Each year the Oxford English Dictionary chooses its 'Word of the Year'. It has recently announced the winner for 2012: omnishambles.
But what does it mean? Who coined (=invented/made up) this word? Click on the following link to listen to a discussion about the origins of this word in the section 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. If you find it difficult to understand, you can download the transcript and read it while you're listening to it. You can also read the related links at the end of the page.
Listen to the following hit by the Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen and fill in the gaps bellow with the past simple or past continuous of the verbs in brackets.
CALL ME MAYBE by CARLY RAE JEPSEN
I (throw)________________
a wish in the well,
Don't
ask me, I'll never tell
I (look)_________________
to you as it fell,
And
now you're in my way
I'd
trade my soul for a wish,
Pennies
and dimes for a kiss
I (look)_____________________
for this,
But
now you're in my way
Your stare
(hold)_______________________
Ripped jeans, skin (show)_______________
Hot night, wind (blow)__________________
Where you think
you're going, baby?
Hey, I just met
you, and this is crazy
But here's my number, so call me, maybe?
It's hard to look
right at you baby
But here's my number, so call me, maybe?
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy,
But here's my number, so call me, maybe?
And all the other
boys try to chase me,
But here's my number, so call me, maybe?
You
(take)_________your time with the call,
I
(take)__________________no time with the fall
You
(give)_________________ me nothing at all,
But
still, you're in my way
I
beg, and borrow and steal
Have
foresight and it's real
I (know)______________________
I would feel it,
But it's in my way
CHORUS
Before
you (come)__________________ into my life
I (miss)____________________you
so bad
I (miss)____________________you
so bad
I (miss)_________________you so,
so bad
Before you (come)__________________ into my life
I (miss)_____________________you
so bad
And you should know
that I
(miss)______________you so, so bad
What a funny video, don't you think? Poor Carly...
Barack Obama has been re-elected as US president today, beating his Republican rival Mitt Romney. Watch his victory speech in Chicago (You can activate English subtitles)
