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Improve your English Vocabulary by reading an article with me
Today we’ll read an article that uses some advanced English vocabulary and expressions. This article by Jon Excell is about some World War II bombs that are in the water very close to the shore of the UK. Even though the bombs are now very old, they are still a serious threat. This article uses a lot of advanced words and phrases, so it’s perfect if you are trying to take your English to the next level. Read this article with me, and then I suggest you read more articles on your own at the BBC Future website.
Quiz
Test your understanding of this English lesson
Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions. You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz.Levels
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35 COMMENTS
Got 08. Doesn’t a word “Outcry” mean crying, too ? Anyways, thank you Gill. Appreciable lesson.
hi Annie – “crying” has two meanings. The main one is to cry with tears when you’re unhappy. But a secondary meaning is when someone calls out loudly, or shouts. For example “he cried out in pain”. The preposition “out” is often included with this secondary meaning. So the noun “outcry” is used when people object strongly/loudly to something – it’s more to do with anger than sadness. I hope this helps.
interesting topic.
Good exercise. I need to retain the meanings of the collocations and phrasal verbs.
Thank you, I really love this type of class.
Thanks mrs Gill! There’s a interesting context in this article. I watched the video, read the article and did the quiz. I got 07. It is also a interesting historical lesson. With a mermaid warning.
What a masterclass!!Thanks a lot Gill!!
Great to see you´re still safe even the pandemic is now hitting hardly in the UK.
Take care and thanks again!!!
hard, not hardly. Sorry
Thank you very much for the great class, Gill!
Take care!
Great lesson!
Thank you so much to explain in a nice way. You are a great teacher.
Very good lesson, thank you very much.
Than you so much,Gill
That’s the most understandable kind of lessons for me as a beginner to learn English, Not too fast speed and using simple paraphrase. Thanks so much and I really appreciate this course.
Thanks a lot! I’ve been practicing Reading FS for an year. It is not easy, so I passed only E3 FS. I need increasing my vocabulary with a little advices. Also I hope will find something about Indirect comparison, which is implied, and can’t understand it when making comparison of 2 or 3 texts at the same time.
Great Gill!
thank you very much
Good exersice
I like it
thank you so mush
I’ve got 9 correct out of 10 ! But the most important it’s an interresting subject. Thank you so much Gill. I love the way you teaching us ! Now I have to find an English table conversation (here in Belgium … With a native). Speaking isn’t my strong suit ;o)
Love. Beatrice.
Hi Gill, very good lessons, I am loving them!
But in the “onomatopoeia” question I thought that more than one could be classified as one:
click, crunch and bang!
Regards!
And despite the British flag (because I live in the UK), I am Brazilian!
Thanks
9/10 It is better for those explosives to be “stable”. And as a result, I got 9 out of 10. Thanks, Gill.
Thank you, dear Jill! Such a great video from a super teacher!
Sorry, Gill!
Thanks for sharing! This lesson is amazing!
I got 9 correct out of 10. I had a blast ♫
So enriching and so pleasant! What an amazing way of learning. Its a pity that in my youth, we did not have such facilities. But retirement is no bar for me to still enjoy these marvellous lessons.
THANK YOU GILL.
thanks a lot Gill
9/10 second prompt (Kazakhstan 12 oct2021)
difficult lesson for me
9/10
Gill, thanks a lot!
thanks for great lesson Gill.
Thank you for a lovely lesson, Gill. Your explanation was easy to understand so that I could understand the article well. In addition, I got lots of new vocabularies which I’ve never used them. I’ll try to achieve mastery of these useful words or idioms from now on.
Very educative. Thank you.