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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Pippa.
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In this episode we're discussing poetry.
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For some, poetry is what you study at school,
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then forget, while for others it becomes an important part of their life.
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Have you ever read or written any poetry, Neil?
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Well, I haven't written any poetry since I was at school.
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I would love to read more poetry,
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but I just don't get it really.
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I find it difficult to understand.
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A good place to hear poetry is an open mic night,
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a live event where anyone is allowed to stand up on stage to sing or recite poems.
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Here, BBC reporter Maria recites her open mic poem about a
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friend who suffered a stroke for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World.
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This first poem, I wrote it about a friend who I love dearly.
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It's called Stroke.
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You're awake and trying to grasp who it is.
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I pull my mask past my lips and you study my face.
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Eyes wide.
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I've enough stuff to tell you,
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I say, sinking into a chair.
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I stare.
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Sometimes if you go to an open mic night,
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people can really touch your soul with what they're saying.
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And even if you're having a bad day,
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life can feel so much better after going to an open mic night.
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For Maria, poetry has the power to heal emotions and touch your soul,
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meaning to affect you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.
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In this episode, we'll hear more about the positive power of poetry and,
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as usual, we'll learn some useful new words and phrases.
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And remember, you'll find all the vocabulary,
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plus a quiz and worksheet, on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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But first, I have a question for you, Pippa.
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Just now, you used the phrase,
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positive power of poetry, repeating the same initial p sound across a string of words.
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Doing this is a common feature of poetry, but what's it called?
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Is it a assonance, b alliteration, or c simile?
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Hmm, finally my English degree might come in handy,
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and I'm going to say b alliteration.
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Well, we'll find out at the end,
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and I hope you don't get embarrassed, Pippa.
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Now, poetry helped Maria overcome sadness,
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but could its power to heal work in other areas too?
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Hot Poets is a group helping people understand the science behind global issues like climate change.
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They go to meetings, like the UN Climate Conference,
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and listen to scientific papers being presented.
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Then they write a poem about it all,
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and perform that back to the audience.
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Here's hot poet Liv Talk reciting her poem to BBC World Service's People Fixing the World.
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It starts with an adventure at sea.
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A big blue murder mystery where the killer is not the whale,
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but an epic humanity fail of overfishing and polluting at unimaginable scale.
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Liv's poem is based on a study into biodiversity.
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It's a complex research project that many find hard to understand.
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Here, Liv discusses this with Myra Anubi for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World.
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And Liv, I mean, so what you've identified is that there is an issue around the communication of science.
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Yes, a lot of this jargon is really hard to understand
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or a lot of the science is quite impenetrable to normal people,
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so it's instantly a turn off.
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Science uses lots of jargon,
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specialist or technical vocabulary, which is quite different from everyday language.
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For example, a scientist might use the word precipitation,
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while in everyday English we would say rain.
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Jargon can make scientific papers impenetrable,
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an adjective meaning impossible to understand and worse,
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it makes science a turn-off,
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something that people dislike or find uninteresting.
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Hot poets try to change all of that by making complex environmental ideas easy to understand through poetry.
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And it works, says Cat Bruce,
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the environmental scientist whose study Liv based her poem on,
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talking here with Myra Anubi for BBC World Service's People Fixing the World.
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What did it mean for you,
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Cat, hearing the poem, having actually experienced everything It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it now.
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I think it's everything that I wish I could say and put into words myself.
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I feel like Liv just has done that.
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Liv's poem gave Kat goosebumps,
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meaning she was so emotionally affected that the hairs on her skin stood up, making tiny bumps.
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Maybe poetry can't fix everything,
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but for Kat it's making an impact for good.
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Now, what was the answer to your question, Neil?
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Well, you seemed very clear,
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Pippa, that when you use a string of words beginning with the same sound, it's called alliteration.
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And you're absolutely right.
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Phew.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt,
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starting with open mic night,
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a live event where anyone is allowed to perform poems or music on stage.
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If something touches your soul,
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it affects you deeply on an emotional or spiritual level.
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Jargon means special words and phrases that are used in a particular profession or subject.
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The adjective impenetrable means impossible to understand.
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A turn-off is something that people dislike or find uninteresting.
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And finally, if you get goosebumps,
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the hairs on your skin stand up because you're cold,
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emotionally affected or afraid.
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Once again, our six minutes are up,
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but remember you'll find lots more episodes as well as a quiz and worksheet for this one on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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See you again soon, but for now it's goodbye!
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Goodbye!
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重要な語彙とフレーズ
- オープンマイクナイト - 誰でも詩や歌を披露できるイベント。
- 感情を癒す - 悲しみやストレスから解放されること。
- 触れる - 深い感情や精神的なレベルで影響を与えること。
- ポジティブな力 - 良い影響を持つ力。
- 気候変動 - 環境問題に関連するテーマ。
- シャドーイング - 音声を真似ることで、発音やリズムを学ぶ技法。
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