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Hello.

This is 6 min English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Beth,

and I'm Neil. I have a confession to make.

Neil. I love the hot weather.

It's a chance to get outside, maybe get a centan.

But sometimes it gets too hot, even for me.

Yes, depending where in the world you live, you've probably noticed that it's getting hot a year after year.

2023 is the hottest year on record, with heat waves in many countries around the world, even Britain.

When it gets too hot, the human body knows how to cool down.

It sweats, passing salty water called sweat, through the skin to lose heat.

But unlike the body, houses don't know how to keep cool.

And in hot parts of the world where air conditioning is unavailable or unaffordable, this is a real problem.

In this program, we'll be hearing about an innovative new idea for keeping houses cool in one of the hottest countries on Earth, india.

And, as usual, will be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

But before we hear more about this sweaty subjects, I have a question for you neil living in cities where summer temperatures regularly exceed 45 degrees Celsius?

Indians have been finding clever ways to keep their houses cool for over 5000 years.

One of them is called Jali.

But what exactly is it? Is jolly?

A-A tall house designed to reduce sunlight, B-A honeycomb pattern used in windows.

Or see a system for spraying cool water?

Well, I guess Jolly is B-A honeycomb window pattern.

OK, now, we'll find out the answer later in the program.

In may 2022, the temperature in Uta, pradesh, the largest state in North India, reached 49.2 degrees.

Celsius Rosni Divaka is a consultant for the Mahila Housing Trust, an NGO, helping poor Indian women to heat proof their houses.

These women often work from home while their husbands are out in the heat, working on construction sites.

Here, rushney describes a typical house to BBC World Service program people fixing the world.

They live in a small, one bedroom house with no windows, no natural ventilation.

They don't necessarily have a legal electric connections, and even if they do, they don't have electricity 24 h a day.

There are power cuts, especially in the summer months.

Many of them have tin roofs, which, of course, will really heat up.

Health gets affected because their health is affected.

Their livelihood gets affected because their daily wage on us if you don't work, you don't own Many of the houses have no window, so there's no ventilation, the movement of fresh air around a space.

Air Conditioning needs electricity, which most families can't afford, and even those who can, experience frequent power cuts periods when the supply of electricity is stopped.

In this heat, sickness is common.

Often the men can't work, which is a problem because they are the daily wage earners, someone who earns money on a day to day basis, meaning that they will receive no money if they cannot work.

Families spend most of the day outside in the street, and at night, it's still too hot to sleep even on the roof.

But fortunately, rosney has been working on a clever, cool roof solution.

White paint painting, reflective anti solo white paint on the roof can reduce room temperatures by up to four degrees.

It may not sound like much, but it makes a big difference and allows families to work, cook and even sleep inside his rochny.

Again, talking with the BBC World Service program People Fixing the World.

This has honestly been the most successful of the technologies that we've adopted.

We started off by doing it in the city of Anthepa, but we've done it across other cities.

We've done it in Bangalore. We've done it in Jove Pool.

In fact, in jots Pool. we've done it in an entire slum.

Mehila Housing Trust gets external funding and uses it to subsidize the cost of the paint, meaning communities only end up paying 15 to 20% of the actual price.

Rushney's Housing Trust has been painting houses in cities all over India.

In Jobper, a city on the edge of the tar Desert, they painted an entire slum, a poor and crowded area of a city with very bad housing conditions.

What's more, the trust subsidizes the paint, meaning they pay part of the cost, so even the poorest families can afford it.

It's a great example of Indians skillfully finding ways of adapting to the heat.

A modern version of Jali, you could say.

So what was the answer to your question?

Beth, was my idea that Jali is a honeycomb pattern used for windows.

Correct?

It was the correct answer. Jali is a honeycomb design with many small holes set into wooden or stone windows.

The small holes keep out the sunlight and cool down the air coming in.

OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned in this program, starting with sweat, passing salty water through the skin to stay cool.

Ventilation is the movement of fresh air.

A power cut is an interruption in the supply of electricity.

A daily wage earn up is a worker who earns money on a day to day basis.

A slum is a very poor and crowded area of a city.

And finally, if you subsidize something, you can pay part of its cost.

Once again, our 6 min are up.

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