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Weekly news from UK

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Patricia McLeod, a British woman, who had a nasty surprise when she went to her doctor complaining of ear-ache and tinnitus. Her doctor syringed her ear and removed a 5cm-long moth.
  • Chinese lovers, with the news that more than 28% of Chinese couples have sex less frequently than once a month. For 6% of couples sex is not even an annual event. By comparison, American couples in their 20s have sex 3 or 4 times a week on average, falling to once a week when they reach their 50’s. In the survey, 11% of Chinese men under the age of 40 had visited a prostitute.
  • A Royal Bengal tiger, which escaped from a Bangladesh zoo after its keeper left its cage open, but crept back an hour later after apparently being frightened by the crowds.
  • British bakers, with the news that sales of home breadmaking machines have increased from 33,700 a year in 1997 to 445,000 in 2001.
  • Road safety, after new research in the U.S. shows that drivers are distracted 16% of the time. 30% of the motorists surveyed talked on a mobile phone while driving and 71% ate or drank. About 50% groomed themselves (grooming included using a toothpick, taking pills, applying lipstick and combing hair). An estimated 25% of all traffic crashes are caused by distractions.
  • British food, with the news that more than 50% of British adults are so scarred by their memories of school lunches that the experience still affects their eating habits today. Tapioca is Britain's most hated school dish closely followed by cabbage, overcooked vegetables, liver, spam fritters, macaroni and Brussels sprouts. Favourites, in order, were fish and chips, ice cream, sponge pudding, another pudding known as "jam roly poly," and jelly.
  • Cambodian students, with the news that police and commandos are being used to stop students cheating in national exams. Roads around schools were sealed off in an attempt to stop students throwing their exam sheets out of the window to accomplices waiting below. In the past, the collaborators have quickly filled in the answers with the aid of a textbook, before wrapping them around a stone and then throwing or catapulting them through the open windows of the exam halls.
  • Britain's railways, which are becoming the source of ridicule and anger after trains were forced to drive more slowly because of fears the rails might buckle in the hot weather. In the winter the railways were affected by "leaves on the tracks, flooding and even the wrong type of snow".
  • A German man, who has been arrested for firing potatoes at passers-by with a home-made bazooka. Police said the weapon consisted of about 1.5 metres of drainpipe attached to an aerosol can which the man ignited to fire the potatoes.
  • A drunken Croat flasher, who got more excitement than he bargained for when he pushed his penis through a woman's fence and her dog bit it! The drunk man was walking down the street and started swearing and shouting at the woman for no reason. He then pushed his penis through her fence, unaware her dog was on the other side, police said. The 36-year-old was taken to hospital.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Residents of Budapest, Hungary, after a 1km stretch of the banks of the river Danube were turned into a beach. 1,200 tons of sand were laid on a road along the Danube, and palm trees, parasols and beach chairs were brought in. For the second year Paris has also turned the banks of the river Seine into a beach.
  • A Chinese fan of David Beckham, who paid 2,800 yuan (ё210) for the pyjamas, slippers, pillow cases, bath robe and towels from the room Beckham occupied at a luxury hotel in Beijing. At the auction the Beckham item’s were advertised as "still carrying Beckham's sweaty stench".
  • An Italian man, who has been arrested after he burned 15 Daimler Chrysler "Smart cars". The 25-year-old set fire to the 15 parked Smarts, as well as 15 other cars, in Rome over the past two months, using a cigarette lighter with a powerful flame. Apparently the deranged man had a grudge against Smart cars.

WEEKLY TRIVIA: - interesting facts about animals

  • Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
  • Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
  • The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
  • The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
  • The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
  • The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

And now the answers to last week’s homework about IDIOMS.

Part 1:

  1. You’ve got to HAND it to him; he’s a first-class tennis-player. (acknowledge/admit)
  2. Ivan is involved in millions of things. Ivan has got a FINGER in every pie.

    3. (is involved in many different things)

  3. Ivan had to pay through the NOSE for the ticket for that concert.

    4. (pay a huge amount)

  4. I’ve made quite a bit of HEAD way with my English this year

    5. (progress)

  5. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you with what I’ve just told you, but I just had to get it off my CHEST (confess something or tell something that has been worrying you)

Part 2:

buy a pig in a poke buy something bad or defective without realising it at first
pay over the odds pay more than the usual price/rate
foot the bill pay up, usually a large amount
rip someone off charge too much; very informal
drive a hard bargain be unwilling to negotiate over the price of something

Part 3:

  1. I’m just going to have a NAP. Wake me at five o’clock, will you?
  2. I’m very tired. I think I’ll just put my FEET up tonight and watch the BOX
  3. The bathroom’s on the left if you want to FRESHEN up.
  4. I’m exhausted! I just want to CRASH out.

Part 4:

Ivan has a sharp tongue. Ivan can be very aggressive
The rebel soldiers finally came to heel. agreed to obey the authorities
Ivan should be made to toe the line behave correctly
I have that song on the brain. I can’t stop singing it.
I hope you’ll back me at the meeting. support me.

And the riddle?

Fill in the blanks using the same three letters at the end as at the beginning in the same order to find a place where water flows free:

_ _ _ ERGRO _ _ _

The answer is UNDERGROUND

This week’s homework is about Proverbs

Part 1:

Fill the gaps in these proverbs. You are given the first letter

  1. Never judge a book by its c……………
  2. Take care of the pence and the p………will take care of themselves.
  3. Don’t count your chickens before they are h………….
  4. Never look a gift horse in the m……………….
  5. Don’t put all your e………. in one basket.

Part 2:

Now match the proverbs (1-5) in Part 1 above with these explanations (a-e)

  1. Don’t anticipate the future before it happens.
  2. Never refuse good fortune when it is there in front of you.
  3. Don’t invest all your efforts, or attention, in just one thing.
  4. Don’t judge people/things by their outward appearance.
  5. Take care of small sums of money and they will become large sums.

Part 3:

These proverbs are all connected with animals and birds. Can you complete them using the animal names from the box?

Horse

Bird

Cat

Swallow

Mice
  1. When the ……………’s away the……………..will play.
  2. A …………………in the hand is worth two in the bush.
  3. You can lead a …………….to water but you cannot make it drink
  4. One……………….. doesn’t make a summer.

Have a great week and I look forward to writing to you again with more news and homework next Week!

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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