What's on the news? WENDY PAOLA CALDERON
WHATS ON THE NEWS? OBJETIVE Use there is, there are what event existed in the present Use there was, there were Use there is events exist in the past. Use vocabulary and idiomatic expressions related to the new and to uneventful everyday activities Observe what happens in the news SHORT READING ABOUT THE TOPIC Talk about two people, Peter and Gina watching the news; which about how ten schoolchildren squeezed into a Renault 4 car and broke a Guinness Record, England a bank robber was arrested after trying to escape on a bicycle, woman wants to strengthen her tummy muscles and New Zealand who is completing 25 continuous days at the top of a 40-foot pole. DEFINITION AND SHORT DESCRIPTION In informal language words are used with a special or colloquial meaning. This is the case of some underlined words from the reading above. For example, the word squeeze in its broadest meaning means to crush or press something. Oranges are squeezed to make orange juice ...