BBC News Review: Supercharged antibiotic developed
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Date: 2020-09-18
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.
I'm Dan, joining me today is Catherine. Hi Catherine?! Hi, Dan?!
So, What's a story about this week?
Well, today's story ,Dan, is from the world of medicine and we will be looking at
how scientists have given an old favourite a major upgrade.
A story about an old favourite being given a major upgrade, Interesting! OK.
Let's hear more from this report from the world service.
So, A story from the United States there, now antibiotics or medicines that we all know are used a lot, they're very powerful in fighting infections.
But recently they become less powerful because bacteria is getting stronger and more resistant. However American scientists have found a way to take an old biotics and make it much much much powerful.
If that's true, it will be good news for everyone.
Certainly yeah, good news for everybody in the fight against super bug resistance
OK, so, you've been looking around at the news, and you've chosen three words and expressions that we need to understand and talk about this story.
What are they?
We have hail,super-charge and packs a punch.
hail, super-charge and packs a punch. ok Catherine, what's your first headline, please?
Ok, we will go to The Daily record and headline is
Scientists hail 'magical' antibiotic which gives hope in battle against disease
OK, hail meaning publicly praise, quite a newsy word to start with.
Yes, it is, I mean one of the things that are really short, it is four letters long, newspapers love short word but yeah very newsy. Although the original meaning, when I hear the word hail, I always think of the phrase hail Caesar which is from a long time ago but emperor Caesar of Rome, His citizens and soldiers, people who loved him, respected him or obeyed him said the phrase Hail, Caesar to mean We love you, We like you, We respect your power so it's about praising.
OK, it's a way of showing a respect. but is it something that I would say to my friend?
Well, if your friend were Caesar, The Rome Emperor. but probably not normally.
There are lots of different ways we can, we can, the word hail, you can respect your friend, you can ( ) of them, you can like them, you can ( ) them up.
There are lots of different things we say. but not for spoken English so much.
OK, thank you very much.
Alight, on to our second headline then.
Ok, we've got The New Atlas Scientists supercharge old antibiotic in fight against bacterial resistance
Supercharge to make more powerful, umm, tell us about that, it's a great word.
It is, it is a great word, super and charge. now super is used as a prefix.
In this case prefix means 'more'. 'charge' we use in a sense of ,recharge your phone. you give energy to something.
So If you supercharge something, you give it more power and more energy.
OK. Cool. and if I'm not mistaken, it comes from engineering?
That's right, yes, it was originally used when engineer made their engine more powerful, especially in car engines, it's a supercharge to make them go faster and stronger. But it's migrated to everyday English use, so you can supercharge pretty much anything actually. umm, For example, I think actually ,yes, actually
I saw you were looking very ( ) and perky this morning.
Yes, do you want to know what the secret is? I do
I supercharge my breakfast forage with cheer seeds.
WOW, certainly ( ).
They ( ) a lot of energy, they've got a great protein in them. I recommend it to everybody out there. supercharge your breakfast.
Alright. Let's migrate on to our third headline then, shall we?
Ok, this time, we'll be looking at PHYSORG New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistance
'packs a punch' has a great effect or power. Now, Catherine, it might just be the ( ) but I'm confused, I thought packing was to do with suitcases.
You're quite right, Dan. it is. we all like to pack suitcases when we're going on a journey.
When you pack your case, you put things in it. you fill it up.
so, actually 'pack a punch' comes from a world of boxing.
and when a boxer put his or her fists in the glove, they're packing this glove with a powerful fist. so 'pack a punch' means to do something really powerful and effective.
OK, wonderful. and this is a metaphor, you can use it only in boxing or is it applied to lots of different things?
Again, it goes, you can use it all over the places. Headlines love it because it's kinda dramatic, and it's got a alliteration ( ), pack a punch.
but you can use it with anything. Your breakfast probably packed punch this morning.
It certainly got a lot of power in it. that's true.
What about you and chilly? I'm sure you ( ) something about chilly earlier.
I do like a chilly. I'd like an nice and hot chilly, and I had one just the other weekend. Woop!! it nearly blew my head off. you can say It packs a punch.
something powerful and effective. you can use it for documentaries, maybe watching a film on TV. It has an effect on you, you can't stop thinking about it. you can say that The film packed a punch
Wonderful. Let's hope that our words and phrases have packed a punch with our audience.
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Today's transcript for News Review I personally made has lots of blanks in it.
I'm really sorry about that.
I hope it's never meant to pack a punch with you guys studying English by watching this episode. :-D
Everyone in the world, Have a great week. see y'all healthier next week.
Bye Bye.
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.
I'm Dan, joining me today is Catherine. Hi Catherine?! Hi, Dan?!
So, What's a story about this week?
Well, today's story ,Dan, is from the world of medicine and we will be looking at
how scientists have given an old favourite a major upgrade.
A story about an old favourite being given a major upgrade, Interesting! OK.
Let's hear more from this report from the world service.
So, A story from the United States there, now antibiotics or medicines that we all know are used a lot, they're very powerful in fighting infections.
But recently they become less powerful because bacteria is getting stronger and more resistant. However American scientists have found a way to take an old biotics and make it much much much powerful.
If that's true, it will be good news for everyone.
Certainly yeah, good news for everybody in the fight against super bug resistance
OK, so, you've been looking around at the news, and you've chosen three words and expressions that we need to understand and talk about this story.
What are they?
We have hail,super-charge and packs a punch.
hail, super-charge and packs a punch. ok Catherine, what's your first headline, please?
Ok, we will go to The Daily record and headline is
Scientists hail 'magical' antibiotic which gives hope in battle against disease
OK, hail meaning publicly praise, quite a newsy word to start with.
Yes, it is, I mean one of the things that are really short, it is four letters long, newspapers love short word but yeah very newsy. Although the original meaning, when I hear the word hail, I always think of the phrase hail Caesar which is from a long time ago but emperor Caesar of Rome, His citizens and soldiers, people who loved him, respected him or obeyed him said the phrase Hail, Caesar to mean We love you, We like you, We respect your power so it's about praising.
OK, it's a way of showing a respect. but is it something that I would say to my friend?
Well, if your friend were Caesar, The Rome Emperor. but probably not normally.
There are lots of different ways we can, we can, the word hail, you can respect your friend, you can ( ) of them, you can like them, you can ( ) them up.
There are lots of different things we say. but not for spoken English so much.
OK, thank you very much.
Alight, on to our second headline then.
Ok, we've got The New Atlas Scientists supercharge old antibiotic in fight against bacterial resistance
Supercharge to make more powerful, umm, tell us about that, it's a great word.
It is, it is a great word, super and charge. now super is used as a prefix.
In this case prefix means 'more'. 'charge' we use in a sense of ,recharge your phone. you give energy to something.
So If you supercharge something, you give it more power and more energy.
OK. Cool. and if I'm not mistaken, it comes from engineering?
That's right, yes, it was originally used when engineer made their engine more powerful, especially in car engines, it's a supercharge to make them go faster and stronger. But it's migrated to everyday English use, so you can supercharge pretty much anything actually. umm, For example, I think actually ,yes, actually
I saw you were looking very ( ) and perky this morning.
Yes, do you want to know what the secret is? I do
I supercharge my breakfast forage with cheer seeds.
WOW, certainly ( ).
They ( ) a lot of energy, they've got a great protein in them. I recommend it to everybody out there. supercharge your breakfast.
Alright. Let's migrate on to our third headline then, shall we?
Ok, this time, we'll be looking at PHYSORG New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistance
'packs a punch' has a great effect or power. Now, Catherine, it might just be the ( ) but I'm confused, I thought packing was to do with suitcases.
You're quite right, Dan. it is. we all like to pack suitcases when we're going on a journey.
When you pack your case, you put things in it. you fill it up.
so, actually 'pack a punch' comes from a world of boxing.
and when a boxer put his or her fists in the glove, they're packing this glove with a powerful fist. so 'pack a punch' means to do something really powerful and effective.
OK, wonderful. and this is a metaphor, you can use it only in boxing or is it applied to lots of different things?
Again, it goes, you can use it all over the places. Headlines love it because it's kinda dramatic, and it's got a alliteration ( ), pack a punch.
but you can use it with anything. Your breakfast probably packed punch this morning.
It certainly got a lot of power in it. that's true.
What about you and chilly? I'm sure you ( ) something about chilly earlier.
I do like a chilly. I'd like an nice and hot chilly, and I had one just the other weekend. Woop!! it nearly blew my head off. you can say It packs a punch.
something powerful and effective. you can use it for documentaries, maybe watching a film on TV. It has an effect on you, you can't stop thinking about it. you can say that The film packed a punch
Wonderful. Let's hope that our words and phrases have packed a punch with our audience.
====================
Today's transcript for News Review I personally made has lots of blanks in it.
I'm really sorry about that.
I hope it's never meant to pack a punch with you guys studying English by watching this episode. :-D
Everyone in the world, Have a great week. see y'all healthier next week.
Bye Bye.
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English learners like me definitely hail News Review, which packs a punch among many students with its super-charge anchors.
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English learners like me definitely hail News Review, which packs a punch among many students with its super-charge anchors.
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