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YOUR REWARDDate: 2015-10-07; view: 784.
13. Read the two newspaper reports and match the idioms in bold with their meanings. 1. The 1) running battle between the Union of Teachers and the government over wages intensified on Tuesday after Union leader, Gerry Tuffnal, threatened strike action unless teachers are granted a 5% pay rise. The Minister of Education, Stanley Baxter, announced yesterday that giving a rise was 2) easier said than doneas it would mean increasing taxes. However, his words seemed to 3) fall on deaf ears as 4) the grass roots of the Union were still in support of strike action yesterday afternoon. Stanley Baxter and Gerry Tuffnal are currently holding discussions together 5) behind closed doors in an attempt to come to some kind of compromise. 2. Protesters are continuing obstruct construction work on the proposed site for Stackton Airport 's new runway in spite of police threats to remove them by force unless they 6) call it a day. Yesterday afternoon the ringleader, known only as "josh" announced that the threats were 7) cutting no ice with him and his colleagues. He added that force were to be used on the demonstrators, who had been peaceful so far, 8) the law of the junglewould apply thereafter. He also quoted 9) chapter and versean agreement not to extend the airport, signed by airport officials and the Minister of Transport in 1986. The current Transport Minister, Jack Glenn retaliated last night saying that the protesters had no right to 10) sit in judgmentas the Ministry of the Environment had since granted permission for a new runway on the site He ended his statement saying that arrests would be made if the protest were to become disorderly.
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