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Nearly a million Twitter users leave as Elon Musk takes over.
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Nearly a million Twitter users leave as Elon Musk takes over.
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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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Almost one million.
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That's how many Twitter accounts have been deactivated since Elon Musk bought the social media platform last month.
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Musk's takeover has been controversial.
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Some people are worried about his approach to free speech,
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thousands of staff have lost their jobs,
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and there are plans to make some users pay a subscription.
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Many users are moving to an alternative called Mastodon,
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a free social network platform where posts are called toots.
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Eugen Rocko, the founder of the platform,
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tooted on Monday that he thinks the massive increase in users is pretty cool.
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You've been looking at the headlines, Beth.
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What is the vocabulary?
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We have flock, on fire and mammoth.
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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Let's take a look at our first headline.
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This one comes from The National, a Scottish media outlet.
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Top Scottish Twitter users flock to Mastodon amid Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
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OK, so Twitter users in Scotland,
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as well as many other places in the world, are leaving.
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And the word that we are looking at in this headline is flock,
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which is connected to birds, isn't it?
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Yeah, so flock as a noun is a group of birds.
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And remember the Twitter logo is a bird and you post tweets.
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Now, tweets is a word that is the sound a bird makes.
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Yeah, so the headline writer uses flock because of Twitter's connection to birds.
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It's used as a verb in the headline,
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but we can also see it as a noun to refer to a group,
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so a group of birds, or sheep.
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So what's the connection to sheep?
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Well, if you picture a field with one sheep and it moves over here,
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all of the other sheep follow it.
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Sheep are famous for following each other.
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So the headline writer has used this as well to describe all of these people moving from Twitter to Mastodon.
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They're following each other like sheep.
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And so there's a nice double meaning in this headline related to birds and sheep.
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But the word flock, is that one that we use in everyday English?
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Yeah, we do.
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So imagine a shop has a sale,
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then all of the shoppers might flock there because they want to buy something for a good price.
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Yes, and if your favourite singer or group is going on tour,
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people will flock to ticket websites to try and get a place at the concert.
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And also, if we make a good video,
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people flock to our website to watch it.
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I hope that happens.
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Yeah, same.
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Let's take a look at that again.
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Time for our next headline.
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This one is from CNN.
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With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire.
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So the headline says that Twitter is in chaos,
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lots of people are leaving,
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they're joining Mastodon, a rival.
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The expression we're looking at is on fire.
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Now this sounds a little bit dangerous,
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Beth, if something is on fire,
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that's not a good thing.
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Should I call the fire brigade?
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No, no, don't call the fire brigade.
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So this expression, on fire,
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is used to talk about a good thing,
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to say that something is amazing or it's doing well.
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So the headline writer is actually praising Mastodon,
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because it's so popular at the moment.
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Yeah, so often in this program we talk about metaphorical language.
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On fire literally means that something is in flames.
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That's not the sense here.
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No. In this headline, and also in informal conversation,
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we use on fire to say that we're impressed with something.
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Yeah.
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And not just social media platforms,
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we use it more widely.
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Yes, we do.
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So we often use it to talk about skills.
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For example, I watched my friend play football yesterday and she scored three goals.
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She was on fire.
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Yeah.
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And I saw you preparing this script this morning, Beth.
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You were on fire.
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Thank you, Neil.
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I think we're both on fire today.
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Let's take a look at that again.
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Time for our next headline, please.
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This one is from Slate.
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The headline is asking if Mastodon could become a social media mammoth.
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And mammoth is the word we're looking at.
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What is a mammoth?
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Well, they are extinct animals.
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They looked a little bit like hairy elephants.
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They have a big trunk.
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And they were absolutely enormous.
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Yes, and so size is the key in this headline.
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It's asking whether mastodon could become a really big social media platform.
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Exactly.
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And mammoth is also related to another very big and extinct animal that also looks like a hairy elephant,
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a mastodon, and that is the name of this new social media platform.
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Yeah, so there's a really nice double meaning in the headline, it's quite clever.
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It links the mammoth to the mastodon,
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another really big extinct animal,
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and also the name of this social media platform.
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We're looking at mammoth though,
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and as an adjective it can be used to describe really big things.
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Yes, it can.
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So, for example, this morning it took me over two hours to get to work.
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It was a mammoth journey.
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Yes, and I had a mammoth task at the weekend.
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I tried to get my kids to clean their bedroom and...
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took a long, long time.
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Let's have a look at that again.
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We've had flock move together in a large group.
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On fire – impressive, because something is done very well.
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And mammoth – something very big.
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Don't forget there's a quiz on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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Thank you for joining us and goodbye.
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Bye.

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  • flock - толпиться, сбиваться в стаю (как птицы)
  • on fire - в полном разгаре, в подъёме
  • mammoth - гигантский, огромный
  • takeover - поглощение, захват (например, бизнеса)
  • subscription - подписка, плата за услуги
  • toot - публиковать (в контексте новой платформы)
  • deactivate - деактивировать, отключить аккаунт

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