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Introduction We all live in an over-crowded world which is fast approaching eight billion people. Despite that many individuals feel alone and isolated. The BBC made a survey about loneliness, involving 55,000 people from almost 240 different countries. Neil and Sam discuss the findings and teach you new vocabulary. This week's questionWhere is the most isolated inhabited place on the planet? That's the place furthest away from anywhere else with the fewest people living there. Is it: a) McMurdo Station in Antarctica b) Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert c) The island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularyisolated
far away from other places and people stereotype
a simplistic view of person or group based on certain characteristics such as nationality, age, profession intensely
strongly to be plagued by something
to be tormented by something; to have it causing you problems and difficulties figure something out
try to understand something to regulate
to control Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript
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发表于 2018-11-9 19:39:38
