Berlusconi confronts heckler

By Cecilia Brabin | March 13, 2013

March 10 – In what can only be called a turbulent news conference in Rome, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi encountered a persistent heckler. Jon Decker reports.

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  1. How many descriptions of this news conference are possible?
  2. What did Berlusconi encounter?
  3. Which phrase tells us that the reporter isn’t certain that the heckler is a freelance journalist?
  4. What was Berlusconi trying to talk about?
  5. How does the reporter describe Berlusconi?
  6. How, according to Berlusconi, does the heckler look?
  7. How, according to Berlusconi, does the man ‘ruin his day’?
  8. How did the news conference end?
  9. Which verb tells us that the heckler was treated roughly?
  10. What is clear?

 

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