BBC 英语学习 News Review 臭氧层改善

A good new story about the environment.

The hole in the ozone layer

is getting smaller. This is

news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Beth

alone Phil. Make sure you watch to the end to learn the vocabulary you need to talk about this topic.

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The hole in the ozone layer is getting smaller.

Back in the 1980s, countries agreed to stop producing the chemicals that damaged the atmospheres protective shield.

The UN now predicts the ozone layer will return to its 1980 level by 2066.

You ve been looking at the headlines.

What's the vocabulary? Okay, we ve got on track, plugged and jumping.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look at all.

1st headline. Yes, this one is from sky.

Earth's protective ozone layer on track to recover by 2066.

Now, 2066 seems a long way off, but the earth's ozone layer should have recovered by then.

But we're looking at this expression on track now fill What is track?

OK? Think about a car in a race, the place where it drives.

That's a track. And if the car is in a race, then there's only one direction it goes in, and we know where it's going to end up.

It's on track, and if a thing is on track, then that means it's going to progress as we planned, and it's likely to be a success.

But it hasn't happened yet, right?

So in this headline, it's saying that, if nothing changes, if everything carries on the way that it is now, then the earth's ozone layer, this protective shield, will have recovered by 2066.

But we're not there yet. Now, this expression on track reminds me of on course, are they similar?

Yes, on track and on course are more or less the same thing.

And as you have just been thinking, if you're watching this program, you're probably on track, or on course, to improve your English.

That is true. OK let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. Okay?

This one is from Junior News.

Ozone layer, how the hole was plugged.

So we are talking about the hole in the ozone layer again, and this time the word we are looking at is plugged.

Now, I know plug as a noun, it's a thing, and I have one in my bath.

I say, yes, you probably do.

A plug is the plastic or rubber thing that you put in a bath or in a sink, and it it stops the water getting out.

That's right. But here, we're not talking about the hole in the bath.

It's a hole in the ozone layer.

And we are filling it or plugging it to use the verb with more ozone.

That's a gas. Now, what other things can we plug fell?

Well, we can use it metaphorically.

We can talk about things we know.

And when you want to find something new out sometimes that can plug a hole in your knowledge.

That's right. And we also have electrical plugs now.

You put these into a hole in the wall of socket or into an electronic device, yes.

And here we use plug to mean connect.

And actually, if you keep watching us too, we'll keep you plugged into all the latest news.

We will. OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. OK, this is from ABC News in Australia.

United Nations. Scientific assessment finds ozone layer is healing 35 years after the world stopped producing jumping chemicals.

Now, I love this word, chomping.

It sounds like what it means.

Tell us, MA. OK, so if you jump something, it means you bite it, but you bite it really hard, or really enthusiastically, and often quite noisily.

Yes. And

this headline is Using Trump metaphorically to talk about the chemicals

that are eating away at the ozone layer.

Now, it's quite an unusual use of it, but it definitely grabs your attention.

So what's the more

usual ways of using trump? Well, think about a dinosaur or a ferocious animal, and if it bites through something, you could say it just jumped right through it.

Yeah? And we can also use it to say that someone is eating a lot.

Now, this morning, I was really hungry.

I had a very big breakfast, but I jumped my way through it.

Yeah, I saw you. I don't think you noticed me.

You were just jumping away down it.

Oh, OK, OK, let's look at that again.

We ve had on track, expected to succeed, weve had plugged there was a hole.

Now it's blocked. Chomping, eating something quickly and noisily, don't forget that.

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