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CNN 10 - May 9, 2018 | A change in U.S. policy regarding the Iran nuclear deal
source: NEWS with Subtitles 2018年5月8日
There's been a major change in U.S. policy concerning the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and that's the first story we're explaining today on CNN 10. It's followed by an update on an ongoing volcanic eruption in Hawaii. And we're taking a look at how blockchain could work in everyday business.
ANOTHER SPECIAL CHANNEL by CARL AZUZ: https://goo.gl/Uc8P1X
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Slang Words used ONLY to describe Women & Girls – Informal English Phras...
source: Learn English with Let's Talk 2018年4月3日
Learn about 9 English slang words only used for describing women and girls. This informal English lesson would help you learn some slang & adjectives that you could use while describing women. A word of caution, don’t try using these informal English words on someone’s face or in a formal situation, that would make you sound rude, as most of the vocabulary is negative or describing a negative woman. Your English teacher Niharika has shortlisted 9 such words for a casual English conversation.
Bad Dates: Episode 3 - Dirty date
source: BBC Learning English 2018年1月19日
In this episode, Daniel is on a date with someone who has very little interest in personal hygiene. What phrases does he use to move the conversation along? Watch the video to discover some key dating language.
# materials below: from http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/...
Useful dating language
--Greeting a date: Lovely to meet you Jo.
--Offering to help: Do you want to use my tissue?
--Suggesting what to order: Shall we share a salad?
--Making small talk: So, what do you do Daniel?
--Offering food: Here, try some of this.
--Carefully pointing out something: I was gonna say actually, you've got...
Transcript
Jo
Oh hi, are you Daniel?
Daniel
Yes, I am Daniel. Are you Jo?
Jo
Yeah, I am. Nice to meet you.
Daniel
Lovely to meet you too, Jo. How are you?
Jo
Yeah, good.
Daniel
Oh God, can you smell that? What is that?
Jo
No, is it the food?
Daniel
I could smell her coming. When we shook hands, her hands were really oily. It was a little bit… yeah, it was quite strange.
Jo
Erm, so I’m gonna get, erm… I’m just gonna go straight in for burgers. You have to order your chips separately. It’s a bit annoying, but they’re really good.
Daniel
Shall we share a salad?
Jo
I’m not that fussed about salad, but like crack on by all means.
Daniel
OK.
Jo
Yeah.
Daniel
Coleslaw?
Jo
Yeah, I might put some in the bur… yeah actually, let’s get salad and coleslaw and I could put some in with my burgers.
Daniel
In with the burgers.
Jo
Yeah, adds to the texture.
Daniel
Oh God, that went all over the table, erm…
Jo
Erm, so
Daniel
Oh sorry, I think you actually just got a little bit on me.
Jo
Oh here, do you want to use my tissue?
Daniel
Yeah, OK. Thanks.
Jo
I just used it once.
Daniel
Oh God, that’s really sticky.
Daniel
Not really for me if I’m honest. Her personal hygiene was… it was pretty gross.
Jo
So what do you do Daniel? Tell me about yourself.
Daniel
I…
Jo
I’m just gonna… sorry I’m just gonna… you’ve got a bit of erm… Burger on your plate I’m gonna… Here, try some of this?
Daniel
Oh.
Jo
This is really nice. Here, here, yeah… open wide, open wide, great.
Daniel
It’s really salty.
Jo
Yeah, it’s nice to have… well seasoned.
Daniel
What, the lettuce?
Jo
Yeah, so what do you…what is it that you do again Daniel? I can’t remember if you told me or not.
Daniel
I work in advertising actually.
Jo
Wow, fancy. Yeah, what does that mean?
Daniel
We work with lots of different accounts. We have… we work with an Italian restaurant chain. We actually have a brand of tissues as well.
Jo
Really?
Daniel
Yeah, which you might be interested in.
Jo
Oh.
Daniel
It did not. She dropped a burger on the floor, and picked it up and carried on eating – midway through the date.
Daniel
Ooh, delicious, yeah.
Jo
I’m just gonna ask to get some mayo and ketchup and stuff cos I like all the sauces.
Daniel
Well, we’ve got two bottles.
Jo
Oh, OK. Cool. Let me just…
Daniel
Oh, God…
Jo
Waste not, want not.
Daniel
Ooh, but that fell on the floor.
Jo
It’s alright. I’m sure it’s clean.
Daniel
I was gonna say actually, you've got… You also have a little bit on your face.
Jo
…there?
Daniel
Er… yeah, and on the other side.
Jo
Yeah.
Daniel
It’s all over.
Jo
It’s quite charming though, isn’t it? Kind of endearing, isn’t it? That’s I’ve got food all over my face.
Daniel
Kind of, kind of…
Daniel
There won’t be a second date, no. There most certainly won’t.
The rise of drones: Learn to talk about new uses for drones in 6 minutes!
source: BBC Learning English 2018年2月15日
Drones have become commonplace in the skies above our heads. In certain cases they have been dangerous, but there are many new uses for them that are bringing us benefits too. From delivering parcels to saving lives, drones are taking off.
Vocabulary
surveillance: carefully watching someone or something, usually to try and stop something illegal
aerial footage : film recording made from the sky
game changer: something that completely changes the way something is done or thought about
the sky's the limit: there's no limit to something
harmonised: two things being suitable for each other to allow them to work properly
droning on: talking too much in a boring way
Transcript: from http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/fea...
(Note: This is not a word for word transcript)
Rob
Hello I'm Rob and this is 6 Minute English – a programme that brings you an interesting topic, authentic listening practice and some vocabulary to help you improve your language skills. Joining me today is Neil.
Neil
Hello. And today we're discussing those pilotless aircraft that we seem to be hearing and reading a lot about at the moment.
Rob
You mean drones. And yes, they are in the news quite often for good and bad reasons. They've been used for many things from smuggling drugs, detecting water leaks and surveillance.
Neil
And surveillance – that means ‘the act of carefully watching someone or something’ – perhaps a criminal – but also it means spying, maybe on me and you Rob? So should we be welcoming the rise of the use of drones?
Rob
Well, before our discussion about that 'takes off', we need to set today's question for you to answer, Neil.
Neil
What are you droning on about Rob? And by that I don't mean ‘flying a drone’ – I mean ‘talking too much in a very boring way’!
Rob
Thanks Neil. Now just answer this, will you? Drones are sometimes also referred to as UAVs. So, what does UAV stand for? Is it…
a) Unidentified aerial vehicle
b) Unmanned aerial vehicle
c) Unaided aircraft vehicle
Neil
Well, I'm going to go for b) unmanned aerial vehicle.
Rob
Ok well, we'll see if you're right later on. Now let's talk more about drones, which, apparently, seem to be everywhere now.
Neil
But are they safe and are they necessary? I've heard about them being a hazard to aircraft because they've been flown close to airports.
Rob
Well, figures in 2016 showed that in the UK there were 70 near misses involving drones. And that's more than double the year before. So that is a little worrying.
Neil
Yes. And there's the potential risk of people's privacy being invaded when a drone is flown over their property with a camera attached to it.
Rob
Ah, but those cameras are also good at capturing some great aerial footage – that's the film recording of the view from the above the ground. So they're not all bad. And Dr Yoge Patel would agree. She is CEO of Blue Bear, which supplies unmanned planes and drones. Here she is speaking about drones on the BBC's Woman's Hour programme…
Dr Yoge Patel, CEO of Blue Bear
They have the potential to be dangerous, agreed. They also have though, on the flip side, the ability to be a game changer in both domestic use and in military use. So, some of our drones are being used for aircraft inspections. We've put our drones into Fukushima.
Rob
So there you go Neil. There are many useful things drones can do, and Dr Patel said they have the ability to be a game changer.
Neil
And by that you mean ‘something that completely changes the way something is done or thought about’.
Rob
Yes. Her company has used drones to inspect the inside of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan. And another example of drones being a game changer is UNICEF and the Malawian government testing drones for carrying medical supplies. This could help save lives in remote places.
Neil
And I have read that in Australia, lifeguards are using drones to help rescue swimmers who get in trouble in the sea.
Rob
And have you heard about a Japanese firm that's planning to use a drone to force employees out of their offices by playing music at them if they stay to work evening overtime.
Neil
I haven't, but you've convinced me – it seems like the sky's the limit for the uses of drones! I mean there's no limit to what they can do. But I am a little concerned about how they are regulated or controlled.
Rob
Well Dr Yoge Patel says because the technology is new, regulations – or legal controls - are developing all the time…
Dr Yoge Patel, CEO, Blue Bear
As technology progresses, regulation and operational use needs to then be harmonised with it. And we are, as a community, going through that whole process of saying what is proportionate and appropriate regulation to go with different uses of drones.
Neil
So she talked about regulations being harmonised as technology progresses.
Rob
So I think she means ‘making regulations suitable and appropriate for what the drones are being used for’. So they need some control, but not so they can't be useful and effective.
Neil
Like flying drones to stop you working late! Now Rob, I'm dying to know what the other name for a drone is.
Rob
OK, let me tell you. So earlier I asked what does UAV stand for? Was it…
a) Unidentified aerial vehicle
b) Unmanned aerial vehicle
c) Unaided aircraft vehicle
Neil
And I said b) – was that correct?
Rob
Yes Neil, you know your drones – that's correct. Well done. UAVs or drones have been around for quite a while in different forms. It's thought they were first used for providing practice targets for training military personnel. OK Neil, let's quickly go over some of the vocabulary we have mentioned today, starting with surveillance.
Neil
"The police kept the jewellery shop under surveillance because they had a tip-off about a robbery." So that means ‘carefully watching someone or something, usually to try to stop something illegal’.
Rob
Then we mentioned aerial footage – that's film recording made from the sky. "The aerial footage on TV of the dolphins swimming was spectacular."
Neil
Yes, drones have been a game changer for wildlife programmes on TV. That means ‘something that completely changes the way something is done or thought about’.
Rob
We also mentioned the phrase 'the sky's the limit', meaning ‘there's no limit to something’. "The sky is the limit to what professional footballers can earn these days."
Neil
Then we discussed harmonised – that describes two things being suitable for each other to allow them to work properly. "The garden has been designed to harmonise with the natural landscape."
Rob
Very useful vocabulary, Neil. But let's stop droning on – and that means ‘talking too much in a boring way’ - and remind everyone to check out our You Tube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages – and of course, our website at bbclearningenglish.com. See you next time. Goodbye.
Neil
Goodbye
Connected Speech | the Simpsons & Red Hot Chili Peppers
source: Learn English With TV Series 2018年3月15日
Learn American English Connected Speech with the Simpsons and Red Hot Chili Peppers in this funny lesson with TV!
Improve Your Pronunciation of Contractions in English
source: Oxford Online English 2018年4月6日
Do you use contractions like 'isn’t', 'I’m' or 'he’d'? Many English learners don’t. But, using contractions can really help to improve your English fluency.
First, it will help your English listening, because contractions can be difficult to hear if you don’t use them yourself.
Secondly, your English speaking will sound more fluent and natural if you use contractions. You can learn more about how to pronounce English contractions in this lesson.
Points covered in this English pronunciation lesson:
- How to form contractions in English.
- How to pronounce English contractions correctly.
- How to form positive and negative English contractions.
- When to use (and not to use) contractions.
- Unwritten English contractions: contractions which are used in spoken English but not in written English.
DISCUSSION SERIES 1 : Topic - Job | Hire a Style Student
source: Helena Daily English 2018年4月14日
English Conversation, Discussion about topic: Job - Hire a style student
Twenty-five university students were interviewed by a famous company. After the interviews three company directors have a meeting...