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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • A 21-year-old Polish woman, who gave birth to a baby girl aboard a German plane on a flight from Cologne to Istanbul. She delivered her baby with the help of women passengers and stewardesses.
  • Elton John, who has signed a Ј36m deal to play 300 concerts in Las Vegas over the net two years, making him the world’s highest-paid concert performer.
  • Toyota, the Japanese car maker which has launched a car that can park itself without the driver having to touch the steering wheel.
  • Gibbs Technology in London , which has unveiled a new form of transport - a high-speed land and water vehicle which transforms from a sports car to a jet-propelled boat at the touch of a button. The Aquada is designed to reach speeds of 160 km / hour on land and over 50 km / hour. And the price? US$234,000 !
  • The magician David Blaine, who is to be suspended in a glass box over the River Thames in London for 44 days with nothing to eat and only water to keep him alive. The "modern-day Houdini" said: "This is the most dangerous thing I will probably ever do in my life, except for having a child."

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • Two old-age pensioners, who died after a dancer jumped out of a cake at an old-people’s home in Australia. Roger Thornton, 86, and Margaret Flinch, 91 suffered heart attacks when Elizabeth "Boom Boom" Baker jumped out of the cake revealing her extra-large bust. The cake was supposed to be delivered to a stag party but the postman misread the address.
  • Airport customs officers in Amsterdam who, alerted by the bad smell coming from a suitcase, found up to 2,000 baboon noses believed to come from Nigeria. The noses were destined for the USA where it is believed they were to be used for the manufacture of traditional medicines.
  • Brazilian women, who are the most vain in the world. According to the survey by cosmetics company Avon, half of Brazilian women are prepared to have plastic surgery to keep their beauty. 90% of Brazilian women classified beauty products as essential rather than a luxury, compared with an average of 77% in the rest of the world.
  • A 21 year-old Thai computer engineer, who faces up to five years in prison for stealing used women's underwear and selling them through his Internet website. Police found 20 pairs of well-worn underwear at the man’s apartment which he was planning to post to his clients for a charge of 5,000 baht (US$122).

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

  • Workers in Nairobi, Kenya must work for 185 minutes to earn enough money to buy a Big Mac, compared with 16 minutes in London and 10 minutes in Los Angeles.
  • The US operation in Iraq is costing US$1bn a week.
  • If they were reincarnated, 60% of British men would like to come back as a woman, but only 19% of women would come back as a man.
  • For the first time, the USA has more vehicles than drivers. There are 204 million vehicles, and only 191 million drivers.

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

Part One:

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

Part Two:

Last week the Smiths had a family party/reunion/meeting. It (1) started badly when they started arguing about the twins’ future career. Jane (2) very much wants to become a singer but her father is very (3) fixed in his habits and (4) is being very firm. He says that she (5) mustn’t risk everything on his one plan and should do a secretarial course. Her twin brother John (6) is ambitious to become a Member of Parliament. He and his friends spend hours (7) discussing important social problems; they are convinced that, if they (8) directed all their thoughts towards it/were determined, they would be able to abolish many of society’s ills. His father, however, is (10) very unhappy about this idea too.

Part Three:

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

This week’s homework is about expressions with come and go.

Part One: Fill in the gaps in these sentences. In sentences 1-5, use a form of either come or go. In sentences 6-10, add a preposition.

  1. His tie doesn’t really …………..with his suit.
  2. As the course ……….on, Ivan began to enjoy it more.
  3. Apple trees usually…………….into bloom in April in England.
  4. It………..without saying that we’ll give Ivan a birthday present.
  5. Please……………round and see me some time soon.
  6. My alarm clock goes………….every morning at 7.15
  7. It’s always hard to come ………….terms with a death in the family.
  8. Her jokes never quite seem to come………………..
  9. Although the children have been ………..the go all day, they don’t seem tired.
  10. They went……….great lengths to make the evening a success.

Part Two: Match the underlined expressions with the definitions in the box below the text.

I hope Jim and Sarah will manage to (1) make a go of their marriage. However, I am sure no wife or family will ever (2) come between Jim and his music. Ever since he (3) came across an old guitar in a flea market and (4) had his first go at playing it, Jim has been a fanatical guitarist. (5) It goes without saying that the guitar will accompany them on their honeymoon. Jim has great hopes of (6) coming to an agreement with a recording company but, although his playing is all right, (7) as far as it goes, not enough people really (8) go for his style of music at the moment and who knows if it will ever (9) come into fashion again. Still, perhaps one day a CD of his work will (10) come out.

are enthusiastic about

be published

become fashionable

found by chance

getting a contract

had its first try

it is self-evident

make a success

separate

within its limitations

    

And finally a riddle for you to solve:

Metal or bone I may be,
many teeth I have and always bared,
yet my bite harms no one
and ladies delight in my touch.

What am I?

Have a great weekend and I look forward to writing to you again next Week.

Kind regards

Gennadiy

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