My favorite program from BBC Learning English! Thanks from Brazil!

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HI BBC, I'm a fan of 6 minute English Programme, paticularly, Alice's accent, why dont you bring her to this programme.

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Im from Perú and Im very sorry for this new :( we are not concious 'bout pollution and people just throw away their garbage to the river .. that is the reality !! anyway excellent as always ;)

The frogs in NA , CA an SA are dying and it has been going for many years. I use to see tadpolls as a young child and you don't see them again in the ponds, creeks, and streams.. so why the surprise.

Nice....BBC... San you look so beautiful with your blue dress...And Neil you are always peaceful and quiet...😍😍😍😍

Is Leonardo Rocher a brazilian? His accent...

Omg! One of the correct answer was mine and you pronounced amazingly correct. :) Thanks:)

It is incredible. In 2015 something similar happened in the Bolivian side, now in Peruvian side. There are several environmental damages (crimes) in Peru, in the latest times, oil spills in the Amazonia, deforestation in Manu reserve, an else. That is the way we want to be part of the OECD countries? There is so much to do to reform Peru, I hope President Kuczynski do the right thing.

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I always learn with this program.thanks a lot.

Hello , welcome to News review the program we give you the language you need to talk about the News. Hi, Im Neil, joining me today is Sian, Hi Sian, Hi Neil. so what is our story? Today, we have a story about an animal that is dying misteriously. an animal dying miteriously. ok, Let's find out some more about that from this BBC world service Newsbulletine. The Perubian environmental agency is investigating the death of about ten thousands frogs whose bodies have been found in the river in the south of the country. A local campaign group says pollution in the river ( ) is to blame for the death. Ok,so, Ten thousand frogs have been found dead in Peru it's a little bit of mistery, they're invesgating WHY. but local residents believe that it's due to pollution in the river. and they're desperate for Gorvernments to clean it up. so, you've been looking at the story, How it's been reported on the News website what are the words and expressions ,phrases being used to talk about the story? Ok, I've picked out four expressions. We have "endangered species" ,"get to the bottom of" ," turn of events" and "plea" ok, "endangered species" ,"get to the bottom of" , "turn of events" and "plea" , How are these appearing in the Headlines , in the articles? OK, so, the first one "endangered species" is in this BBC News story. and we have "The Titicaca water frog is an endangered species that is found only in the huge freshwater lake shared by Peru and Bolivia and its tributaries. so, "endangered species" that's a type of animal or plant that might stop existing because of their only few of that type left. so, it is in danger. that creats the word "endangered" with an "e" this time. and this is what we called a collocation , word that go together very often in English. and endangered, species always goes together. "Yes" or endangered animal also , endangered plant. yup, but species is a type of animal , here for example , it's not all frogs that are endangered. just this special Titicaca water frog. "Yes" and another reason why the word species is interesting? listen to the pronunciation? spe SH es , there is a SH in the middle. why? because there's no SH in the spelling. normally, quite often in English ,when we want to produce the SH sound ,represented with letters, we use SH , not here it's "CI" species with "CI" umm same with my name Sian "Shan" there's no SH. ===================================================== moment of the truth. it's been always in the middle of my curiousity why her name is Shan when pronouced, curiosity discovered. ===================================================== ( what's Neil saying? ) "NO rules" spelling and pronuncition have a very strange relationship. exactly, it makes difficult to look, but %%% I still learn how to spell but also for learners to pronouce words %%% ================================================ this part I am not sure what they are talking about ================================================ so , you just have to learn it. "Yes, exactly" Ok, let's get to the bottom of the next one. yeah, ok, ( ) ,this is the get to the bottom of and we have here in the story by CNet. "Reserchers are trying to get to the bottom of this tragic turn of events" yes, to get to the bottom of something. to discover the truth about something or find the cause about something. so, it's not literal , they are not getting to the bottom of the lake or anything like that. they're just finding the truth. but you can imagine kind of digging for an answer somewhere. "yeah" particullary something bad ofthen? "often bad, isn't it? " for example , the university at a problem with a ( ) people copying. and they're keen to get to the bottom of it, to discover why it was happening. so that they can stop it. it's not always bad though, is it? you had that love letter on valeteins day a few month ago? and you had to get to the bottom of who sent it to you. yes I did. Did you ever get to the bottom of it? yes I did and I told my mom to stop sending things to BBC. "I didn't , I told" or "I did and I told" which is correct? ============================================= All Moms over all around the world are SAME. :-) ============================================= of course , your mom, ( ) suspected that. right then, there's sad turn of events of you. it was sad turn of events. which is the next word. so here is in the same story. we have "Reserchers are trying to get to the bottom of this tragic turn of events." yes, turn of events means a change in a situation I mean "turn" is quite obvious , imagine a car going along at a cerntain direction. and suddenly turn so it goes to a different direction and turn of events means a change in a situation. and it's often used with like tragic, dramatic, unexpected or strange. yeah, for example , recently, this week, last week, Bob dylan who is a singer and song writer he was given award. for "for Literature".