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Could apples, berries and cacao improve our memory as we get older?
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary to talk about this story.
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Don't forget to subscribe to our channel,
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like this video and try the quiz on our website.
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Now the story.
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What you eat could improve your memory as you age.
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That's according to new research in the US that found people with a diet rich in flavanols
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may be less likely to lose their memory.
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The substance is found in tea,
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berries, apples and cacao, the seeds that chocolate is made from.
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But while some scientists think eating more dark chocolate could help,
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others say more research is needed.
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You've been looking at the headlines, Beth.
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What's the vocabulary?
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We have keep something at bay, stave off and drive.
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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Let's look at our first headline.
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This is from the Mail Online.
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Six squares of dark chocolate a day may keep the memory loss at bay.
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So, this headline is suggesting that eating dark chocolate can help prevent you from losing your memory as you get older.
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The expression we are looking at is keep something at bay.
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It's quite a strange-sounding expression.
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What does it mean?
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Well, quite simply, it means to stop something bad or dangerous,
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harmful from happening to you.
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So, in this case, the harmful thing is memory loss.
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We want to prevent memory loss,
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so we want to keep it at bay.
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Yes.
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And this expression does have a wider use.
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It's not only about memory loss.
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No, it's not.
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We can use it for lots of harmful things,
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but it is often related to health.
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So, for example, washing your hands can keep infections at bay,
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or exercising can keep heart disease at bay.
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Yes.
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And take note, we can also use the word but hold instead of keep,
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hold something at bay, it means exactly the same thing.
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Let's look at that again.
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Let's look at our next headline.
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This is from The Guardian.
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Tea, apples and berries could stave off age-related memory loss, study suggests.
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Again, this headline is about preventing something bad from happening to us,
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in this case memory loss.
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The expression we're going to look at is stave off.
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Now, that word stave, that's an old-fashioned sounding word for a long stick, isn't it?
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It is, yeah.
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And it might help you to think about that long stick to understand this expression.
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So, Neil, imagine something is physically threatening you,
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maybe a pack of wild dogs,
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and you have a long stick.
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What are you going to do with it?
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Well, if a pack of wild dogs was attacking me,
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I would use that long stick to protect myself.
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Maybe I could wave it and the dogs would go away.
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That's a strong mental image.
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It might help you to remember the meaning of this phrasal verb,
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but actually we don't usually use stave off in a literal sense anymore.
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We don't, but it does have the same meaning.
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It just means to prevent something bad from happening,
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just like our first expression, keep something at bay.
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And again, this is something we often use with health.
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Some people say that drinking orange juice can stave off a cold.
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but we can also use it to mean prevent other general negative things.
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Yes.
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And one more interesting thing to note.
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Stave off is a phrasal verb,
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and it's the kind of phrasal verb that you can split in the middle.
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So, you can say, orange juice staves off colds,
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or you can say, orange juice staves colds off.
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Let's look at that again.
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Let's look at our next headline.
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This is from The Independent.
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Diet low in flavanols may drive age-related memory loss, scientists claim.
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So, this headline is looking at the same story,
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but from the opposite angle.
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It's saying that a diet low in flavanols – now,
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that's that substance that you find in apples,
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berries, tea and cacao – a diet low in that could cause memory loss.
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And the word we're looking at is drive,
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a familiar word used differently here.
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Yes, but we're not talking about cars here.
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So, drive actually has a wider meaning than the one we all know connected to cars and driving.
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It can also mean to force something in a certain direction.
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Yes.
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So, when the headline says that a diet low in flavanols drives memory loss,
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it means that that diet pushes in the direction of memory loss.
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And in the same way,
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when you drive a car,
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actually what you're doing is just forcing it to go in a certain direction.
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OK, let's look at that again.
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We've had keep something at bay – prevent something bad affecting you.
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Stave off – also prevent something bad affecting you.
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And drive – force in a certain direction.
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Did you know that exercise can also help our brains?
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To learn more, watch this episode of News Review.
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Don't forget to click here so that you can subscribe and never miss another video.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Bye.
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Bye.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, esploreremo il legame tra dieta e memoria, basandoci sul video dal titolo "Can diet improve memory? BBC News Review". Impareremo come alcuni alimenti, come il cioccolato fondente, le mele e le bacche, possano influenzare la memoria nel tempo. Attraverso questa pratica, non solo arricchiremo il nostro vocabolario, ma miglioreremo anche le nostre capacità di conversazione in inglese, utilizzando espressioni utili per discutere di argomenti legati alla salute e alla nutrizione.

Vocabolario chiave e frasi

  • keep something at bay - tenere qualcosa a bada
  • stave off - allontanare, prevenire
  • drive - spingere, motivare
  • memory loss - perdita di memoria
  • flavanols - flavanoli
  • dark chocolate - cioccolato fondente
  • infections - infezioni
  • heart disease - malattie cardiache

Consigli per la pratica

Per massimizzare i risultati della tua pratica di conversazione in inglese, ti consigliamo di utilizzare un approccio di shadow speak mentre guardi il video. Riprova le parti chiave dove vengono presentati i concetti di keeping memory loss at bay e staving off age-related decline. Fai attenzione al ritmo e al tono di Neil e Beth; parla insieme a loro per migliorare la tua fluidità e comprensione. Se il video è veloce, non esitare a mettere in pausa e ripetere le frasi diverse volte. ఇది σου πληροφορώ για την διατροφή και την μνήμη; Adatta la tua intonazione per renderla naturale. Incorporando queste tecniche mentre impari l'inglese con YouTube, avrai l'opportunità di rendere il tuo shadow speech più efficace e coinvolgente.

Ricorda, una pratica costante e ben strutturata ti porterà a una maggiore sicurezza e padronanza della lingua inglese. Buona fortuna!

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