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I think it is. I asked you, " How old do scientists think the Earth is?" You said, "5.5 billion years." and I'm afraid you were wrong, Phil. It's 4.5 billion years. OK. Let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with the idiom my jaw dropped, which is used to say someone looks very shocked and surprised. A hypothesis is a suggestion that's proposed to explain something, which can then be..

새로운 한 해가 시작되고 며칠간 강추위가 계속 되었다. 한 해 중 가장 추운 달, 1월. 좋은 뜻을 너무 무겁게 가지고 가지 말고, 재미있게 가볍게 가지고 다녀야 함을 배워간다. 정법공부를 재밌게 하며 가볍게 웃으며 일상을 살아 가기를...

Do you believe there's life on other planets?Well, theer's a lot of other planets, so yeah, I think there must be. Yeah, I agree. Well, it's a question that interests American astrophysicist Adam Frank, who discussed it with his clleague Gavin Schmidit, director of Nasa's Institute for Space Studies. Here, Adam recalls their conversation for BBC World Service programme CrowdScience. We know that..

I guessed it was to vote in an election. Was I right?You were wrong. I'm afraid, Neil! In fact, the biggest crwod in hisory had gathered for a Hindu religious festival, the Kumbh Mela, which 220 million people attended over fifty days. OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this programme on crowds- large number of people who gather together for a shared reason. To regress means retur..

There was a huge crowd of people waiting at the train station this morning, Neil. When the train finally arrived, everyone rushed in and I couldn't find a seat! I hate crowds!But you love going to the football match on Saturday...Ah, that's different- more like a big group of friends...Well, whether it's sporting events, train stations or political protests, crowds- that's large groups of people..

In fact, Catherine says that how we frame a memory doesn't matter. Frame can be used a verb to mean how we think of or describe something, like a memory. So, our nostalgia about Christmas memories might not be based on what things were actually like in the past, but we shouldn't worry too much! And I think it's time I revealed the answer to my quiz question, Beth. I asked what has become a trad..

Now, it's Christmas time in the UK at the moment. And like with celebrations around the world, lots of people have many happy memories about Christmas. Beth, do you have any happy Christmas memories?I have a lot. Um, my cousins and I used to always put on a Christmas performance for the family. That was always fun. What about you?Christmas was magical. I lived in Canada when I was a kid and it ..

This is Learning English from the News from BBC Learning English. We're talking about scientists revealing what the real Santa looked like. So, we know that St Nicholas lived a long time ago.Yes, in fact he lived 1,700 years ago, which is getting close to 2,000 years. And we're going to explain some vocabulalry in our next headline, which is used to describe thousands of years. Yes, this one's f..

대한민국 사회부모 클럽에 가입을 했다. 살만한 세상이 되지 못하는 지금의 세상. 많은 소중한 생명들이 스스로의 생을 마감한다.이 생을 함께 살아가는 사람으로서 나는, 우리는 사회의 부모로서의 역할을 생각해야 한다. 홍익인간으로서 사회적 책임을 다하게 되기를...

In thie programme, revealing the face of the real Santa Claus.And in this programme, we normally look at a big, important, serious news study, but it's Christmas. So we're going to have a little bit of fun, but also teach you some vocabulary. Yeah, and you can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode as well as a worksheet on our website bbclearningenglish.com. OK, let's hear more..