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Vocabulary collocations (3): the news
Good ne\Ns, bad ne\Ns Grammar Present Perfect Simple active
and passive for recent events
QUICK REVIEW Health Write four words/
1 World leaders
phrases connected to health. Work in pairs.
have met to discuss the
Ask your partner to describe your words/ 2
global
phrases: A What's a migraine? B It's a really at the World Trade
bad headache which can make you feel sick. Summit in Hamburg.
Speaking and Vocabulary
At least 3
Collocations (3): the news
people have been arrested and
Work in groups. Discuss these questions. 4 police officers
have been taken to hospital.
1 Where do you get your news from: the
TV, newspapers, the radio or the internet?
Which do you prefer? Why?
2 Do you ever read, watch or listen to the
A new report on the
news in English? If so, where? 5
3 What stories are in the news at the has just been published.
moment? The report shows that the
UK has failed to meet
a Match the verbs in A to the words/ 6
its to
phrases in B. Check in IUilffJ:ll!(mjif> p147. reduce C0 emissions.
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protest a report
take in a demonstration
publish somebody to hospital
meet an offer
We haven't met our targets yet,
discover a target that's true, but we've made good
accept/reject a strike 7 . The amount of
go something new C0 produced by the UK has already
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been reduced by 8
call off on strike
in the last three years.
b Work in pairs. Test each other on the
phrases in 2a. ancient 1~~~~!!iii~~§~i~~i
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a strike j call off a strike J
gold and silver objects have
been discovered by a retired
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Listening
a Work in pairs. Look at photos A-D
of today's main news stories. What
do you think the stories are about?
b &40 Listen to today's news.
Some of the items still haven't
Put photos A-D in the same order
been examined, but this is already
as the news stories.
the most important archaeological
c Listen again and fill in the gaps discovery this 11
in the speech bubbles. But why haven't we heard anything
from the 12 yet?
