Plastics!
Listening Skills - note taking
Reading Skills - opinion/attitude/register
Vocabulary Skills - informal phrases
Language Skills - cohesion: substitution and ellipsis
Vocabulary
On a wing and a prayer = with only the slightest hope of succeeding
Net -based = of, relating to, or using the internet
Blight = a person or thing that mars or prevents growth, improvement, or prosperity
Cruel chance
Allow me to explain
Disparaging (words, remark etc) - speech that's intended to belittle or reproach
Teeming with
Untold numbers of
Rant (verb and noun)
To spout
To wheel out
To bother to do something (cf. To bother someone)
To be bothered
Cardboard
Going Further
Reading
Can the web save the press from oblivion?
Expressions and Idioms
(Caught) between a rock and a hard place
(Caught) between the devil and the deep blue sea
To be at the end of your rope/tether. = to have no more patience or strength
To pluck up the courage to do something
Ostrich = someone who "buries their head in the sand"/avoids uncomfortable truths
Lemming = someone who blindly follows the crowd to their detriment
Listening/Viewing
Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup Project
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