BBC Learning English The benefits of doing nothing 6 Minute English

🎯 Загружено автоматически через бота: 🛑 Оригинал: 📺 BBC Learning English — @bbclearningenglish 📃 Оригинальное описание: Some animals evolved to do nothing. And if it’s good enough for animals, would being lazy work for humans too? That’s what Beth and Neil talk about as they teach you some useful vocabulary. ❓❓❓This week’s question What is the slowest moving animal on earth? a) the giant tortoise b) the three-toed sloth c) the koala Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary ✔️kick back stop doing things and relax completely ✔️industrious hard-working ✔️colony group of certain animals, birds or insects that live together ✔️productive able to produce a lot for the amount of resources used ✔️necessity is the mother of invention (idiom) meaning that if you really need to do something, you will think of a way of doing it ✔️switch off stop worrying or thinking about something, and relax [Cover: Getty Images] You can download audio and text here 👉 More 6 Minute English episodes: ⭐The art of subtitling 👉 ⭐Ecotourism: good or bad? 👉 ⭐ Ice and the origins of life on Earth 👉 ⭐ Women in politics 👉 ⭐ What’s the point of museums? 👉 ⭐ Doomscrolling: Why do we do it? 👉 ⭐ Can AI have a mind of its own? 👉 ⭐ Climate change: Are there too many people? 👉 🤩🤩🤩 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more English videos and podcast English to help you improve your English 👉 ✔️ Visit our website 👉 ✔️ Follow us on Instagram 👉 ✔️ Find us on Facebook 👉 ✔️ Join us on TikTok 👉 @bbclearningenglish Get our app: Android 👉 iPhone 👉 We like receiving and reading your comments - please use English when you comment 😊 #learnenglish #bbclearningenglish #lazy #ants