April Fool!
April Fool – step 1 – lexis and notes
1. [Match]
You should find it helpful to check this vocabulary and a couple of pointers before you listen to the recording.
(Panorama is a weekly investigative current affairs programme which goes out (= is broadcast) on Monday evenings.
Richard Dimbleby (1913 – 1965) was an English journalist and television broadcaster. Two his sons followed him into broadcasting: Jonathan Dimbleby, is a current affairs commentator and presenter of both BBC and ITV programmes, and his younger brother David Dimbleby is also a longstanding BBC TV-commentator, presenter of current affairs and political programmes.
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Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. to be deluded by sth (correct)
- 2. to carry out a cunning or amusing act on someone for the sake of amusement or deception (correct)
- 3. a hidden store of valuable or delightful things (correct)
- 4. a piece of open land for public use (correct)
- 5. judged over a period of time to be typical of the very best of its kind (correct)
- 6. plan, draw up, invent (usually of sth complex) (correct)
- 7. to give a summary of (correct)
- 8. independent, self-employed person hired by different companies for particular assignments (correct)
- 9. a weekly investigative current affairs programme on BBC (correct)
- 10. it was simply irresistible (correct)
- 11. an artistic style which imitates that of another work, genre, artist or period (correct)
- 12. a descriptive spoken account, especially on radio or TV, accompanying some news event as it is happening (correct)
2. [Match]
If you are finding this helpful, carry on!
(to score a bull’s-eye – to hit the centre of a target eg in archery or darts; fig to succeed in doing sth exceptional
to ring up or write in – both verbs are used of people who contact TV or radio organisations to state their opinions before or after a programme is broadcast
Eg About two hundred people rang up to complain about statements made about Welsh people.
Although the Guardian expected a lot of complaints, only a handful of people actually wrote in to complain about the show.
Thousands of people wrote in to the BBC asking for an information sheet.
to hope for the best – to hope that something will be successful or happen in the way you want, even if it seems unlikely
Eg She did as well as she could in the exam, and now she’s just hoping for the best -(i.e. she fears she may well fail, but if she’s really fortunate she won’t.)
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Answers for Quiz [2].
- 1. a large estate on which crops such as tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar or tobacco are grown (correct)
- 2. modulations or inflexions of the voice delivered in a deep, meaningful way (correct)
- 3. a practical joke or mischievous act (correct)
- 4. well-known sentence or phrase (correct)
- 5. clue (correct)
- 6. a fact or piece of evidence serving to reveal a hidden truth or solve a problem (correct)
- 7. a parody, typically of a film or genre of film (correct)
- 8. the centre of the target in sports such as archery or darts (correct)
- 9. to succeed in doing sth exceptional (correct)
- 10. to adopt a light-hearted approach to sth (correct)
- 11. – noun – a humorous or malicious deception (correct)
- 12. – phrasal verb – to ‘phone a firm, or any organization, to state an opinion or ask something (correct)
- 13. – phrasal verb – to write a letter / note / email / to a newspaper, television company or other organization, to state an opinion or ask something (correct)
- 14. a small stem bearing leaves or flowers taken from a bush or plant (correct)
- 15. to hope that something will be successful or happen in the way you want, even if it seems unlikely (correct)