BBC 英语学习 News Review 第一位进入太空的阿拉伯女性

A dream come true, says the 1st Arab woman in space.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil and I'm Beth. Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary to talk about this story.

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quiz on our website. Now the story the 1st Arab female astronauts Ryana Barnawi has blasted into space.

She is part of a crew of space tourists who are visiting the International Space Station for eight days, as well as having a holiday.

The tourists will conduct independent research.

According to space company Axiom, you ve been looking at the headlines path what's the vocabulary We have?

Out of this world Swoop and paves the way.

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

This is from Nine News Australia Out of this world.

Welcome for Landmark Astronaut arrivals on International Space Station.

So this headline is saying that the International Space Station welcomed astronauts in this landmark.

Mission landmark means that it was very significant and important.

But what we are looking at is out of this world, an expression which contains lots of familiar words, but put together, what's the meaning?

Well, it's used as an adjective, and out of this world means incredible.

In fact, it's so good that it's not even from this planet.

Yes, so the welcome that the astronauts received at the International Space Station was incredible.

But it's being used literally in this case, they were out of the world because they are in space.

Normally, we are not in space when we use this expression, so we use it metaphorically.

That's right. The headline writer is having a little bit of fun here, because it's a story about space and an expression about space.

But we can use it in normal situations too.

E.G. Neil. Yesterday, I had a slice of cake.

It was incredible. It was out of this world.

Well, I went to a concert, and the music was out of this world.

It was so good. Let's look at that again.

Let's look at our next headline.

This is from futurism, space X Tourists swoop into International Space Station.

So this headline is about the SPACEX tourists arriving at the International Space Station.

We're looking at the word swoop.

Now, bet sweep is something that birds do.

It is yet So swoop means to fly easily, quickly and often downwards.

So, e.g., if a bird swoops, it might be trying to catch a mouse.

Yeah, so this sounds like quite a kind of dramatic word.

Why is it being used here?

Well, the astronauts reached the International Space Station in a rocket.

And swoop here means that they flew quickly and they docked with the space station.

Now, take notes, though, because swoop doesn't always have to be used with flying, does it?

No, it can mean a sudden attack, so, e.g., the police can swoop on a gang of criminals.

It means that it can enter their house quickly.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

This is from WYAT axiom's 2nd flight Paves the way for a commercial space station.

So this headline says that this mission might pave the way for a future commercial space station.

We're looking at pave the way, and pave means to create a hard surface to travel along.

It does. You might know the word pavement, which is the bit next to the road that you walk on.

But pave in pave the way, means create a metaphorical path.

It's not real. Yes? So it means to do something for the 1st time, to create future possibilities.

That's right. So this expression is often used with science and experiments.

Maybe there's a successful medical trial, and that paves the way for new drugs.

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

We've had out of this world incredible, very good swoop fly quickly and efficiently, and paves the way makes something possible.

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