Vocabulary: The News

The News (Articles & Essays)

Every day, we should be listening to one or two people telling us about some news or other.

Read and learn to write articles and practice re-telling and summarizing: http://www.greenguidespain.com/andalucia/

Listen every day to the news in English, any news

• Podcast Radio exterior de España en inglés
• The Olive Press News Podcast on Spain
• BBC. Women’s Hour Daily Podcast (30 min)
• BBC. What the Papers Say (15 min)
• USA. (Independent) Democracy Now (Amy Goodman) news
• TED Radio Hour stories
• WFIU Arts interviews & reviews
• Science: Living on Earth
• Science Friday: Body and Brain * Nature * Arts History Culture

Classroom activity: *Guardian_Sept2010_Smoking (2 pages)

Passives

• was accused of – fue procesada/o, encausado/a, imputado/a, acusado/a de
• was acquitted of charges of – fue absuelta/o de cargos de
• was indicted of
• were called to order – fueron llamados al orden
• were killed – murieron
• was overruled – fue desestimada
• was discharged – fue puesto/a en libertad
• was dismissed – fue sobreseído, desestimado, declarado sin lugar
• was passed – fue aprobada/o
• was penalized – fue sancionado, penalizada,
• was prosecuted – fue encausado, procesada, enjuiciado
• was questioned
• was crossexamined
• was ruled – fue decretado, fallado, dictaminado

Verbs

• Argue – argued – declararon, manifestaron (como argumento), argumentaron, explicaron
• State – stated – declararon, manifestaron (como declaración, statement)
• Claim – claimed – declararon (como reivindicación, argumento)
• Contest – contested – refutaron, objetaron, rebatieron, disputaron, impugnaron, se opusieron a
• Deny – denied – negó
• Disclose – disclosed – reveló
• Plead – pleaded non-guilty – se declare inocente
• Swear – swore – juró
• Testify – testified – declaró (como testimonio), testificó

On talking people.net: Verbs for essays 01 and Verbs for essays 02 – http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/func_gram/index.htm

Words in the news A-E from the US Glossary on Legal terms: wordsinthenews (1 page)

Verbs for referring to sources (see how many you find in the news and when you read articles and essays): http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/english-as-a-second-language/referring-to-sources

More on Argumentative Essays in the Writing Workshops

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