5th LEVEL. EOI REUS 2009/2010
SPEAKING MISTAKES
UNIT 3: SPEAKING MISTAKES – GATHERING INFORMATION
 In the Internet there are a lot of lies …
 The information you have achieved …
 The radio is a good method to …
 A piece of news that appeared two weeks ago…
 You can listen the radio in the net.
 If there is an electrical cut
 I think that newspapers and TV channels are biased the same.
 Because they usually form groups which are politized.
 On/across/via the Internet, information/content tends to be rather
biased/misleading/ unreliable …
 The information you have obtained/gathered/received/accessed …
ACHIEVE: to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim, especially
after a lot of work or effort
The government's training policy, he claimed, was achieving its objectives.
She finally achieved her ambition to visit South America.
I've been working all day, but I feel as if I've achieved nothing.
 The radio is a conventional/efficient/reliable/cheap/traditional method/way/
device/gadget to …
 A piece of news that appeared/was given/was broken to listeners-viewers/came
through/was broadcast/was emitted/was published/posted (on the net/on a
blog) two weeks ago…
 You can listen TO the radio ON the net.
 If there is an electrical failure/power cut/power failure/surge in electrical
power/blackout/ a power shutdown
 I think that newspapers and TV channels are biased the same/in the same way/
alike.
 Because they usually belong to/are part of groups which are politicized.
PRONUNCIATION
encyclopaedia /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.di.ə/
authors BrE /ˈɔː.θə r / AmE /ˈɑː.θɚ/ n
contrast (noun) BrE /ˈkɒn.trɑːst/ AmE /ˈkɑːn.træst/
contrast (verb) BrE /kənˈtrɑːst/ AmE / kənˈtræst/
want BrE /wɒnt/ AmE /wɑːnt/
public /ˈpʌb.lɪk/
ə
pay for/ take out/ buy (BrE) a subscription /səbˈskrɪp.ʃ n/