Answer — Exercise 2
13 - On the hour, every hour·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
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