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Weekly news from UK
I am very sorry but I do not have any "Good Week", "Bad Week" news stories for you this week, I promise I will do my best to send you more news stories next Friday but for the moment, here are the answers to last week’s homework:

Part One:

STUPID PERSON

MONEY

GREAT

jerk
prat
wally

bread
dough
readies

class
brill
cool
wicked

Part Two:

  1. The trouble and strife’s (wife) at home looking after the Gawd forbids (kids).
  2. You’ve left your titfer (hat) on the Cain and Able (table) in the bedroom.
  3. (‘hat’ rhymes with tit for tat)

  4. Let’s have a butcher’s (look) at the lean and lurch (church) while we’re in the village?
  5. (‘look’ rhymes with butcher’s hook)

  6. My Hampstead Heath (teeth) are playing me up something awful.
  7. (playing up something awful is a colloquial expression meaning ‘hurting badly’)

  8. Jill fell down the apples and pears (stairs) but she didn’t even scratch herself.

Part Three:

Eyeball: headlight (the headlights look like the eyes of a vehicle – and they help the driver to see)

Motion lotion: fuel (motion = movement; lotion = ointment, so it suggests that fuel is a kind of medicine to help vehicles move)

Doughnuts: tyres (the shape of tyres is like the shape of doughnuts, which are a kind of ring –like pasty

Five finger: stolen (discount suggests cheaper price and five finger suggest a hand stealing something)

Ankle-biters: children (children are small and ankle-biters exaggerates this, suggesting that they are on a level with your ankles and are likely to bite them)

Super cola: beer (the expression suggests a particularly good kind of cola or soft drink)

Affirmative: yes (this longer form of yes is probably used as the short word, yes, may get lost or misheard over a crackling radio – it does not have the same humorous overtones as the other examples in the dialogue)

And the answer to the riddle?

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?

It has to be Johnny. He's the third child!

This weeks homework is about American English

Part One:

Solve the grid by writing British English equivalents of the US words that form the clues

US English

British English

Elevator

 

Panty-hose

 

Closet

 

Faucet

 

Vacation

 

Apartment

 

Freeway

 

Yard

 

Trunk (of car)

 

Diaper

 

Part Two:

Explain what (a) a British person and (b) someone from the USA would mean when they say:

  1. Can I have the bill please?
  2. Would you like to wash up?
  3. We live on the fourth floor.
  4. He’s wearing a very old vest
  5. Did you use the subway to get here?

Part Three:

What would someone from the US write instead of these words?

Example: film movie

  1. biscuit
  2. car park
  3. labour
  4. pavement
  5. petrol
  6. modernise
  7. rubbish
  8. theatre
  9. toilet
  10. torch

And finally I have two riddles for you this week:

Riddle 1:

Their are three errers in this paragraph.
Study it hard so you can find them.


Riddle 2:

There is a word in the English language, in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word a great woman.

What is the word?

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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