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I'm Catherine.

I'm Neil and this is news review.

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BBC Radio two news bulletin.

Scientists say they've seen a remarkable number of blue whales in recent weeks near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic, a survey counted 55 animals figure unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended, So blue wears the largest animal on the planet.

Now their numbers have been in serious decline.

But a ban on commercial whaling 10 years ago has led to a wonderful number off 55 Wales being spotted at the same time in the same place.

So scientists are delighted about this because it appears to indicate that their numbers are recovering.

So, good news, Neil today.

Isn't it great to hear some good news for a change?

Okay, well, you've been looking at this story, Katherine.

You've picked out three words and expressions.

What do you have we have today unprecedented bouncing back on dhe so unprecedented, bouncing back and sore.

So that first word unprecedented in your first headline, please.

Here we go.

So we're looking at the UK first.

The newspaper is the independent on the headline is thrilling.

Unprecedented number off.

Critically endangered blue wears recorded off Antarctic island.

Unprecedented Never having happened before.

Okay, this is a rather long and complicated world with lots of bits.

It's got five says it goes five bits on press dented on press dented The spelling is U N P R E c E D E N T E d on the stress Neil is on there.

It's on the second syllable.

Unprecedented.

Great demonstrators.

Thank you.

Unprecedented.

Yeah.

Now, the key to this word is contained in the second syllable.

That's right.

Yes, the second syllable.

Pee all e.

We pronounce it prep in this word, but P R e pri means before and that's really the big clue to this word.

We also then look at the first syllable a kn which means not so un pre Orion prayer means not before, So if something is unprecedented, it's never happened before.

Okay?

And we use this don't way to talk about sort of important thing.

Yeah, it's big events, things they're making the news things which are kind of really important.

So you don't say my daughter went to bed on time this evening when I told her it was unprecedented.

The child went to bed on time.

It sounds a bit over foremost, so it's all things like the waves.

It's unprecedented.

Numbers off unprecedented rate.

The Australian bush fires recently.

Bush Fires floods All of these extreme weather events we've seen in recent months and years could be called unprecedented.

And it's not just for the natural world.

We can talk about business developments, political developments on You could talk about things that unprecedented moves You could talk about an unprecedented action and president of number, unprecedented rate.

So it's all often about the woods that were describing our moves, numbers, rates, actions.

Yeah, so if we did want to say something informally s O, for example, Remember last week when Robert gets Rob, came into the office a big pile of biscuits and did nobody just walked straight passes?

He didn't touch them.

Is that unprecedented?

Well, it is, but we wouldn't.

We turned to each other and we didn't say that was unprecedented.

We went.

He's never done that before.

Ever happened before?

Yeah, So that's more the everyday English would be.

That's never happened before.

He's never done that before.

I've never seen that before.

Nice present.

Perfect expression.

Okay, let's have a summary time now for our second word, please on.

We're going now to mail online from the UK Blue whales are bouncing back from the brink of extinction after decades of decline as researchers spot fifth sti five of the enormous animals near on talk to go bouncing back, becoming successful again after a bad experience.

Yes, it's a two word expression.

First word bouncing B O u and C I N g.

The second would buck the opposite of front B A C K.

Okay, so I'm sure everybody knows what sort of thing bounces well.

Balls, bones mostly, isn't it?

Especially basketball.

When you've got the basketball on and you hit it with your hand and the force of your hand pushes it to the floor, it hits the floor on because it's made of rubber captures the energy because I'm a scientist, you know, and it bounces bounces that comes back.

So to bounce is to hit on a hard object and come back the same direction.

Okay, so to continue this sort of figurative theme, Yeah.

If you get thrown against something hard, it's not very nice.

No, you probably probably wouldn't bounce back immediately.

Had collapsed after goldar smell.

But you would recover.

You would eventually feel better, and you'd come back and you'd be okay again.

So the idea of bouncing back is recovering after something bad happens.

Now, with the case of the whales, there was almost none of them left, you know, it was a terrible situation, but now 55 of them shows that they're recovering after a bad situation.

And that is why we use the word.

And we often use this as well to talk about personal experiences.

Yeah, very much so.

Yes, we can use it.

You can.

If you lose your job, you get made redundant, your bones spark.

So you take some.

You know, it's a bad time for you.

But you find another job and you get on with your life.

You can bounce back after illness.

You feel ill.

You can't go to work again.

Better You can bounce back after a financial problem.

You know you.

You lose money for some reason, but you fight back and you recover and you get on with life.

So for personal setbacks, we can use it on.

We can also use it in a wider contacts.

Business, politics, Government's economy.

Yeah, on the rain forest.

You know, our third After the fires, the Australian fire forests are starting to pounce.

Park?

Yeah.

So any kind of recovery.

Okay, let's have a summary of that word.

Now, if you like stories about the environment, we have got a cracker.

Yes, Environmentalist Greta Thornburg is rarely far from the news.

We covered her recent visit to the United Nations.

She made a very passionate speech on.

If you want to find out more about it, just click the link in the description.

You'll go straight to the story Time now for our final headline, please.

On sticking with the UK The Telegraph Blue Wailers sightings soar 30 fold in a year as giants off the ocean rebound, rebound being under their word for bounds.

Buck indeed.

Yes.

So sore.

Meaning rise quickly.

Yes.

Nice short word.

One syllable Dispelling is S o A.

All the pronunciation is soul soar Just like that thing that you cut wood with.

And the past tense of the verb to see soon saw the way we say it in this particular yes, some people pronounce that are at the ends, but still often hear it with just sore, which rhymes with door.

Yes, particularly in British English.

Okay, so I saw that.

Something that birds do.

It's a verbal movement.

Yes, Neil.

Tell us more about what birthday words elegantly and effortlessly go up into the sky.

Yes, they spread their wings, they fly.

The idea of the Web sore is to move up with gracefully powerful e effort.

At least effortlessly.

I'm strongly so it's a strong a put movement that birds have and planes have.

Yeah, although it's, ah, very short and simple and beautiful word.

We don't use that much.

No side of newspaper headlines.

Yeah, you don't say.

You know, my daughter's exam results have are soaring at the moment.

They're getting higher and higher.

Yes, we really use it for in this case, the numbers off blue whale sightings.

There are more and more and more of them, so it's a dramatic rise, but you tend to use it because of the drama of the word soul.

You'll see.

The newspaper reports, newspaper headlines, you know, TV reports as well.

But it's not too much everyday English as kind of theatrical language.

We might hear it in in relation to things like markets.

Yes, markets saw prices.

Yeah.

Have you ever tried to get tickets for your favorite band?

Well, I tried on one of those ticket resale sites.

You know, when you missed the general sale and you can buy them.

And my goodness, the prices were soaring by the minute.

Literally.

Every time I looked have gone up, so the prices were soaring to ridiculous levels.

So I stayed at home and didn't go and see that band.

I just listened to them on the computer a lot cheaper.

Basically the same.

Okay, let's have a summary place of that one time now, then, for a recap of our vocabulary, please, Catherine.

Yes, we had unprecedented never having happened before.

We had bouncing back, becoming successful again.

After a bad experience on we finished on sore increased quickly.

If you would like to test yourself on that vocabulary, there's a quiz you can take on our website.

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