Doomscrolling: Why do we do it? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

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📝 VOCABULARY IN THIS VIDEO “Doomscrolling: Why do we do it? - 6 Minute English” 📝 1. Evolutionary: to the way in which plants and animals develop and change gradually over a long period of time 2. Investigating: to try to find out the truth about something such as a crime, accident, or scientific problem 3. Compelled: to force someone to do something → compulsion → compel somebody to do something 4. Non-stop: without any stops or pauses → continuous 5. Disgusting: extremely unpleasant and making you feel sick SYN revolting 6. Disturbing: worrying or upsetting 7. Traumatic: a traumatic experience is so shocking and upsetting that it affects you for a long time 8. Perspective: a way of thinking about something, especially one which is influenced by the type of person you are or by your experiences → viewpoint → perspective on → from somebody’s perspective → from a feminist/Christian/global etc perspective 9. Resilience: the ability to become strong, happy, or successful again after a difficult situation or event → toughness → resilience of 10. Pay attention to sb/st: to watch, listen to, or think about someone or something carefully 11. To compensate for: to replace or balance the effect of something bad → compensate somebody for something 12. Make up for: to make a bad situation better, or replace something that has been lost SYN compensate 13. Pouring into → pour something into/out/down etc (something) → pour something away (=get rid of something) → pour somebody something 14. Doomscrolling: spending a lot of time looking at your computer screen or mobile phone and reading bad news stories 15. Feel ick: (US slang) feel sick, often because of something disgusting or disturbing 16. On tap: easily available so that you can have of much of it as you want, whenever you want 17. Make up for (something): compensate for something bad with something good 18. Romanticise (something): talk about something in a way that make it sound better than it really is 19. 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger': saying which expresses the idea that by going through difficult life experiences, people build up strength and resilience for the future 09.02.2023 VIETNAM❤ 🌱 ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^ 🌱

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-Feeling ache: Feeling sick often because something is disgusting or disturbing -On tap: Is easily available so that you can have it as much of it as you want -To make up for something: To compensate for something bad with something good -Romanticise: We make it sound better than it is -'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' means by going through difficult life experiences, people build up strength for the future @BBC thanks for the new vocabularies

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Vocabulary for the video BBC 6 Minute English "Doomscrolling: Why do we do it?": - Doomscroll (v) - to spend a lot of time reading or scrolling a mobile phone or computer screen in order to read negative stories - stories full of doom. Exp: Stop scrolling! Switch off your phone and go for a walk. People all over the world doomscroll, regardless of the culture. - Evolutionary (adj) - relating to the way in which living things develop over millions of years, involving a gradual process of change and development. Exp: an evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology. There is an evolutionary reason why we are attracted to bad news. - To compel (v) - to force to do something. Exp They compelled him to betray his country. He felt compelled to report the incident. We feel compelled to look at, even seek out bad news. - To seek out (v) - to find information, look for someone or something. Exp: She decided to seek out some information on the history of the area. - Anthropologist (n) - a person who scientifically studies humans, and their customs, beliefs, and relationships. - Outline (v) to draw or to give the outline of something - a short description of the main details of a plan. Exp: Here she outlines the problem. - Compulsion (n) compelling or being compelled. Exp: You are under no compulsion to go. It's some kind of compulsion forcing people to doomscroll. - Feel ick (v) - to feel sick because of something disgusting or disturbing. - On tap - easily available so that you can have as much of it as you want, whenever you want. Exp: News on tap; doom on tap. There are several new movies on tap this week. - Romanticise (v) - to talk about something in a way that makes it sound better than it really is. or to believe that something is better than it really is. Exp: Trauma's romanticised. - Make up something (v) - to compensate for something bad with something good. Exp: The little good news we do hear doesn't make up for the depressing news. - What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - expresses that by going through difficult life experiences people build up strength and resilience for the future. "Nowadays, people all over the world doomscroll, so that they spend a lot of time reading negative stories on their mobile phones or computers. Scientists suggest that there are evolutionary reasons why people feel compelled to seek out bad news. With negative news on tap, people can easily access it. The negative effects of 24/7 doomsrolling can result in feelings of ick. Even though good news still exists, it doesn't make up for the bad news. Therefore, it is best to stop doomscrolling altogether, rather than romanticize it. While it's a popular belief that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", it's not an easy task to put into practice." Thanks much for this video. Have a good day!

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Thanks BBC, From your 6 minutes video I can get more nice informations and vocabularies ❤️😍. For this time, We have to cleverly choose the news from our phone, although sometimes first news comes from people around us and then we will curious about that information and doomscrolling can't be avoid. 😁😁

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Firstly, thank you for this video BBC team. You must definitely keep going to sort of these videos. If I am on social medias in nearly 4 5 hours. I want to make up for these times that I lost by scroliing, and I often start to do benefical things. And I often force myself to romanticis in these jobs.

I woke up one morning and watched this video lesson, suddenly i got a lot of thoughts and decided not to use Facebook anymore, and now it's two weeks after i come back here and write this comment " i really did it". I feel very peaceful right now. It is kind of an escape.

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