Whiteboard politicas 3rd year march 25

1. Manchester:
Pre-teaching vocab (words corresponding to the images in
part I):
Overweening: extremely self-confident, arrogant and
immoderate.
Tanked-up: completely drunk
Poised to: ready to / about to happen
To rebate: to grant a rebate / reimburse
Brash: very loud, verging on arrogant, “in your face” kind
of personality
Unremitting: constant / incessant / relentless
To weather the storm: aguantar el chaparrón / attendre
patiemment que ça passe / supporter stoïquement / tenir le
coup…
More vocabulary from the text:
Arguably: used to say that a statement is very possibly true
even if it is not certainly true → raisonnablement,
vraisemblablement...
Ruthlessly: impitoyablement
To merge: fusionner
A downturn: a recession, a slump
To embrace: adopter une idée / embrasser dans le sens
soutenir une cause
To pitch to / for: present an idea to / to try to convince
somebody
To spawn: give birth to (a lot of…) / give rise to / trigger /
spark…
To slash: couper / trancher (to slit, to sever) ici: faire des
coupes claires dans un budget
To soar: s’envoler
Greater Manchester