Thursday, 10 March 2016

ANIA C2 Lesson 8



Class
Using Podcasts 




(1) London Has Fallen review by Mark Kermode from the Wittertainment Podcast  BBC Radio 5 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj
Key Vocabulary
rant
meat headed
shriek inducingly cheap
pretty dull
utterly rubbish from beginning to end
utter tripe 

* Shut Up Buttwad is their joke name for the actor Gerard Butler

* effing and jeffing is a variation of the term effing and blinding which means swearing. 

(2) Listening, Note Taking and Report Writing
Swedish Refugees and the problems with statistics - from the programme More Or Less http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gzh7x

Vocabulary for statistics
variable (check stress)
a huge spike in (numbers)
an even spread
a knock on effect

Homework
Complete the exercises on the handout:
1. Sentence halves
2. Sentence transformations
3. Multiple choice cloze

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