Name: ギリシャ山火事、少なくとも24人死亡BBCニュースレビュー (Greece wildfires - at least 24 dead: BBC News Review)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:06:52.000Z
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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.

So wants this story today story down is about wildfire Wildfire.

Okay, let's get more information from this BBC World Service bulletin.

Greek emergency workers have used boats and helicopters to evacuate people who had taken refuge on a beach to escape a deadly wildfire near Athens.

At least 24 people have been killed by the flames.

There are unconfirmed reports of many more dead.

The authorities have appealed for help from other European Union countries.

So Greece is but like wild fire which is burning in the attic a reason region around Athens.

A time of this report there are 24 people confirmed dead, but there's probably a lot more deaths.

Unfortunately, and Greece has asked for support from the European Union.

Okay, We've got words and expressions you can use to talk about this story.

We have today sweep flee, Andi, gut sweep, flee and gut.

Can we have our first headline, then, please?

Deadly wildfires sweep through towns near Athens, Greece.

E Now, forgive me, but I'm a little confused.

I thought that sweeping was to do with brooms.

A broom is like a brush with a very long handle that you use to clean floors with.

And this week, and you sweep your floors with this brush called a broom.

When you sweep the floor, you use a very long, powerful movement, and it takes all the dirt away.

So the idea of sweep is this long, powerful, strong movement.

And it's interesting you say across because that's the one of the propositions that we might use, isn't it?

Where we've got three fire can strip across a region or fire can sweep through a town, as it has in this case, so you can sweep across something, sweep through something, sweep into something, okay?

Like hundreds of refugees might sweep into a town to escape the war zone.

We often use sleep to describe fashions and trends on and crazies.

So I remember a year or two ago, the fidget spinner craze swept across the school playgrounds of this country and probably many more.

He might talk about a political fever sweeping the nation.

Football fever sweeps swept the world a few weeks ago.

Know if you had to room dramatically and everybody knows you're there.

And you have big gowns and dresses on, you know?

Lady Gaga are sweeping into a room and everybody turns to look at it.

Let's sweep along to our second headline, then.

Okay, so now we're going to look at the telegraph.

The headline is Greece Wildfires At least 50 killed near Athens as residents and tourists forced to flee into the sea flee escape from danger quickly.

It's a verb on the past on the passport is love.

And when I when I imagine fleeing, I always imagine standing in a field of sheep.

Andi, if you had a gun and you fired the gun in the air, all the sheep would flee.

They run as fast as they could to get away from danger on the idea.

And that absolutely summarizes the meaning of flea running or moving very quickly to escape from danger.

Isn't there like it could be a very dangerous situation.

And newspaper headlines love it because it's so dramatic and short and encapsulate this idea of running because you're scared or you're in danger.

So how do we use it In a sentence to be just used with announced right away?

You can use a proposition to flee from something.

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