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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

Internet users in Britain, who may soon be able to add smells to their emails. A company has developed a "scent dome" which would plug into customers' computers much like a printer. The device will be able to give off 60 different smells including baking bread, coffee and perfumes.

More than 5,000 Filipino couples, who kissed simultaneously for 10 seconds to welcome Valentine's Day and set a new world record.

BAD WEEK FOR:

A drunk Finnish driver, who was arrested after colliding with no fewer than 10 cars in eight minutes before driving head-on into a wall.

A bull, which was ready to be slaughtered but escaped and caused a two-hour traffic jam on a busy German motorway. Police eventually shot the bull dead.

Diners in Cambodia, with the news that rat meat has never been so popular because of fears of eating chicken contaminated with "Bird Flu". "I've got a constant stream of customers," Van Vath, a rat butcher said. She has been selling more than 200 kg of rodent meat every morning -- twice her normal turnover. Rat -- fried, grilled or roasted with garlic and vegetables -- is a highly prized delicacy, fetching around 40 cents a kilogram. Spiders, water beetles, crickets, snakes, frogs and ants are also popular.

Motorists on a German highway, after a lorry carrying raspberry syrup to a jam factory sprang a leak, losing more than a tonne of syrup.

An elderly Irishwoman, after reports that she shared a room with her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with it in the same bed. Mary Ellen Lyons never told anyone that her sister Agnes had died, the reports said. Even their brother Michael, who lived in the same house in rural western Ireland, did not know.

A senior police officer lost part of his ear when it was bitten off by a monkey near the Indian city of Calcutta.

A Taiwanese man, who was knocked unconscious by two bags containing 20 million Taiwan dollars (US$604,230). The bags contained ransom money and were tossed down from a highway bridge to waiting kidnappers. Lu Fang-nan, 57, was riding a motorcycle home when relatives of a kidnapped businessman threw the bags of cash off a highway overpass in a Taipei suburb.

QUOTATIONS OF THE WEEK:

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." – Oscar Wilde

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:

The average cost of getting married in Britain is now GBP 15,764 (US$29,700). Of that total, GBP2,828 goes on the honeymoon, GBP 921 on the bride’s dress and GBP1,095 on the engagement ring.

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

Part One:

  1. A friend. Next week is 25 December.

    2. Happy Christmas.
  2. A friend who is 21 tomorrow.

    3. Happy (21st) Birthday (or Many happy returns)
  3. A friend. It will be 1 January in three days’ time.

    4. Happy New Year

  4. A very good friend who has just passed some important exams. Congratulations (on passing you exams)/Well done.
  5. A friend who is going to take his driving test in three days’ time.

    6. Good luck (in your driving test)
  6. A friend you will visit when you return from your holiday, but you are not sure when.

    7. See you soon.

Part Two:

  1. You are in a meeting. Someone enters the room and says you have an important telephone call. What do you say as you leave?

    2. Excuse me, I won’t be long.
  2. Someone says something to you but you didn’t hear at all of it. What do you say as you leave?

    3. Sorry? (with rising intonation)
  3. You have met a new business client for the first time 15 minutes ago, and now you are leaving. What do you say?

    4. Goodbye. Nice to have met you.

  4. You are in a crowded bus. It is your stop and you want to get off. What do you say to other passengers as you move past them?

    5. Excuse me.
  5. You are staying with some English friends. What do you say to them when you leave the room in the evening to go to bed?

    6. Goodnight.
  6. You are in the street. A woman walks past you and at the same time something falls out of her bag. She has her back to you. What do you say? Excuse me. (You would probably add something like ‘I think you’ve dropped something.)
  7. A friend tells you they have just won some money.

    8. Congratulations
  8. Another friend is going for a job interview this afternoon.
    Good luck.

This week’s homework is about Phrasal Verbs.

PART A: Complete the phrasal verbs. Remember to put the verb into the correct form.

  1. I don’t think they ever ……………… out how the man escaped.
  2. The children went round the school and ……………… up all the rubbish
  3. This milk smells horrible; I think it has …………………. off.
  4. I rang the tourist information office but I couldn’t ……………………….through. Its engaged all the time.
  5. The relation was difficult at first, but I think she ……………………… on with him quite well.
  6. If she’s still ill tomorrow, we’ll have to ……………………….off the trip to France until later in the month.
  7. I agreed to ……………………….. after my sister’s cat when she goes to France.
  8. We can …………………….. on with this exercise while the others are in the library.
  9. Our English teacher said we should ……………………….. through the textbook by the end of the course.
  10. I’m afraid this photocopier has ……………………… out of paper, but you can use the one in my office.

PART B: Complete these sentences in a logical way.

  1. It will take a long time to get over her illness ……………………………………
  2. The plane took off …………………………………………………………….
  3. He had to look it up ……………………..……………………………………..….
  4. I don’t really get on with her …………………………………………………….
  5. She came in and took off ………………………………………………………...
  6. I’ve decided to give up ……………………………………………………..……
  7. Who is going to look after ………………………………………..……………..?
  8. I went to the garage to pick up ……………………….……………………….…
  9. I’m afraid we’ve run out of ………………………………………………………
  10. My rent is going up …………………..………………………………………….

PART C: Write two sentences for each of these phrasal verbs to show their different meanings.

  1. Pick up
  2. Take off
  3. Go off
  4. Get through

And now, I have 3 riddles for you to solve (yes, 3!):

Riddle 1: What is very unusual about the following words?

BOUGH
COUGH
DOUGH
ROUGH
THROUGH

Riddle 2:

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!

Riddle 3:

Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?

And finally I have a task for you to do:

While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it!!

Best wishes

Gennadiy

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