Objectives
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Politics – left & right
2 Broadsheet & tabloid newspapers – comparison of today’s main stories
3 Compare the styles of broadsheets & tabloids.
4. Listen to people talking about newspapers. Internet vs newspapers.
5. Presentation
news headlines: Dog bites man. Man bites dog.
Happy celebrity goes shopping with his family and buys potatoes.
Celebrity couple at war. She throws him out of the house and swears to take all his money.
words:
hedge
homophobia noun [U]
UK /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ US /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ-/
xenophobia noun [U]
UK /ˌzen.əˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ US /-ˈfoʊ-/
› to move very quickly and easily through the air, especiallydown from a height in order to attack:The eagle swooped down to snatch a young rabbit.› informal to make a sudden attack on a place or group of people in order to surround and catch them:Undercover police swooped on three houses in the city at 5.00 this morning.
inflation noun [U]
UK US /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
B2 a general, continuous increase in prices:high/low inflationthe rate of inflation13 percent inflation
blow verb (SEND OUT AIR)
B1 [I or T] to move and make currents of air, or to be moved or make something move on a current of air:The wind was blowing harder every minute.
blow noun (HIT)
blow noun (BAD EVENT)
C2 [C] an unexpected event that has a damaging effect on someone or something:Losing his job was a severe blow to his confidence.Her death came as a terrible blow to her parents.
raid noun [C]
UK US /reɪd/
C2 a short sudden attack, usually by a small group of people:The commandos made/staged/carried out a daring raid (on the enemy).planes on a bombing raid› the act of entering a place by force in order to steal from it:Millions of dollars were stolen in a bank raid last night.C2 an occasion when the police enter a place suddenly in orderto find someone or something:The drugs were found during a police raid on the house.
probe verb [I or T]
UK /prəʊb/ US /proʊb/
› to try to discover information that other people do not wantyou to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:The interviewer probed deep into her private life.Detectives questioned him for hours, probing for any inconsistencies in his story.The article probes (= tries to describe and explain) the mysteries of nationalism in modern Europe.› to examine something with a tool, especially in order to findsomething that is hidden:They probed in/into the mud with a special drill.
havoc noun [U]
UK US /ˈhæv.ək/
› confusion and lack of order, especially causing damage or trouble:The storm wreaked (= caused) havoc in the garden, uprootingtrees and blowing a fence down.The delay played (= caused) havoc with their travelarrangements.
haul verb [T]
UK /hɔːl/ US /hɑːl/
C2 to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty:They hauled the boat out of the water.She hauled herself up into the tree.› to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force:FBI agents hauled away boxes of records.The police hauled him off to jail in front of his whole family.
dump verb [T] (PUT DOWN)
dump verb [T] (GET RID OF)
C1 to get rid of something unwanted, especially by leaving it in a place where it is not allowed to be:The tax was so unpopular that the government decided to dump it.Several old cars had been dumped near the beach.
measly adjective
UK US /ˈmiːz.li/ informal
break even
C1 to have no profit or loss at the end of a business activity:After paying for our travel costs, we barely (= only just) brokeeven.
bid verb (OFFER)
C2 [I or T] (present participle bidding, past tense bid, past participlebid) to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property:She knew she couldn’t afford it, so she didn’t bid.
