticism towards the European Union. Among young Britons, 40% felt "positive or very positive" about Germany -- with beer, education and sports being rated just ahead of the quality of German cars. However, 17% had a negative view of Germany based on its wartime past.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK:
Unlikely as it may sound, Kabel, the capital of Afghanistan is becoming a muscleman's paradise, with body-building gyms opening all over the city.

WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK?
47% of Britons think the war in Iraq was "the right thing to do" (down from 64% in April). 54% of the British public would not trust Tony Blair "as far as they could throw him".

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:
"If you are planning for 1 year, plant rice. If you are planning for 10years, plant trees. If you are planning for 100 years, educate people" – Old Chinese proverb

OK - that is the news for this week. Now here are the answers to last week’s homework.

Part A:

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

Part B:

  1. I’ve been trying to pour oil on troubled waters, but you just stir things up.

    2. Why can’t you leave people to try to get along with one another ?

  2. You should take the bull by the horns and do something about it. It’s no good always choosing to

    3. to take a back seat

  3. I kept my cards close to my chest for a long time, but then I decided to lay my card’s on the table and tell her everything.

Part C:

Be in a fix (in difficulty)
Be in a muddle (in a state of confusion)
Be in a tight corner (situation that is difficult to get out of)

Part D:

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

This week’s homework is about idioms connected with praise and criticism

Part A: Divide these idioms into two groups: those connected with praising someone/something, and those connected with criticism

Put a plus sign (+) for praise, and a minus sign (-) for criticism

Ivan is head and shoulders above the rest (   )
Ivan is a dab hand at something (   )
Ivan is a dog’s breakfast (   )
Ivan is streets ahead of the rest (   )
Ivan is dressed up like a dog’s dinner (   )
Ivan knock’s spots off the rest (   )
Ivan is the world’s worst (   )
Ivan is out of this world (   )
Ivan wants to have their cake and eat it (   )
Ivan thinks they’re the cat’s whiskers (   )

Part B Now use the idioms in Part A above to complete the sentences.

  1. The restaurant is the best in town. It just…………………………………………
  2. Mary is such a big-head; she really………………………………………………
  3. Did you see Marlene at the party last night? She was……………………………

    4. Everyone else was looking quite informal. I wonder who she was trying to impress?

  4. The teacher said my exam paper was a bit of a …………………. She’s right. It was very bad. I’ll have to do it again
  5. When it comes to countries with advanced technology, Japan is………………..
  6. Bobby doesn’t want to work, but he still wants me to pay him every week. He…………………………!
  7. That strawberry dessert you made was……………………Absolutely delicious!
  8. Jenny is………………………………..! You can never rely on her for anything!
  9. Laura is…………………………….at cooking Indian food. She makes some wonderful dishes.
  10. No other child in his age group is a clever as David. He’s…………………………………

Part C What is someone doing if….

  1. they are buttering somebody up?
  2. they are picking holes in someone else’s work?
  3. they want jam on it?
  4. they are running down their country?

Part D Answer the questions. You are sometimes given the first letter of the correct answer.

  1. What word rhymes with bee’s to form an idiom with it? k…….s
  2. If Ivan has the gift of the gab is Ivan (a) a good singer (b) a good talker (c) a good dancer?
  3. If you have a way with little children, do they probably like you or dislike you?
  4. What colour fingers do good gardeners have?
  5. What adjective comes before notch to mean "first –class" or "outstanding"? t…….
  6. If Ivan is on the ball, is that usually a good thing or a bad thing?

And finally, your riddles this week are:

RIDDLES:

Riddle 1: The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Your lady friend's husband has it and she uses it. What is it?

Riddle 2: What is too much for one, enough for two, and nothing at all for three?

Have a great week.

All the best

Gennadiy

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