Coronavirus: 99-year-old man raises millions for NHS: BBC News Review

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hello and welcome to news of you once again we are still at home of course
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because of the corona virus outbreak we can't go to the BBC studios but we are
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here from our homes bringing you the news and the headlines hi Catherine how
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are you hello name hello everybody yes I'm fine thank you we have got a really
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heartwarming story heaven way today we have yes 99 year old captain Tom Moore
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has been raising money for charity by walking round and round his garden ok
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well let's find out some more about that story from this BBC news report when
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captain Moore started his fundraising effort last month he initially wanted to
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thank the staff who treated him for cancer and a broken hip but as the virus
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spread around the world so too did generosity for those working in crowded
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hospitals each time the fundraising goal was met
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it was increased mr. Moore has now walked the 100 laps of his 25 meter
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garden 10 laps each day allowing time to recover before another effort and he
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says he will keep walking as long as people keep donating so captain Tom 99
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years old he's been walking around his garden to raise money for the National
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Health Service also known as NHS here in the UK now his original target was to
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raise one thousand pounds but right now as Neil and I are recording this show
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he's raised over 12 million pounds that's about 15 million dollars for the
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NHS it's an amazing achievement especially considering his age he's 99
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and his health problems he's already beaten cancer and he's had several hip
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operations so he's a wonderful guy raising lots of money for charity and
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he's doing this because he wants to say thank you to the National Health Service
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workers who've helped both him out and are helping out thousands of people who
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are suffering from the coronavirus okay well you've been looking at
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this story and you've been picking out headlines and vocabulary that's useful
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to talk about it what have you found yes we have fundraiser uplifting and vet
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fundraiser uplifting and vet okay let's see your first headline please yes we're
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going to BBC views here in the UK coronavirus captain Tom Maas NHS
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fundraiser reaches 12 million pounds fundraiser event organized to raise
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money yes it's a two-word expression fund and raiser fu nd Rai ser now the
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first part of this expression fund refers to money second part raiser while
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we know the word raise if you raise something you make it go up so
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fundraiser means money going up and that's it you make money if a fundraiser
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is an event that makes money now in particular fundraisers make money for
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charity or for good causes so Neil imagine there is in your street there is
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somebody who has a health problem yeah and they want some treatment and you
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want to help them make to get some money for this treatment what kind of things
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could you do as a fundraiser well typical kind of things could be for
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example I might decide to take part in a marathon or some some kind of difficult
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physical challenge that people would give me money and that money would go
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towards the cause or might organize some kind of event in the evening where
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people pay money for a ticket yeah and the money from those tickets goes
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towards the good cause well there might be an auction or something along those
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lines yeah good sounds something yes or people also
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some people cook they bake cakes and they sell them and the money they make
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from the cake sale goes towards a particular charity or a cause so it's
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make doing something that makes money for a charity or a good cause that's not
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the end of the fundraiser story that are other ways you can use the word
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fundraiser we talk about political fundraisers now the idea is the same you
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do an event that makes money but it goes to a political party of your choice so
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it's not quite the same as money for you know stray cats or people who were real
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or making and you roof for the school or something like that but a political
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fundraiser is an event that makes money for a political party yeah and also we
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use this word to refer to the person who is raising the funds yes so captain Tom
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Moore is a fundraiser he's organized a fundraiser the event
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because he is a fundraiser somebody who's making money and this is actually
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a job description as well you can be a paid fundraiser that's somebody who
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organizes events to make money for particular charities okay brilliant
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let's have a summary of that word
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now time for our second headline please Katherine yes we are going now to the
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Express and star still in the UK the headline uplifting news
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drumming weatherman goes viral and veterans fundraiser hits 11 million
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pounds uplifting making people feel happier yes and it's two words again up
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lifted you P LIF TI ng written there's one word
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first pot is up and that's the opposite of down up lifting is the act of making
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something go higher so if you lifting something up you're making it higher put
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them together uplifting but this is about the way people feel it's about
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your feelings your mood if something is uplifting
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it makes your mood or your feeling better it makes you happy yeah and this
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is we're talking a figuratively here aren't we yes absolutely it isn't about
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and nothing comes along and hold you and makes you go higher it's very sort of
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idiomatic idea of your spirits your feeling your mood you just feel good you
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can talk about lots of things can be opening the I love you what was the last
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uplifting movie you saw oh well there are plenty of uplifting movies around
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out then songs can be uplifting as well but I think the most uplifting things
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I've heard or seen recently are some of these stories that have come out of the
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coronavirus crisis for example the the singing on the balconies in Italy and
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playing guitars and stuff the Rainbows the children have been
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making and then here in the UK every Thursday at 8 o'clock people go on to
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their out into the street or stand in their front doors and they clap to say
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thank you to the health workers who are helping people in this terrible crisis
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all of those things are really uplifting they are very uplifting things they make
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you really feel good and that kind of another word for
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uplifting we can talk about heartwarming if something's heartwarming it's the
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same idea it makes you feel a little bit happy and fuzzy inside it makes you feel
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good so uplifting or heartwarming the things that make you happy and feel good
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really important at times like these very much so yeah okay let's have a
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summary of that so talking of things that are uplifting we have an uplifting
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hopefully video for you don't we Catherine we do so we thought we would
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share with you the kind of things that we've been doing to keep busy while
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we're all at home so if you want to find out what Neil's been doing amongst other
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babysitting's English stuff click the link in the description and you can find
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out and it's not what you expect no it does involve cucumbers though okay let's
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have a look at our final headline please okay and we're finishing up today with
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Sky News from the UK again ninety nine year old war vet raises millions for NHS
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that person who used to be in the Armed Forces
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you confused deal by this way well as you can imagine Catherine I'm very very
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confused because I thought a vet was some kind of animal doctor yes that ve T
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is an animal doctor it's short for veterinarian but this particular 99 year
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old is not an animal doctor he's a war vet now vet in this case is short for
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veteran ve ter a N and if you're a war veteran or a war vet you have been that
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you have fought in a war it comes really from the United States it comes from
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North America doesn't it originally but we know what it means over here in the
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UK yes most certainly there was on people often talked about Vietnam
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people who fought in the Vietnam War from America but it's common now in the
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UK you can often use an adjective or another noun in front of it so you've
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got war vet means somebody who fought in a war you can talk about an army vet
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somebody who was in there in the unite in the army a Navy vet an Air Force vet
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so somebody who used to be in the Armed Forces it also has a wider usage doesn't
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it beyond the military just to mean somebody who is probably old and very
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experienced in their particular field yes it does yes so you can be a vet in
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your profession and still do your profession or often we'll use the word
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veteran for this purpose so you can be a broadcasting veteran that means somebody
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who's been doing TV or online or radio for a long long time they're still doing
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it everybody knows who they are they're very well respected they're kind of
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senior in their profession so you can be a broadcasting veteran somebody like
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David Attenborough is a broadcasting vet you kneeled you keep going for a few
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years and one day maybe one day I will be you will you're not far off it now
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there were you now now you'll soon be abroad a living english veteran okay
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let's have a summary of that please
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find out for a summary of the vocabulary we've looked at today please Katherine
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yes we had fundraiser event organized to make money we had uplifting making
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people feel happier and we had vet person who used to be in the Armed
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Forces if you want to test yourself on this vocabulary there's a quiz you can
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take on our website BBC learning english.com
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you can find all kinds of other things videos quizzes to help you improve your
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English do stay safe everybody and we'll see you next time goodbye say bye
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