For this post, we take our spoken English lesson from a BBC documentary on the current state of tigers in our country. The study talks about how government steps have failed to stop poaching (illegal hunting) of the beautiful cats which are now under the risk of extinction.
Watch the video and learn the words. Then answer the quiz at the end. The best way to learn spoken English is to get immersed in it.
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Let’s now discuss interesting words and phrases in this clip:
Vindicate = Proved right (I always said Suresh was a suspicious character and would stab us in the back and I was vindicated when he complaint to the boss about us)
Poach = Hunt illegally (Poaching in the jungles of UP has reduced the number of tigers drastically)
Hard hitting = Strongly worded (In a hard hitting article in Times of India, the best selling author has criticized the corruption in the government)
Adequate = Appropriate (The government should take adequate steps to stop the rioting and punish the culprits)
Scrap = To cancel or to repeal (The law which threw school boys into jail if they copied in the high school exams was scrapped when the government changed)
Designate = To earmark (This place has been designated as the lunch area so why are you eating your lunch somewhere else?)
Far cry = Very different (Today’s Noida with glittering malls and towering apartments is a far cry from the half jungle half town of twenty years back)
Devise = Prepare or create (The sinister plan to rob the bank was devised at Sudhir’s place on the new year’s eve)
Take to task = Punish (If the government wants to regain its credibility, it needs to take all the corrupt ministers to task)
Matter of time = Within a short time (Many experts believe it is just a matter of time before Pakistan implodes)
Come back to haunt = Past mistakes catching up with you (His crimes in his village came back to haunt him when he was arrested by police while working in a factory in Noida)
Now, solve the following quiz:
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Come up with a miracle
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