#3 COVID : One year on

1. Link to the podcast :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6-minute-english/ep-210225

2. Keywords mentioned on the handout :

(1) Pandemic

Once the virus becomes a pandemic influenza, your trouble will only begin.

(2) Wimpy

I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician.

(3) Take hold

the reforms of the late nineteenth century had taken hold.

(4) Kick in

It takes half an hour for the medicine to kick in.

(5) Sheer

Statistics show that police are struggling to tackle the problem due to the sheer number of cases.

(6) Genome

The Human Genome Project was the international research effort to determine the DNA sequence of the entire human genome.

3. Other vocabularies :

(1) Take stock

After two years spent teaching overseas, she returned home for a month to take stock of her life.

(2) Go for

The public goes for his ideas.

(3) Lockdown

The school has been placed on lockdown this morning while authorities investigate a bomb threat.

(4) Feeble

Opposition to the plan was rather feeble.

(5) death toll

The death toll of Nepal earthquake keeps climbing.

(6) Recap

Finally, the teacher recapped the main points of the lesson.