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BBC, learning English. Hello, and welcome to Six Minute English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Catherine. Hello, hello, catherine.

I want to know what sort of things make you feel angry.

Many things make me feel angry, neal, but one thing that makes me regularly angry is when people put the wrong rubbish in the wrong

bends. Yes, that makes me angry too.

It's not very thoughtful as not really.

No. So you may feel angry about people putting the rubbish in the wrong bin, but do you get aggressive that's behaving in an angry way, looking like you want to argue or even fight with someone?

No, I don't really get aggressive about wheelie bins, to be honest.

Well, I tend to control my anger too and keep calm, but I have been known to react, especially if someone's damaging some of my property.

Wow, really? Yeah. I can't stand it comes out of the blue.

It's completely unexpected, but I'm glad to say that I feel quite calm today.

I'm glad to hear it, neil.

But today we are talking about aggression, and we'll look at what we can learn about human aggression by some examples from the animal kingdom.

That's right now. Are you ready to answer today's quiz question?

In a very calm and non aggressive way?

I would like you to give me the question.

When attacked, what does a baboon typically do to show aggression?

Does it a beat its chest, be yawn and show its teeth, or see laugh and roll on the ground?

Well, um, I'd love to think of an angry baboon laughing and rolling on the ground, but I'm going to go for b yawn and show its teeth.

Okay, well, we'll see if you're right or wrong a bit later on.

Now, catherine, how do you usually act when you're angry or upset about something?

I generally let people know how I feel.

To be honest, I don't go over the top and hit people.

But I also, I don't sulk about things.

And silk means when you refuse to smile or speak because you want to let people know you're upset about something.

Ah yes, Sulking is quite childish, isn't he?

Sad that are you? A Sulconia?

I don't sulk. I don't think.

But as I said, I don't often get angry.

I'm a very well balanced and grounded person.

Catherine, really, very good. I'm pleased to hear it.

Now. Anyway, well balanced means sensible and in control of your emotions, and grounded means mentally and emotionally stable.

Is that what you're saying here?

That's me. That's right. Let's listen to Professor Simon Underdown talking about human behavior.

Can you spot a phrase that means the opposite side to an idea of the primary order?

And one of the things humans are incredibly good at doing is is being psychologists.

We're very good at reading situations that we find ourselves in.

We're extremely good at picking up on signals.

What we can then do is trigger the the appropriate response.

If it's an empathetic response, we may well need to then be sympathetic.

We normally need to show our sort of fluffy side, if you want.

But on the flip side, from an evolutionary point of view, the reason we're so successful and we're still here is because we can and when we need to, we act aggressively to situations.

Did you spot the phrase? Flipside means the opposite side of an idea.

And being aggressive is the flip side of being fluffy and sympathetic.

And fluffy is an adjective that we often use to describe soft animal fur or feathers on young animals or soft toys for children.

But here, fluffy means behavior that's soft and unthretening, so it's the opposite of aggressive.

And if you are empathetic, you're able to share or understand other people's feelings, that sounds like me.

I'm an excellent empathizer, anti Catherine, and nearly you are absolutely, totally full of empathy.

Nice. Pause. Thank you. Now, simon also talks about humans being good at reading situations.

What does that mean, catherine? It means understanding what's going on.

E.g., if a male gorilla is screaming and breaking branches, other gorillas will probably see this as a show of aggression.

The male gorilla screams and breaks branches, signaling to the other gorillas that he's angry or upset.

Signal here means a noise or a movement that gives someone information, and the mail gorilla's signal triggers a response from the other gorillas.

This means one thing causes another thing to happen.

And when a man suddenly punches another man in the face, what signal do you think that sends?

Well, I think for me, that would be a signal to um leave.

Yes, quickly? Yes, indeed. Yes. And humans usually give signals, just like the gorillas do, before they start a fight.

So people might shout or gesture with their arms, and a gesture is a movement made with arms or head to give someone else information.

Now then, neil, let's have our quiz question answer, please.

Okay, case that waving your arms around.

So I asked, when attacked, what does a baboon typically do to show aggression?

Does it a beat its chest?

B yawn and show its teeth, or see, laugh and roll on the ground?

And I said, b that's right.

Well done. Now, let's hear today's words.

Once again, they are out of the blue Aggressive soak well balanced, grounded, flip side, fluffy.

Empathetic. Reading situations, signal triggers, a response gesture.

Well, that's the end of today's six minute English.

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