The story
Scientists and diplomats from 130 countries start a meeting in Paris today to examine a huge report on how human activity is crippling global biodiversity. They’ll hear how a million species face extinction and how most UN targets to sustain biodiversity won’t be met.
Vocabulary
groundwork
initial work or planning which makes future work easier
• Firstly, I’d like to thank our manager, who laid the initial groundwork for this meeting.
• My partner always books the flights and does the groundwork before a trip.
degrading
making the quality of something worse
• Residents say that noise pollution from the new road is degrading their quality of life.
• Fake news is degrading trust in the press.
mass
on a large scale
• Economic instability in the region has led to mass migration.
• Scientists warn of a mass extinction of global species in the report.
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I can see that Neil is a shy guy.
I would like to thank you, because you laid the initial groundwork for my English
I cannot tell the meaning of "won't be met" in 0:46 (on bottom sentence). Could you tell me that ?
Definetely, this video is laying groundwork to maintain my English learning routine!
I could not understand the joke of Neil about "mass hysteria". Could anyone sub these sentences please? Really appriciate.
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My city didn't a laid groundwork for to care the environment. Due this in Mexico city have high grades of air contamination.
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If a country hasn't laid the groundwork for its economical prosperity it might suffer mass migration, or mass discontent.
laying the groundwork is a proved way of getting beter results.
these videos are a superb groundwork( in terms of improving vocabulary) before being recognized with a prety acceptable English.
Tom is a newbie in this program?
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Learning with bbc is the best way to lay your groundwork for getting better results in the future, thanks a lot BBC you encourage me to keep learning, a huge hug from The Canaries!👍👍
Frankly speaking is that it's great story . as always the future of prosperity the country is big goals , in this way government and people must act like on hand and lay groundwork for it , with no trepidation politation play key rule it's mass impotant things , finally i guess war is degrading point .
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Mass-large scale
Degrade-reduce in quality
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the masses is the population?
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Love BBC! I am laying the groundwork for the new project.
I've been listenting to bbc 6 minute english for a few years, very like neil and his sound 想给尼尔生猴子 HHhh
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Thanks BBC
I have had the groundwork before the exam today.
Degrading yourself about the bad grades isn't good idea.
Mass people gathered along the queue to get the fresh water.
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I’m glad to see this lesson
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Ali from Iraq 🇮🇶
The governments across the globe have a responsibility to do groundwork for the prevention of mass degradation of existing ecology. It would provide people a platform to work for ecological conservation and help improve the degrading quality of life on earth.
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Great video and great content. Thank you for helping us to improving language.
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