Elephant-proof farming ⏲️ 6 Minute English

What happens when an elephant wants to eat your crops? How can you stop it? Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some useful English vocabulary. ????????????

❓❓❓ This week's question: How much does a fully-grown African elephant have to eat every day? Is it?

a) 50 kilograms of food per day?
b) 100 kilograms of food per day? or,
c) 150 kilograms of food per day?

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You can download audio and a free programme transcript here ????
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6-minute-english_2023/ep-231109

Vocabulary:
✔️rub shoulders (with) - meet someone and spend time with them
✔️human-wildlife conflict - encounters between humans and wildlife leading to negative results, either for people (such as loss of crops or livelihood), or for animals (including killing or endangering their species)
✔️raid - suddenly attack a place and steal from it
✔️national park - large area of a country which is protected by the government because of its natural beauty, plants, or animals and which the public can usually visit
✔️a way of life - activity that has become a common and regular event in the lives of a person or community, rather than something that happens only occasionally
✔️spell trouble - suggest that there may be problems in the future

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