Vocabulary from this video BBC News Review "Life on Pacific garbage patch": - Patch (n) - a small area that is different from the others surrounding it; a piece of material sewn on the cover of a hole (of clothes) Exp: She sewed a patch on the knee of her jeans. Life on the Pacific garbage patch doesn't sound like a great place to live. - Coastal (adj) positioned on or relating to the coast. Exp: Coastal creatures are creatures living on the coast. - Junk = trash = rubbish = garbage = waste - Humorous (adj) - funny, amusing, or making you laugh. Exp: It is humorous to think of a patch of rubbish being used like a love shack for coastal species to reproduce or create new life. 1) Piggyback (n) - a ride on someone's back with your arms around their neck and your legs around their waist; = piggyback ride. Exp: I gave my daughter a piggyback or a piggyback ride to the bed when she got tired of walking. Piggyback (adv) - on someone's back or on the back of something Exp: She carried her son piggyback. Her son rode piggyback on his mom. My son wanted a piggyback as his feet were starting to hurt after walking a lot. Piggyback (v) - use someone's or something's success in order to get an advantage or benefit. Exp: The businesses are piggybacking the festival's success by selling stuff related to the festival. 2) Hitch a ride (v) - to travel in someone else's vehicle. Informal, not used in academic writing. the expression used with friends or family. Hitchhike (v) - describe when you stand on the side of the road with your thumb up and ask to travel in the stranger's vehicle for free. Exp: Coastal organism hitched a ride to the middle of the Pacific Ocean on plastic waste. My car broke down, so I hitched a ride in a lorry to the nearest mechanic. I decided to leave my car at home and hitched a ride with my friend. 3) Love shack (n) - a place for love and romance where people go to be together. Shack (n) - a roughly-built hut. Exp: The couple traveled to a love shack in the woods for their honeymoon. I went away for a business weekend, but my accommodation looked more like a love shack than a normal hotel. Applied paragraph: A large patch of junk, trash, rubbish, garbage, and waste in the Pacific Ocean is a major problem for us today. This patch of rubbish doesn't seem like a suitable place for ocean creatures to live. However, some scientists have discovered that certain coastal creatures have adapted to live on the huge plastic waste island. This patch of rubbish has become a platform for these creatures to hitch a ride to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The coastal creatures are piggybacking on the island of garbage into the middle of the ocean. They are thriving and reproducing in larger numbers than before because of the extra space created by the garbage. It is interesting to think of this patch of rubbish as a habitat for coastal species, but it also highlights the devastating impact of human activity on the environment. Many thanks for this video. Have a great day!!!
❤ Plastic garbage really causes Big problems in the world, we need to find solutions to solve it Immediately. Thanks for your hard work to remind the public. 😊
When I was small, my grandpa usually gave me a piggyback to go around the village. I have never hitched a ride. There are a lot of love shacks where I live.
I am happy to see you guys,I Wanna learn English speaking. This UA-cam channel appeared on the screen and started to watch videos. I liked it .thanks for your effort.
Thanks for this video to BBC Video teams. I would like to use one of these words that we learnt from the video. When I was a child. I was used to go to the park thanks to my grandmother that I piggybacked by her shoulders
When I was a kid, I got an accident so my father often gave me a piggyback to the hospital. Last week, because my motorbike was broken, I had to hitched a ride with my co-worker!
I think If you can use microphone or wireless microphone like other youtuber or reporters the quality of sound would be great because I hear a lot of noise during this video
Thank you for providing me the latest news topic. I heard the ocean's problem is one of the gobal ones, but I've not watched it. Many many creatures within the sea eat the gabages. People often calls the sea as 'our mother', it's like methaphor. Looking at your video, I reckoned I had to react to this problem. By the way, long time no see, Sian. What's up? And Neil, I often keep on listening to BBC 6 minutes English created by you and Sam. Neil, do you play Rugby yet? Anyway see you on the upcoming 6 minutes Englsh, bye.
Hi nobotu san. As you seem to just start looking into the garbage patch, a few facts to enrich your research as that is almost never mentioned unless you read closely: - the patch is not mostly big pieces of trash, but small floating / submerged particles. You wouldn't see anything out of the ordinary in the patch - plastic is not toxic. That's why we wrap all of our food and medicine in it. And hence, it is perfectly fit to replace other (rare) floating things in open water as suitable living area - no animal will mistake plastic for food. Some creatures ingest microplastic particles accidentally (to no apparent effect beside moving the microplastics further up the food chain). But pictures if seabirds going for small pieces of trash and feeding it to their youngsters has a different background: they need these kind of hard objects for their 2nd stomach, where they physically crush food using pebbles, pieces of wood, bones, shells and other suitable floatsam. Regurgitating and replacing this occasionally ("birds vomiting plastic") is normal behavior. - the patch doesn't have as muvh implications for consumer plastics as one usually is led to believe: ~80 % of the patch consist of nothing but discarded fishing gear, mostly nets (and hence can be avoided withou experimenting with shifting entire economies). Another ~15 % % can be attributed to the tsunami that sadly hit Japan 2011. Tsunamis are also behind most of the images of the "garbage patch" you'll find where you actually see trash islands. Noone likes trash floating and lying around in nature, but 1) other than being in disaccordance with our perception of beauty, there is not much harm and 2) looking at the fishing industry alone might solve the best part of it in one go.
In my opinion governments of rich countries have to have meeting for getting decisions for solving this problem. I think it's not difficult pick this garbage up and utilize...
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Vocabulary from this video BBC News Review "Life on Pacific garbage patch":
- Patch (n) - a small area that is different from the others surrounding it; a piece of material sewn on the cover of a hole (of clothes)
Exp: She sewed a patch on the knee of her jeans.
Life on the Pacific garbage patch doesn't sound like a great place to live.
- Coastal (adj) positioned on or relating to the coast.
Exp: Coastal creatures are creatures living on the coast.
- Junk = trash = rubbish = garbage = waste
- Humorous (adj) - funny, amusing, or making you laugh.
Exp: It is humorous to think of a patch of rubbish being used like a love shack for coastal species to reproduce or create new life.
1) Piggyback (n) - a ride on someone's back with your arms around their neck and your legs around their waist; = piggyback ride.
Exp: I gave my daughter a piggyback or a piggyback ride to the bed when she got tired of walking.
Piggyback (adv) - on someone's back or on the back of something
Exp: She carried her son piggyback. Her son rode piggyback on his mom.
My son wanted a piggyback as his feet were starting to hurt after walking a lot.
Piggyback (v) - use someone's or something's success in order to get an advantage or benefit.
Exp: The businesses are piggybacking the festival's success by selling stuff related to the festival.
2) Hitch a ride (v) - to travel in someone else's vehicle. Informal, not used in academic writing. the expression used with friends or family.
Hitchhike (v) - describe when you stand on the side of the road with your thumb up and ask to travel in the stranger's vehicle for free.
Exp: Coastal organism hitched a ride to the middle of the Pacific Ocean on plastic waste.
My car broke down, so I hitched a ride in a lorry to the nearest mechanic.
I decided to leave my car at home and hitched a ride with my friend.
3) Love shack (n) - a place for love and romance where people go to be together.
Shack (n) - a roughly-built hut.
Exp: The couple traveled to a love shack in the woods for their honeymoon.
I went away for a business weekend, but my accommodation looked more like a love shack than a normal hotel.
Applied paragraph:
A large patch of junk, trash, rubbish, garbage, and waste in the Pacific Ocean is a major problem for us today. This patch of rubbish doesn't seem like a suitable place for ocean creatures to live. However, some scientists have discovered that certain coastal creatures have adapted to live on the huge plastic waste island. This patch of rubbish has become a platform for these creatures to hitch a ride to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The coastal creatures are piggybacking on the island of garbage into the middle of the ocean. They are thriving and reproducing in larger numbers than before because of the extra space created by the garbage. It is interesting to think of this patch of rubbish as a habitat for coastal species, but it also highlights the devastating impact of human activity on the environment.
Many thanks for this video. Have a great day!!!
Thank you very much.Have a nice day!😊
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Amazing programme.
Thank you!
Excellent!! Interesting!!!
Thanks BBC , Neil and Sian
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❤ Plastic garbage really causes Big problems in the world, we need to find solutions to solve it Immediately. Thanks for your hard work to remind the public. 😊
When I was small, my grandpa usually gave me a piggyback to go around the village.
I have never hitched a ride.
There are a lot of love shacks where I live.
I am happy to see you guys,I Wanna learn English speaking. This UA-cam channel appeared on the screen and started to watch videos. I liked it .thanks for your effort.
I am glad to see you guys ❤️❤️
Thank you
Thanks for this video to BBC Video teams. I would like to use one of these words that we learnt from the video. When I was a child. I was used to go to the park thanks to my grandmother that I piggybacked by her shoulders
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Wonderful indeed
Clear and understandable love it
Thanks
When I was a kid, I got an accident so my father often gave me a piggyback to the hospital.
Last week, because my motorbike was broken, I had to hitched a ride with my co-worker!
Thanks for your comment - great use of vocabulary! Here are a couple of corrections: 'I had an accident' 'I had to hitch a ride'!
I like the way you explain the ideas... I am new here.. But I will follow your advice and channel and I enjoy the journey of learning English with you
Welcome! It's nice to have you in the BBC Learning English family!
I liked this video.
Thank you ❤
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I think If you can use microphone or wireless microphone like other youtuber or reporters the quality of sound would be great because I hear a lot of noise during this video
Thank you for the feedback.
He asked the car driver who he hitched a ride to give him a piggyback to a love shack. He is so mean!
Bbc important information all the time 😊
Great
Thank you
Thanks, I like watching this program so much. I think today's topic must be very important. It is time for us to start recycling things, isn't it?
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Liked and thank you.
Thank you!
Nice.
Thank you for providing me the latest news topic. I heard the ocean's problem is one of the gobal ones, but I've not watched it. Many many creatures within the sea eat the gabages. People often calls the sea as 'our mother', it's like methaphor. Looking at your video, I reckoned I had to react to this problem. By the way, long time no see, Sian. What's up? And Neil, I often keep on listening to BBC 6 minutes English created by you and Sam. Neil, do you play Rugby yet? Anyway see you on the upcoming 6 minutes Englsh, bye.
Hi nobotu san. As you seem to just start looking into the garbage patch, a few facts to enrich your research as that is almost never mentioned unless you read closely:
- the patch is not mostly big pieces of trash, but small floating / submerged particles. You wouldn't see anything out of the ordinary in the patch
- plastic is not toxic. That's why we wrap all of our food and medicine in it. And hence, it is perfectly fit to replace other (rare) floating things in open water as suitable living area
- no animal will mistake plastic for food. Some creatures ingest microplastic particles accidentally (to no apparent effect beside moving the microplastics further up the food chain). But pictures if seabirds going for small pieces of trash and feeding it to their youngsters has a different background: they need these kind of hard objects for their 2nd stomach, where they physically crush food using pebbles, pieces of wood, bones, shells and other suitable floatsam.
Regurgitating and replacing this occasionally ("birds vomiting plastic") is normal behavior.
- the patch doesn't have as muvh implications for consumer plastics as one usually is led to believe: ~80 % of the patch consist of nothing but discarded fishing gear, mostly nets (and hence can be avoided withou experimenting with shifting entire economies). Another ~15 % % can be attributed to the tsunami that sadly hit Japan 2011. Tsunamis are also behind most of the images of the "garbage patch" you'll find where you actually see trash islands.
Noone likes trash floating and lying around in nature, but 1) other than being in disaccordance with our perception of beauty, there is not much harm and 2) looking at the fishing industry alone might solve the best part of it in one go.
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I like this video
We're glad to hear it, thank you!
In my opinion governments of rich countries have to have meeting for getting decisions for solving this problem. I think it's not difficult pick this garbage up and utilize...
Ok
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Piggyback hitch ride love shack
I am hitched ride on bbc to learning english, now i am thriving and reproducing :D
So, that news are real? 😯😯 Poor nature , poor of us.
We doesn't follow normal routine of life distanceson manner
Hithced a ride
Piggyback
Love shack
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How the did I just watch this for even a minute. Awful.
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What happened to Neil? He is looking a bit fatigued
2 out of 3 words today from Indian periodicals.
Give sb a piggyback 揹著
Hitch a ride with sb 搭別人的車
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