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Yoda named the world's ugliest dog

A 14-year old Chinese-crested Chihuahau called Yoda has been named the World's Ugliest Dog title by judges in
California.
Yoda's owner Terry Schumacher fled when she first encountered the little dog abandoned behind an apartment
building in America, convinced it was a rat.
But on closer inspection, she realised the diminutive ball of hair and limbs was actually a dog, reports the Daily
Telegraph.
Miss Schumacher took her home and named her new pet after the pint-sized crumpled-faced Jedi master from
the Star Warsfilms, to whom the dog bears a striking canine resemblance.
And she hugged and kissed Yoda after she won the title as a first-time entrant in the 23-year-old show at the
Sonoma-Marin Fair.
A variety of other near-hairless, toothy and injured dogs were also put through their steps by their loving owners.
Other competitors included last year's winner, a one-eyed Chihuahua named Princess Abby, a blind 15-year-old
pug called Hercules and a crowd favourite, Handsome Hector, whose owner has created a Facebook page and
blog for the bald one-eyed mongrel's fans.
"Handsome Hector, aka Hecki, is, in his own opinion, devastatingly handsome," reads one proud entry.

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Collection of knickers all in the name of art

An art student is collecting old underwear for her graduation exhibition in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.
Yi Ci, a senior student of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, posted a notice in the dormitory buildings in her bid to
collect old underwear a couple of weeks ago.
The notice explained: "Yi Ci, majoring in motion pictures studies, is collecting any old underwear for her
graduation work exhibition. Hope you can donate your old underwear in the box in the public bathroom. Your kind
actions will make a great art work. Please join me!"
Yi Ci's work is titled 'Privacy' and donations so far have totalled over several hundred pairs of underwear.

Girl's kiss saves life of stranger

A teenager became famous overnight in China when she saved a suicidal stranger - by kissing him on the lips.
Liu Wenxiu, 19, was shopping with a friend at a mall in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, when she saw a crowd
of people watching a man hanging on to the barrier of the highest floor.
"The young man was on the outside of the barrier and was holding a knife to his chest but nobody seemed to be
trying to talk him round," she said.
"I wanted to help him but the police wouldn't let me through so I lied and told them he was my boyfriend and that
he wanted to kill himself because of me.
"They let me talk to him and he told me he was sad because he was from a broken family. I'm also from a broken
family too and understood him perfectly."
Liu then surprised everyone - especially the young man - by stepping forward, putting her arms around him and
giving him a kiss.
A fireman took advantage of the distraction and dashed forward to grab hold of the man and pull him to safety.
"His story touched me, and I felt like I really was his girlfriend and I could help him," said Liu afterwards.

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Theme park boss duped by Lego car

The boss of a Legoland theme park was stunned when staff swapped his car for one made of Lego.
Peter Ronchetti went to drive home in his real Volvo XC60 to find it had been replaced with a life-sized copy
made from 201,076 of the toy bricks.
The prank was thought up by colleague Tim Petsche, who snuck away Ronchetti's keys and called in a forklift to
move in the three-tonne model car.
Mr Ronchetti took the joke in his stride, playing around with the car and pretending to unlock it.


He said: "We have a very fun, creative team here at Legoland California and it really was the perfect prank. I can

tell you that I won't leave my keys laying around ever again."
Beth Chee, spokeswoman for the park in Carlsbad, California, watched and photographed the prank, saying that
Ronchetti thought it was "very funny".

1.

Ask students to write on a piece of paper four (exciting/interesting) things that they did on the
weekend. (two reasons: 1) make them think about what they did, 2) have something at the end of the
game to check against).
2.
Put students into a circle, then in pairs within the circle. See diagram below.(A-B, C-D, E-F, GH).

3. Students put away their piece of paper and tell their partner what they did on the weekend.
Tell them that they only have a five minute time limit, and each person MUST tell all four
things that they did, Time them and remind them when there are only three minutes left.
3.
Stop. Students now turn to their other partner (B-C, D-E, F-(G, H-)A) and tell their new partner
what their old partner did on the weekend. (You will need to stress to the students NOT to talk about
their own weekend, but about their partners’. So for example. Student B tells Student C about Student
A’s weekend, Student C tells B about D’s weekend. The same time limit applies.
3.
Stop. Students now turn to their original partner and tell them what their partners’ partner did
on the weekend. Example, Student B now tells Student A about Student D’s weekend, A tells about
E’s (or in an 8 member group about G’s).
3.
Stop. Ask the pairs to exchange places with each other.