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BBC Learning English
Video Words in the News
23 July 2014
Many kinds of intelligence
Transcript:
We all dread1 exam results.
But one English school has decided2 to soften3 the blow with a letter.
Tests don't assess all the things which make people "special and unique", it says.
A love for music or sports, or just being "kind and thoughtful" is also important, according to the note.
The letter has gone viral on the internet.
But the head teacher of Barrowford Primary School has now been accused of plagiarism4, after a similar message was discovered on an American blog.
Vocabulary:
dread
to feel very worried about something that might happen
soften the blow
to make the bad effects of something seem less serious
thoughtful
(here) kind and considerate
gone viral
became popular very quickly
plagiarism
using another person's work without saying where it came from
Exercise:
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
dread / soften the blow / thoughtful / gone viral / plagiarism
1. He was a great MP and a kind, _________ and decent man.
2. The images have now _________ and been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
3. I _________ going out to eat now, even though we are really sociable5 people and we love doing it, it just doesn't seem worth it anymore.
4. The chancellor6 is expected to try to _________ of cuts by announcing the go-ahead for major capital schemes which could help create jobs and stimulate7 the economy.
5. _________ has become a major issue for universities, with many using software to detect material taken from websites.
Answers:
1. He was a great MP and a kind, thoughtful and decent man.
2. The images have now gone viral and been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
3. I dread going out to eat now, even though we are really sociable people and we love doing it, it just doesn't seem worth it anymore.
4. The chancellor is expected to try to soften the blow of cuts by announcing the go-ahead for major capital schemes which could help create jobs and stimulate the economy.
5. Plagiarism has become a major issue for universities, with many using software to detect material taken from websites.
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