Lesson 7

7 Março 2016, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Breaking news" - speaking (p. 45)

- Key language: Headline English (p. 46)

- "Hot off the press" - reading (p. 47)

- Grammar: Verb patterns (p. 48, 53)

- Homework: Headline English - exercises (extra worksheets) + read "Phone hacking: 10 years of resignations, cover-ups..." (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/11/phone-hacking-10-years-resignations-cover-ups-convictions)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

• a bias/without bias

• a scoop

• an anchor

• a sound bite

• broadsheets/tabloids

• chequebook journalism

• circulation figures/viewing figures

• libel laws

• ratings war

• to curb

• to crack down on sth

• to axe

• vote rigging

• nature or nurture

• succinct (e.g. sentences)

• deplorable (e.g. conditions)

• the last redoubt of sth

• superfluous (e.g. words)

• sloppy (e.g. words)

• uninhibited