What The Papers Say BBC Radio 4 8/11/2015
Listening skills - gist listening, note-taking, summarising
Vocabulary
To foil
To hamper
Lo and behold Originally from the Middle English word loke, the expression literally means look and see and is an exclamation used to show surprise. Often it is used ironically to suggest that even though surprising, the event could have been predicted.
The mind boggles
Put/place your cards on the table
To cook the news, To cook the books (to manipulate or falsify)
Makes me nostalgic for the day (when)
To twig (to guess/realise suddenly) This has nothing to do with twigs on trees but comes from an old Irish word tuigim meaning to comprehend.
To bring over (convince)
To be upfront
Dawn raids
Sketch comedy
Journalistic cliches
Striking a balance
Shocking revelations
A Whitehall/government source/a source at number 10
The (name of newspaper) has learnt
Metaphors
To slither down the slope of... with the handbrake on
To water the barren landscape (of)
Corrections
Make people fear
Weigh /wei/ verb - How much do you weigh?
Weight /weit/ noun - What is your weight?
Going Further
To download podcasts of What The Papers Say from previous weeks, go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sgy8c/episodes/downloads
The next episode (summarising and satirising this week's news) will be available on 15/11 at 22:45 (GMT)
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