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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #30158
Short
Good News
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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"No news is good news" may be true for most of us most of the time - after all, we don't look forward to unpleasant things happening to us - but "Bad news is good news " is true for those who work in the news media, and, I suspect, for the rest of us, at least some of the time. It is tied up with stories and our seemingly insatiable need for stories. Have you ever been gripped by a story where nothing goes wrong for the characters? There's an incident in a Kingsley Amis novel that nicely illustrates this: the main character Jake comes home to find his wife chatting to a friend about a hairdresser both women know who has moved with his family to somewhere in Africa.
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