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Weekly news from UK

GOOD WEEK FOR:

  • David Beckham, with the news that over a third of Britons want the English football captain’s picture put on our money. The results of the survey questioning people about who should appear on British bank notes were:
    David Beckham – 37%
    Winston Churchill - 29%
    Princess Diana – 21%
    William Shakespeare – 13%
    Robbie Williams – 8%
  • Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian stuntman, who has become the first person to skydive across the English Channel, free falling at 200 km per hour in the process. Baumgartner jumped out of a plane at 9,000 metres above Dover wearing a specially constructed carbon wing and flew towards France before parachuting into hills above the port of Calais.
    Baumgartner, 34, set world records for the highest and lowest parachute dives in 1999 with daredevil jumps from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Froghoppers, tiny insects found in gardens and grasslands around the world, which have overtaken fleas to become nature's new high-jump champions. The 6 millimetre insects (also known as spittle bugs) can jump to 700 millimetres, exerting a force 400 times their body weight and far surpassing fleas who exert 135 times and humans, who use a force 2 or 3 times their weight.
  • Wambui Otieno, a 67-year-old Kenyan woman who has married a 28-year old man. The marriage of a man to a woman more than twice his age is unheard of in Kenya where nubile, teenage girls are frequently betrothed to much older men.

BAD WEEK FOR:

  • British workers, with the news that nearly five million workers (18% of the workforce) do not take their holiday entitlement because they either feel they cannot spare the time or because they enjoy their jobs so much.
  • British tourists, who often have a reputation for complaining. British travel operators have revealed the following unusual complaints: "No one told us there’d be fish in the sea. The children were startled". Another family complained that there were too many Spaniards in Spain, another that there wasn’t any air-conditioning outside and a third that "It took us 9 hours to fly from England to Jamaica. It only took the Americans 3 hours".
  • Female koalas, which are being given contraception in the Australian state of Victoria because the population is expanding so much that the forest is declining as the animals just keep eating and breeding.
  • A drunk German driver, who lost his license when he told police he had drunk "no more than 20 beers". During a routine traffic check in the western city of Essen, police asked if the 25-year-old man had drunk anything. He answered: "Twenty beers at most if you want me to be perfectly honest, officer. But that's it, really."
  • A 3-year-old German boy, who has crashed his father's car twice in four days. Using a ladder, the boy stole the keys to his father's Honda Accord, started the car and drove it into a nearby Toyota, causing some 5,000 euros of damage.
  • Footballer David Beckham; he may be settling into his new career with Real Madrid but it seems he has not mastered the Spanish language yet. The former Manchester United star claimed he was making good progress in his Spanish-language studies, but when journalists asked what exactly he had learnt Beckham replied: "I've learned a few words. Hola, gracias, muchas gracias ... a few other words but I can't think of them now."
  • Maja Westerman, an Estonian refugee who put a "message in a bottle" in 1943, asking for help and asking if the war had finished. The bottle was washed up on a beach in Sweden this week!

WEEKLY TRIVIA: - interesting facts about animals

  • Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
  • Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
  • In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.
  • In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee only produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

QUOTATION OF THE WEEK:
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it". Bob Hope

STATISTICS OF THE WEEK:
South Koreans throw away more food than North Koreans eat.

Enough of the news …… how did you get on with last week's homework?

Part A:

Paul: What was the lecture like?
Ivan: Oh, awful! It was really long-winded. It lasted three hours.

Paul: I was amazed at how direct she was; she didn’t care who she offended.
Ivan: Well, yes, she always speaks her mind and doesn’t care who hears it.

Paul: Did you agree with what he said?
Ivan: No, I thought he was talking complete rubbish.

Paul: Did you agree with what she said?
Ivan: Yes, I thought she talked a lot of sense.

Paul: Oh dear, the introduction’s been going on for a quarter of an hour already!
Ivan: Yes, I wish he would get to the point. And tell us why we’re here.

Paul: So, how did the meeting start?
Ivan: Well, Karen started the ball rolling by reading out a long list of items to be discussed.

Paul: Can you tell me briefly what went on at the meeting?
Ivan: Well, to put it in a nutshell, not much. But if you want all the details, I’ll tell you.

Paul: He said that someone with my experience would have difficulty understanding the concept.
Ivan: Don’t worry. John tends to talk down to people.

Paul: I really think we should have a bigger budget for computer equipment. Everyone in the finance department needs their own printer.
Ivan: Can we talk about something else? I hate talking shop.

Paul: Did you get a chance to chat to anyone before the meeting?
Ivan: Well, we had a few minutes of small talk before we got down to business.

Part B:

  1. 1000=METRES IN A KILOMETRE
  2. 26 = LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET
  3. 7 = WONDERS OF THE WORLD
  4. 1001 = ARABIAN NIGHTS
  5. 12 = SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
  6. 54 = CARDS IN A DECK
  7. 9 = PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  8. 88 = PIANO KEYS
  9. 32 = DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AT WHICH WATER FREEZES
  10. 18 = HOLES ON A GOLF COURSE
  11. 8 = PINTS IN A GALLON
  12. 24 = HOURS IN A DAY
  13. 1 = WHEEL ON A UNICYCLE
  14. 360 = DEGREES IN A CIRCLE
  15. 1760 = YARDS IN A MILE

Riddle:

The father's age is three years more than three times the son's age. After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age. What is the father's present age?

The answer….

Let son's present age is X years.
Hence, father's present age is (3X + 3) years.
After 3 years, son's age will be (X + 3) years and father's age will be (3X + 6) years.
But given that after 3 years father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
(3X + 6) = 2 * (X + 3) + 10
3X + 6 = 2X + 16
X = 10
Therefore, father's present age is 33 years

This week’s homework is about IDIOMS

Part 1: Each of these idioms is based on the name of a part of the human body. Fill the gap with a word from the box. The words in brackets will help you with the meaning.

HEAD

CHEST

HAND

NOSE

FINGER
  1. You’ve got to …………………….. to him; he’s a first-class tennis-player. (acknowledge/admit)
  2. Ivan is involved in millions of things. Ivan has got a………………….. in every pie.

    3. (is involved in many different things)

  3. Ivan had to pay through the……………………for the ticket for that concert.

    4. (pay a huge amount)

  4. I’ve made quite a bit of ………..way with my English this year

    5. (progress)

  5. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you with what I’ve just told you, but I just had to get it off my………….
    (confess something or tell something that has been worrying you)

Part 2: The idioms on the left are connected with paying and buying and selling. Match them with the explanations on the right.

buy a pig in a poke pay up, usually a large amount
pay over the odds charge too much; very informal
foot the bill buy something defective without realising it at first
rip someone off be unwilling to negotiate over the price of something
drive a hard bargain pay more than the usual price/rate

Part 3: Fill the gaps with a word from the box.

BOX

FEET

CRASH

NAP

FRESHEN
  1. I’m just going to have a ……………… Wake me at five o’clock, will you?
  2. I’m very tired. I think I’ll just put my ………………..up tonight and watch the…………………..
  3. The bathroom’s on the left if you want to……………………..up.
  4. I’m exhausted! I just want to …………………..out.

Part 4: Choose the correct explanation of the idioms in bold

1) Ivan has a sharp tongue. a) Ivan speaks very fast.
  b) Ivan can be very aggressive
2) The rebel soldiers finally came to heel. a) won the battle
  b) agreed to obey the authorities
3) Ivan should be made to toe the line. a) behave correctly
  b) walk properly
4) I have that song on the brain. a) I can’t stop singing it.
  b) I’ve learnt it.
5) I hope you’ll back me at the meeting. a) speak after I do
  b) support me.

And your riddle this week is:

Fill in the blanks using the same three letters at the end as at the beginning in the same order to find a place where water flows free:

_ _ _ ERGRO _ _ _

Have a lovely week and I will do my best to write to you again next Friday.



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