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6 Minute English - Is a door just a door

You look very please, Neil. I'm please. I just move into my new flat. OK, fantastic. Congratulation. So where is the new flat? It's in the city. It's one bed flat so it's beasu meaning small but attractive. There is a balcony, of course a couple of deck chest and a BBQ. I can't wait to see it. sounds perfect. Well today we're just discussing housing. And why in some buildings there is separated entrances for rich and poor residents. So are you ready for today's quiz question, Neil? I'm all ears. Ok. So you mean you're listening carefully. I am. Right. What does social housing mean? Is it housing for people who a) want to buy or rent at low price b)  who want to live together sharing facilities c) who are not able  to pay rent at it all. OK. I think the answer is a) to buy or rent at low price. OK, we'll see if you're right or wrong later on in the programme. So have you met your neighborhood yet Neil? Yes, I bumped  into...

6 Minute English - Food Waste

Now, you like food, don't you. Yes, I do. But how much food have you actually throw away? Probably too much or trying to get back, Rob. Very good. I'm asking you this because many people around the world throw away food that still good enough to eat. This food waste could feed million of people. That's what we're talking about today. As well as looking about some vocabulary. Yes,  food waste is a big problem. So we stock up from food we don't really need and we often tempt to supermarket to consume or eat more. Before we talk more about this, let's find out what your know about food waste. So do you know according to United Nation Food Agriculture Organization, what percentage of food is actually wasted? Is it: a) 25 percent b) 33 percent c) 50 percent 50 percent. Well, we'll find out if you're right or wrong later on. But now, here is another figure for you. In Europe, people throw away a hundred million tons of food every year. Wow, ...

6 Minute English - Cloud suspicion (part2)

I think ultimately, it's about been savvy on what you put in the cloud. If you had a private or sensitive photograph or contractor, something like document that has public interest and people want to try and get. Just think twice about putting into environment such as cloud, you don't really have any control whatever.  He says people have to be savvy. And that means willing form and quite sure you know, thinking carefully about things. He advise that has to be  very careful before putting document, pictures on this website owned by big corporation. Yes, because he says we don't have any control over their computers. You don't know secure your document is up? Yes, you know Rob, I can see how people are suspicious of this things. OK let's hear what BBC technology corespondent XXX  has to say, when XXX explains how some cloud companies are offering to make the cloud more secure. Which word does he use to describe this kind of security process and also identific...

6 Minute English - Cloud of suspicion (part 1)

Now, Finn can you give me a smile please. You take a picture of me. Yes, what's that smart phone hang on. Just let me call my hair beats. Finn, Finn, you look fine. Don't worry about it. Hold it there. Nice. I'm going to save it now. Ok let see it go on to the cloud. Really? Yes. We'll be able to look at that later on on my laptop. The cloud, you don't mean what on the sky. Of coure, no. You mean the huge computer of companies like apple, facebook and google store their users' pictures, videos and documents. You know, I'm a little suspicious about the cloud. Are you? Well, I just don't want lot of people looking at that picture. May because my hair don't look like quite right. So van . Anyway. It's too late now. You look fine so you can share it with the world. OK. Thank about those poor celebrities who have the newest picture leaks online. Mmm leak,  now this refer to pictures that will been cat, hidden, been made ava...

6 Minute English - The first space walk

Now I watched that space movie last night. The one astronaut  are stranded in the space. Oh yes. Another one. Stranded, that means stuck at a place with only a  small chance of leaving. Gravity, that was the name of the film. Yes, that's the one. that's the one. I'm talking about space. Do you know this year marked the 50th anniversary of the first ever space walk. On the 18 march 1965, Russian astronaut XXX was the first man to draft free in space. 500 km from the surface of the earth. And that's the subject of today's show. What on earth must he feel like? Wow, very good. Yes, it would feel like nothing on earth. That's to say very strange indeed. He was the first person to experience the colorful geography of our planet  starched down before him. Very poetry glove. How about answering today's quiz question. OK How long did the first space walk last? Was it a) 2 minutes b) 12 minutes c) 22 minutes All quite sure. I think I'll go on...

6 Minute English - Time capsules

I'm really looking forward to 2015. But I have to say the last year was great. So great, I'm thinking about creating my own time capsule. Really. A time capsule. You mean a kind of box of container way can store object or information. So the people in the future, yourself included, will know how you life in a particular time that. That's it. And I'm already collecting items. My own mobile phone, which don't use anymore. And uhllly jumper with small man on it I grand gave me but I never wear. You never wear. It's really silly jumper, Rob. She said it to remind me how much she loved me. Remind, which means makes me remember. But all that makes me think of she still treat me like a child. I am included a Christmas card which can with it. Well. You got to choose the items you wish to keep as a memory of time very carefully. It's a historically record. That usually means a piece of writing or narrative of advanced of a particular time. Well let's di...

6 Minute English - Bullying or normal competition

Today we're going to talk about very serious topic - bullying. And you're going to learn some vocabulary related to this topic. It's a very serious matter because it can leave people traumatize. Yes, traumatize. It means they end up with emotional wounds which affect them psychologically. bully want to intimidate people. To intimidate, in other words, to make people fear them. Yes it does make people fear they can't help themselves. The powerless, they feel helpless. Unfortunately, bullying has been increasing in the world place in spite the law against it. Let's go for some figures. Are you ready to question, Neil. Yes, I am. The work place bullying institute based in US conducted a survey last year. How much of the American work force has experienced bullying at work. Was it: a) 7 percent b) 27 percent c) 47 percent Well, I don't know. But I am going to go for 27 percent. OK, I will give you the answer at the end of programme. I'm very...