BBC 英语学习 News Review 最热的一周

The hottest week ever recorded. What does this mean for the planet?

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news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Beth, and I'm Phil. Make sure you watch to the

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Now, the story hotter weather has never been recorded.

The UN says the 1st week of July had the highest average global temperature ever measured.

This could have significant effects on the planet.

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, drought and heavy rain could all become more likely as a result.

You ve been looking at the headlines, what's the vocabulary?

We have just getting started. Uncharted territory and scorches.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

This is from The Hill. We're experiencing earth's hottest weather in 120000 years, and it's just getting started.

So the Earth is at the warmest it's been in 120000 years.

That's since before the last ice age.

Now, the expression we're looking at is just getting started, phil we've just got started with this program.

Is that what we're talking about here?

Well, when we use just getting started in this way, what we really mean is that there's a lot to come.

And in the case of this story, it's all negative.

Yes, this article is saying that while the current high temperatures are bad news, they're only going to get worse, much worse.

In fact, they're just getting started.

Now, we can use this as well for positive things as well.

So, e.g., we've got a lot of things we can tell you about English, and we're just getting started.

OK, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from The Guardian.

Uncharted Territory un declares 1st week of July world's hottest ever recorded.

Now, we're going to look at the expression Uncharted Territory.

That makes me think of pirates explorers the ocean.

Well, pirates explorers in the ocean, anyone like that.

They all use charts, which are like maps.

So uncharted territory, that means it's not on any maps.

It's a place that no one's been to before, or at least they haven't made a map of it yet.

And here it's a metaphor. So in terms of the weather, we are seeing things that we've never seen before.

We're in uncharted territory. That means there's no maps or anything to tell us what to do next.

We can use this to talk about anything that we haven't worked out how to deal with yet.

So when we think about people using AI to cheat in exams, we're in uncharted territory.

That's right, OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. This is from Al Jazeera.

Record breaking heat scorches communities around the world.

Now, this headline is from an article that focuses on the impacts of these high temperatures.

The word we're looking at is Scotch.

That's all about heat, right? Yes, it is.

Now, for an example, I-I under shirk this morning, but I left the iron on it for too long, and it made me burnt a mark on the shirt.

It's a scorch mark. If you scort something, you burn the surface of something with extreme heat, you're obviously not wearing that shirt then.

Now, the headline is talking about the effect of extreme heat on people living in different places around the world.

And it doesn't literally mean that the people are being burned, but it is definitely having a negative impact on them.

Now, another metaphorical use of scorch is to criticize strongly, so people can be damaged by heat, or people can be scorched by criticism.

Well, I hope we don't get scorched in the comments in this episode of news review.

OK, let's look at that again.

We've had just

getting started. This more to come unchartered to a territory, something

not experienced before. Scorches damages with heat.

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