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GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • Jill Tyler, who has taken a 6-month sabbatical from Mayflower College to travel around the world with her husband and two young children, Leala and Ben. The family will travel to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cook Islands, Australia, New Zealand and USA. If you want to wish her well you can contact her on jillvtyler@yahoo.co.uk Jill will return to work at Mayflower College in May 2004.
  • The Deutschmark, with the news that although the euro was introduced two years ago, Germans are still holding onto about 25 billion Deutschmark coins as souvenirs.
  • Japanese police, who have arrested a 45-year-old man for the theft of 440 women's left shoes found in his home. The man said: "I have long been interested in women's feet".
  • Kirk Jones, who has become the first person to survive a fall over Niagara Falls without any safety device. "It was a really silly thing to do," admitted Jones, who said his trip over the 52.4-metre-high falls took around eight seconds. Jones is still undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
  • Mothers, after new research shows that motherhood not only makes females more intelligent, but it also makes them calmer under pressure and more courageous.
  • German police, who have arrested an escaped convict after discovering him posing as a traffic policeman in a stolen car. Apparently the man had earned 130 euros carrying out routine traffic controls.
  • Justice, after an Australian judge threw out a lawsuit by a man who claimed he suffered a permanent wrist injury when struggling to open a beer bottle.
  • Norwegian mobile phone companies, after Oslo police sent out some 15,000 SMS text messages to young adults' mobile phones at the weekend in a campaign against violence.
  • A 13-year-old Tibetan schoolboy, who has miraculously memorised large parts of the world's longest poem after having had a mysterious dream. Sitar Doje can now recite "The Life of King Gesar" for up to six hours.
  • 16 women from Minnesota, USA who have placed a US$4 bet and won US$95.5 million! The women are all cooks, kitchen assistants and janitors in a local school.
  • Musicians, after new research shows that professional musicians have more grey matter in three key areas of the brain than people who do not play instruments.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • An Australian man, who saw himself as an amateur stuntman. The man was on the roof of a toilet block when he doused himself with petrol, set himself alight, climbed onto a BMX bike and launched himself off the block. The man is now undergoing surgery.
  • Organisers of a sex exhibition in Beijing, China; the organisers were forced to close the exhibition after too many people turned up causing near-chaotic scenes.
  • Bulgarian police, after plans were announced to sack policemen caught driving drunk. The changes follow the recent deaths of 4 people in road accidents caused by drunk police officers.
  • Chopstick users, after new research concludes that using chopsticks may cause arthritis in the hand.
  • EgyptAir, after one of its pilots refused to take off because he said one of the plane's passengers was too fat. The pilot feared the flight to Dubai would trigger medical problems in the female passenger.

So, that is the news for this week. Here are the answers to last week's homework:

Part One:

US English

British English

Elevator

Lift

Panty-hose

Tights

Closet

Wardrobe

Faucet

Tap

Vacation

Holiday

Apartment

Flat

Freeway

Motorway

Yard

Garden

Trunk (of car)

Boot

Diaper

Nappy

Part Two:

  1. Can I have the bill please?

    2. A British person wants to pay in a restaurant and is asking the waiter for the piece of paper which totals what they have spent. A US person is asking someone to give back a piece of paper that belongs to them.
  2. Would you like to wash up?

    3. The British English speaker is asking about washing dishes; the US speaker is asking about washing hands.
  3. We live on the fourth floor.

    4. The US speaker lives one floor below the British speaker. The British count as follows: ground floor, first floor, etc.; the Americans count first floor, second floor, etc

  4. He’s wearing a very old vest

    5. The British English Speaker is referring to a piece of underwear; the US speaker is referring to a sleeveless item of clothing worn over a shirt and perhaps with a formal suit.
  5. Did you use the subway to get here?

The US speaker is referring to an underground train; the British speaker is talking about an underground passage for pedestrians (under a busy road, for instance)

Part Three:

  1. Biscuit cookie
  2. car park parking lot
  3. labour labor
  4. pavement sidewalk
  5. petrol gasoline
  6. modernise modernize
  7. rubbish garbage/trash
  8. theatre theater
  9. toilet bathroom
  10. torch flashlight

And the riddles?

Riddle 1:

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

The three errors are:

* Their should be spelled There.
* Errers should be spelled errors
* There are only two errors, not three.

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.

The answer is Heroine (HE, HER, HERO, HEROINE)

This week’s homework is about other different forms of English:

Part One:

What variety of English are the following statements characteristics of: Australian, Black, Indian or Scots? And what do the underlined words mean?

Example: She’s a bonny girl. Scots, pretty

  1. The Prime Minister is to be felicitated on her successful handling of the crisis.
  2. Let’s jam, chicks!
  3. Would you like a wee dram?
  4. What are the olds doing this arvo?

Part Two:

What do these typically Australian abbreviated forms mean?

Example: Aussie Australian

  1. barbie
  2. beaut
  3. biggie
  4. journo
  5. milko
  6. mozzie
  7. oz
  8. smoko
  9. truckie
  10. uni

Part Three:

Divide these Scottish words into three groups – nouns that name features of the landscape, nouns for people and adjectives.

Bairn Ben Bonny Brae Dreich Glen
Kirk Janitor Lassie Loch Wee  

 

Landscape

People

Adjective

Part Four:

Match the sentence with the response

  1. Did the police nab him?
a. Aye, she’s a bonny wee lass
  • Did they marry in the kirk?
 b. He’s got dreadlocks
  • Did you have a good barbie?
 c. A bit of bizzo
  • Do you ken Shenagh?
 d. A truckie
  • Do you mind the burn?
 e. It was beaut
  • How’re you feeling?
 f. No, he absconded
  • What does he want to be?
 g. A bit of an Eve-teaser
  • What’s he doing in Oz?
 h. Dead beat
  • What’s he like?
 i. The one that ran through Andy’s garden
  • What’s he look like?
j. No, in a registry office

And finally another riddle for you to solve:

A car travels at a speed of 100 Kilometres Per Hour over a certain distance, and then returns over the same distance at a speed of 50 Kilometres Per Hour. What is the average speed for the total trip?

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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