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Weekly news from UK

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A 24-year-old Australian man, who has agreed to pay off more than US$45,000 in traffic fines in order to avoid prison.
  • Drivers in Singapore, with the news that sending text messages on a mobile phone while driving is now an offence punishable with a fine and imprisonment. Singapore has one of the highest mobile phone usage rates in the world, with 80% of the population owning a cellular phone.
  • Canadians, with the news that authorities have banned the public from smiling or frowning for passport photos. "Canadians must send a photo with "a neutral expression -- that means no laughing, smiles, frowning," said a ministry spokeswoman.
  • A former German postman, who has been given a 10-month suspended jail sentence and 200 hours community service for failing to deliver around 61,000 letters. Police discovered piles of post that had accumulated over two-and-a-half-years filling the rooms and basement of the 36-year-old's house.
  • A man from Texas, USA, who has received compensation after he woke up in hospital from bladder surgery only to find that doctors had amputated his penis without permission.
  • A Swiss man who tried to fight annoying wasps with insect spray and a cigarette lighter and consequently burned down his apartment and two neighbouring flats.

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Salford Manor House in Somerset, England, which has been named as Britain’s oldest continuously-occupied home. The manor is thought to be more than 850 years old.
  • Doctors in Beijing, who say they have successfully operated on a baby born with a leg of her undeveloped twin protruding from her back.
  • Revellers at the annual "Tomatina" festival in the small Spanish town of Bunol. The festival is described as the world’s biggest food fight.

TRIVIA: - interesting facts about food

  • A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
  • An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
  • China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
  • Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast beef, spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.
  • Haggis, the national dish of Scotland: take the heart, liver, lungs, and small intestine of a calf or sheep, boil them in the stomach of the animal, season with salt, pepper and onions, add suet and oatmeal. Enjoy!

So, that is the news for this week. Now here are the answers to last week’s "bring and take" homework:

Part One:

  1. The government promised to bring down (reduce) the cost of petrol soon.
  2. Jane takes after (resembles) her mother in looks but her father in temperament.
  3. Although she’s forty she’s just taken up (started to learn) the guitar!
  4. I wonder if they will ever bring back (re-introduce) corporal punishment?
  5. Don’t be taken in (deceived) by his easy charm. He’s got a cruel streak.
  6. Hotels often take on (employ) temporary staff in the summer.
  7. They’re bringing out (producing/publishing) a sequel to that novel I read on holiday last year.
  8. She’s trying to bring her husband round (persuade) to the idea of moving to Rome.
  9. I wonder if the teacher realises how well Ben can take him off (imitate)
  10. We took to (instantly liked) each other at once and speak on the phone almost daily now.

Part Two:

  1. It’s right that their affair should be brought into the open.
  2. I hope they won’t take advantage of you.
  3. His parents always seem to take everything he does in their stride
  4. The research brought some very interesting facts to light.
  5. We took part in a charity concert last week
  6. Ivan immediately took control (charge) of the situation
  7. The new rules will soon be brought into force
  8. Ivan’s rudeness took my breath away
  9. If you take care of the children, I’ll pop to the shops
  10. I think the scandal may well bring the government down.

This week’s homework is about expressions with get, set and put.

Part One: Choose one of the words from the box to complete the gaps. You may use the words more than once each.

ASIDE

AWAY

OFF

OUT

OVER

UP

WITH

Example: Can I help you put up your tent?

  1. When you’ve put……………..your toys, we’ll set……………for school.
  2. He’s set …………..some money with a view to setting………….a business of his own one day.
  3. I hope I’m not putting you…………….by asking you to put me…………….
  4. We’ll put………………..our holiday until Ivan has got ………….the flu.
  5. I don’t know how you put…………. …….his bad behaviour!

Part Two: Explain what the underlined expressions mean in this paragraph.

Example: had a family get-together      had a family party/reunion/meeting

Last week the Smiths had a family get-together. It (1) got off to a bad start when they started arguing about the twins’ future career. Jane (2) has set her heart on becoming a singer but her father is very (3) set in his ways and (4) has put his foot down. He says that she (5) mustn’t put all her eggs in one basket and should do a secretarial course. Her twin brother John (6) has set his sights on becoming a Member of Parliament. He and his friends spend hours (7) setting the world to rights; they are convinced that, if they (8) put their mind to it, they would be able to get rid of many of society’s ills. His father, however, is (10) set against this idea too.

Part Three: Match the sentence beginnings with continuations.

1. I couldn’t get through a. with his correspondence
2. I don’t know how they get by b. for that job
3. I had never set foot c. on the walls of the school hall
4. It’s time you got down d. on her wages
5. Ivan had got very behind e. to my sister last night
6. They’ve put off the meeting f. to some revision for your exam
7. We could put them up g. in his house before
8. We should try to set off h. until next month
9. You mustn’t put up notices i. before the rush hour
10. You really should put in j. for tonight

Have a lovely week and I look forward to writing to you again next Monday.

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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