Victoria's ESL Site: 02.2014

26/02/2014

Word formation key - unit 3

Word formation - unit3

Old Edition

1. Assassination

2. Infancy

3. Shocking

4. Disbelieving/unbelieving

5. Clarity

6. Objectivity

7. Unexpected

8. Routinely

9. Worryingly

10. Horrifying/horrific

New Edition

1. Infancy

2. Disbelieving/unbelieving

3. Clarity

4. Objectivity

5. Unexpected

6. Routinely

7. Worryingly

8. Horrifying/horrific

24/02/2014

71-year-old grandma defeated sledgehammer gangsters with a handbag

VOCAB:

passerby: someone who is walking past a place by chance -plural passersby
viewfinder: the small square of glass on a camera that you look through to see exactly what you are photographing
let loose: to speak or behave in an uncontrolled way
a smash-and-grab (raid/attack): a crime in which someone robs a shop by breaking the window and stealing things quickly
scooter/moped: a type of small, less powerful motorcycle with small wheels
dawn on sb.: if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time
to clobber sb.: to hit someone very hard

20/02/2014

NEWSNIGHT Paxman interviews James Quincey

Vocab:

Staggering: Causing great astonishment, amazement, or dismay; overwhelming

19/02/2014

18/02/2014

Net threat shooting suspect arrested in the Netherlands

Dutch police have arrested a former student of the British School in Leiden following online threats to go on a shooting rampage. Schools were closed down in Leiden after the authorities failed to trace the source of the threat launched on internet forum 4chan. Around 20 schools were closed and armed police were on site as a precaution. The suspect had been expelled from the British School in 2011, for behavioural issues and had not been seen at the school since. The police said that the British school had not been threatened and remained open on Monday.