The benefits of doing nothing ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Some animals evolved to do nothing. And if it’s good enough for animals, would being lazy work for humans too? That’s what Beth and Neil talk about as they teach you some useful vocabulary.

❓❓❓This week's question
What is the slowest moving animal on earth?
a) the giant tortoise
b) the three-toed sloth
c) the koala

Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

Vocabulary
✔️kick back
stop doing things and relax completely

✔️industrious
hard-working

✔️colony
group of certain animals, birds or insects that live together

✔️productive
able to produce a lot for the amount of resources used

✔️necessity is the mother of invention
(idiom) meaning that if you really need to do something, you will think of a way of doing it

✔️switch off
stop worrying or thinking about something, and relax

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