The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - On the hour, every hour for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
Work in pairs. Check you understand the words and phrases in bold below. Then discuss to what degree you share each opinion - and why.
Answer
- feeling helpless = feeling that you can’t do anything to change or influence the world
- In the hands of media barons = under the control of individuals who own the big newspapers and news outlets (e.g. Rupert Murdoch)
- keep up with the news = know what’s happening in the latest news
- foreign affairs = news about what is happening away from your country
- suppress = stop, censor, prevent from being published
- rolling 24-hour news = news that is on all the time, and keeps changing as new news stories come in
- totally hooked on it = can’t stop watching or following it
- speculation = here, making guesses about things
- hard facts = providing facts that are indisputable and obviously true