-
7/30/2019 Report and Vocabularyunearthed
1/3
Report and vocabularyunearthed16 November 2011
Mind reading crash course
9 November 2011
SHOW ALL | HIDE ALL
transcript
Stopped in the nick of time!
This road safety system uses lasers to detect potential hazards.
If the driver doesn't brake,the car does.
Now a new Swiss project is looking to take things further by
reading drivers' minds.
Researchers are testing its viability by monitoring brainwaves
to see if they can predict the
driver's next move.
The hope is technology could intervene to prevent accidents.
in the nick of time
just in time
road safety
driving without accidents
hazards
dangers
viability
workability
intervene
act on behalf of someone else
Exersise
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these
sentences from a BBC news report.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete
the sentence correctly.
in the nick of time / road safety / hazards / viability /
intervene
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111116_vwitn_whales.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111116_vwitn_whales.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111109_vwitn_driving.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111109_vwitn_driving.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111109_vwitn_driving.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111109_vwitn_driving.shtmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111116_vwitn_whales.shtml
-
7/30/2019 Report and Vocabularyunearthed
2/3
1.
An iceberg of the size expected will need to be monitored
carefully, and not just because it could
eventually become a __________ to shipping. The biggest icebergs
can have a major impact on their
surroundings.
2.
During the debate Mr Cameron said a no-fly zone had "effectively
been put in place over Libya". He
added: "It is also clear that coalition forces have helped to
avert what could have been a bloodymassacre in Benghazi. In my view
they did so just _______________."
3.
Twenty soldiers also died in fighting in the central city of
Homs. Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has
warned western powers not to _________ - saying that could cause
what he called an "earthquake"
that would burn the whole of the Middle East.
4.
Plans have been announced to improve ___________ in a
Staffordshire town. The scheme includes
installing a pedestrian crossing and improving a footpath close
to where a person was knocked down
and killed, in 2009.
5.
Even the __________________ of the euro has always been in
question, with its creation having been
seen by many to have been driven by political rather than
economic reasoning.
Report and vocabulary
SHOW ALL | HIDE ALL
transcript
Freak snowstorms have hit America's East coast.
Some say Mother Nature played a Halloween trick on 60 million
people. Only four times in the
last 135 years has New York's Central Park seen snow this
early.
The blizzards caused power cuts and some deaths as roads became
treacherous.
More than a thousand flights were cancelled with some passengers
trapped on grounded planesfor hours.
freak
unusual, irregular
Mother Nature
an expression used to refer to the power of nature, the weather
and so on
blizzards
heavy snowstorms with strong winds
-
7/30/2019 Report and Vocabularyunearthed
3/3
treacherous
extremely dangerous
grounded
not permitted to fly
Exercise
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these
sentences from a BBC news report.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete
the sentence correctly.
freak / Mother Nature / blizzards / treacherous / grounded
1.
Last winter Edinburgh experienced the worst __________ for
decades. Hundreds of tonnes of salt were
used on roads and pavements. Offenders and the Army were brought
in to clear routes.
2.
Ms Hedges said: "The __________ waters round the Isle of Wight
present a major challenge - there are
so many unknowns. My emotions are very up and down at the
moment, going from being really excited
to really scared."
3.
Before the president joined the children for a reading lesson,
the White House and the president already
knew a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, but they
thought it was a ___________
accident.
4.
Qantas ______________ all Saturday's flights, affecting some
70,000 travellers.
5.
"An element of luck was involved with this, as with any
expedition of this nature when the variables are
out of your control - the weather, __________ herself," he
said.
