Reading log (News)
Day 1 Wednesday Date : 17 April 2024 | |
Time | 20.08-20.24 |
Title | 1. Dubai flooding sparks cloud seeding questions. What is it and does it work? 2. |
Sources | 1. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/weather/cloud-seeding-dubai-explained/index.html 2. |
Newsworthy event (Main event) | 1. Tuesday’s floods in Dubai spark polemics |
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Background event (Elaboration) | 1. Turned streets into rivers and shut down the world’s second-busiest airport for a time. The deluge of water triggered the question : Was this disaster caused by the United Arab Emirates’ cloud-seeding program? |
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New Vocabularies found | |
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Day 2 Thursday Date : 18 April 2024 | |
Time | 14.33-15.07 |
Title | 1. Man City and Arsenal knocked out of Champions League - reaction. 2. ‘He was a disaster’: Xavi laments ‘really bad’ referee in Barcelona’s Champions League elimination to Paris Saint-Germain 3. Xabi Alonso drenched in beer by players after Bayer Leverkusen wins first Bundesliga title |
Sources | 1. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/ceklnee9d0mt 2. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/sport/xavi-barcelona-psg-champions-league-spt-intl/index.html 3. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/sport/xabi-alonso-bayer-leverkusen-bundesliga-title-spt-intl/index.html |
Newsworthy event (Main event) | 1. Two Premier League giants lost in the Champions League. |
2. Barcelona manager xavi blamed his team’s Champions League exit to PSG on romanian referee Istvan Kovacs. | |
3. Celebration of leading Bayer Leverkusen to its first Bundesliga title. | |
Background event (Elaboration) | 1. Real Madrid beating Manchester City by penalties on the second leg Uefa Champions League. |
2. Xavi was blaming referee when Blaugrana defender Araujo was shown a straight red card for bringing down Bradley Barcola as he was bearing down on goal. | |
3. Bayer Leverkusen have never won the Bundesliga trophy, and now they’re celebrating their first Bundesliga title since 1993. | |
New Vocabularies found | dethroning, clinched, doused |
Comments | I love sports, and the theme of the news i read today is sports, it’s all interesting news and i’m pretty happy with it. |
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