Do you have eco-anxiety? ⏲️ 6 Minute English
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Published 2023-08-10
❓❓❓ This week's question
In Australia, an animal thought to be extinct has been spotted for the first time in over fifty years. But is the animal:
a) a shark?
b) a lizard?
c) a parrot?
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Vocabulary:
✔️compassion - strong feeling of sympathy for someone and the wish for them not to suffer
✔️what a something - phrase used to intensify the thing you are talking about; e.g. What a mess! What a nice surprise!
✔️ball game - set of circumstances that control how a situation happens
✔️impassioned - strongly motivated to express emotion or take action
✔️movement - group of people with the same beliefs, ideas and aims
✔️working life - the period of life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement
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All Comments (21)
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:hand-pink-waving: VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO Do you have eco-anxiety? ⏲ 6 Minute English :hand-pink-waving: 1. Psychiatrists: a doctor trained in the treatment of mental illness → psychologist 2. Dementia: an illness that affects the brain and memory, and makes you gradually lose the ability to think and behave normally 3. Spotted: having small round marks of a different colour on the surface 4. Antidotes: a substance that stops the effects of a poison ==> antidote to 5. Compassion: strong feeling of sympathy for someone and the wish for them not to suffer 6. what a something: phrase used to intensify the thing you are talking about; e.g. What a mess! What a nice surprise! 7. ball game: set of circumstances that control how a situation happens 8. impassioned: strongly motivated to express emotion or take action 9. movement: group of people with the same beliefs, ideas and aims 10. working life: the period of life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement 08.10.2023 VIETNAM ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^
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What a nice surprise to hear another podcast from you both because I thought you both have been taking a break from work. Thank you!
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I have been experiencing this since 2 years and didn't know there were more people like me. Like I have been fearing many times that increasing deforestation would reduce oxygen levels in air making it difficult to breathe. Thanks for sharing this article.
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What a nice podcast ! Thank you for your everyday working !
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Thank you BBC Leaning English...🙏
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Thank BBC learning English for this useful lesson
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My friend is kind, he had a strong compassion with the poor. He has seen many people suffering from poverty. There for, he joined the local charity movement to help them. He and his associates want to change the ball game, help these people to have a better life. Their activities and enthusiasm inspired people, make them more impassioned about doing kind work. What a good man!
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I compassionate for others who is trying to learn English
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Nail and Beth both are wonderful 😊 Thanks a lot for helping us
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I have been a part of a climate change movement since I started my working life. I was impassioned by BBC Learning English when I was little, and I wanted to change the ballgame. My parents had compassion for us younger generations, and my father said, "What a mess we have left for our children!"
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Thank You So Much, Podcast 6 Minute English ❤🎉, BBC Learning English
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I am Abdul Mazid i'm from Bangladesh At Sylhet. Alhamdulillah BBC English Lecture is very good. it's very help to me specially. listening .Thank you BBC Lecturer. I always with the channal to improve my listening skill.
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Thank you very much
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As Sarah watched the ball game from the stands, she couldn't help but feel an impassioned sense of compassion towards the players and their movement on the field. It reminded her of the hard work and dedication that goes into their working life as athletes.
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I relate Thank you for this
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Wow, this is exactly why I sometimes feel a bit stressed studying English through the news. In order to learn English, there's a lot of vocabulary I need to know, not just about the climate but also about world affairs, poverty, and all sorts of social issues. Yet, the more I watch the news or read news articles, the more often I find myself feeling sad. I really wish the world was filled with only cheerful news (especially to help me learn English).
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thank you BBC!!
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Thank you for sharing a beneficial video😀I have a little bit eco-anxiety. Thanks for this video, I could learn that there are many people who are worried about our future. I'm also concerned about wildlife. They don't have something useful like air conditioner, fan, and so on... I want to feel hopeful about the future.
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I checked Cambridge Dictionary, and in this context, 'ballgame' needs to be written as one word to avoid confusion with the general meaning of 'ball game', which refers to 'any game that is played with a ball'. Am I right?
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Nice!I've learnd some useful kownledge of English!