news bulletin – answers

Angry London protests ahead of G20

questions

1. What does bankers ‘dressing down’ signify? that something is ‘up’ (happening)
2. How is London’s financial district described? historic
3. What did it become? a flash-point
4. What role has the banking system played in the economic crisis? that of fuelling it (to fuel – to stimulate)
5. How was the day ‘headlined’ by protesters? it was dubbed Financial Fools Day
6. What did some protesters do with their threats? made them good (carried them out)
7. When was the last great economic crisis? in the 1930s
8. What were the UK Prime Minster and US President keen to dispel? talk of a rift with France and Germany
9. How was Gordon Brown sounding? upbeat
10. What is a key objective of France and Germany and how do they view this? new regulation (of the financial industry) and they see thus as non-negotiable