What hurts? What happened? What are their blood levels? This kind of thing. If someone is sick, you look at the different ways in which they’re sick. This is when you figure out a problem or an issue, specifically by looking at the different clues. Let’s go to our next clip.Īdd to that, President Trump’s diagnosis, the high infection numbers, the White House.Ī couple words here. If anything, just a very, very small sign, but there’s precious little evidence that the pandemic is slowing down. ‘Precious little sign’ means really no sign at all. Precious little, you might also hear the term ‘precious few’, this means very little, a very little amount of something, extremely low in number, let’s watch this clip again. There’s precious little sign of things slowing down. Staggering means overwhelming, a huge amount, a very large number. And all of the people would be a bunch of cases, people who have the coronavirus. In other words, one person who has the coronavirus. But in this particular case, it means an instance of something, an occurrence of something. This word has a couple of different uses. Total number of cases more than seven and a half million.Ĭases. Now the word ‘toll’ has the OH as in No diphthong, but when it’s followed by a Dark L like it is here, it’s not tow– towl– towl– but it’s toh– ohl– ohl– A little bit more rounded, tongue pulled back a little bit more, death toll. Death– and then you’ll go right into a true T. We have an unvoiced TH, the tongue tip does have to come through the teeth there. Or it could be a natural disaster like an earthquake or a tsunami.ĭeath toll. For example here, the coronavirus pandemic. This refers to the number of people who died in relation to a particular event. The coronavirus death toll in the United states is now more than 212,000 people in this country–ĭeath toll. Wow, okay, a lot of words there to learn there. Looking at where the US is right now in this pandemic, and during the fall in the winter, cases on the rise, not just in small clusters, but across most of the nation, how concerned are you about the months ahead? He joins me now, Bill, thanks for being with us. Add to that, president trump’s diagnosis, the high infection numbers, the white house, the overall lag in widespread testing, contact tracing, it’s certainly a recipe for concern as the fall begins in the winter, Bill Gates is joining us he’s co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, has long put his fortune and talent behind searching for cures for this global health crisis and for other global health crisis. The coronavirus death toll in the United states is now more than 212,000 people in this country, total number of cases more than seven and a half million. Cooper asked, it’s 45 seconds long, let’s take a look.
Then after the clip, you and I will go over it in-depth, together looking at the pronunciation, the meaning, and the context of the word or phrase so that you’ll definitely understand it and remember it. The other therapeutic categories, the antivirals, like Remdesphere has only had modest benefit– That’s always been the most promising therapeutic category. You’re going to watch a clip, and onscreen, there will be white words with a red outline, those are the words that we’ll study after we watch the clip. Let’s talk about the format of this video. I think learning English this way is a great way because when you learn a word in a context like this, I think it makes it easier to remember.Īs always, if you like this video or you learn something new, please like it, give it a thumbs up, and subscribe with notifications, it really helps. You’re going to hear some words that relate specifically to Covid-19, but also just some more advance vocabulary words that can help your English sound more sophisticated. It’s Anderson Cooper interviewing Bill Gates on Covid-19, some of the therapies that are being developed, and what the fall is going to look like, a very current topic, something that’s on a lot of people’s minds. Today we’re going to study some vocabulary and some idioms together, watching a news clip on YouTube. What to know exactly how to pronounce the most important election-related vocabulary? I’ve got you covered! YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video.