söndag 24 februari 2013

BBC VIDEO NEWS

Watch and listen to today's report
HERE ABOUT A CARNIVAL IN SWITZERLAND





aesthetically pleasing
beautiful to look at
revellers
people who party in a noisy way
scare off
to make someone or something worried about something so they decide not to do it
pave the way for
make it possible for (something to happen)
traced back to
identified as having started in

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.

aesthetically pleasing/ revellers/ scare off/ pave the way/ traced back to

1.
Fire purified things. The popularity of setting off fireworks at new year can be ________ that idea of fire purifying.

2.
Creatures that achieve world fame for being under threat - the panda, the mountain gorilla, the tiger - tend to be conventionally _________, even cute.

3.
As Rio de Janeiro's carnival gets under way, its oldest street parade has drawn an estimated 1.5m ________.

4.
Puffing Billy was one of the first steam locomotives to transport coal from Wylam Colliery to Lemington Staithes on the River Tyne.
Developed by Newburn-born engineer William Hedley in 1813, it _______ for the development of the rail industry.

5.
Eugene Cousins, a manager at Chimp Eden, said that he fired warning shots to ________ the animals but then one of the chimps attacked his vehicle, smashing the bonnet and windshield.

1 kommentar:

  1. ANSWERS:
    1. traced back to
    2. aesthetically pleasing
    3. revellers
    4. paved the way
    5. scare off

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