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Do you lead a sedentary lifestyle? Watch 6 Minute English

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Spending too much time in a sedentary position and not being physically active is a problem around the world. In the UK, 20 million people don't do any exercise at all. Finland used to have one of the highest mortality rates from heart disease but it's managed to buck the trend. Dan and Catherine talk about Finland's experience and teach you new vocabulary. Vocabulary: sedentary is our first word in our vocabulary review. It's an adjective used to describe a lifestyle which involves a lot of sitting and not much exercise life-expectancy the age to which you are expected to live shirker someone who avoids doing something they don't like, usually because they are lazy tongue-in-cheek something meant to be humorous and not taken seriously stern adjective that means serious and strict clipboard a board you attach papers to so you write on them as you walk around [Image: GETTY IMAGES]
Date: 2020-09-18

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Comments and reviews: 4

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New words on this video : 1, stern: (adj) serious and strict 2, clipboard. 3, exercise shirker: someone who avoid exercising, shirk(verb) 4, life expectancy 5, tongue - in - cheek: humorous and not taken seriously 6, attach 7, drag you out of your house. 8, sedentary.
Example: I don't want to become an exercise shirker so I decide that I will run couples of times a week to build a healthy lifestyle.
Thank you BBC learning English.
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Hoang
I love the series of 6 minute English but the podcast of this topic is not full, it's just 5 minutes. I hope that you could upload a full version instead. And correct my grammar if it's wrong please. Thank you, BBC :)
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Tulip
I heard this situation alot in my English learning. After watch this video, i can talk about this problem perfectly... every1 approciated me... thx to BBC 6 minutes English
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Fernando
I love the videos. Now, I downloaded the app therefore I can't see reason to follow on the YouTube too. Thanks a lot, guys.
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