Cover of the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.4 - News blunders for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Read the programme information and answer the questions.
  3. Look at the prgramme information again and match the words / phrases in bold with 1-6 below.

Answer

b)

  1. Because there is 24-hour rolling news now.
  2. Four → newsreaders stumbling over their words, technical hiccups, microphones malfunctioning, the wrong guest being brought into the studio for an interview.

c)

  1. stumbling over their words
  2. strike
  3. technical hiccups
  4. rolling
  5. blunders
  6. malfunctioning