26 Mar 2016 Audio and Activities
2016 has been a crazy year
The English English Podcast Episode 9
Glossary (in chronological order)
budget – designation of money for a purpose – e.g. national health budget
resignation – when someone decides to leave a job
remain – to stay and continue in the same way
dissatisfaction – the opposite of satisfaction – unhappiness with something
in my books – the same as ‘in my opinion’
diagnosed – determined the nature of the problem – for instance in illness
hip – the same as ‘cool’
renewable energy – a source of energy that doesn’t run out – e.g. solar
space craft – a space ship or rocket – something that travels through space
ongoing – continuing
Listen and put the words above into the sentences below:
Portugal ran its entire national on …………………….. for four days straight.
A vote against peace is a vote for war …………………
They needed a government for the ……………..
NASA landed a ……………….. on Uranus.
Trying to post [on facebook] something to be ………….. .
It led to the immediate …………… of the government.
I know that the Daily Mail or was it the Daily Express has an …….. project of
categorizing everything as curing and causing cancer.
I guess the common though theme is ……… that the voters had with whatever the
current situation was.
Most people thought, or people predicted that there wouldn’t be a Brexit, that
people would vote to …………., or to stay in Europe.
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What elections and referendums are mentioned?
Why do we use the present perfect when we say the following?
2016 has been a crazy year.
According to Dave, John and Beth what has influenced the feeling that lots of
people have died this year?
In the game: What were the 4 true positive things?
What’s funny about the planet Uranus?
Conversation questions
Were there any other news stories that you think were significant in 2016?
How was your 2016?
Can you think of any more positive stories from 2016?