Arts & Entertainment - Performance - Listings
(see handout adapted from Language Leader Advanced Unit 10.1)
Vocabulary - Performance Reviews
corker, awe-inspiring, star-studded, out of the way, to be of its time, who'd've thought, not up to much, to live up to the hype, can't go wrong, top marks all round, up there with the best, to hold up, (well) worth + noun or -ing (e.g. well worth seeing, well worth doing, well worth the price of a ticket.
Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn
Style, analysing language.
metaphor, simile, alliteration, oxymoron
Going Further
(1) To see where Charlie Brooker got the title Screen Burn from, go to: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/jul/20/tvandradio.television
(2) For more on Charlie Brooker, check out his page on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111765/
(3) Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe on the 2015 U.K. Elections.
(As you may have guessed, the programme contains coarse language).
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