displaced · guarantees · overturned
· 0:58 · With Emma
Learn “displaced”, “guarantees”, “overturned” in slow English. From: A migrant boat capsizes off Senegal, with the reported death toll rising to 39.
Transcript
Vocabulary in this episode
- bulletin
Here are words from the bulletin about heavy weather in Gaza, peace talks, and a migrant boat disaster in Senegal.
A bulletin is a short news report or update.
- heavy weather
Here are words from the bulletin about heavy weather in Gaza, peace talks, and a migrant boat disaster in Senegal.
Heavy weather means very bad or severe weather.
- peace talks
Here are words from the bulletin about heavy weather in Gaza, peace talks, and a migrant boat disaster in Senegal.
Peace talks are discussions between sides trying to end a conflict.
- migrant boat disaster
Here are words from the bulletin about heavy weather in Gaza, peace talks, and a migrant boat disaster in Senegal.
This means a terrible event involving a boat carrying people who are moving to another country.
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In this episode
- A migrant boat capsizes off Senegal, with the reported death toll rising to 39
- US, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are due to discuss security guarantees
- Floods leave displaced families’ shelters exposed in Gaza
Sources
- RechercheThe article says the boat was among uncovered wooden canoes that travel around 800 miles across the Atlantic to reach Europe; it also reports high unemployment, poverty, and an economic crisis in Senegal.
- RechercheRussian strikes on Ukraine’s power system have intensified as winter sets in.
- RechercheOCHA reported that an estimated 65 percent of people in Gaza—about 1.4 million people—live in tents or makeshift shelters.
- RechercheJaber al-Kaseeh told Al Jazeera that water flooded his tent and soaked the family’s mattresses, carpets, blankets and remaining food.