Name: 滑りやすいトイレで節水 - ニュースレビューを見る (Saving water with slippery toilets - Watch News Review)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:31:19.000Z
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review The program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English Hi, I'm Neal with me.

Our story today is about a new invention for toilets that may help with juice water usage.

Let's find out some more about that from this BBC Radio Two news Bulletin Researchers in the United States say they've produced an ultra slippery coating for toilets that could help to save vast quantities of water around the world.

They say the spray on coasting significantly reduces the amount of water needed to flush a toilet effectively.

Neil, do you worry about how much water use every day?

I keep the tap turned off when I'm brushing my teeth.

No, I think that's something we all try not to think about.

But it's something that we all definitely do do.

So, According to Dr Taxing Wong, humans use about 140 billion needs of water every day.

He's led a reach research team in the United States to find a solution to save water on is a spray on coating for toilets.

Um, so he says it will save over tens of billions of litres of water, which is a lot of water.

And some papers are saying it could save 70 billion litres of water a day world white.

But it has another fantastic benefit, which is that it also helps to keep your toilet nice and clean.

In fact, that the spray is said to help the toilet self clean.

So it's a possible win win solution for the planet and for nice, clean toilets without having to do any work.

Well, you've been researching this story, obviously, and you found three words and expressions that can help us to talk about it.

State of the art on dhe finally shed unsightly state of the art on dhe shed.

First word in your first headline, please.

The first headline is from the Daily Mail.

Self cleaning toilet that banishes unsightly stains could save 70 billion litres of water a day.

Scientists claim unsightly meaning unpleasant to look at.

And you can break it down into two easy parts on, which means not on site, which has the meaning of vision, has an l y on the end.

It means something you don't want to see, like stain.

So, for example, the washing powder removed any unsightly stains.

It can also be used to talk about maybe something a bit more serious, like there's some new unsightly graffiti on the bus stop or they left the neighbors left an unsightly pile of rubbish outside their house.

Okay, well, this is quite is quite formal and polite, isn't it?

Use to talk about things that you don't like to see.

It was gross, but the thing to remember is you can't use it to talk about a person.

Okay, So for example, my old boss, before I worked here Hank.

I couldn't stand and I couldn't stand to see this person.

But you could say that their hair, their clothes were unsightly.

So items that they're wearing, But as a person, they're not.

Because it's how you kind of how you look out that that it's used in that context.

So, for example, you might, I might say to you which is not true.

Your hair is looking unsightly today, Neil, Did you brush it?

Is Mondo on It is the state of the art in toilet technology.

Is lube state of the art the most technologically advanced?

Now it's great once in a while to have a really obvious expression on news review.

So state of the art must be connected to art, right?

It's all to do a science technology, that new inventions, I suppose so.

It's not necessarily available to everybody.

For example, my new car is state of the art, or I I bought a state of the art robot Hoover.

Except I suppose if you buy something that is state of the art on Dhe doesn't perform as it should.

So I might say I bought a state of the art washing machine and it never worked.

You could say, supposedly state of the art.

That's how you could use it in a negative way.

Okay, well, we are talking about an environmental issue in this story, and we have plenty of other environmental issues discussed on our YouTube channel.

For example, Georgina, we have a six minute English six minute English radio show called How can I help the environment so you can find the link in the comments below.

Okay, moving on now to our final headline.

Our final headline is from C net on It is Hi tech.

Slippery coating helps toilets Shed all the gross stuff.

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