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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • A British man, Peter Mansfield, who has won the Nobel prize for his work on MRI scanners. Mansfield, aged 78, left school with no qualifications.
  • Time-keeping in South America, with the launch of a campaign in Ecuador to end lateness. A spokesman said that lateness costs Ecuador 3.4 percent of its gross national product. It seems that the worst offenders are students, 22 percent of whom are late; businessmen are late 11.6 percent of the time.
  • German husbands, with the news that women, fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips, can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment. The men are given a name badge on arrival and for 10 euros they get two beers, a hot meal, televised football and games.
  • MEP’s (Members of the European Parliament), who have voted to give themselves an allowance of euros 50 a week for late night taxis. MEP’s are already entitled to a free limousine service (until 10pm), business-class flights, and a daily allowance of euros 257 to cover food, accommodation and local transport.
  • Winnie the Pooh, who generated Ј3.5bn for Disney last year, making him the world’s highest-earning character.
  • A 41-year-old British man, who has completed an underwater marathon by walking 26 miles on the bed of Loch Ness in Scotland. The journey took 12 days and raised money for a cancer charity.
  • Tattoos, after new research shows that 16 percent of adult Americans have at least one tattoo, believing the body art makes them feel sexier, more rebellious and even, in some cases, more intelligent.
  • A Norwegian Elvis Presley impersonator, who has beaten the world record for back-to-back songs by the King by singing his way through more than 40 hours of Elvis music.
  • Cats at a cat show in New York, who are enjoying great luxury. One Golden Persian cat is travelling with a suitcase filled with tweezers, nail clippers, razors, scissors, cotton balls, cotton swabs, several talcum powders, eye cleanser, cat brushes, cat combs and a set of cosmetic brushes.
  • Oysters, with the news that the August heat-wave in France has caused records number of "baby oysters" - 100 billion larvae!
  • A group of French villages, who have formed an alliance; the link is that all the villages have absurd names! They include Mingocebos (which means Eat Onions), Beaufou (Beautiful Mad), Saligos (Filthy Pig), Cocumont (Cuckold Hill), Trecon (Very Stupid) and Montcuq (My Arse). English visitors to France have long been amused by place names such as Pissy, Stains, Stiff, Anus, Condom and Brest.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery, who has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia. Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with victims claiming that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear. The police said many men were now afraid to shake hands, and urged people not to believe reports of "vanishing" genitals.
  • New York Police, who were called in to remove a tiger and an alligator from a man’s apartment.
  • French school-girls, after a number of head teachers in France have banned girls from showing their stomachs or underwear which is visible above their low-cut trousers.

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:

20 percent of Britons have ended a relationship by text message.

ONLY IN AMERICA?

A man killed 3 colleagues before shooting himself at his workplace. Now the mother of the man has asked the company to compensate her for her son's death because it occurred at work

And now here are the answers to last week’s homework about expressions:

Part One:

  1. We thought the car had broken down but it had just run out of fuel.
  2. Look out! Make sure you don’t let go of the rope or Harry’ll fall.
  3. It’s my job to see to the arrangements, so let’s run over the plans again.
  4. When we were seeing Ivan off at the station, we ran into some old friends.
  5. Katie turned down his invitation because she was looking forward to an early night.

Part Two:

  1. Ivan says the boss sometimes can’t see the wood for the trees
  2. Pat is pessimistic but his wife usually looks on the bright side
  3. In January Ivan has promised to turn over a new leaf
  4. I’m worn out. We’ve been run off our feet today.
  5. She says that it broke her heart when her husband died.
  6. Could you possibly see your way to finishing the report today?
  7. He’s very snobbish – he looks down his nose at most people.
  8. Richard let it slip that they were planning to get married.
  9. My grandma used to tell me to try to do someone a good turn every day.
  10. Jill was overjoyed when she broke the record for the 100m.

And the two riddles?

Riddle 1:

What special property do the following letters of the alphabet have?
j, k, m, q, u, x, z

The letters: j, k, m, q, u, x, z to not appear in the sentence "What special property do the following letters of the alphabet have?"

Riddle 2:

There is a certain family with both girl and boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?

The answer: there are four boys and three girls.

This week’s homework is about formal and informal words:

PART A: Place the words into the appropriate column.

booze bike spud beverage abode potato
farewell quid bicycle house pound  

 

formal

neutral

informal
 

 

    

PART B: Give shorter, more informal versions of these words:

  1. telephone
  2. laboratory
  3. veterinary surgeon
  4. television
  5. advertisement
  6. the London underground
  7. mother
  8. newspaper
  9. goodbye
  10. children

PART C: Make the underlined words more formal or less formal, as in the instructions in brackets.

  1. Would you like to come to my house for a meal? (less formal)
  2. If the owner of the estate died without any children, the land became the property of the government. (more formal)
  3. We are not allowed to bring beverages into the classroom. (less formal)
  4. There’s a newsagents. Shall we buy a newspaper? (less formal)
  5. Amanda is very brainy. I’m sure she will do very well at University. (more formal)
  6. Oh yes, Pascal is an old pal of mine. I’ve known him for years. He’s a nice chap. (more formal)
  7. I had a kip in the afternoon, then I worked all evening. (more formal)
  8. Ivan, would you like to go to a public house for a drink one evening? (less formal)
  9. Ivan tried to board the train without a ticket but was stopped by the inspector. (less formal)

And finally, a riddle for you to solve:

You walk into a very unusual clothing shop. The owner charges $3 for a tie, $3 for a hat, $5 for a shirt, $5 for a skirt, $4 for a suit and $8 for trousers. How much would a jacket cost?

Have a great week.

Best wishes

Gennadiy

Внимание! Предлагается литература ведущих издательств Британии и США.
- популярные книги для чтения – Penguin Readers,
- словари,
- грамматика.
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