Predicting the future

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European Commission

Brussels

26/03/2014 - 00:00

Description

Do you believe the "experts" who claim to know the future?

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Speech Details

Language

(en) English

Speech number: 24579

Duration

05:54

Level

Intermediate

Use

Consecutive

Domains

General

Culture

Terminology

crystal ball, fortune teller, self-fulfilling prophecy, dartboard, economic forecasts, aversion, to cut to the chase, to wriggle out, to dodge, self-negating prophecy, to couch predictions, to backtrack, Nostradamus, bang-on predictions, vindicate, Amory Lovin

Notes

If you are starting simultaneous interpretation exercises, after doing this speech in consecutive, try 24970, a longer version of the same speech.