Do you have eco-anxiety? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

A growing number of people around the world are experiencing something psychiatrists are calling ’eco-anxiety’, an overwhelming sense of hopeless and doom due to the current climate situation. Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. ❓❓❓ This week’s question In Australia, an animal thought to be extinct has been spotted for the first time in over fifty years. But is the animal: a) a shark? b) a lizard? c) a parrot? Listen to the programme to hear the answer. [Cover: Getty Images] You can download audio and text here 👉 Vocabulary: ✔️compassion - strong feeling of sympathy for someone and the wish for them not to suffer ✔️what a something - phrase used to intensify the thing you are talking about; e.g. What a mess! What a nice surprise! ✔️ball game - set of circumstances that control how a situation happens ✔️impassioned - strongly motivated to express emotion or take action ✔️movement - group of people with the same beliefs, ideas and aims ✔️working life - the period of life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement More 6 Minute English episodes: ⭐ Can you stop a disaster? 👉 ⭐ The right way to say sorry 👉 ⭐ Foraging for wild food 👉 ⭐ Plants fighting pollution? 👉 ⭐ Should we fear chatbots? 👉 ⭐ Is it wrong to eat plants? 👉 ⭐ Sonic Seasoning 👉 ⭐ The benefits of doing nothing 👉 🤩🤩🤩 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