Lingohack
Intermediate level
Get up-to-date with the latest news and understand it too with Lingohack. Listen to and watch authentic BBC World news bulletins and learn key words and phrases that help you make sense of the news.
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Flying car
Episode 220525 / 25 May 2022
Language related to retail: model, processing, licensed, orders, bring (something) to market.
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Pigs on patrol
Episode 220511 / 11 May 2022
Learn language related to farming: scarecrow, harvest, crop, soil, fertile
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‘Extinct’ fish returns to the wild
Episode 220504 / 04 May 2022
Learn language related to disappearing and reappearing: missing, under the radar, bringing (something) back, recovering, making a comeback
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Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
Episode 220427 / 27 Apr 2022
Learn language related to shipwrecks: preserved, construction, pristine, portholes, raised
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How to make people like robots
Episode 220420 / 20 Apr 2022
Learn language related to behaviour: playful, curious, sociable, interact, accept
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Hope for people with diabetes
Episode 220413 / 13 Apr 2022
Learn vocabulary related to medical treatment: trial, monitors, game changer, quality of life, stabilised.
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First woman of colour completes a solo expedition across Antarctica
Episode 220406 / 06 Apr 2022
Learn language related to physical challenges: comfort zone, gruelling, toughest, reservations, hardships
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Going for gold in e-waste
Episode 220330 / 30 Mar 2022
Learn language related to chemical process: components, extract, heated, end result, recover
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A family’s hope of ending discrimination
Episode 220316 / 09 Mar 2022
Learn language related to discrimination: to face, bullying, uniqueness, educate, stigma.
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Recycling food waste
Episode 220309 / 09 Mar 2022
Learn language related to sustainability: deal with, breaks down, organic matter, sustainable, pathogens
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Ancient bone found in the Thames
Episode 220302 / 23 Feb 2022
Learn language related to rivers: lurking, shallows, causeway, low tide, mudflats
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Britain's lost Lego
Episode 220223 / 23 Feb 2022
Learn language related to the beach and the ocean: wash up, shoreline, off the coast, ocean currents, tide
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Boxing to beat Parkinson’s disease
Episode 220216 / 16 Feb 2022
Learn language related to health and lifestyle: quality of life, rock bottom, medical intervention, exercise-orientated therapy, back on its feet
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Out-of-hours work ban
Episode 220209 / 09 Feb 2022
Learn language related to work: civil servant, job, boss, normal hours, private sector.
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Electric buses: greener public transport
Episode 220202 / 27 Jan 2022
Learn language related to buses: chugging, double-decker, secreted, cabin, range
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Reducing construction waste
Episode 220126 / 26 Jan 2022
Learn language related to construction: wooden pallets, skip, manufacturing, supply chain, building site
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Following whales round the Southern Ocean
Episode 220119 / 19 Jan 2022
Learn language related to researching animals: conducted, tags, track, migrations, transmitting
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Robotic surgery
Episode 220112 / 12 Jan 2022
Learn language related to surgery: operation, medical field, patient, surgeons, keyhole surgery
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Protecting seahorses
Episode 220105 / 05 Jan 2022
Learn language related to sea and boats: teeming with (life), mooring chains, seabed, tide, seafarers
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How tourism and science work together in Antarctica
Episode 180522 / 18 May 2022
Learn language related to behaviour: alluring, remote, expedition, ambassadors, fragile



















