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Week 28 2016

WORLD NEWS

Will Dutch follow Brexit with Nexit or stick to EU? (Quote: « [the EU] is like Brussels sprouts (choux de Bruxelles), you might not like them but you eat them because you know they’re good for you

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36722915

FRANCE

Nice truck attack

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-36799172

In pictures: Bastille Day lorry attack in Nice

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36801161

Frenchwoman ‘faced job discrimination over headscarf’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36782752

UK, USA & Canada

Tory contender: Theresa May

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36660372

Baton Rouge killing: Black Lives Matter protest photo hailed as ‘legendary’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36759711

Dallas shootings: Killer ‘prepared larger attack’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36760151

Obama reflects on role as ‘consoler-in-chief’ during Dallas speech

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36777605

The highs and lows of the pound

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36727177

The millennials with the most to lose from Brexit

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160707-the-millennials-with-the-most-to-lose-from-brexit

The new divide: Hard or soft Brexit?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36723220

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

China’s aviation expansion ambitions

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36768278

HEALTH

FGM: ‘More community funding needed’ to maintain progress

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36749725

Why has an Indian state imposed a ‘fat tax’?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36771843

Brexit ‘will make NHS staff shortages worse’

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36664094

SPORT

Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams beats Angelique Kerber to win 22nd Grand Slam

http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/36755299

OTHER SITES

French Expressions Even The French Don’t Understand

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/french-expressions-even-the-french-dont-understand?

EDUCATION & FAMILY

I trekked across Europe so I could go to school

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/features/magazine-36744907/36744907

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Death robots: Where next after Dallas?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36778374

Facebook tests ‘secret message’ service

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36744470

TRAVEL

Woman honeymoons alone after husband denied a visa

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36771620

MISCELLANEOUS

US Holocaust museum asks Pokemon Go players to stop

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36780610

Do mothers make better political leaders?

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36757019

What Freudian slips (les lapsus révélateurs) really reveal about your mind

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160706-what-freudian-slips-really-reveal-about-your-mind

 

Question types (for telephone lessons)

On the title of the article: What does it mean? Do you agree with it?

On the subject of the article: What do you know about (the subject – names mentioned in the article)

Factual questions from the article; e.g. Which is Europe’s most popular airline?

Roy Smith – This week’s crop of BBC website articles
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