3. Newspaper Vocabulary Font: style and size of type Headline: extra large font across top of front page, placed above or below the masthead Wire service: a news agency or organization that gathers news and transmits it to individual subscribing newspaper (AP, CP, Reuters) tabloid: a smaller...
1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google's search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story. Share what you dis...
Homework 1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION:Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET:Search the Internet and find out more about this news. Share what you dis...
1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F). a. John Lennon’s killer confessed to a former Beatle why he killed John. T / F b. The killer has told other people his reasons for killing Lennon before. T / F c. Chapman (the killer...
1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION:Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET:Search the Internet and find more information about YouTube. Talk about what you di...
If you don’t know a word, highlight it or write it down. If the meaning doesn’t become clear later in the paragraph, go back andlook it up in a dictionary. Reading news is a great way to learn English because the articles tend to be short and the vocabulary tends to stay the ...
Okay, I sort of hate the word "smut." Just typing it makes me feel like I've got my hair in a tight bun and am delivering a shrill lecture while tossing your copies ofD.H. Lawrenceor "Flowers For Algernon" on the fire. (Baaalllllllllzac.) I'm a liberal child of (mostly) lib...
They both boast a pop-up dictionary, narration of articles, vocabulary learning and more. Buzzfeed For a lighter news source, complete with lots of lifestyle and entertainment news, as well as the comedic listicles we know and love, check out the Japanese Buzzfeed website. ...
The original Hotline Miami was brutish, nasty, short. Its basic vocabulary was elegant enough to support a score-attack videogame but loose enough, creative enough to make you feel like that wasn't entirely the point. It was a marriage of Robotron and Lynch, Pollock with a machete going th...
about submarines and WWII increased my vocabulary. Then my dad would tell me that life wasn’t fair and blah, blah, blah and go to my room for a while and think about what I had done/said etc. I would usually write an apology because even as a kid I expressed myself better in ...