A growing number of people around the world are experiencing something psychiatrists are calling 'ecoanxiety', an overwhelming sense of hopeless and doom due to the current climate situation. Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.

❓❓❓ This week's question
In Australia, an animal thought to be extinct has been spotted for the first time in over fifty years. But is the animal:
a) a shark?
b) a lizard?
c) a parrot?
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Vocabulary:
✔compassion strong feeling of sympathy for someone and the wish for them not to suffer
✔what a something phrase used to intensify the thing you are talking about; e.g. What a mess! What a nice surprise!
✔ball game set of circumstances that control how a situation happens
✔impassioned strongly motivated to express emotion or take action
✔movement group of people with the same beliefs, ideas and aims
✔working life the period of life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement

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