Function (p.86)

MEDIA

 

Best of the Beeb (p.80)

 

Vocabulary (p.80)

a costume drama

a sketch show

a docudrama

a series

a serial

a current affairs programme

 

Reading (p.80)

a test track

a dance-off

a presenter

affectionate

to air

a row

mainstream

drug abuse

to tackle

a recurring feature

a lap

a one-off exploit

renowned

hard-hitting

to right a wrong

an appeal

 

Grammar(p.81)

a commercial break

a weekend schedule

a box set

to dumb down

 

Vocabulary (p.82)

to bring out

appealing

to break into

to break down

to pull out

to take back

to turn out

to come across

to put up with

to tolerate

7.2 The news that wasn’t (p.83)

Listening (p.83)

anonymous

identity

a hoax

offensive

to go to great lengths

to sue

a composite photo

a taxiing runway

fake

a standpoint

to see with one’s own eyes

 

Grammar (p.83)

a park official

 

Vocabulary (p.84)

an amateur

to withdraw

strain

rumour

tearful

a printout

authenticity

credit for

 

Writing (p.85)

a discursive essay

publicity

hypocritical

a role-model

privacy

to seek

intrusion

genuine

sympathy

 

7.3 What’s in the news? (p.86)

 

Vocabulary (p.86)

a broadsheet newspaper

a tabloid newspaper

circulation

a glimpse

a columnist

a feature

to flip through

to befriend

royalty

readership

a colour supplement

a bait

a commuter

biased

the editorial page

sensationalism

sensationalist

 

Function (p.86)

Lucky them!

You’re kidding.

coincidence

I gather,..

 

Learn to make guesses

+Speaking (p.87)

There’s no way

Mind you

Why on earth..?

a cub

to reckon