✳️ Words in the News #WN1
🔶 A clean sweep | 15.5 MB
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🔶 A clean sweep | 15.5 MB
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✍ Exercise: #Exercise_1
👉 Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from BBC news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
📝 a head for heights/ bin men/ to abseil/ harness/ underway
1⃣ A Suffolk businessman followed Prince Andrew's lead _______ down The Shard to raise money to help injured marines.
2⃣ A three-week-old kitten who was dumped in a bin narrowly escaped being crushed by a recycling truck in Devon. The female, named Lucky, was emptied into the back of a waste truck. Its crusher was stopped by two _______ who heard the kitten's cries.
3⃣ Taking a tour of the east London site with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, she proved she had _______ as she was whisked up to the top of the 114.5m Orbit Tower.
4⃣ As the big United Nations meeting gets _______, the West's biggest foreign policy challenge is not likely to be discussed.
5⃣ Stewart was the first driver to wear seatbelts, who insisted circuits should be lined by barriers, on fire-resistant clothing, pit walls, six-point safety _______ and crash structures in cars.
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☑️ Answers: #Answers_1
1⃣ to abseil
2⃣ bin men
3⃣ a head for heights
4⃣ underway
5⃣ harnesses
👉 Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from BBC news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
📝 a head for heights/ bin men/ to abseil/ harness/ underway
1⃣ A Suffolk businessman followed Prince Andrew's lead _______ down The Shard to raise money to help injured marines.
2⃣ A three-week-old kitten who was dumped in a bin narrowly escaped being crushed by a recycling truck in Devon. The female, named Lucky, was emptied into the back of a waste truck. Its crusher was stopped by two _______ who heard the kitten's cries.
3⃣ Taking a tour of the east London site with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, she proved she had _______ as she was whisked up to the top of the 114.5m Orbit Tower.
4⃣ As the big United Nations meeting gets _______, the West's biggest foreign policy challenge is not likely to be discussed.
5⃣ Stewart was the first driver to wear seatbelts, who insisted circuits should be lined by barriers, on fire-resistant clothing, pit walls, six-point safety _______ and crash structures in cars.
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☑️ Answers: #Answers_1
1⃣ to abseil
2⃣ bin men
3⃣ a head for heights
4⃣ underway
5⃣ harnesses