BBC 英语学习 News Review 学会再次微笑

Learning to smile again. This is news review from BBC Learning English.

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Now the story People in Japan have been taking lessons on how to smile again.

The laws now changed so you don't have to wear a mask anymore, but many people have complained that they've forgotten how to smile.

Smile. Coaches have been helping people get used to smiling again.

You ve been looking at the headlines?

Shone. What's the vocabulary? OK, we have grin ditches and life after.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

Let's look at our 1st headline.

This is from The Guardian. Green and Bear it as Mask mandates end.

Japan tends to tutors to re learn how to smile.

OK? So this headline is about the end of mask wearing rules in Japan.

The word that we're looking at is grin.

Now, shone grin. That's a type of smile, isn't it?

It is. But it's not just any smile.

It's a really big one, like this.

Okay? As you can see, sean is grinning from ear to ear, which is a common expression, but we can also use it for the kind of smile when you've done something wrong.

So we can say that a child has a cheeky grin, E.G.

Yes. And in this headline, they use the expression grin and bear it, which means, remain positive when something bad is happening.

But there's something a bit different here.

Yes, there's a kind of joke here.

So normally the spelling in this expression is bear, B-E-A-R, so that means to deal with something, but here they've spelled it bare, B-A-R-E, which means not covered.

So they're making a joke about go in bear faced, so not having a mask on your face.

That's right. Let's look at that again.

Let's look at our next headline.

This is from the Minnichi Smile Practice seminars, popular in Japan as country ditches masks.

So this headline, like the 1st one, is about the ending of rules in Japan, about wearing masks after covet.

The word we're looking at, though, is ditches, which is a verb here, but it's useful to think of the noun a ditch, which is that thing on the side of the road.

Yeah, so it's where all the water and waste from the road ends up.

But here we use ditch as a verb, and to ditch something is to throw it away.

So if you don't need something any more, you ditch it.

It's not just used for things there no.

You can use it for ideas.

You can ditch an idea if you think it's a bad one, or you can ditch plans if they're not going to work.

I ditched my travel plans during the covet Or.

You can even ditch people. So if we talk about ending a relationship, you can say, you ditch your boyfriend or girlfriend.

Doesn't sound very nice, but we use it.

Okay, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from The Japan Times Remembering How To Smile.

Japan Training sessions help prepare for life after masks.

Yes. And we're going to look at this useful little phrase we use to talk about how things might be different in the future.

Life after Yes, I hear its Life after masks, and it refers to how life will change for people in Japan when they stop wearing masks.

Yes? And we use this a lot when we're talking about the future, so e.g., students have to prepare for life after university or a celebrity, a famous person, has to think about life after fame when they're not famous anymore.

Yeah. And it can also be used with people, so thinking about the future without an important leader or a famous person, e.g., are Argentina ready for life after messy So he's gonna retire one day.

Let's look at that one more time.

We've had grin smile ditches gets rid of and life after a future without And if you want to learn more

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