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Listening Vocab Exercise Yes-Men

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazUh0Ym8rc
First translate these words:
A hoax
(The Internet is just) a sewer
We are being sued
impounded
Chamber of Commerce
corporation
Legislation / legitimate
What is your position?
I just spoke my position.
A fraudulent press activity
Purportedly, allegedly
Mayhem
To get punked
impostors
victimised
poverty
Fox picked up a release
policy
Courtesy of the Yes-Men
Stock Price
They have a track record of getting away
with it
Infamous
Challenger, Chernobyl, Bhopal
Fairly and equitably compensated
Adverse effect
Negligence / neglect
Asbestos plaintives
A plant
Liquidate Dow and compensate the
victims
A skeleton in the closet
Promulgating hope
Now answer these questions:
1. Why are the Yes-Men being sued and by whom?
2. Who defends them?
3. What happened in Bhopal and which company was responsible?
4. Which website did the Yes-Men set up?
5. What is the Acceptable Risk Calculator proposed to do?
6. Why do the Yes-Men talk about the Free Market and Morgan Friedman?
7. How is “the image of free men following their desires” ironic?
8. Who says: “There are always risks of going into the future”?
9. What do the Yes-Men mean by “we are comparing the value of money with the
value of human life?”
10. What is meant by “a cruel trick to give 2 hours of hope vs 20 years of
suffering”?
11. What do the Yes-Men mean by saying “to clean up their damage is to clean up
their image”?
12. What is the new element Hu (chemistry) about?
13. How is “carbon dioxide: they call it pollution, we call it life” meant?
14. How are “our free market friends” and “the free market cult” meant?
15. What is the official name of ‘human fuel’?
16. Who are meant being “in childlike exuberance in full flower”?
17. What does “greed dressed up as progress” mean?
18. Look at the conference “Gulf Coast Reconstruction”, what is on exposition
there?
19. The Yes-Men went from Scary to Gross to downright Ridiculous with Gilda,
Candle, Survivaball. Please explain.
20. What is the HUD?
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