News Exercsise #35
Questions: 1) What, according to the journalist, is the message of the video ‘Look Up’? 2) Why does she call it ironic? 3) What have people said in opinion against the video? 2:16-2:27 (it contains the word ‘goff’, which is …
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News Exercise #34
Questions: 1) What was the interviewers question about the success of the Curiosity Rover? 2) What does Mars ‘answer’ to the ‘question’ NASA is asking it “Are you alive?” (“It… It… but it …) 3) How, and why, might it …
News Exercise #33
Questions: 1) What prompted her to work on a new battery? 2) What two things can this new capacitor do? 3) At 0:25 she makes a scientific joke (which I didn’t find at all funny!). What was it? 4) What …
News Exercise #32
This week we have a US item from ABC News: Answers: 1) 0:13 Tonight, hidden cameras show what some of the distributors said “behind closed doors”. It means “unofficially” 2) 0:30 How is Herbalife’s business doing, and what is this …
News Exercise #31
This week’s video isn’t news, but an extract from a documentary about emotion in music, focusing on the late singer/songwriter/guitarist John Martyn. Martyn’s accent is very difficult to catch, even for me. Next week I will post the entire script. …
News Exercise #30
First, please watch this news video from BBC, then answer the questions below. 1) The reporter said that no, it wasn’t… what? What does it mean? 2) Explain what we are seeing. The reporter explained at 0:25. 3) What was …
News Exercise #29
First, please watch this news video from BBC, then answer the questions below. These questions relate to the first 4 minutes of the video: 1) In the introduction, find words that mean a)succeeded b)careful c)stressful d)without being noticed. 2) Apart …