Today's Headlines:

Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire

Zuma in court for home improvement

Horses don't like 'long faces'

Transcript:

The second vote of the US presidential election season, New Hampshire primaries – they've given victories to the outsider candidates the Republican Party battle won by Donald Trump, the Democrat's contest by Bernie Sanders.

South Africa's Constitutional Court's considering whether the president Jacob Zuma should pay back some of the $23m of taxpayers' money spent on refurbishing his private home. His lawyers say he will repay all improvements to his ranch that were not security related.

One particular animal species holds the title of man's best friend but horses… they've been living alongside humans for 6,000 years. A new study shows that adapting to our world has changed the way they think because British scientists have discovered that domestic horses can recognise our facial expressions. The animals were measurably more stressed by angry faces.  

Words and phrases and definitions:

outsider
(here) a competitor with little chance of winning

refurbishing
making changes to a building to improve it

adapting
changing behaviour to suit a new situation

Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases from Lingohack to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word or phrase to complete the sentence correctly.

outsider / refurbishing / adapting

1. It's an old house but it will look really nice after you __________ it.

2. Mr Roberts was an__________ candidate for the job of CEO. He's been in the company for just a year.

3. Warm winters and big hurricanes. Should we try to  __________ to extreme weather brought about by climate change?

Answers:

1. It's an old house but it will look really nice after you refurbish it.

2. Mr Roberts was an outsider candidate for the job of CEO. He's been in the company for just a year.

3. Warm winters and big hurricanes. Should we try to adapt to extreme weather brought about by climate change?