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Weekly news from UK
 Good morning!!

As usual, I have spent some time looking through the British media this week to send you some news stories which you will hopefully finding amusing!

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Shoppers in Portugal, after a clothing store in Lisbon announced that it is planning to give away clothes to any customer who is willing to go shopping at the store naked. "Those who come naked, will leave clothed," said the manager of the shop.
  • Boontawee Siengwong, from Thailand, who has started his world record attempt to live for 28 days with 1,000 centipedes. Last year Siengwong’s girlfriend lived for 32 days with thousands of deadly scorpions.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • A German man, who has been charged with violating Germany's anti-Nazi laws . The man has taught his dog (called Adolf) to give a Hitler salute by raising his right paw.
  • Russians, after the Orthodox church in the Urals region has declared that violating traffic rules is now a sin. "Now I am safe on the street. I repeat to myself that God is with me and Virgin Mary is with me and all the saints of Russia," said one woman in her 60s.
  • New York, with the news that in Manhattan the average apartment price has reached UIS$916,959. The average cost of two-bedroom apartments -- the most popular on the market – is now US$1.07 million!
  • A British ambulance driver, who earlier in the year was charged with speeding as he raced to deliver a transplant organ. Mike Ferguson was driving a car with blue flashing lights when he was arrested by Police for travelling at 167 k m/ hour. Ferguson has now produced a petition with 20,000 signatures calling for a review of the legislation under which he was prosecuted.
  • British teeth, after new research by Aquafresh shows that more than 50% of Britons could have breath that smells worse than their pets. "Some mouths may be dirtier than cat litter," dentist Brian Grieveson said. He added: "Most people in the UK do not realise that cleaning your tongue is as important as cleaning your teeth
  • Tanzania, which has banned imports of second-hand underwear, fearing the used garments might spread skin diseases. Underpants, bras, stockings and underskirts are all covered by the new rule. Imports of second-hand clothes from rich nations form a significant part of the economy in Tanzania where many people cannot afford new clothes.
  • Two Serbian men, whose private plane was apparently shot down by mistake when it flew over a Serbian wedding party where guests were firing guns into the air.
  • A Russian man, who added a litre of petrol to his washing machine to help dissolve a stain on his trousers. The resulting explosion wrecked his kitchen and demolished two internal walls.
  • Passengers on a Qatar Airways flight, after a one-metre-long snake escaped into the overhead luggage bins.
  • Czech prostitutes, after nearly 5,000 Czech police raided more than 400 brothels.

Trivia - interesting facts about food

  1. The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.
  2. Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.
  3. Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.
  4. The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.

So, that is the news for another week. How did you get on with last week’s homework:

PART A:

formal

neutral

informal
beverage
abode
farewell		 potato
pound
house
bicycle		 booze
bike
spud
quid

PART B:

  1. telephone - phone
  2. laboratory - lab
  3. veterinary surgeon - vet
  4. television – TV or more informally telly
  5. advertisement – ad or advert
  6. the London underground – the Tube
  7. mother – mum, mummy
  8. newspaper - paper
  9. goodbye - bye
  10. children - kids

PART C:

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

And the riddle?

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?

A jacket will cost $6 - the shop charges $1 for every letter in the item's name.

This week’s homework is about slang words.

Part One: Put the slang expressions in the correct category.

ace bread brill class cool dough jerk prat readies wally wicked

 

STUPID PERSON MONEY GREAT

Part Two: Identify the Cockney rhyming slang expressions in the sentences below and translate them into ordinary English. Three of the sentences each contain two expressions.

Example: Feel like going to the rub-a-dub-dub? rub-a-dub-dub = pub

  1. The trouble and strife’s at home looking after the Gawd forbids.
  2. You’ve left your titfer on the Cain and Able in the bedroom.
  3. Let’s have a butcher’s at the lean and lurch while we’re in the village?
  4. My Hampstead Heath are playing me up something awful.
  5. Jill fell down the apples and pears but she didn’t even scratch herself.

Part Three: Match the underlined expressions in this dialogue between two truck-drivers using CB radio to talk to each other to their translations in the box. Then explain why you think each underlined expression came to have this meaning.

Example: grandma lane = slow lane (grandma = grandmother; the implication is that old ladies move slowly)

beer children fuel headlights slow lane stolen tyres yes

<<Greeting>>: I’m stuck in the grandma lane. People keep flashing their eyeballs at me but I’m not letting them past. They can wait till I stop for some motion lotion

Fred: What are you carrying today?
Ivan A load of doughnuts

Fred: Five finger discount ones?
Ivan: No way. Can’t risk anything now I’ve got two ankle-biters.

Fred: Fancy a super cola this evening.
Ivan: Affirmative

And finally another riddle for you to solve:

Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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


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