Do you have eco-anxiety? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

A growing number of people around the world are experiencing something psychiatrists are calling 'eco-anxiety', an overwhelming sense of hopeless and doom due to the current climate situation. Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.

❓❓❓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? or,
c) a parrot?
Listen to the programme to hear the answer.

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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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⭐ The right way to say sorry ???? https://youtu.be/Ag7-U4ga9mA
⭐ Foraging for wild food ???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGzKWfQOKeQ
⭐ Plants fighting pollution? ???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_lCOxR5e0
⭐ Should we fear chatbots? ???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxR2waii1Ck
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⭐ The benefits of doing nothing ???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y681hXWwhQY

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