Session 3

Get up-to-date with the latest news and understand it too with Lingohack. Listen to and watch authentic BBC World News bulletins and learn key words and phrases to help you make sense of the news.

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Today's Headlines:

Is Russia hacking the US election?

The end of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7

The zoo where chimps 'learn to be chimps'

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US intelligence officials have accused Russia of trying to influence the outcome of the US presidential election by carrying out cyber-attacks to destabilise the political system. Concern about Russia's increasingly aggressive use of cyberspace has also been growing in the European Union - especially after a French television channel was taken off air last year.

Samsung broke new ground with the Note, proving there was an appetite for much bigger phones and it hoped this latest version would be the best selling yet. Now though, it's clear that the Note 7 isn't coming back and the company must concentrate on limiting the damage to its whole brand.  We want more and more from our phones but as Samsung has found to its cost, the one thing we demand above all others is that they are safe.

The chimps at Twycross Zoo are huge favourite with visitors but the zoo itself is doing a massive amount of work to make life here for the chimps as happy and as natural as possible. Researchers from the University of Birmingham have created a computer programme that compares the movement of these chimps to those in the wild and then suggests changes to the chimp enclosure that would nudge these chimps into a more natural form of behaviour.

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Session Vocabulary

  • destabilise
    make a political or economic system less safe or reliable

    appetite
    demand or interest

    limiting the damage
    reducing the negative effects

    nudge
    gently encourage