New controls on travellers entering the UK have come into force to try to keep out variants of coronavirus from other countries. Catherine and Tom have the vocabulary you need to talk about this story.
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Video chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
0:34 – Story
1:39 – Headline 1: COVID-19: Everyone arriving in UK must now self-isolate as travel corridors close
3:57 – Headline 2: PM’s bid to shut all travel corridors could be undermined by poor enforcement, shock figures show
7:10 – Headline 3: Travel Corridors axed completely in latest quarantine U-Turn.
10:30 – Language summary
Key words and phrases:
corridors
narrow routes
* Travel between the two countries is limited to one busy corridor.
* The manager’s office is at the end of the corridor.
bid
attempt to achieve
* The executive’s bid to modernise the workplace was unsuccessful.
* The aspiring politician made a bid for power at the party conference.
axed
cut or reduced without warning
* Employees fear that their jobs may be axed.
* I’m struggling to pay my bills since the company axed my hours.
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🏫 There are many corridors in this flat.
🏫 The team bid to win the match.
🏫 The company decided to axe many employees by 2022.
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The red list on countries on covid travel ban list are poor ones with no trade deal with UK lol all non EU
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I love how Tom laughs at his own jokes 😂 so much like me
1:46 is it common nowadays to use "in UK" instead of "in the UK"? Is it always allowed to skip "the" before UK?
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Thank you guys. I learned these vocabularies well
British worries cause someone could bring covid to them… funny… I won't go there in the rest of my life
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Nowadays, most employees are scared of their jobs been axed in the bid for the employers to escape salaries corridors
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''Axed''it's very hard to pronounce! Thx for the lesson!
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