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Unit 1: English in the News 3

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Session 15

เหตุใดเพลงคริสต์มาสยอดฮิตจึงถูกถอดออกจากรายการวิทยุ?

เหตุใดสถานีวิทยุแห่งหนึ่งจึงปฏิเสธเพลงคริสต์มาสยอดฮิต?  ชานกับแคลร์ มาชวนอ่านและศึกษาวลีภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับข่าวนี้กันค่ะ

Why is a radio station refusing to play this popular Christmas song? Join Sian and Clare to find and to learn lots of great idioms relating to this story.

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เหตุใดสถานีวิทยุแห่งหนึ่งจึงปฏิเสธเพลงคริสต์มาสยอดฮิต?

เหตุใดเพลงคริสต์มาสยอดฮิตจึงถูกถอดออกจากรายการวิทยุ? ชานกับแคลร์ มาชวนอ่านและศึกษาวลีภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับข่าวนี้กันค่ะ

Why has a popular Christmas song been removed from a radio station? Join Sian and Clare to find out and to learn lots of great idioms relating to this story.

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Useful vocabulary 

get the cold shoulder
be ignored in an unfriendly way

give someone the cold shoulder
ignore someone in an unfriendly way

be up in arms
be very angry and complaining about something

be at odds with
be in disagreement with / be very different from

 

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Session Vocabulary

  • get the cold shoulder
    be ignored in an unfriendly way

    give someone the cold shoulder
    ignore someone in an unfriendly way

    be up in arms
    be very angry and complaining about something

    be at odds with
    be in disagreement with / be very different from

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